[JUDAICA] 1692 Philosophy/Law: Thomas Barlow Cases of Conscience, including The Case of the Jews,

Seventeenth-Century British Bishop Recommends Tolerance of Jews & Protestant dissenters.

Several miscellaneous and weighty cases of conscience : learnedly and judiciously resolved.

Author:Thomas Barlow

London: Printed and sold by Mrs. Davis, at Amen Corner, 1692. 7 parts ([9, 3-93, [3], 14, [2], 40, [2], 134, 78, [4], 3-46, [1] pages; Engraved frontis; errata at end. Opens with "Booksellers' Preface to His Readers."  Titlepage lists the parts as,  I. Of toleration of Protestant dissenters -- II. The King's power to pardon murder -- III. Objections from Gen. 9, 6 answered -- IV. Mr. Cottington's case of divorce -- V. For toleration of the Jews -- VI. About setting up images in churches -- VII. An dominium fundatur in gratia?

Rebound by Starr Bookworks in full leather with raised bands, red Mor. labels, gilt lettering, blind tooling.  VG copy, minor toning and wear. 1 leaf torn, closed tear, no text loss(p. 13, leaf B7.) 

"Thomas Barlow, the late seventeenth-century Bishop of Lincoln, was, by the standards of the day, a champion of philo-semitism."

Wikipedia: Thomas Barlow (1607, 1608 or 1609 – 8 October 1691) was an English academic and clergyman, who became Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Bishop of Lincoln. He was seen in his own time and by Edmund Venables in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer (conforming politically for advancement's sake), and have a reputation mixed with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic – he was among the last English bishops to dub the Pope Antichrist....

   Barlow wrote at the request of Robert Boyle an elaborate treatise on "Toleration in Matters of Religion" at this time, but it was not published until after his death (in Cases of Conscience, 1692). Barlow's reasoning is based more on expediency than on principle. He shows that the religious toleration he advocates does not extend to atheists, papists or Quakers. Earlier, when Jews were applying to Cromwell for readmission into England, Barlow had composed "at the request of a person of quality" a tract on "Toleration of the Jews in a Christian State", published in the same collection."

Reference: LEVY, S. (1896). BISHOP BARLOW ON THE “CASE OF THE JEWS.” Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England), 3, 151–156. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29777590