SOMETIME PREBENDARY OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST. PETER, WESTMINSTER. VOL. V. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. M DCCC LIV. TITLES OF THE TREATISES CONTAINED IN THE FIFTH VOLUME. I. A LETTER CONCERNING THE PRESENT STATE OF RELIGION AMONGST US; [Under the Act of Establishment, prosecuted by the Ordinances constituting the Triers, and Commissioners for ejecting of Scandalous Ministers:] 8vo. pp. 24. n. p. or date and anonymously, but published first in 1656; [avowed by the author, and republished with alterations aud the additional clause added to the title-page, at the end of Just Weights and Measures, 1662, and 1680. 4to.] II. THE DUE WAY OF COMPOSING THE DIFFERENCES ON FOOT, PRESERVING THE CHURCH; according to the opinion of HERBERT THORNDIKE. London: Printed by A. Warren, for John Martin, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1660. small 8vo. [and again at the end of Just Weights and Measures, 1662, and 1680. 4to.] III. JUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: that is, The Present State of Religion weighed in the balance, and measured by the standard of the Sanctuary; according to the opinion of HERBERT THORNDIKE. London: Printed by J. M. for J. Martin, J. Allestry, and T. Dicas, and are to be sold at the sign of the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1662. 4to. [And second edition printed by S. Roycroft for J. Martyn. 1680. 4to.] IV. THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF COMPREHENSION : or a Petition against the Presbyterian Request for a Comprehensive Act, in 1667: [now first published.] V. THE PLEA OF WEAKNESS AND TENDER CONSCIENCES DISCUSSED AND ANSWERED in a Discourse upon Rom. xv. 1: [written in 1667: now first published.] VI. A DISCOURSE OF THE FORBEARANCE OR THE PENALTIES WHICH A DUE REFORMATION REQUIRES: by H. THORNDIKE, one of the Prebends of Westminster Church. London: Printed by J. M. for James Collins, at the Kings-Head in Westminster Hall, 1670. Small 8vo. VII. THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BETTER THAN THAT OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT: or a Short Resolution of the Controversies between the Churches of England and Rome: [written in 1670-2: now first published.] VIII. MR. HERBERT THORNDIKE'S JUDGMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ROME: [published after the writer's death by Stillingfleet in his Conferences between a Romish Priest, a Fanatic Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England, concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome, pp. 85 sq., 8vo. Lond. 1679.] THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS. ADVERTISEMENT TO READER. Occasion of the Letter, the Acts of Parliament for settling of religion Heresy of disbelief in one catholic Church-of the Antinomians-that Preaching.-Sabbath.-Service-book.-Nullity of parliamentary and of presbyterian ordinations.-Presbyterians no Church.-Clergy and Occasion of the tract.-Its chief ground, the belief in one catholic Church.-Unity.-Unreasonableness of the Church of Rome.-Papal, not patriarchal, power rejected.—Terms proposed merely provisional. 27 Hobbists and Independents agree in denying a visible Church.-Hor- Heresy that the condition of good works is inconsistent with the free- Of our original difference with the presbyterians about the order of Of the other difficulty respecting the service of God in Church. Our Service-book.-The Presbyterian Directory.-The Sabbath and ser- mons. A greater number of services, the proper way to keep Sun- |