perhaps of a more lofty genius. No trick, no affectation of any sort. What such a man writes, admitting him to be sufficiently interested in his subject, is dictated only by nature; he records as the stream of his thoughts flows on.. The defects of these celebrated writings, whether arising from language or from the party-spirit and prejudices of the age, are easily separable` from their excellencies, to which they bear but a small proportion; and it will then be found, that they are not unworthy of the author of Paradise Lost.

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12. Between original and episcopacy insert of.

15. for the semicolon, substitute a comma, and rejecta the following which.

25. for an, read and.

4. for plainer read plainlier.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

Introduction

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ECCLESIASTICAL LAW.

1.

Of Reformation in England, and the Causes that
hitherto have hindered it
Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and whether it may be
deduced from the Apostolical Times, by Virtue
of those Testimonies which are alleged to that:
Purpose in some late Treatises; one whereof
goes under the name of James Archbishop of
Armagh

The Reason of Church Government urged against
Prelaty

Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence
against Smectymnuus

An Apology for Smectymnuus

A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclésiastical Causes Considerations touching the likeliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church

Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration; and what best Means may be used against the Growth of Popery.

MATRIMONIAL LAW.

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; restored. to the good of both Sexes, from the Bondage of Canon Law, and other Mistakes, to the true Meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compared

Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marriage

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OF EDUCATION.

Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib

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AREOPAGITICA.

Areopagitica a Speech for the Liberty of uulicensed Printing

TENURE OF THE MAGISTRATE.

279

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving
that it is lawful, and hath been held so through
all Ages, for any, who have the power, to call
to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and,
after due Conviction, to depose, and put him to
Death; if the ordinary Magistrate have ne-
glected, or denied to do it
Iconoclastes, in answer to a Book entitled, Eikon
Basilike, the Portraiture of his sacred Majesty
in his Solitudes and Sufferings

A Manifesto of the Lord Protector of the Com

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monwealth of England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. 421

VOL. I.

Ecclesiastical Law.