Volume 1
An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook.
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Date:
- 1845-1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![but because He would not that His death should profit them: and moreover, because they were not created to salvation, as others, but to destruction. And for the same cause they would not have the promises to be general, but extended them to those few persons (yea, rather restrained them,) who alone, they said, were created by God to be saved.” | The object of the professor in saying this was to warn some of the younger members of the university, whom he perceived to be infected with the dangerous book of Piscator. But although the sermon was as moderate as it could well be, and the kind, gentle, and Christian spirit, which is always really liberal, ought to have conciliated his very opponents, Dr Baro was informed that the vice- chancellor intended to proceed against him. Indeed, immediately after the sermon, there was a consultation among the heads of houses present at its delivery, as to the best mode of acting. Dr Baro thought it proper, when thus attacked, to write an explanation to the arch- bishop. He observed in his letter, “Quum me tua Dominatio, &c. Thus in English: ‘That when his lordship lately spake with him about the nine articles sent thither, he spake freely that which he thought good, ana what then occurred to him. But be- cause many things came not so soon into his mind, which might be said for a favourable exposition of them, he thought it would not be unacceptable, if he wrote some- thing more amply and particularly concerning each. Which he did also, as he said, the more willingly, be- cause he saw some there [at Cambridge] who took them in that sense, and so stretched them, as to fetch out and confirm from them all Piscator’s paradoxes. ‘That now it was come to that pass, that he and others might scarcely say, that God created the first man, and in him the rest, according to his image, and so to eternal life: nor that he rejected any or hated any as a man, (for otherwise he had rejected and hated his own image,) but only as a sinner: according to that saying of St Augustine, God hated](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33029416_0001_0545.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
