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Of the Discourses written in the dispute between Dr. William
Sherlock and father Lewis Sabran, about the doctor's
Preservative against Popery.

C. L. 119. A preservative against popery; being some plain directions
to unlearned protestants, how to dispute with Romish Priests.
The first part. By Will. Sherlock, D.D. Master of the
Temple.
pp. 90, 4to Lond. 1688

See Cat. No. 174. Contin. p. 2. On the use of Church authority and tradition, as compatible with private judgment, see Daille on the use of the Fathers, Laud's Conference, Taylor's Liberty of Prophesying, John White's Way to the True Church [see an account of this interesting folio of the learned Vicar of Eccles, Lancashire, in Humphrey Chetham's Church Libraries], and Newman's Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church, viewed relatively to Romanism and Popular Protestantism: Lect. v. On the use of private judgment.

C. L. 120. An answer to Dr. Sherlock's preservative against popery. [Anon.] By Lewis Sabran, Jesuit.

See Contin. p. 3.

One sheet, 4to Lond. 1688

Born in 1652, died in 1732. A memoir of the Chaplain to James II. will be found in Dr. Oliver's Memoirs of the Members of the Society of Jesus.

This Catalogue contains Sabran's other works.

C. L. 121. A defence of Dr. Sherlock's preservative against Popery; in

reply to a Jesuit's answer.
ings are fully confuted. By William Giles, a protestant
footman, living with Madam H. in Mark-Lane. The third
edition. [pp. 27, and the publisher to the reader pp. 110.]
4to Lond. 1688

Wherein the R. Father's reason

See Cat. No. 176. Contin p. 3.

I know not who was the real author of this book, for William Giles, I presume, is a feigned name. It is evidently the work of a scholar. Three editions at least appear to have been called for the year of its publication. J. H. T.

122. The second part of the preservative against popery; shewing C.L. how contrary popery is to the true ends of the christian religion, fitted for the instruction of unlearned protestants. By William Sherlock, D.D. Master of the Temple.

See Cat. No. 175. Contin. p. 3.

pp. 91, 4to Lond. 1688

123. Dr. Sherlock's preservative considered; first part, with its defence [by William Giles] in two letters. By Lewis Sabran, of the society of Jesus.

See Contin. p. 4.

124. A vindication of both parts of the preservative against C.L, popery, in answer to the cavils of Lewis Sabran, Jesuit. By William Sherlock, D.D.

pp. 111 and Catal. of Books pp. 3, 4to 1588

See Cat. No. 177. Contin. p. 4. Peck, by an error of the press, has marked this book as if it had been on the popish side. J. H. T.

Another edition of No. 123,

Dr. Sherlock's preservative considered; the first part, and its
defence proved to contain principles which destroy all right
use of reason, Fathers, Councils, undermine divine faith and
abuse moral honesty; in the second part forty malicious
calumnies and forged untruths laid open; besides several
fanatical principles which destroy all church discipline and
oppose Christ's divine authority. In two letters of F. Lewis
Sabran, of the Society of Jesus. With a third letter to Mr.
Needham.
pp. 86, 4to 1688

See Dr. Oliver's Memoirs.

CHAP. X I.

Of the discourses written about the conversions of several persons to the Church of Rome, with their motives; and the churchmen's replies.

C. L. 125. A discourse against Transubstantiation. [Anon.] By John Tillotson, D.D.

pp. 43 and Catalogue of Books pp. 3, 4to Lond. 1685

pp. 36, 8vo 1687

See Cat. No. 4 [State p. 8.] Contin. pp. 6 and 8. This discourse is placed in this section because it was attacked by the following, which it seems to have occasioned, but of course not in the sense of having occasioned Mr. Basset's conversion to Romanism, which is a mere pretence. J. H. T.

"Though some of their greatest wits, as Cardinal Perron, and of late Monsieur Arnaud, have undertaken the defence of it (Transubstantiation) in great volumes; yet it is an absurdity of that monstrous and massy weight, that no humane authority or wit are able to support it: It will make the very pillars of St. Peter's crack, and requires more volumes to make it good than would fill the Vatican." p. 42.

C. L. 126. Reason and Authority; or the motives of a late protestant's reconciliation to the Catholick Church. Together with remarks upon some late discourses against Transubstantiation. Publisht with allowance.

pp. 130, 4to Henry Hills, Lond. 1687 See Contin. p. 8. This work is attributed in the Bodl. and Dublin Catalogues to Josh. Bassett, Master of Sidney Coll. Cambridge. Dodd (Church Hist. vol. iii. p. 483) attributes it to Gother, which can scarcely be true; for the writer of this work represents himself as having been converted to Romanism after the publication of Tillotson's discourse against Transubstantiation, which was published in 1685. "At least (he says) I was recommended to a late discourse against Transubstantiation. I read it over and over with great atten

tion," &c. p. 43. It is very possible, however, that Gother may have
written the matter of the book or supplied it to Bassett, who was
probably a mere instrument in the hands of the party. The main
object of the work is to attack this Discourse of Tillotson (pp. 43-113)
and that by Dr. Wake (pp. 113 et seq.) See No. 280 infra. Joshua
Bassett, S.T.B. Caius Coll. made master of Sidney, regiis literis Jac.
II. 1686. Amotus regiis literis Jac. II. 1 Dec. 1688. Cooper's Annals,
vol. iii. pp. 614, 616, 636, 642. Mr. Cooper refers to Bodl. Catal. vol. i.
p. 198, and to Bassett's verses on the death of the Duke of Albemarle
1700, on the accession of James II. 168, and on the birth of the
Prince of Wales 1688. For the dates of his degrees see the Graduati
Cantabr. J. H. T.

127. An answer to a book entitled, Reason and Authority, &c. C. L. together with a brief account of Augustine the Monk, and of the conversion of the English, taken out of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. In a Letter to a Friend. [Anon,] By Thomas Bambridge, D.D. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

pp. 96, 4to Lond. 1687

See Cat. No. 133. Contin. p. 35. Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. col. 177. Gee calls the author Dr. Bembridge; the name is Bambridge in Wood (loc. cit.), but the true name is Thos. Bainbrigg, as he is called in the Reg. of Cambr. He graduated B.A. 1654. He was Proctor 1678. See Hardy's Le Neve. Graduati Cantabr. and Blomfield Collect. Cantabr. p. iii. Bainbrigg was made A.M. per Regias literas 1661, and S.T.B. per Reg. lit. 1684. He died suddenly August 16, 1703.Baker's note [ib. ed. Bliss.] See also Cooper's Ann. of Cambr. vol. iv. p. 64. J. H. T.

Compare Archbishop Parker, De Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ, fol. 1572, 1605. Ussher's Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish and British, 4to Lond. 1631, Works, vol. iv. Basire on the Ancient Liberty of the Britannick Church and the Legitimate Exemption thereof from the Roman Patriarchate &c. &c., 12mo Lond. 1661. Of the Heart and its right Sovereign: and Rome no Mother-Church to England, Or an historical Account of the title of an English Church; and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every county. By Thomas Jones, of Oswestry, Svo Lond. 1678. See Wood's Ath.

Oxon. ed. Bliss. iv. col. 711. Stillingfleet's Origines Britannica, or
The Antiquities of the British Churches, fol. Lond. 1685. Works
1710, vol. i.
A new edition with additional notes, by the Rev. Tho.
Pinder Pantin, M.A., 2 vols 8vo Oxford 1842. Bp. Lloyd's History
of the Government of the Church, as it was in Great Britain and Ire-
land when they first received the Christian Religion, 12mo Lond.
1703, and in Pantin's Stillingfleet, vol. ii. With a list of Authors
referred to. The Britons and Saxons not converted to Popery, con-
taining an Answer to all material in a book, "England's Conversion
and Reformation compar'd." By George Smith. 8vo. Lond. 1748.
On the other side consult A Treatise of Three Conversions of England
from Paganisme to Christian Religion, 3 vols. 12mo. 1603. [By
Rob. Parsons. See Wood's Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 67] Cressy's
Church History of Brittany, fol. 1668; and Dr. Lingard's History and
Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 2 vols. 1845.

C. L. 128. The considerations which obliged Peter Manby, Dean of Derry, to embrace the Catholique Religion. Humbly dedicated to His Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland. Ps. xlii. Judica me Deus, et discerne causam meam, &c. Dublin Castle the 11th of March 1686-7. This following Discourse is allowed to be printed. Tho. Sheridan.

pp. 19, to the Reader pp. 6, 4to Lond. 1687 See Contin. p. 36. P. Manby had been a scholar of Trin. Coll. Dublin in 1660, Chaplain to Abp. Boyle, and Dean of Derry, September 17th, 1672. It is said that having been disappointed in obtaining a bishoprick, which he had hoped for from the influence of the Primate, he joined the Church of Rome. This is alluded to in Dr. King's answer to the present work, see No. 129. In 1686 he had a dispensation under the Great Seal to hold the Deanery notwithstanding his having declared himself a Roman Catholic, and therefore it will be observed that in the title page of the present work he styles himself "Dean," not late Dean, "of Derry." In 1688 the king made him an alderman of Derry. After the battle of the Boyne he retired into France; and died in Laiden in 1697. It is said that his brother, also a clergyman, was by his means converted to Romanism, and left two sons who both became Jesuits. Ware, Writers of Ireland (Harris's ed. p. 257), Cotton's Fasti, vol. iii. p. 332.