Ecclesia Anglicana - Doctrine of the Church of England (1841) William Beveridge

Description: Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica; or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consontant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers: in a Discourse Upon the Thirty-Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII [2 vols]Beveridge, WilliamPublished in Oxford at the University Press, Oxford, 1846. pp640. Second edition, revised. Full polished leather, worn and scuffed. Upper board holding on by a single binding string. Banded spine, decorated in gilt, with red Morocco spine label to an upper compartment, titled in gilt. Blanks foxed. Previous owner's plate to the inner cover (Stevenson Gilbert Bellairs - Rector of Goadby Marwood). Block sound, with light age toning to the pages. Good/None. Weight in excess of 1kg exc pkg. The 'Advertisement' states the first edition (1716) as incomplete and that the 1840 edition was the first to contain the commentary on the last nine articles, with this second edition coming 6 years later. Now these are the Articles which are the subject of this following Discourse, wherein I have not undertaken to expound any doubtful and ambiguous phrases we may meet with in them, but taking each Article in its most usual literal and grammatical sense, I have endeavoured to prove the scope and substance of it to be a real truth in itself, which we are bound to believe, and by consequence to subscribe to when required by authority. The method I propounded to myself in this Discourse, was first to shew that each Article for the sum and substance of it is grounded upon the scriptures, so that if it be not expressly contained in them, howsoever it may by good and undeniable consequence be deduced from them. Having shewn it to be grounded upon the scriptures, I usually prove it to be consonant to right reason too, even such a truth, that though scripture did not, reason itself would command us to believe it. And lastly, for the further confirmation of it, I still shew each Article to be believed and acknowledged for a truth by the Fathers of the primitive church, that so we may see how though in many things we differ from others and from the present church of Rome, yet we recede not in any thing from the primitive and more unspotted church of Christ. These are the three heads I ordinarily insist upon, still keeping that excellent passage of *St. Augustine in my mind: “ΝΟ sober man will think or hold an opinion against reason, no Christian against the scripture, and no lover of peace against the church.” And therefore, seeing all these Articles are grounded upon scripture, assented to by reason, and delivered by the primitive as well as the present church, he must be no sober, Christian, nor peaceable man that sets himself against them. | And in speaking unto these heads, and so through the whole work, I have endeavoured so to order and contrive it, that such as are not skilled in the learned languages may read and understand the sum and substance of it without any disturbance or interruption, and therefore I have not inserted any sentences or phrases of Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, or any other language with our English, into the body of the book, but whatsoever Father or other author I quote, I translate what I so cite out of him into our own language, not tying myself to render every thing word by word, but only to give the substance of that in our language which they delivered in others. But, howsoever, to prevent those frivolous cavils that are sometimes made against translations, as also for the ease and satisfaction of intelligent readers, whatsoever testimonies of the Fathers I produce in the body of the book, I have still set down in the margent their own words, in their own language which they wrote in, such of the Greek Fathers excepted which we have only the Latin translations of. And though in the body of the book there is nothing delivered but in our own vulgar language, yet in the margent, besides the several places of scripture explained out of the oriental languages, I have all along alleged the testimonies of the Fathers for the further explanation and confirmation of what is there delivered, not stuffing the margent with any quotations of modern writers, but only of the Fathers, unless it be in shewing the doctrine of the present church of Rome, which some of the Articles necessarily require. And in my quotations of the Fathers I am still careful not to refer the reader only to such or such places of their writings, (which sort of references I sometimes find multiplied to little or no purpose,) but to set down their words at length, which maketh that the margent sometimes swells bigger than the text itself. And in my quotations of St. Chrysostome especially, because he is so voluminous, I often cite the tome and page, viz. of Sir Henry Savile’s edition; which I here note particularly, because in the book I seldom mention the edition I made use of. And I have endeavoured so to order it, that in one place or other in the book, either in the text or margent, we may see the judgment of the primitive church upon most of the principal heads of our Christian religion.---------------------------------------------One of a number of similar items I am selling. Check out the other items in my eBay shop. 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