of Faith, and the Commerce Discipone de must aabe de ma zen. for the parting a e o DICIOTONS 20 1 in Latin and Engisa, ter ter vers uner. boared to have the Deg mere der: their wills he mumetica mue to the injunction Lizzet 1 M tical.* ne It will be seen by the subjoined table, that every one of the Articles has been quoted in its proper place, and some of them repeatedly. Had, indeed, the Author entertained the smallest apprehension, that the doctrines which he lays down, as the true doctrines of the Gospel, militate, in any instance, against that Declaration, to which he has solemnly given his assent, he would not -for he could not, without extreme hypocrisyhave undertaken or pursued the present work. He hopes it may as clearly appear, as he firmly believes it to be the fact, that, when the doctrines which he has affirmed, are placed by the "What remains of the particular proceedings of this Convocation, (in 1562) has been often printed. The Thirty-nine Articles were subscribed, as they have appeared in Latin; as in 1571, after some revision, they were again generally subscribed in English, conformably to the injunction of the Parliament: to which injunction, as having settled the Articles, all subsequent Acts, which mention them, refer; and the ratification, subjoined to them, has therefore borne the unvaried date of 1571. In regard to manuscripts, both maintained and impugned as the original subscriptions on these occasions, the importance of the question is diminished, when we consider the memorable subscription which was made, when James the First ascended the throne. That no dispute as to any clause or expression, in consequence of pretended omission or interpolation, might fairly be made, a printed copy of the Articles was now subscribed. This subscription in 1604, is believed to be the most regular that ever was made to the Articles;' and was consigned to the custody of the president of the Convocation, after all the signatures had been made." side of the XXXIX Articles, ter single discrepancy between them. Ter ferent, it is true, are the senses. WHICH Articles are made to speak, MN the mes D and conscientions men-notwithsandng one of these men, however, ther spice vary, is willing to abide by the rova and not to “put his own sense be the meaning of the Article bu in the literal and grammatica RETIRE. This difference of opinor aut metures tion is much to be lamentet, aut no ea be reconciled, as it would seen; bu ter not appear to be any more feasine pan certaining the truth, for two Incontinen ments cannot both be rigin, fr apposition all the authorizer exparat z can be procured, and observing a var they all agree, and whether they tegen z If this system be steadily pursuet, it may a right conviction. The places in which the Articles are inserted in these volumes, are the fulang *See "Eight Sermons preached before the Invest of Oxford, in the year 1804, at the Lecure forest J. Bampton; M.A. Canon of baby" by Hammert Laurence, LL.D. Be and Common Prayer-Book, on account of the very quality of these discourses, which is, in revised and printed again. Before the Book was a Preface by the King, with the advice of the Duke of Somerset and the Privy Council, enjoining these Homilies to be read in all Churches every Sunday, and the King's injunctions once a quarter." See Burnet's History of the Reformation, Part II. B. I. Strype's Annals, chap. xxxix. "The first Book of HOMILIES the Church of England had enjoyed ever since the year 1547, abating the five hard years of Queen Mary's reign and at the end of that Book a second volume was promised. Which this year 1564 came among the curates and ministers of the parishes; to be read (as the first Book) every Sunday and Holy-day, when there were no Sermons, through the inability of the curates. For though this second volume were printed the year before, and finished the year before that, yet all the Churches hardly came to be fully supplied with them till this year, as I find by a journal of a minister of London of that time......Upon what subjects the second Book of Homilies should treat, the titles at the end of the first declared: yet upon divers of them there be no Homilies at all; as against Covetousness, Anger, Envy, and Malice. But to make amends there be some other Homilies added: and in the year 1569, on account of the Popish Rebellion in the North, were six other Homilies framed and joined against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion, with a Prayer for the Queen, and a Thanksgiving for the restoring Peace and Quietness upon the ceasing thereof." 66 Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, Book II. chap. iii. "In this year" (1560) was the first Book of Homilies first re-printed, containing twelve Sermons, after they had been, by the Queen's order, diligently looked over and pes rused by her divines: and added at the end of the said quarto edition of the Book of Common Prayer.” POLE fact, that of short treatises or the p points of Christian obligation. abridgement without injury, and ver for insertion in their entire state. I fore, been thought preferabe meter to the each chapter to those winct a WHITE subject of it, or touch mar me Much accession of strengt met from the Homilies. if it were the Actver: : to argue any of the points of cursuse it were easy to shew by suEL & CORENTI here instituted, that whenever the same these excellent and edifying distorten arvet. to be at all at variance with the base throughout the public and prival wing te authors of them, it is not use attic vacillation of principe, it is there ans pose for which they were compues Fru much more strong that are use for cautious wording of the Arts in the Catechisms put forti expr struction in religious truta KUN highest authorities in the Cours SVE STO phrases are occasionaly Homilies, winei, of separated from the exture, a which they stand, mit e m might mislead the Day. Te ne are less capable of seng sariar que a profit, than almost any she wa rest and authority, ie they a BS TURNE connected paragrapis au 22. MIE |