8vo. xxv, [7], 349pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled and blind-panelled speckled calf, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Light rubbing and marking to extremities. Some staining to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

An attractively bound copy of select sermons by Scottish philosopher, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), together with an essay advocating the creation of a new book of homilies. Burnet was most well known for publishing The History of the Reformation of the Church of England (1679) as a rebuttal to Nicholas Sanders' attacks on the English Reformation - an act which won him the voted thanks of Parliament and the a Doctorate of Divinity from Oxford University in 1680.