GRACE, REGENERATION, JUSTIFICATION,

FAITH, GOOD WORKS,

AND

UNIVERSAL REDEMPTION,

AS MAINTAINED IN CERTAIN

DECLARATIONS OF OUR REFORMERS,

WHICH ARE

THE GROUNDWORK

OF THE

ARTICLES OF OUR ESTABLISHED CHURCH

UPON THESE SUBJECTS:

WITH AN IMPORTANT ACCOUNT

OF THE

SUBSCRIPTION TO THE ARTICLES IN 1604,

AND AN

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE WHOLE.

BY THE

REV. HENRY JOHN TODD, M.A. F.S.A.

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, AND KEEPER OF THE

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S RECORDS.

Hoc meum studium, quum multa intricatiùs disputarentur, ut excerperem

res utiles, easque ex illâ caligine evolutas, quantum possem, planè recitarem.

Melancthon ad Calvinum.

London:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

NO. 62, st. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD;

By R. and R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

1818.

CONTENTS

Introduction

PAGE

i

1

11

Extracts from the Articles of Religion, 1536

Extracts from the Articles of Religion, 1540

Extracts from the Necessary Erudition of a Chris-

tian Man

Extracts from the Book of Homilies ......

Extracts from the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasti.

13

47

carum

Extracts from the Catechismus Brevis

132

Extracts from the Apologia Ecclesia Anglicanæ .. 138

APPENDIX.

Extracts from the Confessio Augustana

143

From the Confessio Saxonica

167

From our Liturgy

187

Account of the Subscription to the Articles in 1604 201

Charge on Subscription to the Articles

219