CONCIONALIA; Outlines of Sermons for Parochial Use throughout the Year.
By the REV. HENRY THOMPSON, M.A., Cantab., Curate of Wrington, Somerset.
It contains Sermons for the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays
after Easter; the Annunication of the Blessed Virgin Mary; St. Mark's
Day. To be continued monthly.
London: J. MASTERS, Aldersgate Street, and New Bond Street.
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A MANUAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, from the First to the Twelfth
Century inclusive. By the Rev. E. S. FOULKES, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of
Jesus College, Oxford.
The main plan of the work has been borrowed from Spanheim, a
learned, though certainly not unbiassed, writer of the
seventeenth century: the matter compiled from Spondanus and
Spanheim, Mosheim and Fleury, Gieseler and Döllinger, and
others, who have been used too often to be specified, unless
when reference to them appeared desirable for the benefit of the
reader. Yet I believe I have never once trusted to them on a
point involving controversy, without examining their
authorities. The one object that I have had before me has been
to condense facts, without either garbling or omitting any that
should be noticed in a work like the present, and to give a fair
and impartial view of the whole state of the case.--_Preface._
"An epitomist of Church History has a task of no ordinary
greatness.... He must combine the rich faculties of condensation
and analysis, of judgment in the selection of materials, and
calmness in the expression of opinions, with that most excellent
gift of faith, so especially precious to Church historians,
which implies a love for the Catholic cause, a reverence for its
saintly champions, an abhorrence of the misdeeds which have
defiled it, and a confidence that its 'truth is great, and will
prevail.'
"And among other qualifications which may justly be attributed
to the author of the work before us, this last and highest is
particularly observable. He writes in a spirit of manly faith,
and is not afraid of facing 'the horrors and uncertainties,'
which, to use his own words, are to be found in Church
history."--_From the Scottish Ecclesiastical Journal, May,
1852._
JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London.
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