BISHOP DAVENANT

ON

JUSTIFICATION,

&c., &c.

A

TREATISE ON JUSTIFICATION,

OR THE

DISPUTATIO DE JUSTITIA
HABITUALI ET ACTUALI,

OF

THE RIGHT REV. JOHN DAVENANT, D.D.,
BISHOP OF SALISBURY,

AND LADY MARGARET'S PROFESSOR, CAMBRIdge;

DELIVERED TO THE DIVINITY STUDENTS IN THAT UNIVERSITY;
PUBLISHED FIRST IN THE YEAR 1631,

AND NOW TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN,

TOGETHER WITH

TRANSLATIONS OF THE "DETERMINATIONES"

OF THE SAME PRELATE:

BY THE

REV. JOSIAH ALLPORT,

P. C. OF ST. JAMES'S, BIRMINGHAM,

AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER.

Our Righteousness (if we have any) is of little value; it is sincere, perhaps,
but not pure; unless we believe ourselves to be better than our fathers, who no
less truly than humbly said, All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. For
how can that righteousness be pure, which cannot yet be free from imperfection?

BERNARD, Serm. 5 de Verbis Esaia Prophetæ, vi., 1, 2.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.;

CURRY AND CO., DUBLIN;

RAGG AND CO., BIRMINGHAM.

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V. 2

THE TRANSLATOR TO HIS SUBSCRIBERS.

ON putting this volume of translations from Bishop Davenant's works into circulation among the subscribers to the undertaking, an apology seems necessary in consequence of the great length of time that has elapsed since the former volume was issued; and a variety of circumstances might be mentioned to account for it. But it may suffice to assure the most distant ones that the delay has neither arisen through any indifference to the fulfilment of the engagement, nor from any indulgence in other pursuits. Every moment that could be snatched from ordinary clerical duties, and the incessant demands on time and attention, in such a sphere as 1 occupy, has been applied to the work; and the application that has been requisite has been pushed to the utmost extent of endurance, and in hours stolen from rest, under an anxiety to complete the work in a way suited, it is hoped, to sustain the Bishop's reputation, and promote the great object desired by that esteemed Prelate, to whose generous encouragement the inducement to enter upon the task is owing. That every possible exertion has been made my more intimate friends well know; especially such of them as I have had occasion to consult and confer with, in the literary character, on the difficulties of the subjects encountered. I have now to thank God, after three years' efforts, for a measure of health and strength (under application and toil with which any preceding exertions bear no comparison) unimpaired and not previously enjoyed; and I beg also to thank my numerous and more distant subscribers for their indulgence and forbearance.

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