Schismatick. Antichrist; pope's supremacy; pope's infallibility; indulgences; purgatory; extreme unction; transubstantiation, mass; image worship; relicks; prayer for the dead; praying to saints; merit; supererogation; traditions; miracles; truth; error; papists; protestants. Popish orders. Cardinals; jesuits. Arminians. Socinians; Antinomians; Ana-baptists; Quakers; Jews. Jewish rites. Sabbath; circumcision; passover. Jews' conversion. Schools; universities; learning; grammar; rhetorick; poetry; philosophy; history; mathematicks; musick; opticks; politicks. Laws. Lawyers; judges; physick; physician; astrology; meteors; dreams; witch-craft; jests; riddles; proverbs; emblems; anagrams; chronograms; mottoes; epitaphs. The Second Part is geographical, and thus arranged : World. Europe; Asia; Africa; America. England,—London, Oxford, and Cambridge. Wales; Scotland; Ireland. France,Paris; Spain; Italy; Naples; Florence; Siena; Verona; Milan; Geneva; Venice; Padua; Rome, Old, New; Germany; Low Countries; Denmark; Swedland; Hungary; Poland; Transylvania; Russia; Greece; Turkey; Palestine; Jerusalem; Tartary; China; Persia; East Indies; Arabia; Egypt; Islands; Crete; Cyprus; Zante. The Third Part is biographical, consisting of four sub-divisions. Viri celebriores. Ab orbe condito ad Christum natum. Adam; Eve; Homer; Lycurgus; Hesiod; Romulus; Thales; Socrates; Pythagoras; sop; Pindar; Heraclitus; Democritus; Hippocrates; Euripides; Sophocles; Herodotus; Thucydides; Aristophanes; Isocrates; Xenophon; Demosthenes; Plato; Euclid; Aristotle; Alexander; Theocritus; Aratus; Zeno; Berosus; Diogenes; Hannibal; Cato; Polybius; Archimedes ; Chrysippus; Plautus; Ennius; Terence; Lucretius; P. Scipio; Cicero; Catiline; Pompey; Julius Cæsar; Augustus Cæsar; Ovidius; Virgil. Viri celebriores. A nato Christo ad Constantinum. Peter; Andrew; James of Zebedee; John; Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew; James, of Alpheus; Lebbeus, alias Thaddeus; Simon, the Canaanite; Judas Iscariot; Philo; Simon Magus; Menander; Nicolaus; Plinius Secundus; Lucan; Tiberius Cæsar; Caius Caligula; Claudius Cæsar; Nero Cæsar; Sulpitius Galba; Salvius Otho; Aulus Vitellius; Flavius Vespasianus; Titus Vespasianus; Flavius Domitianus; Coccejus Nerva; Ulpius Trajanus; Ælius Adrianus; Lucius Ælius Verus; Antoninus Philosophus; Antoninus Pius; L. Aurelius Commodus; Helvius Pertinax; Didius Julianus; Pescennius Niger, a usurper; Clodius Albinus, another usurper, with Niger; L. Septimus Severus; Ignatius; Justin Martyr; Irenæus; Clemens Alexandrinus; Tertullian; Origen; Cyprian. Viri celebriores. A Constantino ad Lutherum. i. e. ab A. D. 307. ad A. D. 1517. Constantine, surnamed the Great; Julian, the Apostate; Lactantius; Ambrose; Augustine; Monica; Hierome; Athanasius ; Chrysostom; Hilary; Germanus St. Germane; St. Patrick; Columba; St. Kintigern, or Mungo; Mahomet; Joannes Duns Scotus; Columbus. Viri celebriores. A Luthero ad usq. nunc. Martin Luther; Joannes Capnio; Henry the Seventh, of England; Zuinglius; Ecolampadius; Melancthon; Erasmus ; Scaliger; Paulus Fagius: Charles the Fifth; Philip the Second; Henry the Eighth; Edward the Sixth; Queen Mary; Lady Jane Grey; More; Wolsey; Paracelsus; John Calvin;_ _Peter Martyr; Roger Ascham; Ursin; Beza; Junius; Francis; Patrick Hamilton; George Wischart, alias Wishart; John Knox; Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots; John Rogers, martyr; Cranmer; Latimer; Ridley; Brown; Queen Elizabeth; Leicester; Cecil; Drake; Rawleigh; Sidney; Greenham; Faustus; Socinus, hoeresiarcha; Bancroft; Whitaker; Perkins; John Craig; George Abbot; John Welsh; Heinsius; Henry the Fourth, of France; Jacobus Arminius, al, Van Harmin; Hugh Broughton; King James; Camden; Rogers; Gustavus; Jansenius; Francis Bacon; John Preston; Grotius; Herbert; Selden; Salmasius; John Spotswood; John Cotton; Abraham Cowley; Mary Boyl, Lady Warwick; Robert Foulks; James Sharp; Mr. Thomas Gouge; Sir George Booth; Lord Delamere; Mr. John Flavel; King William the Third. This interesting volume contains a variety of valuable and curious reading, selected principally from the writings of Ovid; Terence; Juvenal; Horace; Martial; Tacitus; Cicero; Quintilian; Velleius Paterculus; Seneca; Pliny; Plutarch; Augustine; Tertullian ; Nazianzen; Chrysostom; Cyprian; Lactantius; Basil; Origen; Bernard; Ambrose and Epiphanius; Luther; Calvin; Melancthon; Beza; Scaliger; Erasmus, and Grotius; Melchior Adam; Bacon; Camden; Stow, and Spelman; Jewel; Rivet; Peter Martyr; Musculus; Thuanus; Fox; Bishop Hall; Dr. Harrison; Ames; Nehemiah Rogers; Perkins; Bolton; Dr. Harris; White; Quarles; Arrowsmith; Stoughton; Strong; Hildersham; Taylor; Burroughs, Gouge; Trapp; Shepherd; Greenham; Capel; Burgess; Tuckney; Rutherford and Blake; Heylin; Newcome; Hales; Baxter; Case; Caryl; Cudworth; Reyner; Bridge; Calamy; Clark; Howel; Sanderson; Reynolds; Lightfoot; Stillingfleet; Leigh; Hammond; Prideaux ; Mede; Spurstowe; Dr, Owen; Polehill;* Gurnal; Rycaut, and Gale. Much of the volume still remains unwritten, scarcely a sentence having been added to it, since Mr. Matthew Henry's decease. It served as a common-place-book to that gentleman, as well as his venerable father. To the volume are added three indexes. The first biographical; the second, miscellaneous; the third, geographical. From the preceding analysis, Mr. Henry's taste and habits, as a student, will, in some degree, be apparent. It has been much desired to ascertain his judgment upon the authors he consulted; but the search has been, as, at this distance of time, might be expected, almost ineffectual. The following are the only instances, and, though brief, can scarcely be omitted. They may serve as specimens, and being transcribed from his own hand, are genuine. Herodotus. Tully calls him the father of history, which title he deserves in regard of antiquity, being the oldest Greek historian extant. I read in Polhill's Precious Faith; of which book, dear father once said,-It was hard to say which excelled, the gentleman, or the divine. Mrs. Savage. Diary. Orig. MS. Thucydides. A most grave and accurate Greek historian, than whom scarce any Grecian ever discovered a more impartial love to the truth in what he wrote.* Fathers. It is a good rule in reading the Fathers, to begin with the most ancient; to know which of their works are genuine, and which spurious; consult Photius Mugióßißhor; Possevin's Apparat; Bibliothec; Bellarm. de Script. Eccl.; Abbas Trithemius. And among the Protestants,-Scultetus Medull; Rivet's Critic. Sacr.; Cooke's Censur. Patr; Erasm. in his Prefaces, Epistles, and Annotations on all those Fathers put forth by him. To know the best edition of the Fathers, it is a general rule, those which Erasmus set out, are freest from corruptions; and in particular, Clemens Roman. edit. Oxon. A.D. 1633. Ignatius, by Dr. Usher. Oxon. 1646.+ Common-place Book. Orig. MS. + Ib. See Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. 4th edit. v. 2. Appendix. p. 739. APPENDIX, No. XXVI. WHAT am I? In sin, or in Christ? Am I effectually called, or am I not? If not, it is dangerous coming. Ask what am I, that if I am not as I should be, I may mend my state. If not alive, then go to God for spiritual life. And when God gives life, then away to the sacrament for the support of the spiritual life. Those mentioned in Acts, ii., as soon as they were converted, were presently in church-fellowship. What have I done? Here is work for self-examination. To consider our sins; the sin of our nature; the sins of our hearts and lives; the sins of our particular relations; sabbath sins; tongue sins, &c. When we have found out our sins, then we must repent. Repenting includes contrition, hearty sorrow; contrition is the breaking of the heart, pounding it as in a mortar. Confession, telling God what we have done. Conversion, turning from sin. With all these, hearty prayer must be joined. What do I want? A condemned malefactor wants a pardon; a hungry soul wants bread; a debtor wants a surety; a traveller wants a guide; a guilty person wants a city of refuge; a blind man wants eye-salve; a weak soul wants strength; a graceless heart wants grace; a sinner wants a Saviour. Now all these are to be had with Christ. All these are offered in the sacrament. In one word, Christ and all his benefits. When we are going to a market, we look about the house to see what is wanting. The sacrament is the market. When we have found out our wants, we must represent them to God in prayer.' * P. Henry. From a MS. in Mr. Matthew Henry's hand-writing. 1683-4. See Matthew Henry's Communicant's Companion. Miscellaneous Works. p. 205, &c. |