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, |