Author: Burnet, Gilbert Bishop of Sarum.
Title: AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES of the Church of England.
Description: London: Printed by R. Roberts, for Ri. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1700. 2nd Edition Corrected. Sm. folio. [8], xxiv, 207, 216-396p. Lightly waterstained in part, some light browning, contemporary speckled panelled calf, some loss to upper corners and along fore-edge of upper board in part, minor wear and marking, skilfully rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ Ex-libris ‘puro de fonte Spring Casborne’, Rev John Spring Casborne of Newe House in the village of Pakenham, Suffolk. Newe House was built in 1622 by Sir Robert Bright, in the late 1640s it was sold to Sir William Spring, who had been a prominent Parliamentarian during the Civil War. The house remained in the Spring family until the mid-nineteenth century, being used as the family dower house. The Spring family coat-of-arms is still apparent above the main door to the manor. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5792; Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), bishop of Salisbury and historian. ‘... In the meantime, in autumn 1699 Burnet had published An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. The Exposition could be considered the logical extension of Burnet's discourse on the Trinity. In it he applied a latitudinarian epistemology not just to the Trinity, but to all the doctrinal articles of the church. It was also intimately connected with his History of the Reformation. If his History of the Reformation was an attempt to rewrite English church history from the perspective of a late seventeenth-century latitudinarian divine, then his Exposition was its theological counterpart. Burnet himself described his Exposition as a 'proper addition to the History of the Reformation, to explain and prove the doctrine that was then established' (Bishop Burnet's History, 658). As the logical extension of both his Four Discourses and his History of the Reformation, the Exposition was one of Burnet's most important works, and one which the high-church party could hardly ignore for long ...’ ODNB

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