1718 Lettres sur Divers Sujets concernant la Religion et la Metaphysique

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First Edition

The first edition of this work in a full speckled calf binding, with marbled paste downs and end papers.

Bookplate to the front paste down of 'James Dolphin Watson', with a stamp. Ink inscription to the verso of the front free end paper and to the title page.

Five letters concerning the Christian religion, written in the original French by François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (1651-1715), the French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.

The first of these letters was written on the existence of the God; the second on the worship of God, the immortality of the soul and free will; the third on divinity and on religion; the fourth on the idea of infinity and on the freedom of God to create; and the fifth on the truth of religion and on its practice. Fénelon argues that God is an infinitely perfect being, and that the only way to worship God is through Catholicism.