A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST POPERY, IN SEVERAL Select Discourses UPON THE PRINCIPAL HEADS OF CONTROVERSY BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND PAPISTS: BEING WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED By the most eminent Divines of the Church of England, CHIEFLY IN THE REIGN OF KING JAMES II. COLLECTED BY THE RIGHT REV. EDMUND GIBSON, D.D. SUCCESSIVELY LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND LONDON, CAREFULLY REVISED AND EDITED FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES BY THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. VOL. II. LONDON: PUBLISHED AT THE SOCIETY'S OFFICE, 8, EXETER HALL, STRAND. 1848. ADVERTISEMENT TO VOL. II. THE Editor is aware that a second edition of the first treatise in this volume, viz. Dr. Hickes' able Vindication of the Church of England, was published in 1706, with many alterations and additions, a fact which Bishop Gibson must have overlooked. The Editor has not adopted the second edition with its alterations and additions, being bound as he conceives to publish the "Preservative" as the Compiler left it. The second edition too is much more bulky, and it would puzzle the most ingenious Editor to correct the numerous errata in it. In a note about Petrarch, in the preface, there is abundance of errors which can only be rectified by the Basil edition. Petrarchæ Opp. which is absurdly dated MDXXCI. meaning 1581. The Editor may be permitted in this place to notice the following error in the note at p. 182, Vol. I. The words "Fredericus archbishop Solernitanus, or Hieronymus archbishop Brundusinus" should have been written, as is obvious, "Frederic archbishop of Salerno, Jerome archbishop of Brundusium." These nine names are given correctly, in Brown's Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum, Vol. II. p. 236. Lond. 1690. They are as follow: Gaspar Cardin. Cotarenus. Joh. Petrus Card. Theatinus. Reginaldus Card. Anglicus Cognom. Polus. Hieronymus Arch. Brundusinus. Joh. Matthæus Episcopus Veronensis. |