Burroughs, Moses His Choice, 1650

MOSES HIS CHOICE With his EYE fixed upon Heaven: DiscoverIng THE HAPPY CONDITION OF A Self-denying Heart. Delivered in A TREATISE UPON Hebrews II. 25, 26. By JEREMIAH BURROUGHS. LONDON. Printed by John Field, and are to be sold by Thomas Eglesfield, at the Marygold and at the Brazen Serpent inn St. Pauls Church-yard. MDCL.
 
Original full brown leather rebacked with author name and title label on spine. Raised bands. New end papers. Boards with minor scuffs and chips. Corners thumbed. Penciled doodles on pastedowns. Title page remounted and with tape repair across blank verso. Scattered damp stain along lower margin. Mildew within damp stain involving approximately second half of the book. Binding tight throughout. Very readable. Margins well retained but for thumbed corners (most pronounced at first and last half dozen leaves, encroaching on but not into text).
 
Beeke (pg 118): Jeremiah Burroughs (or Burroughes), 1600-1646, attained his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in 1621 and 1624, respectively. His tutor was Thomas Hooker. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly and opposed the king’s Book of Sports (he was suspended from his post as rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk for refusing to obey injunctions regarding said book). From 1638 – 1640 he was teacher of a congregation of English Independents at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 1640 to his death in 1646 he was a popular preacher and leading Puritan in London, being a pastor of two of the largest congregation sin that city. He was a prolific writer and nearly all of his books are compilations of his sermons. As an Independent he tried to bring unity between Presbyterians and Brownists.
 
New ffep, xvi, 722, new rfep.