The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury: The Fourth Portion

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008 M07 16 - 782 pages
History
The Parker Society, 'For the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church', was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Its name is taken from that of Matthew Parker, the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector and preserver of books. The stimulus for the foundation of the society was provided by the nineteenth-Century Tractarians. Some members of this movement, e.g., R.H. Froude in his Remains of 1838-9, spoke most disparagingly of the English Reformation: 'Really I hate the Reformation and the Reformers more and more'. Keble could add in 1838, 'Anything which separates the present Church from the Reformers I should hail as a great good'. Protestants within the Church of England therefore felt the urgent need to make available in an attractive and accessible form the works of the leaders of the English Reformation. To many it seemed that the Protestant foundations of the English Church were being challenged like never before.
Thus the society represented a co-operation between traditional High Churchmen and evangelical churchmen, both of whom were committed to the Reformation teaching on justification by faith. Subscribers were also involved in the erection of the Martyrs' Memorial in Oxford, although this was as much anti-Roman Catholic as anti-Tractarian.
The society had about seven thousand subscribers who paid one pound each year from 1841 to 1855; thus for fifteen pounds the subscribers received fifty- three volumes - the General Index and the Latin originals of the 1847 'Original Letters relative to the English Reformation' being special subscriptions. Twenty-four editors were used and the task of arriving at the best text was far from easy. The choice of publications was controversial and some authors and works were unfortunate not to be included in PS volumes. While some of the volumes have been superseded by more recent critical editions, today this collection remains one of the most valuable sources for the study of the English Reformation.
 

Contents

PAGE
627
Part V
776
Part VI
900
Epistola ad D Scipionem e º e s e e e e e e e e s e s e e e e e e
1129
Letters of bishop Jewel Latin and English
1189
To Parkhurst Oct 15 1558
1190
To Simler Nov 2 1559
1220
May 4 1561
1242
Aug 18 1562
1256
To Abp Parker June 16 1563
1262
To Whittingham and Goodman 1 192
1276
Oratio Contra Rhetoricam 4 e s
1283
Ultima Juelli Ejecti e Collegio Oratio e e e e e e e e
1292
Certain Frivolous Objections against the government of the Church
1299
Versus
1305
Titlepage to Seven Godly Sermons
1313

Feb 10 1562
1250

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