Melius Inquirendum. Or A Sober Inquiry into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry:

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In modern full calf to style, raised bands, gilt titles to red & green calf labels. Internally, [10], 11-396 pp, [1] adverts, [1] ms index, ms ink authors name & initials (JB) to title, new endpapers, binders gilt stamp to fpd (?? Williams), authors ink name to fore-edge. First published in 1678. (180*111 mm). [ESTC, R29588. Wing; A2914; McAlpin Coll.; III 759]. Rare, only 1 copy sold at auction since 1918 and that was defective. Alsop was an English Nonconformist clergyman. His Mischief of Separation and Melius Inquirendum became landmarks in the history of religious nonconformity. [this title was a response to John Goodman's - A serious and compassionate inquiry into the causes of the present neglect and contempt of the Protestant religion and the Church of England.] Title continues: wherein the inquirers cavils against the principles, his calumnies against the preaching and practises of the non-conformist are examined and refelled, and St. Augustine, the Synod of Dort and the Articles of the Church of England in the quinquarticular points, vindicated