Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right REV. Brian Walton Editor of the London Polyglot Bible (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1821 Excerpt: ... SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PRECEDING VINDICATION, CHIEFLY WITH A VIEW TO REFERENCES UPON THE SUBJECT, BT THE COMPILER OF THE MEMOIRS OF DR. WALTON, &o. OBSERVATIONS, P. 2. A "a reverend author" Dr. Walton here alludes, I presume, to a passage in a sermon preached before the King, Sept. 2,1623, by Dr. G. Warburton, (afterwards dean of Wells, ) and published in that year. Inter duos latrones hodib critcifigitur Ecclesia Christi, (Hieron.) The Church of Christ, as Christ himselfe, is at this day crucified betweene two theeves; her peace disturbed on both sides. On the one side are the Jesuites, and their adherents; a strong and impetuous faction in the Church of Rome, that maintaine those transalpine tenets most injurious to Chris tian monarchs, the pope's supremacie over kings, his power of deposing, of killing them, of acquitting subjects of their natural liege allegiance, and absolving traytors for the murther of their prince. On the other side, certaine scrupulous brethren of our owne, inflamed with a precipitate zeale against our corruptions, as they call them, both in doctrine and discipline, have with their clamorous libels, most repleat with unthankfulnesse to God for his mercies to this land, with slander to our ecclesiasticall government, and with prejudice to the civil state, kindled a strange fire of contention in this national Church." Serm. pp. 35, 36. P. 4. B "that magnificent work." See Le Long1, Biblioth. Sac. cap. 1. Bib. Polygl. Antverp. Bowyer on the first printed Polyglots, Orig. of Printing, p. 129. And Dibdin's Introduct. to the Classics, 3d edit. vol. i. p. 8. et seq. where several curious particulars of this wonder of the world, as it has been called, are related. P. 5. C "that splendid work of the Parisian Bible." Compare Le Long, u...