THE CHURCHMAN'S REMEMBRANCER: BEING A COLLECTION OF SCARCE AND VALUABLE TRACTS IN DEFENCE OF THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE Church of England. Enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing.-Jos. · viii. 8, 9. Ο παλαιος χρηςότερος εςιν. Luc. v. 39. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE EDITORS; AND SOLD BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; AND PARker, Oxford. The great encouragement which the editors of Dr. Waterland's Sermon on Regeneration have received from the rapid sale of that valuable discourse, has in. duced them to prosecute the work of which that was put forth as a specimen, and to engage to republish every three or four months some scarce and valuable treatise of a similar tendency, hoping by this means to lead many into the old paths, the good way, wherein if they will walk, they have the warranty of Scripture that they shall find rest for their souls. a T. CURSON HANSARD, PRINTER, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET-STREET. A DISSERTATION Ο Ν Τ Η Ε XVIIth ARTICLE, OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: WHEREIN THE SENTIMENTS OF THE COMPILERS, AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY REFORMERS, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE DIVINE DECREES, Are fully deduced from their own Writings. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, A SHORT TRACT, ASCERTAINING The Reign and Time in which the Royal Declaration before the XXXIX Articles was first published. By the Rev. T. WINCHESTER, D.D. LATE RECTOR OF APPLETON. A NEW EDITION, WITH EMENDATIONS FROM TIE AUTHOR'S CORRECTED EOPY, AND THE ADDITION OF A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. THE Editors of the CHURCHMAN'S REMEMBRANCER are here happy to introduce to the Public Dr. Winchester's admirable Treatise on the XVII. Article: a work now known to very few, and not procurable for money: the design of which is to prove that, our Reformers were not Calvinists, by the same mode of argument as that by which Dr. Kipling has, very recently, demonstrated that our Liturgy and Articles are not Calvinistic: and such is its execution, that excepting those "predestined never to be convinced," it will doubtless be considered by all its readers" as decisive" upon the point in question," and as setting it at rest for ever." And it is a very important point indeed which is here settled: for though upon the supposition that our Reformers had entertained Calvin's peculiarities, it would not of necessity follow that they framed .b |