ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Chapters were drawn up with the idea of contributing, in some measure, to the satisfaction of a want which is felt more especially by Students in the Universities and elsewhere, who are reading for Holy Orders. Notwithstanding the multitude of authors who continue to enrich our stock of literature by expositions of the doctrine of the Articles, there has been no regular attempt to illustrate the framing of the Formulary itself, either by viewing it in connexion with the kindred publications of an earlier and a later date, or still more in its relation to the period out of which it originally grew. Very much of the material which is wanted has been doubtless gathered to our hands in the course of historical inquiries respecting the rise and progress of the English Reformation: yet as there must always be a large class of readers, anxious to be accurately informed, but precluded from consulting the voluminous collectors, such as Strype, Le Plat, or Wilkins, it has been thought that a hand-book like the present, if compiled in a fair and discriminating spirit, cannot fail to be as generally useful to the Church as some of the similar attempts to elucidate the Book of Common Prayer. ST CATHARINE'S HALL, CAMBRIDGE, March 19, 1851. TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE REFORMATION. GENERAL CRY FOR REFORMATION IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Council of Pisa (1409) a 'reforming' Council Memorial of Richard Ulverston Council of Constance (1414-1418) 'reforming' Hottric Abendon's Sermon Anxiety of the English for Reformation (1425) Council of Basle (1431) 'reforming' Letter of Pisan prelates (1511) Final outbreak of the Reformation Fatal effects of the prejudice against Luther Bossuet Frederic von Schlegel Möhler Institution of a Christian Man, and Necessary Doctrine 59 (notes) THE THIRTEEN ARTICLES: CONFERENCES WITH THE LUTHERANS. Result of the Conference with the Lutherans extant Importance of the XIII. Articles 65, 66 70, 71 72, 73 |