PREFACE.

IN presenting to the theological students of this country, the following Analysis of Bishop Burnet's Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, it will be necessary to explain the motives with which I engaged in it, and the design I have had in view. Bishop Burnet was confessedly a man of the most varied and extensive erudition. The universal adoption of his invaluable commentary on the Articles by our schools of Divinity, is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which his talents and his learning have been held. But notwithstanding these advantages, he certainly did not possess either perspicuity of style or clearness of arrangement; qualifications which are equally necessary to the character of a perfect author. His matter is in general so confused, his argu

AN

ANALYSIS

OF

BISHOP BURNET'S EXPOSITION

OF THE

THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES,

WITH NOTES.

BY THOMAS NEWLAND, A. B.,

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

"Sunt Libri, quos leviter tantum degustare convenit: sunt quos deglu tire, cursimque legere oportet, sunt denique, sed pauci admodum, quos ruminare et digerere par est,"

BACON.

DUBLIN:

WILLIAM CURRY, JUN. AND CO.,
9, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET;

HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., LONDON; PARKER, SLATTER, AND
TALBOYS, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTONS, CAMBRIDGE.

M.DCCC.XXIX.