THE THEOLOGICAL WORKS OF ISAAC BARROW, D.D. MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. IN NINE VOLUMES. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press BY THE REV. ALEXANDER NAPIER, M.A. TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF HOLKHAM, NORFOLK, VOLUME VII. CONTAINING AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED; THE LORD'S PRAYER; CAMBRIDGE: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.LIX. THE BOOKSELLER'S ADVERTISEMENT. THE HE following short and practical Explication of the Creed (the Original Copy whereof being found in the late learned Archbishop Tillotson's study after his decease) was, among many other duplicate manuscripts of Dr. Barrow's Sermons, since printed at large in folio, overlooked by His Grace (as may be presumed), otherwise he would, no doubt, have published this short Exposition on the Creed, together with that on the Lord's Prayer, Decalogue, and Sacraments, as they now are in this volume; which is intimated in the foregoing Preface*, written by his Grace. I have therefore judged it convenient, lest the same should be thought spurious, to preserve the copy thereof in my custody, writ by Dr. Barrow's own hand, where any one that pleases may see it, and be satisfied. Which being a sufficient testimony that this work is genuine, I shall say no more, but acquaint the Reader, that the same Author's Expositions on the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Sacraments, being out of print, it was thought convenient to publish them herewith, and to draw them into as small a compass as possible, that they might thereby become of more general use to the public; especially at this time, when the gross Error of Socinus does so much prevail: the said Error being in this Book most clearly refuted from the Writings of the Orthodox in the most Primitive times. And how useful a work of this learned Author will be for the suppressing the pernicious Principles of those Heretics, which have let in upon us a deluge of Deism and Atheism together, is left to the impartial Reader to judge. * [Subjoined in this Edition.] B. AYLMER. |