This volume is divided into four Tomes or Parts.

I. Tome I. containeth the Discourses against the Romanists; viz.

1. "An Answer to M. de la Militière" [Milletières], "his impertinent Dedication of his imaginary Triumph (intitled 'The Victory of Truth'), or his Epistle to the King of Great Britain" (King Charles II.), "wherein he inviteth his Majesty to forsake the Church of England, and to embrace the Roman Catholic Religion with the said Militière's" [Milletière's] "Epistle prefixed."

This was first published at the Hague in [1653], 12mo., but not by the author. [It was acknowledged by him in his "Just Vindication," &c. (published the next year, 1654), "excepting the errors of the press," of which he there noticed one: and was upon this again published, but evidently not by Bramhall himself (The Hague, 12mo. 1654), as corrected according to his Lordship's own directions in his Vindication," &c. viz. with that one error and that only corrected, together with a few alterations in the (so called) translation, prefixed to it, of La Milletière's Epistle. Bayle", Niceron, and Bramhally himself, speak also of a French translation of the Answer (Geneva, 1655, 8vo.), entitled "Réponse faite par le Commandement du Roi de la Grande Brétagne a l'Epître Dedicatoire du Triomphe Imaginaire de M. de la Milletière," with an Avis au Lecteur" by the Genevese editor prefixed: and the original has been again lately republished in 12mo. from the folio edition (corrected, however, as it should seem, by that of 1654), with one or two notes and a memoir of the Author abridged from Dr. Vesey's Life, by the Rev. G. Ingram, Lond. 1841.]

The occasion of it was, that the Romanists endeavoured to persuade King Charles II., during his exile, to hope his restoration by embracing their religion; and for that purpose employed M. de la [Milletière], Counsellor in Ordinary to the King of France, to write to him [the Epistle in question". This was published in 1651, at Paris, where Charles's court then was; and Dr. Bramhall's reply, written (if we may trust the Genevese editor) by his Majesty's express command, and probably enough for his private satisfaction,

was apparently composed at the same place at the close of the same year.]

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2. "A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism, wherein the Nature of criminal Schism, the divers Sorts of Schismatics, the Liberties and Privileges of National Churches, the Rights of Sovereign Magistrates, the Tyranny, Extortion, and Schism, of the Roman Court, with the Grievances, Complaints, and opposition of all Princes and States of the Roman Communion of Old, and at this very Day, are manifested to the View of the World."

First printed at London [in 1654, 8vo., 'from a written copy, during the Author's absence,' he being then in Holland; and again, with the "Replication," &c. (Part i. Discourse iii.) bound up under the same title-page, also at London] in 1661, 8vo., [but apparently, as before, without the author's superintendence, this second being merely a reprint of the first edition with the errata corrected.

The immediate occasion of this treatise, which was originally designed to form an appendix to the Answer to La Milletière", seems to have been the publication abroad by English Roman Catholics of several works, in which the accusation of schism was put forward prominently, as an unanswerable confutation of the pretensions of the English Church'.] In this Discourse [, accordingly,

b [See the Answer itself, p. 23, note 1. p. 78, note 1. of the present edit.; and that Bramhall was in Paris in December 1651, see above, p. xi. note u. His previous residence in Holland may be traced in the Dutch words, which occasionally occur in this tract.]

[In reply to Baxter's objections to the 66 Answer," Bramhall observes (Vindic. of Episcop. Clergy, c. vi. as quoted in note y), that abroad "it hath been more happy,-to confirm many, to convert some (and particularly the transcriber of the copy which was brought to the press)," "to irritate no man but the common adversaries, who vented their spleen against it weekly in their pulpits, as thinking that the easiest way of confutation;" adding, that "some" of the old Episcopal Divines, (i. e. of England) had "approved it and thanked him for it."]

d [Answer to La Millet., pp. 36. 60. of the present edit., and the Just Vindication, &c. as quoted in note t.]

Fidei, Paris, 1652. 8vo.-Mr. Knott's "Infidelity Unmasked;" Gant, 1652. 4to.]

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f[The general tone of the controversy with the Romanists seems to have turned at this time very much upon the question of Schism. Dr. Hammond's treatise " 'Of Schism," and another, by Dr. Ferne, Of the Division between the English and Romish Church upon the Reformation," &c., had been published in London in 1653, and Sir Roger Twysden's "Historical Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism" followed Bramhall's (but to all appearance independently) in 1657 (Lond. 4to.). The latter is partly a reply to a Treatise of the Schism of England" by Philip Scot (Amsterd. 1650), but is partly also directed against the arguments of the Romanists generally. Sir G. Radcliffe again writes to Bramhall from Paris, July 21, 1656 (Rawd. Papers, p. 102), that he had met there with sundry very learned men," who seemed "to agree" with him "in points of Faith, and particu

the Author] proves [among other points], That the separation from the Court of Rome was not made by Protestants, but Roman Catholics themselves; That the Britannic Churches were ever exempted from all foreign jurisdiction for the first six hundred years; and had both sufficient authority and sufficient grounds to withdraw their obedience from Rome'. [Although such however may have been the immediate occasion of the work, yet the subject had dwelt in the author's mind long previously, and appears indeed to have been his favourite topick.]

3. "A Replication to the Bishop of Chalcedon" (Richard Smith) "his Survey of the Vindication of the Church of England from Criminous Schism,' clearing the English laws from the Aspersion of Cruelty. With an Appendix in Answer to the exceptions of S. W." [(William Sergeant), "or a Reply to S. W.'s 'Refutation of the Bp. of Derry's Just Vindication of the Church of England.'"]

Printed at first [in London, 1656, 8vo., the "Survey," &c. by R. C. (i. e. Richard Chalcedon) having appeared in 1654. The unsold copies of this edition were bound up, under a common titlepage,] with [the new impression, in 1661, of] the "Just Vindication," &c.

4. "Schism Guarded, and beaten back upon the right Owners, Shewing, that our great Controversie about Papal power, is not a question of Faith, but of Interest and Profit, not with the Church of Rome but with the Court of Rome; wherein the true Controversie doth consist; who were the first Innovators; when, and where, these Papal Innovations first began in England; with the Opposition that was made against them."

This [was first printed at the Hague, 1658, 8vo.; and republished but not reprinted in the following year in London, with "The Consecration and Succession," &c. (the treatise to be next mentioned) bound up with it, and an additional title-page for the whole volume, as follows; “Ρομφαία Δίστομος Οξεία, or, The Church of England

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Defended, in two treatises, against the fabulous and slanderous imputations cast upon her in the two points of Succession of Bishops, and Schisme, wherein the Fable of the Nag's Head Ordination is detected, and the accusation of Schism retorted."

It] is an answer to a book entitled, "Schism Dispatcht, [or, A Rejoinder to the Replies of Dr. Hammond and the Lord of Derry" (i. e. to Dr. Hammond's "Disarmer's Dexterities Examined," Lond. 1656, and to Bramhall's Reply to S. W. in the appendix to his "Replication," &c., above mentioned);] by S. W. i. e. Will. Sergeant [1657. 8vo.]; and our Author proves therein, [among other points,] that the Pope hath no legislative nor judiciary power in England m.

5. "The Consecration and Succession of Protestant Bishops justified. The Bishop of Duresme Vindicated. And that infamous Fable, of the Ordination at the Nag's Head, clearly confuted."

This [appears to have been, from its subject, among the most popular of Dr. Bramhall's Works. It was first published at the Hague in 1658, and again, as above mentioned, with "Schism Guarded," in London, in 1659. A third edition (Lond. 1664. 8vo.) is mentioned by Nicolson", separately from "Schism Guarded;" and a fourth, also separate, appeared in 1716 (Lond. 8vo.). It] is an answer [partly] to a calumny of two Jesuits, Father Talbot and Father B . . . . ....., against our Author. of Durham here vindicated, is Bishop Morton, who was charged by And the Bishop the same Fathers [upon the authority of a certain Nobleman, viz. Lord Audley],-" in 1640, when some Presbyterian Lords presented to the Upper House a book, proving, that the Protestant Bishops had no Succession or Consecration, and therefore were no Bishops," to have made a speech against that book; and "endeavoured to prove succession from the last" [Roman] "Catholic Bishops, who, by imposition of hands, ordained the first Protestant Bishops at the Nag's Head in Cheapside P."-In opposition to this, Bishop Morton, and such of the Spiritual and temporal Lords as were in the House in 1640 and still living in 1658, made solemn

m Sect. i. ch. 6, 7.

[Eng. Hist. Libr. p. 138. 3rd edit.] [Neither Bramhall nor the Fathers had in the first instance named this nobleman, but the latter (or their representative) broke through their scruples in their reply. See the "Nullity of the Prelatique Clergy, by N. N." ch. ix.]

P [These are "the words of the Fathers themselves," as quoted by Bram

hall in his Reply, ch. ii. Works, p. 430.
fol. edit.]

[Dean Barwick, then chaplain to
Bp. Morton, was about to reply to
the story; but hearing of the Bp. of
Derry's intention, he handed over the
materials, which he had collected, to
him (Life of Barwick, by his brother,
p. 174. Eng. Transl.). See the work
itself, ch. ii. p. 432, fol. edit.]

protestations (inserted in this book), "That no such book was ever presented, nor such a speech made by Bishop Morton." [The charge was brought by the Fathers (or by one of them, or of their party) in the 2nd chapter of a book, entitled "A Treatise of the nature of the Catholique Faith and of Heresy by N. N." (Rouen, 1657); to the remainder of the second chapter of which book the greater part of Bramhall's Work is a reply, the story of the Nag's Head Ordination being its principal argument '.]

II. Tome II., "Against the English Sectaries;" comprehends,

1. "A Fair Warning to take heed of the Scottish Discipline, as being of all others most injurious to the Civil Magistrate, most oppressive to the Subject, most pernicious to both."

[First published in 1649, 4to., no place; but spoken of in a "Review" of it by one Robert Bayliet, as "published in Holland":" and republished but not reprinted in 1661, at the Hague, with Baylie's Review and a "Second Fair Warning in vindication of the First," by Rich. Watson, bound up under a common title-page. Another edition, without either name or place, and with considerable omissions and errors, appeared also in 1649: and another, (an exact reprint of the first mentioned) was published between 1661 and 1663, and either in England or in Irelanda.]

2. "The Serpent Salve: or, A Remedy for the biting of an Aspe :

[A Rejoinder to Bramhall's work, entitled "The Nullity of the Prelatique Clergy and Church of England further discovered, in answer to the plain prevarication, &c., of D. John Bramhall," &c. &c. appeared in 1659 (Antw. 8vo.) from the pen of the same N. N. The Nag's Head Ordination was not a new subject to Bramhall; he had treated of it incidentally in his "Protestants' Ordination Defended" (unpublished however at this time), Works, Part iv. Discourse vii. pp. 1006, 1007. fol. edit. of which see below.]

[That this was its first publication, is fixed by the quotation in the book itself (Works, p. 503. fol. edit.) of a 'Solemn Acknowledgment, &c.' made by the General Assembly of Scotland, Oct. 6. 1648.]

t ["Review of Dr. Bramble" (sic), "late Bp. of Londenderry, his Fair Warning against the Scotes Disciplin, by R. B. G." (Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow, at the time, however, with Charles II. at the Hague.) Delph. 1649. 4to. The name is mispelt Bromwell in the title-page of the book itself.]

u [Bp. Bramhall had returned from Ireland and was at Rotterdam in Oct. 1648 see above, p. x, note r.]

4to.

ton.]

[First published in 1651, Hague, He was chaplain to Lord Hop

[From the substitution in at least one instance ("reglement " for "regulation") of a foreign for an English word, this edition also would seem to have been printed abroad, and very possibly without the author's knowledge, as he does not appear to have ever disavowed or concealed his authorship.]

[The title-page and a table of contents (taken from the headings of the chapters) excepted.]

a[It is entitled "A Fair Warning for England, to take heed of the Scottish Discipline, &c. &c. Also the Sinfulnesse and wickednesse of the Covenant, to introduce that Government upon the Church of England, by Dr. John Brumhall" (sic), "Lord Archbishop of Armagh and Primate, &c., now reprinted for the good and benefit of all his Majesty's Subjects."]