THE REV. R. BINGHAM, JUN., M.A. FORMERLY OF MAGDALENE HALL, OXFORD, AND FOR MANY YEARS CURATE OF TRINITY CHURCH, GOSPORT. A NEW EDITION, IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. II. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M. DCCC. LV. 4.3.47 THE PREFACE OF BUDDEUS PREFIXED TO GRISCHOVIUS'S LATIN VERSION OF THE WORKS OF JOSEPH BINGHAM. ITA tandem multorum satisfieri cœpit votis, qui, ut Binghami ORIGINES ECCLESIÆ alia, quam Anglicana lingua, legi possent, vehementer optarunt. Ex quo enim per varias eruditorum ephemerides innotuit, quanto studio, quanta industria Auctor doctissimus in hocce argumento versatus sit, quam exactam et exquisitam eorum omnium, quæ, ut solide illud pertractaretur, requirebantur, secum attulerit notitiam, non poterant non ingenti cupiditate ad illud legendum inflammari, quotquot antiquitatibus historiæque ecelesiasticæ justum statuere pretium didicerunt. Hi ergo jam invenient, quo suam abunde expleant sitim, dum prima operis hujus pars, in Latinum translata sermonem, omnium se oculis offert, atque deprehendent 1 [John Francis Buddeus was born at Aclam in Pomerania in 1667. He completed his education at the University of Wittemberg, where he was AssistantProfessor of Philosophy in 1689. He was afterwards Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Halle in 1693, and eventually Professor of Theology at Jena in 1705, where he died in 1729. This Lutheran divine was a man of great learning and industry, as his rather numerous works, chiefly on theological subjects, declare. ED.] |