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Leighton Library has 1689 first edition of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell

Added at 07:02 on 07 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" (Dissertations upon Irenaeus) by Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer Henry Dodwell who died #OnThisDay 7 June 1711. This was in the subject of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon. Robert Leighton’s friend, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, wrote in one of his letters to Henry Dodwell saying “You are a learned man ; and your life has been not only without blemish, but exemplary ; but…I know no man, that has laid more in the way of the little ones, or weaker Christians, than you have done. I do assure you, I would rather wish that I could neither read nor write, than to have read or writ to such purposes as you have been pursuing now above thirty years. You seem to love novelties and paradoxes, and to employ your learning to support them.”

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