THE WORKS OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, JOHN BRAMHALL, D.D. SOMETIME LORD ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH, PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL IRELAND. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS. VOL. II. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. MDCCCXLII. PREFACE. THE present volume contains the remainder of Bramhall's treatises upon the subject of schism. They have been reprinted, as were those in the former volume, from the folio edition of his Works corrected by the original editions of the separate treatises and consist of two Discourses; viz. The Replication to the Bishop of Chalcedon's Survey, with an Appendix in Reply to S. W., Lond. 1656; and Schism Guarded, Hague 1658. It is necessary to mention, that the quotations, made in the former of these treatises from the Bishop of Chalcedon's book to which it is a reply, do not tally in all cases with the copy of that book in the Bodleian Library; and this, in many instances, in a way which cannot have arisen from carelessness. The copy in question bears no marks of belonging to a second or revised edition; but as the titlepage has the date 1655, while Dodd and Woodd both speak of it as being published in 1654, it probably is so. It must be mentioned also, as some apology for the frequent introduction of corrections into the latter of the two Richard Smith, titular Bishop of Chalcedon, presided over the English Romanists from 1625 until his death in 1654-5. A full account of his life and writings will be found in Dodd's Church History, vol. iii. Pt. vi. bk. 1. art. 2. pp. 4-17. and bk. 2. art. 4. pp. 7679; and in Wood, Athen. Oxon., vol. iii. pp. 384-388. ed. Bliss. For S. W. or Mr. Serjeant, who was an opponent of far inferior character, both for learning, for talent, and for courtesy, see p. 358. note j of the present volume. E. g. p. 72, text to note q; p. 222, text to note c; p. 248, text to note s. Ch. Hist., vol. iii. Pt. vi. bk. 2. Art. 4. p. 79. d Athen. Oxon., vol. iii. p. 387. ed. Bliss. |