REASONABLENESS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION. OF FUNDAMENTALS, IN A NOTION REFERRING TO PRACTICE. OF SCHISM, A DEFENCE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AGAINST THE EXCEPTIONS OF THE ROMANISTS. A PARENESIS, OR SEASONABLE EXHORTATORY TO ALL TRUE SONS OF WHEREIN IS INSERTED A DISCOURSE OF HERESY IN DEFENCE OF OUR CHURCH BY HENRY HAMMOND, D.D., ARCHDEACON OF CHICHESTER, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. A NEW EDITION. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. M DCCCXLIX. LIST OF EDITIONS NOT REFERRED TO IN THE PREVIOUS VOLUME. †These are the editions to which Hammond himself refers. Aristides Dindorfii, 3 tom. 8vo. Lips. 1829. Athanasius, S., ed. Ben. 2 tom. fol. Par. 1698. +Balsamon, Canones, fol. Lut. Par. 1620. Baronius, Annales Eccl., 12 tom. fol. Antv. 1601-29. +Bibliotheca Vet. Patr., ed. Delabigne, 17 tom. fol. 1654. +Cassandri Opera, fol. Par. 1616. +Chalcidius in Platonis Timæum, Meursii, 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1617. Chesne (Andreas du) Hist. Franc. Script. 4 tom. fol. Lut. Par. 1631— 41. Guilielmus Malmsburiensis, ap. Rer. Angl. Script. q. v. Henricus Huntingdoniensis, ap. Rer. Angl. Script. q. v. +Leunclavius, Jus Græco-Romanum, fol. Francof. 1596. Lucretius, ed. Creech, 8vo. London, 1835. Matthæus Parisiensis, ed. Wats. fol. Lond. 1684. Nicephorus, Eccles. Hist., 2 tom. fol. Par. 1630. +Nilus de Primatu, ap. Salmasium de Primatu, 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1645. Optatus, S. ed. Dupin, fol. Lut. Par. 1700. Palladius, Lausiaca Historia, ap. Galland., q. v. Phavorinus, Lexicon, fol. Basil, 1538. Philo Judæus, ed. Mangey, 2 tom. fol. Lond. 1742. Platina, de vitis Pontificum, fol. Colon. 1574. Plato, ed. Bekker, 11 tom. 8vo. Lond. 1826. Plinius, Nat. Hist., ed. Delph., 5 tom. 4to. Par. 1685. Epistolæ, 12mo. Lond. 1790. Proclus, Analecta, 4to. Romæ, 1630. Prosperus, S., fol. Par. 1711. Quintilianus, Burmanni, 3 tom. 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1720. Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam Præcipui, fol. Francof. 1601. Sayrus, Clavis Regia Sacerdotum fol. Venet. 1605. Socolovius, fol. Cracov. 1591. Socrates, Hist. Eccl. Valesii, fol. Par. 1668. Suetonius, Grævii. 4to. Traj. ad Rhen. 1703. Tacitus, Gronovii, 2 tom. 4to. Traj. Batav. 1721. Tatianus, ap. Just. Mart., ed. Ben. fol. Par. 1742. Vincentius Lirinensis. 12mo. Oxon. 1836. Warnefridus de gestis Langobardorum, 8vo. Lugd. Bat. 1595. Wesselus Groningensis, ap. Goldastum, q. v. Widdrington's Last Rejoinder, &c. 4to. 1619. +Zonaras, Canones, fol. Lut. Par. 1618. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE four treatises which occupy the present volume have no particular connexion either in point of subject or of time of publication, but have been selected as forming the most interesting portion of the author's works, and as being, next to the Practical Catechism, the least directly controversial of his writings. Indeed, with the exception of the tract on Schism, the defence of which occupied him till his death, none of them engaged the author in any controversy. The treatise on the Reasonableness of Christian Religion was written apparently soon after the death of the king, whilst the author was under a sort of libera custodia as he calls it, at the house of his friend Mr. (afterwards Sir Philip) Warwick, at Clapham, in Bedfordshire. The first edition of it was published in 1650, but as there is no allusion to it in any of his letters, the Editor is not able to fix more exactly the date of its composition or publication, though the evident allusions to the king's death shew that it was written at some time during the year 1649, and the fact that a third edition was issued in 1650 renders it probable that the first was published at the commencement of the year, i. e. about April, or perhaps even somewhat earlier, as it was not unusual for books published some few weeks before the actual commencement of the year, i. e. March 25th, to anticipate its date. Like most of Hammond's publications, it was written to meet a pressing necessity. Upon the death of Charles the cause of the Church of England seemed wellnigh hopeless, and whilst many were straying to the Roman communion, those whose sympathies were not in that direction, and who were either too high-bred for the vulgarities of Presbyterianism, or too intellectual to be attracted by the |