SMITH, Lawrence. The Evidence of Things not Seen: Or, the Immortality of the Human Soul, prov'd from Scripture & Reason. In Two Discourses. Wherein are contain'd, Some Remarks on the Fundamental Principle of Two late Books, the one, entitl'd Second, the o

SMITH, Lawrence. The Evidence of Things not Seen: Or, the Immortality of the Human Soul, prov'd from Scripture & Reason. In Two Discourses. Wherein are contain'd, Some Remarks on the Fundamental Principle of Two late Books, the one, entitl'd Second, the other, Farther Thoughts concerning Human Soul. together with an Examination of the Opinion of a Middle-Place of Residence, supposedly assign'd to the Deceased Souls of the Righteous, between Death and the Day of Judgment .... Second edition with large additions. London: printed for Thomas Speed. 1703.

xxiv, [viii], 173 [3] pp. Contemporary mottled calf, chipped at head of spine.

Lawrence Smith (1656-1728) is responding to William Coward's work Second Thoughts concerning Human Soul which was first published in 1702, under the pseudonym of Estibius Psychalethes; Coward argued that the notions of an immortal and immaterial soul were pagan doctrines, illegitimately grafted onto true Christianity; the work met with a great deal of controversy and his books were publicly burned. ESTCT119632, listing only 6 copies - 4 in the U.K. and 2 in Texas.