. SECT. 8. State of religion in England and Bohemia, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries— Sketches of Wickliff-the Lollards-Huss- 164 SECT. 1. The history of the Waldenses from the days of 1500..... View of the conduct of the court of Rome, and of the Inquisition in the sixteenth century— 209 SECT. 4. History of the Waldenses continued, from the middle of the sixteenth to the commencement of the seventeenth century. A. D. 1551–1600. 284 SECT. 5. History of the Waldenses continued, from the year 1600 to 1665—their banishment from the marquisate of Saluces-cruel order of Gas- taldo dreadful massacre in Piedmont, A. D. 1665 defection and recovery of two of their SECT. 6. History of the Waldenses continued-generous interference of the English government—Mil- ton's Sonnet, and State Letters to the Swiss United Provinces-Swiss Cantons-Prince of Transylvania-Senators of Geneva-Land- grave of Hesse to the Duke of Savoy-Mission Waldensian history continued-sanguinary pro- ceedings against them in Poland--appeal to the English nation-narrative of the cruelties inflicted by the Catholics.... SECT. 8. History concluded-Edict of Victor Amadeus— interference of the Swiss Cantons-distracted state of Piedmont-despotic influence of Louis XIV-country invaded by the French army-massacre-imprisonment final extir- BY THE SAME AUTHOR, In Two large Volumes Octavo, elegantly printed by Whittingham, with a beautiful Burgeois Type, and embellished with Maps and Plates, THE BIBLICAL CYCLOPÆDIA, OR, DICTIONARY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: INTENDED TO FACILITATE AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE INSPIRED WRITINGS. IT has been the particular aim of the author in this publication, to collect, as it were into one body, the scattered rays of light which have been cast upon the Sacred Scriptures by the distinct labours of a host of learned men during the last century, particularly by travellers into the Eastern countries, by biblical critics, and by theological professors; and he flatters himself that, when compleated, it will be found to be no inconsiderable improvement upon every work of this kind that has hitherto appeared among us. In furnishing the Biography of the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, he has studied to unite conciseness with perspicuity; to seize the golden medium between the dry chronological details of Calmet and Brown, and the tedious declamation of Hunter and Robinson. The illustration of the various doctrines of divine revelation will, it is hoped, be found free from the leaven of either Arminianism or Socinianism, and to correspond with the sentiments of the most enlightened Evangelical writers that have appeared since the Reformation-with those of Calvin, Witsius, Owen, Booth, &c. &c. and as the work comprehends every article of the faith and practice of a Christian, it will comprise an entire BODY OF Divinity. N. B. The work is publishing in Parts, or Half Volumes, price 7s. 6d. each, of which three are now before the public, and will be compleated in one more, which is in a forward state. When finished, the price of the work will be considerably advanced, as but few perfect sets remain on hand. |