PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

INTERSPERSED WITH

TRANSLATIONS AND CRITICAL REMARKS,

BY

CHARLES SYMMONS, D. D.

OF JESUS COLLEGE, Oxford.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT,

FOR J. JOHNSON; NICHOLS AND SON; F. AND C. RIVINGTON;
OTRIDGE AND SON; T. PAYNE; OGILVY AND SON; CUTHELL
AND MARTIN; VERNOR AND HOOD; R. LEA; J. WALKER;
CLARKE AND SON; J. STOCKDALE; LACKINGTON AND CO.;
LONGMAN AND CO.; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. HARDING;
R. H. EVANS; J. MAWMAN; J. HATCHARD; AND MATHEWS
AND LEIGH.

1806.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

Page

FAMILIAR Epistles to various Persons...

Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in

England, and the causes that hitherto have hin-

dered it in two Books, written to a Friend.....

Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and whether it may be

deduced from the Apostolical Times, by virtue

of those Testimonies which are alleged to that

purpose in some late Treatises; one whereof

goes under the Name of James Archbishop of

Armagh...

The Reason of Church Government urged against

Prelaty. In two Books.

i

1

60

... 78

Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence

...

against Smectymnuus..

An Apology for Smectymnuus

...

.....

.273

Of Education; to Master Samuel Hartlib

AREOPAGITICA; a Speech for the Liberty of un-

licensed Printing, to the Parliament of England 286

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce restored

to the good of both Sexes, from the Bondage of

Canon Law, and other Mistakes, to the true

Meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel

compared, &c. ..

332