Christennlich ordnung und bruch der Kilchen. Zurich, 1535, 4to.
The Christian Common Prayer Book, or Universal Liturgy. London,
1761, 8vo.
and various other Forms of Prayer, used in the Reformed Churches at
Geneva and elsewhere, as well as Manuals and Prayers suited to different
occasions.
Rituals of the Church of Rome also occur plentifully in this Collection,
many Romish Breviaries of early date, and several Missals; but none so
early as the fifteenth century. Some editions of the Pontificale Romanum,
several books of Hours and Offices, and various Forms both of Private and
Public Prayer being contained therein.
I may here also notice Durandi Rationale Divinorum officiorum; the Talmud
Babylonicum, Francofurti, 1721, in 12 folio vols., the bequest of Sir
Gilbert Dolben, in 1724; and two editions of the Koran, of 1543 and 1550.
The Theological department of the Archiepiscopal Library is so extensive,
that were I to enter into minute detail I should weary the patience of
the reader; but were I to notice its general features superficially, I
should fail to convey a just idea of its contents.
The best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the Church form a
prominent feature in this Collection, including those of S.S. Ambrose,
Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril,
Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregorius, Nazianzenus,
Nyssenus and Neocæsariensis; S.S. Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus,
Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, Philo Judæus, Theophylact, Theodoret,
Polycarp, and Tertullian by de la Bigne, Paris, 1575, in 9 vols. folio.
To which I may add the Bibliotheca Patrum, Cotelerii Patres Apostolici,
Dodwell, Dissertationes Cyprianicæ, Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical
Fathers, &c.
Among the multitudinous Works of the earlier Divines, the Authors
most deserving of mention appear to be, Anselm, S. Barnabas, Basilius
Magnus, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Thomas Aquinas, Petrus Blesensis,
Bonaventura, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Cassiodorus, Camerarius,
Clemens Romanus, Alexandrinus, Joannes Damascenus, Drexelius, Drusius,
Erasmus, Ficinus, Joannes Gerson, Grelserus, and the Popes Gregory I.
XIII. and XIV. Cornelius Jansen, Grotius, Hemingius, Hospinianus, Junius,
Thomas à Kempis, Lanfranc, Lactantius, Ludovicus Vives Maimonides,
Peter Martyr, Procopius, Prudentius, Savanarola, Duns Scotus, Socinus,
Spanheim, Stapleton, Suarez, Joannes de Turrecremata, Whitakerus contra
Bellarminum, Udalricus Zuinglius, and many other more or less obscure
writers on Controversial Divinity.
It may suffice to mention Chamieri Controversiæ, Zanchii Opera
Theologica, Vitalis Speculum Morale, Venetiis, 1513, 4to. and to notice
separately the two great lights of the Reformation, Lutheri Opera,
Wittebergæ, 1550, &c. folio, 2 vols.; and Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ,
1601, in 5 vols. folio, with some other Tracts by that illustrious
Scholar and Divine.
Of the Works of English Divines, I have much pleasure in enumerating
those of Abbot, Allix, Lancelot Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barlow,
Barrow, Beveridge, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Charnock, Chillingworth,
Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, Cranmer, Drelincourt, Hall, Hammond,
Hoadly, Hody, Hooper, Henry More, Kettlewell, Leslie, Lightfoot,
Lowth, Joseph Mede, Perkins, Prideaux, Reynolds, Sanderson, Sherlock,
Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Whiston, Whitgift, and
Roger Widdrington.
In this place I may most opportunely notice copies of Henrici VIII.
Assertio VII. adversus M. Lutherum, Romæ, 1543, 4to.; Fisheri Episcopi
Roffensis, Opera, Wittebergæ, 1597, folio; with some other tracts by
that eminent divine; and Juelli Opera, Genevæ, 1585, and his Works,
London, 1609, folio; to which may be added, Bedæ Venerabilis Opera Omnia,
Basileæ, 1563, in 8 folio volumes; Barclay’s celebrated Apology for the
Quakers; and Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum.
I may also notice Bowyer’s Conjectures on the New Testament; Tyndall,
Frith, and Barnes’ Works, London, John Daye, 1573, folio; La Trobe’s
Unitas Fratrum, Lond. 1780, 8vo.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Cosin’s Canon
of Scripture; Derham’s Physico- and Astro-Theology; Fell’s Paraphrase;
Field of the Church; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Soame Jenyns on the
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Kiddes on the Pentateuch; Limborch,
Theologia Christiana; Nelson’s Festivals; Norris on the Beatitudes;
Osterwald’s Arguments; Outram de Sacrificiis; Pearce and Patrick’s
Commentaries; Pearson on the Creed; Pococke on Joel; Scott’s Christian
Life; Watson’s Apology; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Wilkins on Natural Religion,
and other Tracts of his; the Muggletonian Controversy respecting
the Quakers, and various Tracts relating to the Jesuits and Popery,
Protestantism and Puritans.
Of French Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Bourdaloue,
Fenelon, Fontenelle, Malebranche, and Du Moulin, to which may be added,
Basnage, Histoire des Juifs.
Of Sermons, these shelves bear an enormous load, among which are found
those of Donne, Latimer, Leighton, and Porteus, with his Lectures and
other Tracts; and of South and Wake, with many single sermons on various
occasions, and the collected discourses of other divines too numerous to
mention.
The Liturgical Works in this Library may be represented by the Liturgia
Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Latine, 1594 and 1703.
The Homilies are also numerous, including Elstob’s Anglo-Saxon Homily,
London, 1709, 8vo.; and the theological treatises of obscure writers
which have rarely survived the events which called them forth, are here
found preserved, like insects in amber.
I may close this brief and imperfect notice by the mention of De Rossi,
Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, 1784, in 4 volumes; some Tracts by
the celebrated Laud; Davenant’s Prælectiones Theologicæ; and Alexandri de
Ales Summa, &c. Norimbergæ, 1482, in 4 volumes, folio.
I may here also notice the copious Collection of Catechisms, of Forms of
Confession, of divers Ceremonials of the Church, various Concordances,
numberless Tracts upon Church Discipline and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and
some curious publications of, and concerning Martin Mar-Prelate.
In Works connected with Ecclesiastical History in general, this
Collection abounds; and of these I would select for especial notice,
Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Socratis
Historia Ecclesiastica, per Vorlesium, folio; the Lombardica Historia,
Basileæ, 1486, folio; Voragine Legenda Aurea, Lond. 1501, and 1507,
folio; the Codex Theodosianus; Raderi Bavaria Pia; Ribedeneira, Vita
Ign. Loyola; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum Romanorum; Bingham’s Antiquities
of the Christian Church; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Echard’s
Ecclesiastical History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar and
Æthiopia; Rycaut’s Armenian and Greek Churches; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical
Polity; Orosius; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; the Centuriatores
Magdeburgenses; and Cressy’s Church History of Brittany.
Of Works relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of
Great Britain, we find in this Library,
Alfordi, Annales Ecclesiastici, in 4 vols. folio.
Bale’s English Votaries, Vita Thomæ à Becket. Parisiis, 1495,
4to.
Bedæ, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.
Burnet’s History of the Reformation.
Capgrave’s Nova Legenda Angliæ. Londini, Wynkyn de Worde, 1516,
folio.
Ecton’s Thesaurus.
Foxe’s Martyrologie. London, 1596-1632, folio; with an
Abridgment of the same, 1589, 8vo.
Fuller’s Church History.
Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of English Bishops.
Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio.
Inett’s History of the English Church.
Lyndewode Provinciale.
S.S. Martyrum in Angliâ Passiones. Romæ, 1584, folio.
Martyrologium Protestantium. Hanoviæ, 8vo.
Parsons’s Three Conversions. 1603-4, 3 vols. 12mo.
Card. Poli, Reformatio Angliæ. Romæ, 1562, 4to.
Reyneri Apostolatus Ordinis Benedictinorum in Anglia.
Spotswode’s Church of Scotland.
Sanderi, de Origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani.
Spelman’s Concilia Britannica.
Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. 1709, folio; and Life of
Archbishop Parker, &c. and the History of the Convocation of
Canterbury, 1702, 8vo.
Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England.
Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, with his Annals and
other Works.
Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in 2 folio volumes.
A copious Collection of Councils relating to the affairs of the Church,
forms a valuable supplement to this class of books, embracing as it does
the
Concilia Generalia, Surii. Col. Agrip. 1567, in 4 volumes,
folio.
Concilia Generalia Nicolini. Venetiis, 1585, in 5 volumes,
folio.
Concilia Generalia Binii. Coloniæ, 1606, in 4 volumes, folio.
Canones et Decreta Concilii Tridentini.
Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana, and Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et
Civilis.