Apokrypta apokalypta.

Fisher (Samuel)

Apokrypta apokalypta.

[first two words of title in Greek characters]. Velata quædam revelata: some Certain, hidden, or vailed Spiritual Verities Revealed. Upon occasion of various very prying, and critical queries concerning God, the Devil, & Man, as to his Body, Soul, and Spirit. Heaven, hell, judgement, &c. Propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher. And after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs. By two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah. Which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here exspired in love to the souls of men. From out of a hole in the Gate-House at Westminster, through an earthen vessel there imprisoned for the testimony of Jesus, known among men by the name of Samuel Fisher.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a bit browned, especially the outer leaves, cut close at top, with partial loss to upper frame of border on title, and page numerals cropped, pp. [iv], 28, 4to, disbound, some contemporary annotations (cropped), Harvard College stamp on verso of title, and release stamp

Publication Details: Printed by Robert Wilson, 1661

Notes: Fisher's 'disputatious spirit was also expressed in his published works with their ironic, punning titles such as Baby-Baptism Meer Babism (1653) against infant baptism; Rusticus ad academicos … the rusticks alarm to the rabbies, or, The country correcting the university and clergy (1660) in which he opposed the four leading divines John Owen, Thomas Danson, John Tombes, and Richard Baxter; Apokrypta apokalypta velata quaedam revelata (1661)' (ODNB). Both Fisher and the printer, or perhaps rather, publisher, Robert Wilson, were 'still imprisoned in the Westminster Gatehouse' (sidenote on p. ...moreFisher's 'disputatious spirit was also expressed in his published works with their ironic, punning titles such as Baby-Baptism Meer Babism (1653) against infant baptism; Rusticus ad academicos … the rusticks alarm to the rabbies, or, The country correcting the university and clergy (1660) in which he opposed the four leading divines John Owen, Thomas Danson, John Tombes, and Richard Baxter; Apokrypta apokalypta velata quaedam revelata (1661)' (ODNB). Both Fisher and the printer, or perhaps rather, publisher, Robert Wilson, were 'still imprisoned in the Westminster Gatehouse' (sidenote on p. [iii]). HIDE

Bibliography: (Smith, Friends' books, I, p. 616; ESTC R31513)

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Subject: Theology

Published Date: 1661

Stock Number: 65767

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