AN ECCLESIASTICAL BIOGRAPHY, CONTAINING THE Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines, INTERSPERSED WITH NOTICES OF HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS, FORMING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN EVERY AGE. BY WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, D.D., VICAR OF LEEDS. VOL. VII. LONDON: F. AND J. RIVINGTON; PARKER, OXFORD; J. AND J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; T. HARRISON, LEEDS. 1851. 210.9.393. PREFACE. IN the present volume of the Ecclesiastical Biography, the reader will find an account OF ANCIENT HERESIES, under the heads of Manes, Marcion, Montanus, Noetus, Macedonius, Paul of Samosata; OF THE ELIZABETHAN REFORMATION, in the Life of Archbishop Parker; OF THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION, in the Articles. on Luther, Melanchthon, and Munzer; OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCOTTISH KIRK, under the head of Melville; OF THE FOUNDATION OF JESUITISM, in the Life of Loyola; OF THE MODERN GREEK CHURCH, under the head of Lucar; OF MODERN ROMANISM, in the Life of Parsons. It is hoped that one more Volume will conIclude the Work. VICARAGE, LEEDS, January 1st, 1851. W. F. H. |