This Work contains a large and varied collection of Treatises, Tracts, Sermons, &c. by the older Divines; translations from the Fathers; Biography of Church History; interspersed with Poetry, Anecdotes, and short Theological extracts. The whole is illustrated by original Notes, Prefaces, and Biographical Notices, and forms a comprehensive Library of doctrinal and practical Theology, suited for the perusal of the Layman or the Divine. It contains— Lord Bacon’s Confession of Faith.—Leslie on Episcopacy.—Bishop Sanderson’s Answer to Puritan Objections.—Life of Bp. Ridley.—Bp. Hall’s Olive of Peace.—Mede on Sacrilege.—Brevint’s Christian Sacrifice.—Waterland on Regeneration.—Sufferings of the Clergy during the Great Rebellion, from Walker.—Spelman on Churches, with a History of the Fate of Sacrilege.—Stanley’s Faith and Practice of a Church-of-England Man.—Correspondence between Charles I. and Henderson.—Bp. Morton’s Confession of Faith.—Beveridge’s Scriptural Rule for the Government of the Church.—Characters from Fuller’s “Holy State.”—Patrick on the Christian Priesthood.—Ken’s Exposition of the Catechism.—Comber on the Common Prayer.—Jolly on Baptism.—Bingham on Divine Worship in the Ancient Church.—Patrick on Tradition.—Jones (of Nayland) on the Church.—Life of Rev. J. Bold.—Original Translations from St. Bernard, Chrysostom, Theodoret, IrenÆus, Athanasius, Gregory, &c.; together with a large collection of Theological Extracts, Anecdotes, and Poetry. Vol. I. may be had separately, price 10s. 6d. Vol. II. 9s. 6d. |