Churchmen and Church Literature
of England;
AS EXHIBITED IN THE
LIVES AND WRITINGS OF EMINENT DIVINES, FROM THE
PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION;
WITH CONNECTING HISTORIES OF THE TIMES
IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
By the REV. RICHARD CATTERMOLE, B.D.
The design of this work is, to present, on a scale and in a manner adapted to general appreciation, an estimate of the literary character and monuments of our venerable Church. The moral excellences, the religious principles, and the learned labours of her more distinguished Divines, as exhibited in their lives, and exemplified by entire treatises, or considerable portions, selected from their writings, will constitute the chief materials of the design; but connected and bound together as a continuous work, by a broad view of English Church History. Thus the general, and especially the youthful reader will be furnished, in these volumes, with a knowledge, sufficient for his purpose, of what as Englishmen we owe to the National Church, and to those gifted and energetic minds who have zealously laboured in her service for the honour of God and the good of mankind; while others, who, from professional duty, or a serious literary taste, intend to devote themselves systematically to the study of that unequalled treasure of thought, erudition, and eloquence,—the Theological Literature of England,—will be prepared by the previous perusal of these volumes for more profound and extensive research.
In the Press.