The Works of John Whitgift: The Third Portion, Containing the Defense of the Answer to the Admonition, Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates XI-XXIII. Sermons, Selected Letters, &c.

Whitgift, John

ISBN 10: 1606084321 / ISBN 13: 9781606084328

Edité par Wipf and Stock 1/28/2009, 2009

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Paperback. New book. Previously published by Cambridge University Press, 1853. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 692 pp.

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• Titre: The Works of John Whitgift: The Third Portion, Containing the Defense of the Answer to the Admonition, Against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates XI-XXIII. Sermons, Selected Letters, &c.
• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock 1/28/2009
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1606084321
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781606084328
• Reliure: Couverture souple

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History
The Parker Society, 'For the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church', was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Its name is taken from that of Matthew Parker, the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector and preserver of books. The stimulus for the foundation of the society was provided by the nineteenth-Century Tractarians. Some members of this movement, e.g., R.H. Froude in his Remains of 1838-9, spoke most disparagingly of the English Reformation: 'Really I hate the Reformation and the Reformers more and more'. Keble could add in 1838, 'Anything which separates the present Church from the Reformers I should hail as a great good'. Protestants within the Church of England therefore felt the urgent need to make available in an attractive and accessible form the works of the leaders of the English Reformation. To many it seemed that the Protestant foundations of the English Church were being challenged like never before.
Thus the society represented a co-operation between traditional High Churchmen and evangelical churchmen, both of whom were committed to the Reformation teaching on justification by faith. Subscribers were also involved in the erection of the Martyrs' Memorial in Oxford, although this was as much anti-Roman Catholic as anti-Tractarian.
The society had about seven thousand subscribers who paid one pound each year from 1841 to 1855; thus for fifteen pounds the subscribers received fifty- three volumes - the General Index and the Latin originals of the 1847 'Original Letters relative to the English Reformation' being special subscriptions. Twenty-four editors were used and the task of arriving at the best text was far from easy. The choice of publications was controversial and some authors and works were unfortunate not to be included in PS volumes. While some of the volumes have been superseded by more recent critical editions, today this collection remains one of the most valuable sources for the study of the English Reformation.

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Yl BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. his life here have been recorded It seems that he could bj no means be persuaded to attend morrow-mass at the cathedral, and manifested such a dislike to the prevailing superstitions, that his horror-stricken relative, attributing to his sojourn with her some misfortunes that had occurred, sent him back to I ns father, her farewell being that, though she thought at first she had received a swit into her house, she now perceived he was a devil In 1548, or 1549, he was sent to Cambridge and placed in Queens college, but he afterwards migrated to Pembroke haU, where bishop Ridley was master and Grindal and Bradford at that time fellows, the latter becoming his tutor. On his recommendation, backed by that of Orindal, he was appointed to a scholarship and made bible-clerk, a very acceptable emolument, as his fathers circumstances were now embarrassed by great losses at sea. In 1553-4 he commenced B.A., and was elected fellow of Peter-house in 1555, being admitted with two others May 31 of that year. Dr Andrew Peme was then master of the college, and proved a kind patron and f Sust friend of young Whitgift. For not only did he have him carefully attended when suffering under a dangerous sickness, but he shielded him in 1556 during the perilous visitation of the university by the commissioners appointed under cardinal Pole sauthority. Whitgift had conceived it impossible to escape their severity without violation of his eonsdenoe, and therefore resolved to retire to the continent; but, by Dr Pernors persuasion, who being at that time vicechancellor had it in tus power to protect him, he relinquished his intention, and remained unmolested without any unworthy concession. Better times were approaching; and afler the accession of queen Elizabeth he was ordained in 1560, and preached his first sermon at StM arys from Rom. i. 16, obtming thereby
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