Religion in Early Stuart England, 1603-1638: An Anthology of Primary Sources

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Table of Contents Introduction xi Abbreviations for Works Commonly Cited xxi Note on Nomenclature xxiii John Dod and Robert Cleaver 1 A plain and familiar exposition of the Ten Commandments 1604 3 Lancelot Andrewes 25 The copy of the sermon preached on Good Friday last before the King’s Majesty 1604 29 William Bradshaw 42 English puritanism: containing the main opinions of the rigidest sort of those that are called Puritans in the realm of England 1605 (rev. ed. 1641) 46 John Buckeridge 56 A sermon preached at Hampton Court before the King’s Majesty 1606 59 Richard Field 68 Of the Church, five books 1606 (rev. ed. 1628) 71 Richard Corbett 100 “An elegy written upon the death of Dr. Ravis, Bishop of London” ca. 1609 103 v vi Religion in Early Stuart England, 1603–1638 Lewis Bayly 105 The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God 1611–12 [first extant edition 1613] 108 Thomas Adams 141 The white devil, or the hypocrite uncased: in a sermon preached at Paul’s Cross 1612, published 1613 144 Benjamin Carier 160 A treatise written by M. Doctor Carier wherein he layeth down sundry learned and pithy considerations by which he was moved to forsake the Protestant congregation and to betake himself to the Catholic Apostolic Roman Church 1614 163 John Howson 178 “Dr. Howson’sanswers to my Lord Grace of Canterbury{’s} accusations before his Majesty at Greenwich” June 10, 1615 182 Collegiate Suffrage 192 The collegiate suffrage of the divines of Great Britain . . . delivered in the Synod of Dort, March 6, anno 1619, being their vote or voice foregoing the joint and public judgment of that Synod 1619 (English trans. 1629) 197 Robert Sanderson 230 Sermon preached at a visitation at Boston 1619, published 1622 233 Richard Corbett 250 “The distracted puritan” ca. 1620–21 250 John Cosin 253 Sermon I: Preached at St. Edward’s in Cambridge, January the 6th, A.D. MDCXXI, and at Coton on the second Sunday after Epiphany 1621 257 Appendix: Calvin’s commentary on Isaiah 60:2-3 269 John Preston 270 Plenitudo fontis, or, Christ’s fullness and man’s emptiness 1621, published 1639 (rev. ed. 1644) 277 Humphrey Sydenham 287 Jacob and Esau: election, reprobation, opened and discussed by way of sermon at Paul’s Cross, March 4, 1622 published 1626 290 vii Table of Contents Michael Sparke 294 Crumbs of comfort, the valley of tears, and the hill of joy 1623 297 John Donne 301 Sermon preached at Whitehall, the first Friday in Lent 1623, published 1640 305 Lancelot Andrewes 320 A sermon preached before the King’s Majesty at Whitehall, on the xiii of April, A.D. MDCXXIII, being Easter Day 1623, published 1629 322 William Drummond of Hawthornden 335 A cypress grove 1623 338 George Wither 350 The hymns and songs of the Church 1623 354 William Laud 368 A relation of the conference between William Laud . . . and Mr. Fisher, the Jesuit (Frequently referred to under the title Conference with Fisher) 1624 (rev. ed. 1639) 372 Richard Montagu 398 A gag for the new Gospel? No, A NEW GAG for an old goose 1624 402 Appello Caesarem: a just appeal from two unjust informers 1625 409 Appendix: William Barlow on falling from grace at the Hampton Court Conference 1604 416 John Preston 418 Riches of mercy to men in misery; or, certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of God’s children ca. 1625, published 1658 418 “The buckler of a believer” 418 “Self-seeking opposite to Christ’s interest” 432 “Free grace magnified” 439 Phineas Fletcher 446 The locusts, or Apollyonists 1627 449 viii Religion in Early Stuart England, 1603–1638 J. R. 486 The spy: discovering the danger of Arminian heresy and Spanish treachery 1628 489 John Earle 508 Microcosmography: or, a piece of the world discovered, in essays and characters 1628 513 William Prynne 519 God no impostor nor deluder 1629 (rev. ed. 1630) 521 Joseph Hall 530 The estate of a Christian laid forth in a sermon preached at Gray’s Inn on Candlemas Day late 1620s 532 John Everard 537 The Gospel treasury opened ca. 1625–36 (published in 1653) 543 “Of milk for babes; and of meat for strong men” 546 “All power given to Jesus Christ, in Heaven and Earth” 554 Richard Sibbes 568 The bruised reed and smoking flax 1630 570...