Observations on Doctor Priestley’s Doctrines of Philosophical Necessity and Materialism.
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1797. One of three Philadelphia editions printed in the same year. Very good. Disbound. Twelvemo. 244 pp. Purves (1734-1795) was a Universalist preacher who held an Arian position that Christ, with a pre-existent human soul, was first born of all creation. He was troubled by.....