2008 is the 400th birth anniversary of John Milton. Born in 1608, Milton rose over the next sixty-five years to become one of the most powerful pens that the world has ever seen. So feared was the power of his writings, that several of his books and essays were publicly burned, he himself was imprisoned, and his writings legislated against. When his pen turned to religious topics, and Bible exposition in particular, - so afraid was the established Church that even those works published by royal decree more than one hundred and fifty years after his decease were banned and confiscated. Our own copy of the first edition of Milton’s “De Doctrina Christiana” was for this reason sourced from North America, and a later edition from Europe. This volume “Last thoughts on the Trinity” was published in the 1820’s as a separate volume, collated from the “De Doctrina Christiana” by the Royal Librarian of the time, Mr. Prebendary Sumner. Milton himself writes concerning his Biblical expositions: “Since God hath opened to every man the way to eternal salvation only through his own belief, and since he requires that he who would be saved should stand upon his own faith, I resolved, in matters of Religion, to rest on the faith or judgment of no man; but having drawn my belief from Divine Revelation alone, nothing being neglected which depended on my own industry, I determined to search out and settle each point of my religious belief, by the most careful perusal and meditation on the Scriptures of God themselves. In stating what has been profitable to myself, I have a respect to such as may come after me, whom I would invite to walk in the same path. In my youth I applied myself assiduously to the study of each Testament in its own tongue, at the same time going diligently through some shorter systems of divines; and after their example, I used myself to class under certain heads such passages of Scripture as I might extract, with a view to future examination.” This volume is a powerful testimony to Milton’s industrious study. It is now published, not primarily as an historical testament, but as a Biblical exposition that powerfully demonstrates the doctrine of the Trinity to be a non-Biblical teaching. 160pp A5. “Classic Series” hardboard volume, hand-stitched binding with Gold embossed covers on textured rexine. ISBN 81-7887-016-9