A course of sermons preach'd for the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; at the church of St. Mary le Bow, in the years 1713, and 1714. Wherein the true notion of the exercise of private judgement, of free-thinking, in matters of religion, is stated ... To which is added a list of the learned persons who have preached the said lecture from its beginning in the year 1692 ... with an account of their subjects.
London: John Wyat, 1727. First edition, 8vo, pp. [20], 272, 264; contemporary full paneled calf, unadorned spine; spine ends a little chipped, joints starting but still good and sound. " In 1713 and 1714, by appointment of the archbishop, he preached the Boyle lectures, and replied to Anthony Collins's ëDiscourse of Free-thinking in matters of Religion.í George I appointed him one of his chaplains-in-ordinary in 1716, and when his majesty visited Cambridge on 6 Oct. 1717 Ibbot was, by royal mandate, created D.D. He was appointed preacher-assistant to Dr. Samuel Clarke at St. James's, Westminster, and rector of St. Paul's, Shadwell; and on 26 Nov. 1724 was installed a prebendary of Westminster. He died at Camberwell on 5 April 1725, and was buried in Westminster Abbey" (DNB). Item #23602
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