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OXFORD:

PRINTED BY 1. SHRIMPTON.

PREFACE.

THE Editor is happy to find himself at length enabled to publish the third volume of the Works of Archbishop Bramhall; which carries the work forwards to the end of the Second Part of his Discourses. The fourth volume, containing the Third Part, will appear, he hopes, in the course of the next three months. Of the Discourses now published, the first (being the last of the First Part) is employed in defence of the Succession of English Bishops, against the Romanists; and is reprinted, as regards the text, from the original edition of 1658 (Hague, 8vo.), the Advertisement and Postscript prefixed, from a republication of the book in 1659 (London, 8vo.), and of the documents contained in the Appendix, which were added in the folio edition of Bramhall's Works in 1676-7, the first from the original Register, the second from a fac-simile of the original, published by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (see below p. 210, note a). The remaining three Discourses constitute the Second Part of the collected works, those "against the English Sectaries." The first of them, the Fair Warning against Scottish Dis

In the Replic. to the Bp. of Chalcedon, vol. ii. p. 246 (Disc. iii. Pt. i.), Bramhall has been guilty of a very unfortunate mistranslation of some words of Camden's, relating to the subject of the tract mentioned above in the text; which was overlooked until that volume was through the press. Camden (Annal. Eliz., P. i. p. 23), in speaking of the changes among the Bishops upon Queen Elizabeth's accession, relates, that three Bishops, Scot, Pates, and Goldwell, " sponte mutarunt solum," the fact being, that they fled abroad on account of the Queen's religious measures. Bram

hall renders-" changed their religion of their own accord;" which is exactly what they did not do. Sir R. Baker (Chron. p. 329, ed. 1674) has precisely the same error in the same words, but as I have not access to an earlier edition of his Chronicle than that of 1674 (the book was first published in 1641), it is not clear whether he or Bramhall originated the error, or indeed whether it did not arise from mere carelessness in both cases. It should be added, that Bramhall wrote the book in question whilst in exile, from notes, and without books, and was therefore unable to correct an error once made.

cipline, of which an account will be found below b, appeared originally in 1649; when two editions of the tract were published, both in Holland, but without place or name, one in 32, the other in 36 pp. 4to., the former by foreign printers, and full of mis-spellings, and with a particular clause omitted (see p. 280, note m.), the other more correctly and with the omitted clause inserted. The latter of the two was republished at the Hague in 1661, with a new title-page giving Bramhall's name, and accompanied by Baillie's answerd (a

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bOne Robert Baillie, a Presbyterian minister of some note, was sent with several others to Charles II. at the Hague in 1649, upon the King's murder, to offer him the Scottish crown, 'upon condition of his 'good behaviour and strict observation of the Covenant, and of his entertaining no other persons about him than such as were godly men and faithful to that obligation' (Clarend., Hist. of the Rebell., bk. xii. init.-from the Duke of Argyle's Proclamation of Charles II. in Scotland). There were at the time three distinct parties of Scotsmen at Charles' court, each violently opposed to the other, the high royalists and churchmen headed by Montrose, the Presbyterian "lords of the engagement," who supported kirk and covenant, but stopped short of the extreme measures of Cromwell and the Independents, both in Church and state, led by Hamilton and Lauderdale, and the Commissioners above mentioned, from the Duke of Argyle and the more violent covenanters, who then governed Scotland (Clarend., ibid.). These circumstances, with the following passages from Baillie's Letters and Journals, will explain the history and bearing of Bramhall's tract, which is an uncompromising attack upon Scottish Presbyterianism." I am certainly enformed, by a printer, that that infamous person, who goes under the name of Grallator" (i. e. one who walks upon stilts or crutches), "hes a big volume reddy of the late practises of the Scottish Kirk in the exercize of discipline, which ye may think are willingly furnished to him by some banished Scotsmen" (Mr. W. Spang, Baillie's cousin, under the name of W. Anderson, to Baillie, at the Hague, March, 1649; - vol. iii. p. 79, of Baillie's Letters and Journals, new edit. in 1841).-"Doctor Bramble of Derrie hes printed the other day at Delph a wicked pamphlet against our

Church. We have no time, nor doe
we think it fitt, to print ane answer"
(Baillie and the other Commissioners
to the Committee of Estates in Scot-
land, April 3, 1649; ibid. p. 87).-
"I feare I must engage with Dr.
Bramble; for his Warning, it does so
much i to the King and all about
him" (same to Mr. Rob. Douglass,
Hague, April 17, 1649; ibid. p. 90).
-Semper cognovi studium curamque
tuam, ut meus contra Doctorem Brain-
blium jam Belgicè loquentem libellus
transferretur etiam Belgicè" (same to
Voetius, Sept. 13, 1649; ibid. p. 103).
"Bramble," the name here used, ap-
pears to have been employed upon all
occasions for Bramhall, apparently
through a sincerely innocent mis-
spelling, by Baillie and his friends;
who distort all English names in a
manner the most grotesque. Even
in the "Charge of the Scottish Com-
missioners against the Lieutenant of
Ireland," Dec. 16, 1640 (in Rushw.
vol. iv. p. 770), which was drawn up by
Baillie, Strafford is accused of advancing
"his chaplain, Dr. Bramble” (so spelt in
the original paper as published in 1641),
"not only to the Bishoprick of Derry, but
also to be Vicar General of Ireland;"
and in Baillie's letters no other name
occurs. So also Sharp, whilst "Soli-
citor to the Presbytery of Scotland"
with Charles II. in 1660, writes to a
Mr. Douglas at Edinburgh, June 23,
that "all the Bishops for Ireland are
nominated, and Dr. Bramble is Arch-
bishop of Armagh" (see White Ken-
nett's Reg. and Chron. Eccl. and Civil,
p. 186). And see above in vol. i.
p. xxx. note t.

i. e. "Dr. John Bromwell, Lord Bishop of Londonderie in Ireland."

Review of Dr. Bramble late Bp. of Londonderry, his Fair Warning against the Scotes Disciplin; by R. B. G. (Robert Baylie or Baillie, Glasguensis), 4to. Delph. 1649.

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