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The new church lately erected in
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the laudable exertions of the Rev. A. G.
principally through
H. Holingsworth, late vicar of the parish,
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crated at St. John's, by the Lord Bishop
of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. The church

was built entirely by private subscription, and is endowed by Lord de Vesci and Lord Longford. This is the second newlyerected church in the vicinity of Cork which has been consecrated by his lordship within the last few weeks.-Cork Constitution.

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"R. S." will find in the Common Prayer Book, just before Morning Service, an order that the ornaments of the church shall be the same as those authorized by parliament in the 2nd of Edward VI. Now among these were the two candlesticks in question. As far, therefore, as the authority of this order goes, it seems that the law requires the candlesticks, and so, if the Editor remembers right, one of the Commentators given in Nicholls (often much more valuable than he is) distinctly says. In many cathedral and college chapels, where the old customs are preserved, they are yet to be seen.

To" I. W." one is only inclined to say that the "Record" has become quite amusing lately. Of one of its late performances the readers of this Magazine have been informed by Mr. Perceval. It refused to insert a reply of Mr. Perceval to an attack upon him, because his arguments were so plausible that there was no telling that some of their readers might not be misled! Its last performances are half accusation, and half insinuation, against "the Sect," that is to say, Dr. Pusey, Mr. Newman, and others, (with whom the "Record" does the Editor of this Magazine the unmerited honour of connecting him,) of intending, when they are stronger, to bring popery in bodily, and of having followers who are Jesuits in disguise, such as there were in this country once before. As to the Jesuits of whom they talk, if they will "hold the mirror up to nature," and look at their own proceedings, they will get some tolerable notions of the persons in question, who took the mask of ultra-protestantism to sow schisms in our church.

The address of the clergy of Chichester to the Archbishop arrived too late to be inserted this month.

The following have been received :-" R. C. ;" the letter and pamphlet called "Lady Hewley Rediviva;" a letter on Mr. Maitland's interpretation of some words in the Council of Toulouse; Begensis; some beautiful lines under the title "Diaconus Reginensis ;" ;" "E. H. S.;" "Artium Magister;" "" Persona Ecclesiæ;" ." "E. B. ;" "B. G. ;"" T. S. ;” “ T. T. ;" "L. W.;" " A. H. ;" and "S.S. C. C."

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If ȧokevns has not been acknowledged previously, it has been received. “Clericus L." will see that a letter similar to his in principle has been printed and commented upon in Church Matters, under the signature of "Alpha." It was not thought of importance to print both, but if he is not satisfied with this course, and will say whether he still wishes his letter printed, it can be done.

Mr. Booker's letter has been received, but is necessarily postponed to the next number.

The Sermon from Holland is thankfully acknowledged.

A translation from the Latin, marked "Devotional Writings of the Fifteenth Century," has been received, and the friend who sent it is requested to commu nicate his name and address.

It is a matter of real satisfaction, that a new edition of Mr. Southey's truly valuable "Book of the Church" has appeared, and that the objection which was formerly made to it, viz., that the authorities and references were not given, is now removed. No churchman, whose leisure does not allow him to study large works, should leave this unread. And they who have had such leisure will find, in Mr. Southey's delightful style, his lofty principles, and his admirable narrative, full compensation for travelling again over ground already trodden. To the student in divinity the book is invaluable.

Among single sermons, one by the Rev. Joseph Oldknow, preached at Market Harborough, before Committees of the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for the Propagation of the Gospel, ought not to be passed by without commendation.

DR. STRAUSS THE ORTHODOX, AND DR. STRAUSS THE INFIDEL.

To the Editor of the British Magazine.

SIR, A writer in "The Church of England Gazette," of Nov. 24th, 1837, has produced a new comedy of errors, in which the two divines named above are made to act the two Dromeos. The mistake was natural enough, and might be passed over, if it did not affect the character of a publisher. Mr. Wertheim, the bookseller, of 57, Aldersgate-street, published a translation of some sermons by the Rev. Frederick Strauss, D. D., Counsellor of Consistory at Berlin, Chaplain to the King of Prussia, Professor of Divinity, &c., a man known for years as one of the most eloquent preachers in Germany, and one of the steadiest defenders of Christianity against rationalist objections, but whose works have not been known in this country. The writer in the Church of England Gazette has confounded him with the notorious Dr. David Frederick Strauss, of Tübingen, and has attempted to detect his infidelity in sermons which are perfectly orthodox, and well worth reading. The mistake was, as I said, perfectly natural and pardonable; but the mischief is, that an honest man has got a bad name, as a publisher of infidel books. If you can insert this explanation you will oblige, A CONSTANT READER.

24th Dec., 1837.

[The "Church of England Gazette" will, of course, be obliged to this or any other journal which assists it in correcting an unintentional error of one of its correspondents, and in doing justice to Mr. Wertheim.]

The title is "On Restitution; Lot and his Wife; The Rich Man; Christian Composure. By the Rev. Frederick Strauss, D.D., translated from the German by Miss Slee."

THE

BRITISH MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY 1, 1838.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIANS.

NO. VI.

WHILE the scholars of the Gallican church so nobly distinguished themselves by the cultivation of church-history, our own countrymen were not idle in the same cause. During the same period, a number of illustrious Englishmen pursued ecclesiastical researches with characteristic energy and judgment, and produced works which require us still to point to the latter part of the seventeenth century as the brightest age of English learning.

In the series of our divines who flourished between the accession of Elizabeth and the Restoration, very many are justly celebrated for their ecclesiastical knowledge. A familiar acquaintance with the works of the fathers, and the other monuments of antiquity, has ever been one of the chief excellences of the writers of the better schools of Anglican theology; and the constant allusions to the facts of churchhistory which enrich the pages of our most eminent divines shew the extent to which they pursued ecclesiastical studies. But it was not till after the Restoration that we discover the existence of an English school of church-history. Our earlier writers derived their learning immediately from the sources, or from the writers of the foreign schools; and they employed it, for the most part, in the composition of polemical and religious works. With the exception of Bishop Montague,* we can scarcely name a single person who directly+ contributed to the knowledge of church-history. The circumstance is at

1635.

Apparatus ad Origines Ecclesiasticas.

Collectore R. Montacutio. Oxoniæ,

HeavÕρwπixòv: seu de vita Jesu Christi Domini Nostri Originum Ecclesiasticarum Libri duo. Collectore Richardo Montacutio, Norwic. Episcopo. Londini, 1640.

The writings of Archbishops Ussher and Laud, of John Selden, and Bishops Jewell, Hall, and Jer. Taylor, are strictly polemical.

VOL. XIII.-Feb. 1838.

once explained by a reference to the position of the English church. While she was cruelly assailed by external and internal foes, her worthies were too much engaged in providing for her immediate defence to have leisure to expatiate in wider fields of investigation.

At the period which I have mentioned, however, a different scene is presented. The church of England, after her temporary overthrow, enjoyed a season of prosperity and peace. Her divines, almost universally emancipating themselves from the trammels of a protestant scholasticism, which too many of them had hitherto condescended to bear, soared into a higher and purer atmosphere, and asserted her true position as a part of the catholic church. New views now opened upon them; new duties were to be performed. The domestic enemy which had for a time overpowered them, lay exhausted by his own violence. The events of twenty years of supremacy furnished the best and most compendious refutation of puritanism. The Anglican scholars, with the conscious dignity of victors, undertook the exposition and defence of their own system, and scarcely deigned to notice the writhings of their prostrate foe. An admirable band applied themselves to the illustration of various interesting points of early church-history. Three illustrious prelates deserve particular mention : PEARSON* maintained the genuineness of the earliest remains of Christian antiquity; BEVERIDGE† vindicated the primitive canons; and BULL‡ defended the orthodoxy of the ante-Nicene divines. While the learned, though eccentric, Irishman, HENRY DODWELL,§ cultivated the antiquities of the same period with equal zeal and diligence, though not with equal judgment.

The name of one writer deserves a separate notice. WILLIAM CAVE undoubtedly merits a place among the ecclesiastical historians. His "Lives of the Apostles and Primitive Fathers" || may be regarded

Vindicia Epistolarum S. Ignatii. Cantab. 1672.

Annales Cyprianici, prefixed to the Oxford Edition of St. Cyprian, 1682.

De serie et successione primorum Romæ Episcoporum Dissertationes duæ ;-in his Opera Posthuma edited by H. Dodwell in 1688.

+ Evvodikov sive Pandecta Canonum SS. Apostolorum, et Conciliorum ab Ecclesia Græca receptorum ; nec non Canonicarum SS. Patrum Epistolarum: Unà cum Scholiis Antiquorum singulis eorum annexis, et Scriptis aliis huc spectantibus: quorum plurima è Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ aliarumque MSS. Codicibus nunc primum edita: reliqua cum iisdem MSS. summâ fide et diligentiâ collata. Totum Opus in duos Tomos divisum Guilielmus Beveregius Ecclesiæ Anglicana Presbyter, recensuit, Prolegomenis munivit, et Annotationibus auxit. Oxonii, 1672. Codex Canonum Ecclesiæ Primitivæ vindicatus ac illustratus. Beveregio Ecclesiæ Anglicana Presbytero. Londini, 1678.

Defensio Fidei Nicænæ. Oxon. 1685.

Autore Guilielmo

Judicium Ecclesiæ Catholicæ trium primorum seculorum de necessitate credendi quòd Dominus noster Jesus Christus sit verus Deus. Oxon. 1694.

§ Dissertationes Cyprianicæ, appended to the Oxford Cyprian. Dissertationes in Irenæum. Oxon. 1689.

Antiquitates Apostolica: or, the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of our Saviour. To which are added the Lives of the two Evangelists SS. Mark and Luke. By William Cave, D. D., Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. London, 1675.

Apostolici: or the History of the Lives, Acts, Death, and Martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded, the Apostles. As also the

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