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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30476	Dr. Burnet's travels, or Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c written by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing B5934; ESTC R9984	167,242	250

the first b●gins at Five a Clock in the m●rning For at Geneva and all Switzerland over there are daily Sermons which were substituted up●n the Reformation to the Mass But the Sermons are generally too long and the Preachers have departed from the fi●st d●sign of these Sermons which were intended to be an explication of a whole Chapter and an exhortation upon it and if this were so contrived that it were in all not above a quarter of an hour long as it would be heard by the people with less Weariness and more Profit so it would be a vast advantage to the Preachers For as it would oblige them to study the Scriptures much so having once made themselves Masters of the practical parts of the Scripture such short and simple discourses would cost them less pains than those more lab●ured Sermons do which consume the greatest part of their time and too often to very little purpose Among the Archives of the Dean and Chapter there is a vast collection of Letters written either to Bullinger or by him they are bound up and make a great many Volumes in Folio and out of these no doubt but one might discover a great many particulars relating to the History of the Reform●tion For as Bullinger lived long so he was much esteemed He procured a very kind reception to be given to some of our English Exiles in Queen Maries Reign in particular to Sands afterwards Arch-bishop of York to Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester and to Jewel Bishop of Salisbu●y He gave them Lodgings in the Close and used them with all possible kindness and as they presented some Silver Cups to the Colledge with an Inscription acknowledging the kind reception they had found there which I savv so they continued to keep a constant Correspondence with Bullinger after the happy re-establishment of the Reformation under Queen Elizabeth Of which I read almost a whole Volume while I was there Most of them contain only the general News but some were more importan● and relate to the Disputes then on foot concerning the Habits of the Clergy which gave the first beginnings to our unhappy divisions and by the Letters of which I read the Originals it appears that the Bishops preserved the ancient Habits rather in compliance with the Queens inclinations then out of any liking they had to them so far they were from liking them that they plainly exprest their dislike of them Jewel in a Letter bearing date the Eighth of Februury 1566. wishes that the Vestments together with all the other remnants of Popery might be thrown both out of their Churches and out of the minds of the Peo●le and laments the Queens fixedness to them so that she would suffer no change to be made And in January the same year Sands writes to the same purpose Contenditur de vestibus Papisticis utendis vel non utendis dabit Deus his quoque finem Disputes are now on foot concerning the Popish Vestments whether th●y should be used or not but God will put an end to those things Horn Bishop of Winchester went farther for in a Letter dated the Sixteenth of July 1565. he writes of the Act concerning tha Habits with great regret and expresses some hopes that it might be repealed next Session of Parliament if the Popish Party did not hinder it and he seems to stand in doubt whether he should conform himself to it or not upon which he desires Bullinger's Advice And in many Letters writ on that Subject it is asserted That both Cranmer and Ridley intended to procure an Act for abolishing the Habits and that they only defended their Lawfulness but not their Fitness and therefore they blamed private Persons that refused to obey the Laws Grindal in a Letter dated the Twenty seventh of August 1566. writes That all the Bishops who had been beyond Sea had at their Return dealt with the Queen to let the matter of the Habits fall but she was so prepossessed that tho' they had all endeavoured to divert her from prosecuting that matter she continued still inflexible This had made them resolve to submit to the Laws and to wait for a fit opportunity to reverse them He laments the ill effects of the opposition that some had made to them which extreamly irritated the Queens Spirit so than she was now much more heated in those matters than formerly He also thanks Bullinger for the Letter that he had writ justifying the lawful use of the Habits which he says had done great Service Cox Bishop of Ely in one of his Letters laments the Aversion that they found in the Parliament to all the Propositions that were made for the reformation of Abuses Jewel in a Letter dated the Two and Twentieth of May 1559 writes That the Queen refused to be called Head of the Church and adds That that Title could not be justly given to any Mortal it being due only to Christ and that such Titles had been so much abused by Antichrist that they ought not to be any longer continued On all these Passages I will make no Reflections here for I set them down only to shew what was the sense of our chief Church-men at that time concerning those matters which have since engaged us into such warm and angry Disputes and this may be no inconsiderable Instruction to one that intends to write the History of that time The last particular with which I intend to end this Letter might seem a little too learned if I were writing to a less knowing Man than your self I have taken some pains in my Travels to examine all the Ancient Manuscripts of the New Testament concerning that doubted Passage of St. John's Epistle There are three that bear Witness in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one Bullinger doubted much of it because he found it not in an ancient Latin Manuscript at Zurich which seems to be about eight hundred years old for it is written in that hand that began to be used in harles the Great 's time I turned the Manuscript and found the Passage was not there but this was certainly the error or omission of the Copier for before the General Epistles in that Manuscript the Preface of St Jerom's is to be found in which he says that he was the more exact in that T●anslation that so he might discover the Fraud of the Arrians who had struck out that Passage concerning the Trinity This Preface is printed in Lira's Bible but how it came to be left out by Erasmus in his Edition of that Father's Works is that of which I can give no Account for as on the one hand Erasmus's Sincerity ought not to be too rashly censured so on the other hand that Preface being in all the Manuscripts ancient or modern of those Bibles that have the other Prefaces in them that I ever yet saw it is not easie to imagine what made Erasmus not to publish it and it is in the