CAPUT V.

THEOLOGI RECENTIORES

OMNIS GENERIS, ORDINE ALPHABETICO.

"XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God LANCELOT ANDREWES, late Lord Bishop of Winchester. Published by His Majesties special command. London, printed by George Miller, for Richard Badger. MDCXXIX. Fol.

In the dedication to Charles I. by the Bishops of London and Ely, there is a high commendation of the revered author, whom they call "a man, as if he had been made up of learning and vertue."

Joannis Arborei Theosophia; vide inter Commentatores.

"Problemata Theologica continentia præcipuos Christianæ Religionis locos, brevi et dilucida ratione explicatos. Authore D. BENEDICTO ARETIO Bernensi Theologo.' Lausanne, exc. Franc. le Preux. 1578. Fol.

Opus insigne, curiosum et eruditum: rebus philologicis, historicis, moralibus accurate pensis, refertum : tribus constat partibus, quarum singulis indices accommodantur. Præmittuntur carmina quædam, et epistola longa typographi, qui totum opus ex autoris schedis descripsit. Isaacus Colfe notas plurimas in marginibus posuit, et indiculum inchoavit ad calcem.

"The Workes of the Right Reverend Father in God GERVASE BABINGTON, late Bishop of Worcester;

Containing comfortable Notes upon the Five Bookes of Moses, viz. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, (Numbers, Deuteronomie, not before published). As also an Exposition upon the Creed, (not before published). The Commandements. The Lord's Prayer. With a Conference betwixt Man's Frailtie and Faith. And three Sermons. With Alphabeticall Tables of the Prin

cipall Matters to each severall Worke." London, George Eld. 1615. Fol.

A fine impression of the Author's portrait follows the title, with a Latin inscription and epigram, engraved by Ren. Elbtrack. The volume is dedicated, by Thomas Charde, to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery: see Williams below. The parts have their separate titles and paging.

"Elementaria Traditio Christianorum fidei, aut Catechismus. Huic nunc appositus est Catechismus alius magis compendiarius, et ecclesiasticarum Precum formula.

Omnia e Græco in Latinum sermonem conversa cum familiarissima etymologiæ et syntaxeos interpretatione: sic tamen temperata, ut mediocriter provectis nonnihil ad Græcæ linguæ cognitionem conferre possit. Synonyma et locutiones, quibus res eadem varie et eleganter ab auctore expressa est, in operis finem rejiciuntur. Per Tuss. BERCHETUM Lingonensem," Hanovia, typ. Wechel. 1604. 80.

Titulus Græce est, Στοιχειωσις των Χριστιανών πίστεως, η Κατη χισμός, etc. Henricus Stephanus translationis Græce auctor fuit, quam ex Latino vertit.

BOYLE'S LECTURE. "A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion: being a Collection of the SERMONS preached at the Lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. (From the year 1691 to the year 1732). With the Additions and Amendments of the several Authors, and General Indexes. In three volumes.

Vol. I. Containing those preached by Dr. Bentley, Bp. Kidder, Bp. Williams, Bp. Gastrel, Dr. Harris, Bp. Bradford, Bp. Blackhall, Dr. Stanhope." London, 1739. Fol.

Vol. II. "Dr. S. Clarke, Dr. Hancock, Mr. Whiston, Dr. Turner, Dr. Butler, Dr. Woodward, Dr. Durham, Dr. Ibbot."

Vol. III." Bp. Leng, Dr. J. Clarke, Archd. Gurdon, Dr. T. Burnet, and Dr. Berriman."

"MARTINI BUCERI Scripta Anglicana fere omnia. Iis etiam, quæ hactenus vel nondum, vel sparsim, vel peregrino saltem idiomate edita fuere, adjunctis a Con. Huberto ad explicandas sedandasque reliquas cum alias, tum præsertim Eucharisticas controversias, singulari fide collecta.

Quorum Catalogum prima post præfationes pagina complectitur. Adjuncta est Historia de Obitu Buceri: quæque illi et Paulo Fagio post mortem et indigna et digna contigere. Basileæ, ex Petri Pernæ officina. M.D.LXXVII." Fol.

Valde est lectu digna epistola dedicatoria quam Edmundo Grindallo Archiep. Cantuar. scripsit Hubertus: ubi non pauca de illustribus illius ævi Anglis reperiri possunt. Immo

totum est volumen præclarum, et quod plurimis recenseri meretur. Videas Tanneri Bibl. Brit. p. 132-6. Est nobis Buceri opus in epist. Pauli ad Romanos, quod videatur inter Commentarios.

"Institutio Christianæ Religionis in libros quatuor nunc primum digesta, certisque distincta capitibus, ad aptissimum methodum: aucta etiam tam magna accessione ut propemodum opus novum haberi possit, JOANNE CALVINO authore.

Cum Indice luculentissimo. M.D.LXI." Fol.

Cal. Aug. 1536. opus suum Francisco I. Galliæ Regi dedicabat; deinde sæpius emendabat; prout docet in præfatione sua scripta Cal. Aug. 1559, huic sequentibusque editionibus præmissa. Ecce quam repente post repudiatos veteres Scholasticos, scholam sibi novam instituere Genevenses! Ortus est quippe Calvinus, qui Magister Sententiarum alter extemplo a plerisque fuit habitus. Notavit in titulo Abr. Colfe, "This book D. Bishop calleth, Calvin's Institution to hell. Abbot in Bishop. pars 3a. sect. x." Adsunt aliquot annotationes Mss. in marginibus.

CHARLES I. 66 Εἰκων Βασιλικη. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings."66 M.DC.XLIX." 120.

Charke: see Controversial Tracts.

"Examinis Concilii Tridentini, per D. D. MARTINUM CHEMNICIUM Scripti, Opus Integrum. Quatuor partes, in quibus præcipuorum capitum totius doctrinæ Papisticæ, firma et solida refutatio, tum ex sacræ scripturæ fontibus, tum ex orthodoxorum Patrum consensu, collectum est; uno volumine complectens. Ad veritatis Christianæ, et Antichristianæ falsitatis cognitionem, perquam utile et necessarium.

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"In Prima Parte hujus Examinis explicantur hi loci :-) Traditionibus, de Peccato originis, de Concupiscentia, de vocabulo Peccati, de Conceptione B. Virg., de Operibus infidel., de Libero Arbitrio, de Justificatione, de Fide, de Bonis Operibus. Cum Indice diligentissime collecto: qui præter materiam doctrinæ, scripturæ quoque testimonia explicata, aut ita citata, ut explicata videantur: nec non Patrum authoritates, promptissime subministrat. Francofurti ad Mænum. Anno M.D.LXXVIII." Fol.

"Secunda pars Examinis Decretorum Concilii Tridentini, complectens explicationem locorum, de Sacramentis in genere, de Baptismo, de Confirmatione, de Eucharistiæ sacramento, de

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Communione sub utraque specie, de Missa, de Pœnitentia, de Contritione, de Confessione, de Satisfactione, de extrema Unctione, de sacramento Ordinis, et de Matrimonio. Authore MARTINO CHEMNICIO, D. Francofurti ad Mænum, per Petrum Fabricium. Anno 1578."

"Tertia pars [etc.] de Virginitate, de Cœlibatu Sacerdotum, de Purgatorio, et de Invocatione Sanctorum. Adjecta est in singulis locis Historia Certaminum inde usque ab Apostolorum temporibus: authore," etc.

Quarta et Postrema pars [etc.] de Reliquiis Sanctorum, de Imaginibus, de Indulgentiis, de Ciborum delectu, et Festis. Addita," etc.

Opus ingens, immensæ pene eruditionis et sanæ doctrinæ. Diligenter legisse videtur "Isa. Colfe," ex vestigiis in margine. Danaus scripsit quædam contra chemnicium; quem vide infra. Singulæ paginæ titulares exhibent tabulam Concilii, e ligno bene expressam. Dedicatur prima pars. D. Alb. Frid. Marchioni Brandenb. in die illius natali 29 Apr. 1565: pars secunda D. Joanni March. Brandenb. 18 Dec, 1566; tertia Joanni Georgio March. Brandenb. 20 Jan. 1573; quarta Henrico Julio, Ducis Brunsvig. filio, 10 Aug. 1573. Singulas partes comitantur Indices. Primæ præmittitur carmen seu "Narratio de Synodo Nicena, versibus [ultra mille] exposita, auctore Matthia Bergio Brunsuuicensi."

"The Works of SAMUEL CLARKE, D. D. late Rector of St. James's, Westminster. In Four Volumes. Volume the First. Containing Sermons on several subjects: with a Preface, giving some account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author: by Benjamin, now Lord Bishop of Winchester*.

London, printed for John and Paul Knapton in Ludgatestreet, MDCCXXXVIII."

Folio.

A fine

* See also in his works; Hoadly, vol. III. 455. Portrait of Dr. Clarke by Vertue is prefixed to this first volume, which was dedicated to the Queen by his widow Catharine. The contents of the other volumes follow: II. Sermons on several subjects, No 115-173.-" Eighteen Sermons on several occasions, preached by the Author.""Sixteen Sermons on the Being and Attributes of God, the obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation, preached in the years 1704 and 1705, at the Lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire.

These admirable lectures are also in the general collection, vol. II. Several letters relating to them are here published.

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III. A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists, with Critical Notes. Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation, and Repentance. An Exposition of the Church Catechism. A Letter to Mr. Dodwell, concerning the Immortality of the Soul; together with the Four Defenses of it; to which are added, the Remarks on Dr. Clarke's Defenses thereof. flections on Amyntor." IV. "The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity. Several Tracts relating to the subject of the Trinity. A collection of Papers which passed between the late learned M. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke, relating to the Principles of Natural Philosophy and Religion. A Letter to Mr. Benjamin Hoadly, F.R.S. occasioned by the controversy relating to the Proportion of Velocity and Force in Bodies in Motion."

"Epphata to F. T.; or, The Defence of the right reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Elie, Lord High-Almoner and Privie Counsellour to the King's most excellent Maiestie. Concerning his Answer to Cardinall Bellarmines Apologie.

Against the slaunderous cavills of a nameless Adioyner; entitling his booke in every page of it, A Discoverie of many fowle absurdities, falsities, lyes, etc. wherein these things cheifely are discussed, (besides many other incident.) 1. The Pope's false Primacie, clayming by Peter. 2. Invocation of Saints, with Worship of creatures, and Faith in them. 3. The Supremacie of Kings both in Temporall and Ecclesiasticall matters and causes, over all states and persons, etc. within their realmes and dominions. By DR. COLLINS, chapleine to His Maiestie. Printed by Cantrell Legge, Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1617." 40,

After a dedication to James I. and an epistle to the reader, is "The Abstract of the Contents of the first part; that of the second is at the end, after "S. Chrysostome's Exposition of Rom. 13, for the Supremacie of Kings," pp.543-554. CONTROVERSIAL TRACTS, printed in the black-letter, between 1562 and 1581: in one vol. quarto :I. "The Apologie of the Churche of Englande," by Bishop JEWEL.

"Imprinted at London by Reginald Wolfe. Anno 1562."

Ff. 70. The title only is wanting, though it begins "A iij" for there are three leaves of the first sheet. The type is large and beautiful. See Jewel below.

II. "An Answeare for the time, unto that foule and wicked Defence of the Censure, that was given upon M. Charkes Booke, and Meredith Hanmers.