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The causes of the decay of Christian piety
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- or, An impartial survey of the ruines of Christian religion undermin'd by unchristian practice, written by the author of The whole duty of man
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- English
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- London : Printed by R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1667
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- 20 unnumbered pages, 452 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
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- ocm04803274
- Title page vignette, engraved.
- "The whole duty of man", variously ascribed to John Fell, Dorothy Pakington, R. Sterne, H. Henchman, and others, is generally attributed to Richard Allestree. Cf. Oxford comp. to English lit., 1985; BM; NUC pre-1956; Wing. For a discussion of the authorship, see Nichols, J. Literary anecdotes, 1812, ii, p. 597-604.
- First ed. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
- "Private devotions": p. [437]-452.