THE

CONTENTS

T

HE Introduction,

A Collation of the Thirty nine Articles.

163

An Esay on the Thirty nine Articles.

Chap. I.

F the several Sorts of Variations in the

foregoing Collation.

Chap. ii. Of the Transcript from the Records produced by

Archbishop Laud in the Starchamber; of ihe Register

of the Upper Horise of the Convocation in 1562, publish'd

by Dr. Gibson in his Synodus Anglicana; of the

MS. Copy of that Register; and of Dr. Heylyn's MS.

Abstract of some Records of Convocation, 165

Chap. iii. The Proceedings of the Convocation with relas

sion to the Articles down to Jan. 29. 1562. 175

Chap. iv. An Account of the Latin MS. in Bennet Col.

lege Library, which was Sign'd by the Bishops on Jan.

1.1.29. 1562.

176

Chap. v. Of the Subscription of the Bishops.

Chap. vi. Of tbe Subfcriptions of the Inferior Clergy: 191

Chạp. vii. That the Ariicles passed by the Convocation,

con were recorded in the Registry of the Archbishop of Can-

terbury. st.

211

Chap. viii. That the Bennet College Lacin MS, of 1562

182

221

222

Chap. ix. That the Record of the Articles in the See of

Canterbury was not subscrib'd, nor had the broad Seal

affixed to it.

Page 218

Chap. x. Of the Queen's Approbation of the Articles. 219

Chap. xi. That the Articles were passed, recorded, and

ratified in 1562, in Latin only.

Chap. xii, Of the Differences between the Bennet College

MS. and Wolf's Edition ; and of the Correčtions and

• Observations in Bod. 2.

Chap. xiii. That Bod. 2. does probably express the Record

of the Articles in the Registry of the See of Canterbury.

227
Chap. xiv. The Differences between the Bennet College

Latin MS. and Wolf's Edition, particularly with

respect to the Controverted Clause of the Twentieth Ar-

ticle, and the whole Twenty ninth Article, accounted

for.

230

Chap. xv. Of the Postscript of Wolf's Edition.

239

Chap. xvi. Of the first English Editions of the Articles.

241
Chap. xvii. Whether any Edition of the Articles was pub-

- lish'd before March 25. 1563.

244

Chap. xviji. Some Påffages relating to the Articles in the

7 Tear 1566.

257

Chap. xix. Proceedings of the Convocation in 1571. re
lating to the Articles.

261

Chap. xx. Of that Copy of Wolf's Edition of the Artis

cles, which was subscribed by the lower House of Convo-

cation in 1571, and is now lodg’d in the Bodleyan

Library, and which I have called Bod. 1.

Chap. xxi. The Differences between the Latin and En-

glish Editions printed before, and in, the Year 1571;
and the Agreements or Disagreements of the Bennet

College English MS. of the same Year, with the respe-
Etive English Editions.

277

263

Chap.

.

in 1971.

Chap. xxii. That the Latin Text of the Articles was rez

viled, and an authentic English Tran

hation of them

,

was passed, by the Convocation of 1971. 394

Chap. xxiii: Of the English Editions of the Articles

-printed in 1871

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Chap. xxiv. That those English Copies of the Articles

printed in 1571, which have the Controverted Clause of

the Twentieth Article in them, are genuin ; and that

those which want it, are spurious.

336

Chap. xxv. Of Day's Latin Copies of the Articles printed

348

Chap. xxvi. Of the Subscription of the Convocation in

1604.

358

Chap. xxvii. Of King Charles thélFind's Edition of the

Articles, with bis Declaration prefixed to the same.

insr.son.

365

Chap. xxviii. Whether the Clergy were required to sub-
scribe the Articles of 1562, before the Tear 1521; with

Refle&tions on some grofs Falfhoods invented and published

: by Dr. Calamy in the Second Part-of bis Defense of

moderate Nonconformity.

370

Chap. xxix. Of the Beginning, Progress and Palling of

the A&t of the Thirteenth of Elizabeth, Chap. 12.

382

Chap. xxx. What Edition of the Articles we are obliged

to subscribe by the A&t of the 13 Elizabeth, Chap. 12.

393

Chap. xxxi. The Practice of Subscription since the Pas-

sing of the Thirteenth of Eliz. Chap. 12.---

-- 397

Chap. xxxii. That the Thirteenth of Eliz. Chap. 12. ob-

liges the Clergy to subscribe all the Thirty nine Articles of

Religion.

401

Chap. xxxiii. That those who subscribe the Articles are

obliged to believe them true.

411

Chap.

Chap. xxxiv. An Obje£tion from fome Passages of Archia

bishop Laud, Mr. Chillingworth, Archbishop Bram-

hall, and. Bishop Stillingfleet, answered. 424,

Chap. xxxv. What Liberty the Church allows to the Sub-

scribers of the Articles.

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Age 1. line 23. read 35. p. 164. 1. 24. read MS. A. p. 173.

Cottrell. l. 34. read Fluyd. p. 210. 1. 22. read Merrick. p. 214.

1. 7. read of injured. p. 216. 1. 9. read Bishop of Ely. p. 222. 1. 12.

read Pointings, the manifest Miftake of et for est in Art. 2. Numb. 20.

and. p. 288. 1. 21. read 4to. P. 307. 1. 34. read 64,66,67. p. 326.
d. 11. for write read copy. P. 410. 1. 32. read Editor ; because.

The Errata of the Collation are printed at the

End of the Book.

THE
INTRODUCTION.

I

Shall prepare the way for my intended Ejay, by exhibiting a Collation of all the ancient Copies of the Articles, both Printed and Manufcript. Now there are two MS. Copies of the Articles, the one in Latin, the other in English, which were both given, with a vast Quantity of

other MSS. to Corpus Cbristi (commonly callid Bennet) College in Cambridge, by Archbishop Parker. The Latin Copy was figned Jan. 29. 1962. and the English Copy was figned May 11. 1571. Each of these Copies is denoted in the following Collation by the Letters MS. But the Distinction is apparent notwithstanding. For when the Reference belongs to the Latin Text, the Letters MS. betoken the Latin Copy ; but when the Reference belongs to the English Text, those Letters betoken the English one.

The Printed Copies are numerous. They are partly Latin, and partly English.

One Latin Copy is printed in O&avo by Reginald Wolf. It contains 36 Pages (reckoning the Title, and the Blank on the back side' of it, for two) but the Pages are not numbred. It bears Date 1563. In the Title Page there is a Fruit Tree describ'd in a sort of a Target, under which are two Boys; the One seems climbing, the other gathers the Fruit fallen to the Ground ; and between the Limbs of the Tree there is a Label with Charitas in it. The Articles are printed in Roman, but the Titles in

B

Italic.