Schleusneri Lexicon Novi Testamenti.
Among the works of Divinity I may mention those of Barrow and Beveridge;
Allix’s Reflections; Burton’s Testimonies of the Anti Nicene Fathers to
the Divinity of Christ; Butler’s Analogy; Baxter’s Christian Directory;
Bonaventuræ Opera Theologica; Bingham’s Works, in 2 vols. folio; Bulli
Opera, Londini, 1703, folio; Bochart, Opera Omnia; Bedæ Opera, Parisiis,
1520, folio; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1732, in 3 vols.
folio; Gill’s Philosophy of Scripture, London, 1635, folio; Coplestone on
Predestination; Chandler’s Life of David; Grotii Opera, Londini, 1679;
Erasmi Opera, Lugd. Bat. 1703; Horne’s Introduction to the Study of the
Holy Scriptures; Hickes’s History of Montanism, London, 1709, 8vo.;
Jewel’s Apology, 1570; Lightfoot’s Works, London, 1684, in 2 vols. folio;
Lardner’s Testimonies, 1764, in 2 vols. 4to.; and his Credibility, 1741,
in 17 volumes, 8vo.; Magee on the Atonement; Masoni Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ
Anglicanæ, Londini, 1625, folio; Prideaux’s Connection, 1720, folio;
Paley’s Works; Pearson on the Creed; Stackhouse on the Creed; Stebbing’s
Polemical Tracts; Rogers on the Thirty Nine Articles; Jeremy Taylor’s
Ductor dubitantium, 1696, folio; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature, 1722,
4to.; Wilkins on Natural Religion; and Wake’s Catechism; and lastly,
the Sylloge Confessionum, Oxonii, 1804, 8vo.; with Preservative against
Popery, London, 1738, in 3 volumes, folio.
Of Sermons I noticed those by Sherlock, Rogers and Conybeare; the
Discourses of Charnock; and the Sermons preached at Boyle’s Lecture, and
published in 1739, in 3 volumes, folio. This copy is in old calf.
I may here notice Cave’s Scriptorum Eccles. Historia literaria; Boëthii
Opera; and Beattie on Truth, with some pieces by Luther.
Of Ecclesiastical History the shelves of this Library are well filled
with Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bacon’s Liber Regis; Ecton’s
Thesaurus; Bray’s Bibliotheca Parochialis, London, 1707; Burn’s
Ecclesiastical Law; Cave’s Lives of the Apostles; and his Primitive
Christianity; Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1684, in 3 vols. folio; Gibson’s
Codex; Godwyn, de Præsulibus Angliæ, Cantabrigiæ, 1743, folio; Hooker’s
Ecclesiastical Polity; Histoire de Concile de Trent, Londres, 1736,
in 2 vols. folio; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, 1668; Du Pin’s
Ecclesiastical History of the Sixteenth Century; Josephus, Hudsoni;
Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Kaye’s Ecclesiastical History;
Lansbergii Chronologia Sacra; Middleburg, 1625, 4to; Knight’s Lives
of Erasmus and Colet; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Nelson’s
Life of Bishop Bull; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland, 1677, folio;
Stillingfleet’s Origines; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantabrigiæ,
1727, in 2 vols. folio; Spondani Epitome Annalium Eccles. Baronii, Lugd.
Bat. 1660, folio; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, Amstelodami, 1728,
in 2 volumes, folio; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, 1691, in 2 vols. folio;
Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, &c. in 4 vols. folio, in calf gilt; to
which I may add Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1682, folio; and 1718,
folio; with Stevens’s Continuation, 1722-3; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica,
edited by Nasmith, 1787, folio; and Gwillim’s Tithe Cases.
Of Works tending to elucidate History in general I may enumerate,
Blair’s Chronology; Hales’ Analysis of Chronology; Helvici Theatrum
historicum et chronologicum, Oxonii, 1662, folio; Marshami Chron. Canon.
Egypt. Londini, 1672, folio; Marshall’s Chronological Tables; Newton’s
Chronology; and Bryant’s Enquiries into Ancient History, 4to. in calf.
Of Historical Works I noticed the Universal History, whereof the ancient
portion published in 1747-54, occupies 21 volumes, and the modern of
the date of 1759-66, 44 vols. in 8vo. uniformly bound in calf; the
General Dictionary, London, 1734-41, in 10 vols. folio; Puffendorf’s Law
of Nations, 1729, folio; Grævii Antiquitates & Gruteri Inscriptiones;
Ralegh’s History of the World, 1677, folio; Robertson’s History of
Charles V.; Harris’ Voyages; the History of the Saracens, by Prideaux and
Ockley; Norden’s Egypt, London, 1757, folio; Sandys’ Europæ Speculum;
Petri Kærii Germania inferior à Petro Montano, Amst. 1622, folio; and the
Biographical Dictionary, London, 1798, in 15 vols. 8vo.
Of Works relating to History and Antiquities, I may mention, in addition
to Dugdale’s Monasticon, and Tanner’s Notitia; Blackstone’s Commentaries;
Burn’s Justice of the Peace; Birch’s Life of Queen Elizabeth, 1754, in
2 vols. 4to.; Burnet’s History of his own time; Clarendon’s Rebellion,
Oxon, 1702, in 4 vols. folio; Cooper on the Public Records; Dalrymple’s
Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland; Davies’ Celtic Researches; Hume’s
History of England; Holinshed’s Chronicles, the reprint; Kippis’
Biographia Britannica; Kennett’s Complete History of England, London,
1719, in 3 vols. folio, in calf; Lloyd’s State Worthies; Speed’s Theatre
of Great Britain, London, 1676, folio; Spelman’s Life of Alfred, 1678,
folio; Nalson’s Collections, 1682, folio; Rushworth’s Historical
Collections, 1659, folio, in 6 vols.; Robertson’s History of Scotland;
Population Returns; and the Records of the Kingdom, published under the
authority of the Parliamentary Commission.
Of Topographical Works I noticed, Hasted’s History of Kent, in calf gilt;
Harris’ History of Kent; Thorpe’s Custumale and Registrum Roffense;
Master’s History of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, 1753, 4to.; some
Poll Books for the City of Rochester; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses;
Twyne de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis, 1608, 4to.; and Young’s History
of Whitby.