A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and Against Popery: (published in Or about the Reign of James II.) in the Manchester Library Founded by Humphrey Chetham, in which is Incorporated, with Large Additions and Bibliographical Notes, the Whole of Peck's List of the Tracts in that Controversy, with His References. To which are Added a Tabular Index to the Tracts in Both Editions of Gibson's Preservative, and a Reprint of Didd's Certamen Utriusque Ecclesiĉ, Volume 64

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Page 337 - This Declaration, remarks Dr. Jelf (Jewel's works, vol iv. p. 560) was gradually discontinued. Cf. Wharton's Specimen of some Errors and Defects in the History of the Reformation of the Church of England, by Gilbert Burnet, DD, 1693, pp. 130-40; and Polydore Vergil de Rerum Inventoribus, Lib. v. ch. iv.
Page 264 - Conferr'd are to set up a majesty, A power or a glory of their own ! But let them know 'twas for a deeper life Which they but represent — That there's on earth a yet auguster thing, Veil'd tho' it be, than Parliament and King." This passage is from George Wither's Vox
Page 471 - Westerne Parts of the Worlde ; wherein the Romane Religion and the pregnant Policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed. By Sir Edwin Sandys. 8vo 1687 This very interesting and ably written book was published in
Page 454 - writing in those Italian academies where rhetoric had then reached the last stage of corruption. Disputants labouring under these disadvantages would scarcely, even with truth on their side, have been able to make head against men whose style is eminently distinguished by simple purity and grace.
Page 454 - Lord Macaulay observes of the Roman Catholic divines of this period : — " When they preached, their outlandish accent moved the derision of the audience. They spelt like washerwomen. Their diction was disfigured by foreign idioms ; and when they meant to be eloquent they imitated, as well as they could, what was considered as
Page 309 - instead of being ratified by the catholics, excited their implacable rancour. For his attempt to reclaim dissenters, he was reproached for encouraging them," &c. Burnett's Specimens of English Prose Writers, from the earliest times to the close of the Seventeenth Century
Page 307 - the reader is referred to The Judgment of the Anglican Church (posterior to the Reformation) on the sufficiency of holy Scripture and the authority of the holy Catholic Church in matters of Faith ; as contained in the authorized Formularies and illustrated by the writings of her elder Masters and Doctors [from 1556 to 1747]: with an introduction, notes and appendix by John Fuller Russell,
Page 328 - introduction by George Frederick Mandley, Esq., entitled Tractarianism (so called by the Prejudiced and Misinformed) No Novelty; as exemplified in the Confessions of The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, of the ever memorable epoch 1688. See also Nos. 198, 225, 376.
Page 369 - Lond. 1688. (Voy. Niceron, tt. iv. et x.) 295. An Historical Treatise on Transubstantiation (written by an CT. author of the Communion of the Church of Rome), wherein is made appear that according to the principles of that Church this doctrine cannot be an article of faith. Published by William Wake, DD pp. 73, 4to Lond. 1687
Page 262 - two powers which rule the world, the imperial and the pontifical. You are the sovereign of the human race, but you bow your neck to those who preside over things divine. The priesthood is the greater of the two powers : it has to render an account in the last day for the acts of kings.