Walchii Bibliotheca Theologica and Suiceri Thesaurus
Ecclesiasticus.
Those who have persevered in perusing this long Catalogue of early
Divinity, will have obtained a very good idea of the nucleus around which
most of our Cathedral Libraries have been formed, and may figure to
themselves a long array of ponderous folios, attired in the dusky calf of
the seventeenth century. Of the more recent theological writers, the list
being less copious, may also prove less fatiguing; including numerous
Sermons by Blair, Horne, Sherlock, Secker, South, and other writers;
the Hulsean Lectures, and the Works of Andrews, Barrow, Benson, Bull,
Beveridge, Bingham, Chillingworth, Samuel Clarke, Cosins, Hall, Hammond,
Hooper, Horsley, Jackson, Jones, Jewel, Lardner, Lightfoot, Leslie,
Lowth, Newcome, Paley, Pococke, Potter, Prideaux, Skelton, Shuckford,
Stanhope, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, Usher, Warburton, and
Waterland.
This department also embraces Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on the Gospels;
Sale’s Koran; Chappelow on Job; Daubeny’s Guide to the Church; Dwight’s
Theology; Faber on Pagan Idolatry; Hey’s Theological Lectures; Kett
on Prophecy; Horne’s Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures;
Macknight on the Epistles; Marsh’s Michaelis; Pearson on the Creed;
Porteus’s Lectures; and Stackhouse’s History of the Bible. To which I
may add, Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; the Commentaries of Arnald,
Grotius, Hammond, Lowth, Patrick, Taylor, Wetstein, and Whitby; with the
Concordances of Buxtorf, Cruden, Kircher, Newman, Stephens, &c.
In Ecclesiastical History this collection is particularly rich;
both as relates to the affairs of the Church in general, and to the
Ecclesiastical History of England in particular. In proof of this
assertion I may adduce
Echard and Collier’s Ecclesiastical History.
Conciliorum Collectio Maxima, per Labbeum et Cossartium. Lutet.
Paris. 1672, in 18 vols. folio.
Concilia per Binium. Col. Agr. 1606, in 5 vols. and Lut. Par.
1636, in 10 vols. folio.
Concilia Galliæ Narbonensis. Paris. 1668, 8vo. and Spelmanni
Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1639-64, 2 vols. folio.
Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1737, in 4 vols.
folio.
Le Cointe Annales Ecclesiastica Francorum. Paris. 1665, 8 vols.
folio; and his Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain.
Broughton’s Dictionary of all Religions. London, 1737, in 2
vols. folio.
Picart’s Religious Ceremonies of all Nations. London, 1733, in
6 vols. folio.
The Acta Sanctorum, per Dacherium et Mabillonium. Lutet. Paris.
1668-77, in 6 vols. folio.
Anastasii Hist. Eccl. et Vitæ Paparum. 1602, 4to. and 1649,
folio.
Balei Acta Romanor. Pontificum. Basileæ, 1558, 8vo.
Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici. Antv. 1612-29, in 12 vols. folio.