book, considering the small advance whichhad yet been made in the establishment of the reformed tenets; and a very valuable one, as containing, together with some alloy, a mass of the purest Protestant divinity.

Upon the whole, however, it has been deemed

now was called, that is, The Erudition of any Christian Man, spoken of before." The Archbishop wrote some Annotations on a corrected copy of the work; or, as they are called by himself, " Animadversions upon the King's Book," which are still preserved, but it does not appear that all his suggestions were adopted.

Chap. xxv. 'By the Act above-mentioned, the generality of the people were restrained from reading the Holy Scriptures. But in lieu of it was set forth by the King and his Clergy, in the year 1543, a doctrine for all his subjects to use and follow; which was the book above said: and all books that were contrary to it, were by authority of Parliament condemned."

The Archbishop introduced and countenanced it in his diocese, on account of this authority, and of the good things in it, although there were others "foisted in," by the Bishop of Winchester, which he did not approve.

Strype's Memorials, Vol. I. B. I. ch. 1. "Another Session of a former Convocation began April 20, 1543. Now they were concerned, as it seems, on a diligent review of a former good book, called, The Institution of a Christian Man...... This produced a second edition, enlarged, of the Institution, and was called, A necessary Doctrine and Erudition of a Christian Man. And this year (1543) it came forth, in print, with many alterations and additions, by a special commission from the King to Archbishop Cranmer, and divers other learned Bishops, and other Divines."

"This book was received in the Parliament that sat this year, as the Lord Herbert shews."

more advisable to avoid the objection, without discussing its validity, which might be made to any public work put forth during the reign of Henry VIII., namely, that all publications issuing from the press, under the royal authority, were subject to the jealous supervision of a Prince, who more cordially opposed the Papal power, than the doctrinal corruptions of the Roman Catholic religion, and that therefore no such book can be properly esteemed a Protestant work till after the accession of Edward VI.

The first document from which extracts are taken, is the first, in point of date, which we find after the accession of Edward VI.; when there was no longer any obstacle to the free dissemination of Anti-Catholic opinions; when Cranmer, with his colleagues, was set at liberty to prosecute the great and glorious work in which he was engaged, and which he had hitherto been compelled to pursue with the utmost caution, beset, as he was, with difficulties and enemies, and harassed by his royal master's fickleness.

THE SUM AND CONTENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE was prefixed to some of the early

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The copy from which the Extras are triber, is printed in a very useful election of the Works of the Reformers, entitled, “The Father of the Eazhsh Church," and is said to be taken from Rocke's Bine, of 1549. It has been collated with he bum aut Comest" in a copy of Cranmer's Binde, and found to vary in sus] a few very trifling instances.

book, considering the small advance whichhad yet been made in the establishment of the reformed tenets; and a very valuable one, as containing, together with some alloy, a mass of the purest Protestant divinity.

Upon the whole, however, it has been deemed

now was called, that is, The Erudition of any Christian Man, spoken of before." The Archbishop wrote some Annotations on a corrected copy of the work; or, as they are called by himself, “ Animadversions upon the King's Book," which are still preserved, but it does not appear that all his suggestions were adopted.

Chap. xxv. "By the Act above-mentioned, the generality of the people were restrained from reading the Holy Scriptures. But in lieu of it was set forth by the King and his Clergy, in the year 1543, a doctrine for all his subjects to use and follow; which was the book above said: and all books that were contrary to it, were by authority of Parliament condemned."

The Archbishop introduced and countenanced it in his diocese, on account of this authority, and of the good things in it, although there were others "foisted in," by the Bishop of Winchester, which he did not approve.

Strype's Memorials, Vol. I. B. I. ch. 1. "Another Session of a former Convocation began April 20, 1543. Now they were concerned, as it seems, on a diligent review of a former good book, called, The Institution of a Christian Man..... ......This produced a second edition, enlarged, of the Institution, and was called, A necessary Doctrine and Erudition of a Christian Man. And this year (1543) it came forth, in print, with many alterations and additions, by a special commission from the King to Archbishop Cranmer, and divers other learned Bishops, and other Divines."

"This book was received in the Parliament that sat this year, as the Lord Herbert shews."

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THE SUM AND CONTENT OF THE 5021 SCRIPTURE * was prefer some of the tati

English Translations of the Bible, and among others to the edition which was revised by Cranmer, and bore his name, and was afterwards reprinted and used in churches by authority, in the reigns of Edward VI. and Elizabeth. This Bible may be considered as one of the foundation-stones of the Reformation, being the first publicly used by royal authority; and, though published by order of Henry VIII., being free, both in the translation, and in the preliminary discourses, from the errors of Popery, which were not expunged from other works of the same period. As such it remained unaltered, when the great Prelate, to whose judgment the publication had been originally entrusted, was at liberty to revise and alter it, if he had thought it requisite. This "Sum and Content," adopted by Cranmer, from the English Bible, of 1537, called Matthews's Bible, may therefore be classed among the public declarations of Edward's reign; as well as the

PREFACE OR PROLOGUE*, which is ex

See Lewis's History of the several Translations of the Bible, p. 122. 134.

Strype's Mem. of Cranmer, B. I. ch. xxi. "And so at length in this year, 1540, they successfully printed off the Bible of the largest volume: and after there were sundry other impressions also.

To this impression of the Bible, that came forth in these troublous times, and through extraordinary opposition, the King gave countenance, commanding the buying and