Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both.

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Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both.

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London :: Printed for James Collins and Sam. Lowndes ...,

1682.

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Subject terms

Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. -- Lux orientalis.

Rust, George, d. 1670. -- Discourse of truth.

More, Henry, 1614-1687.

Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. -- Of the immortality of a mans soul and the nature of it and other spirits.

Pre-existence -- Early works to 1800.

Truth -- Early works to 1800.

Soul -- Early works to 1800.

Providence and government of God -- Early works to 1800.

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"Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70182.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• TO THE HONOURABLE Sir JOHN FINCH
• The Publisher to the Reader.
• title page
• dedication
• TO THE Much Honoured and Ingenious FRANCIS WILLOƲGHBY ESQUIRE.
• THE PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS OF LƲX ORIENTALIS.
• THE ERRATA Correct thus:
• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. II.
• CHAP. III.
• CHAP. IV.
• CHAP. V.
• CHAP. VI.
• CHAP. VII.
• CHAP. VIII.
• CHAP. IX.
• CHAP. X.
• CHAP. XI.
• CHAP. XII.
• CHAP. XIII.
  • First Pillar.
  • Second Pillar.
  • The third Pillar.
  • The Fourth Pillar.
  • The Fifth Pillar.
  • The Sixth Pillar:
  • The Seventh Pillar.
• CHAP. XIV.
  • The Aereal State.
  • Terrestrial State.
  • The next step of Descent, or After-state.
  • The Conflagration of the Earth.
  • The General Restitution.
• title page
• A LETTER Concerning the Subject and the Author.
• SECT. I.
• SECT. II.
• SECT. III.
• SECT. IV.
• SECT. V.
• SECT. VI.
• SECT. VII.
• SECT. VIII.
• SECT. IX.
• SECT. X.
• SECT. XI.
• SECT. XII.
• SECT. XIII.
• SECT. XIV.
• SECT. XV.
• SECT. XVI.
• SECT. XVII.
• SECT. XVIII.
• THE CONTENTS OF THE DISCOURSE of TRUTH.
• title page
• Annotations UPON LƲX ORIENTALIS.
• title page
• THE Annotatour TO THE READER.
• Annotations UPON THE Discourse of TRUTH.
  • THE Devotional HYMN.
• Books Printed for, or Sold by Samuel Lownds, over against Exeter Ex∣change in the Strand.