John Smith's Select Discourses

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Introduction: “Not the least star” – John Smith
Introduction: “The Willing Compliance of Men’s Minds”
Introduction: “New Thoughts and a Sublime Style”
The Publick Good, and the Reader’s Benefit: the text of John Smith’s Select Discourses
Discourse 1
Discourse 2
Discourse 3
Discourse 4
Discourse 5
Discourse 6
A Chappel-Exercise
The Shortness and Vanity of A Pharisaick Righteousness, Discovered in a Discourse upon Matthew 19. 20, 21.
The Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion.
A Christians Conflicts and Conquests Represented in a Discourse upon James 4.7.
John Smith’s Will
John Smith’s Commonplace Book
Bibliography
The whole text in one pdf

The Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion.

Introduction: “Not the least star” – John Smith
Introduction: “New Thoughts and a Sublime Style”
Introduction: “The Willing Compliance of Men’s Minds”
The Publick Good, and the Reader’s Benefit: the text of John Smith’s Select Discourses
Discourse 1
Discourse 2
Discourse 3
Discourse 4
Discourse 5
Discourse 6
A Chappel-Exercise
The Shortness and Vanity of A Pharisaick Righteousness, Discovered in a Discourse upon Matthew 19. 20, 21.
The Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion.
A Christians Conflicts and Conquests Represented in a Discourse upon James 4.7.
John Smith’s Will
John Smith’s Commonplace Book
Bibliography
The whole text in one pdf

Who am I?

My name is Roger Howard. I am a retired schoolmaster living in Lincolnshire. I was first introduced to the Cambridge Platonists by T.R. Langley, when I was an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. As a young man I was a doctoral student working on Smith under the supervision of C.A. Patrides at the University of York. When I retired, I returned to my interest in Smith’s writing, and set about trying to prepare an edition which was accessible to the modern reader. This is the result

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My grateful thanks are also due to John Henderson of Waterloo, Ontario, for his patient and expert proof-reading.

Responsibility for any and all errors is, of course, my own.

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