WRITINGS

OF

EDWARD THE SIXTH,

WILLIAM HUGH, QUEEN CATHERINE PARR.

ANNE ASKEW, LADY JANE GREY,
HAMILTON, AND BALNAVES.

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,
56, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

SOLD ALSO BY NISBET, 21, BERNERS-STREET; OLIPHANT,
EDINBURGH; AND OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1831.

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,

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CONTENTS.

EDWARD THE SIXTH.

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SOME Account of King Edward the Sixth

Some Particulars of Sir John Cheke.....

King Edward the Sixth, against the Pope's Supremacy

A Short Catechism

Extracts from the Primer of King Edward the Sixth.......

Some Account of William Hugh

The Troubled Man's Medicine.

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Book I. To comfort a man being in trouble, adversity, or sickness.

II. To teach a man gladly to die...

CATHERINE PARR.

Some Account of Queen Catherine Parr....

Letter to Lady Wriothesley, comforting her for the loss of her Son 14

Prayers or Meditations; wherein the mind is stirred patiently to

suffer all afflictions here, to set at naught the vain prosperity

of this world, and always to long for everlasting felicity.

Collected out of certain holy works, by the most virtuous and

gracious princess, Catherine, queen of England, France,

and Ireland...

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The Lamentation or Complaint of a Sinner, made by the most

virtuous and gracious lady, queen Catherine, (Parr,) bewail-

ing the ignorance of her blind life led in superstition....

CHAP. I. Of an humble confession of sins to the glory of God 32

II. A lamentation of a sinner, with a hearty repentance

in faith, to obtain absolution and remission through

the merits of Christ..

III. What true faith worketh in the soul of a sinner..

IV. Of the great love of God towards mankind, and of

the inward beholding of Christ crucified..

V. Of the glorious victories of Christ over all enemies.

VI. That we ought to submit ourselves to the school of

the cross, and still look and learn in the book of

the cross

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VII. A christian bewailing the miserable ignorance and

blindness of men.

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VIII. Of the fruits and rules of true christianity for men

to follow...

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IX. Of the fruits of infidelity, and offence of weaklings. 54

X. Of carnal gospellers, by whose evil living, God's truth

is shamefully slandered.

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XI. Of the virtuous properties of God's children, of whom

every one attendeth his vocation...

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XII. The conclusion, with a christian exhortation to the

amendment of life.

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CPATRICK HAMILTON.

Brief Account of Patrick Hamilton..

John Frith unto the Christian Reader

Patrick's Places, a treatise of the law and the gospel

BALNAVES.

The Confession of Faith, containing how the Troubled Man should

seek refuge at his God, thereto led by faith; with the de-

claration of the article of Justification at length. The

order of good works which are the fruits of faith; and how

the faithful and justified man should walk and live in the

perfect and true christian religion, according to his vocation.

Compiled by M. Henry Balnaves, of Halhill, and one of the

lords of session and council of Scotland, being a prisoner

within the old palace of Roane. In the year of our Lord,

1548. Directed to his faithful brethren, being in like

trouble or more. And to all true professsors and favourers

of the sincere word of God.

The Epistle Dedicatory by the Publisher....

Original Preface, by Knox......

The Author, unto the faithful readers

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Confession of Faith, declaring the article of Justification

A Brief Summary of this Book....