THE WORKS

OF GEORGE BULL, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S,

COLLECTED AND REVISED

BY

THE REV. EDWARD BURTON, D.D.

FORMERLY STUDENT, AFTERWARDS CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH AND

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

THE LIFE OF BISHOP BULL,

BY

ROBERT NELSON, ESQ.

VOL. II.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCOCXLVI.

SEP 22 1909

CD

B87

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THE CONTENTS.

DISCOURSE I.

THE doctrine of the catholio church for the first three

ages of Christianity, concerning the blessed Trinity,

considered, in opposition to Sabellianism and Trithe-

ism

P. 1.

DISCOURSE II.

The principal parts and branches of the pastoral office,

with rules and directions for the due performance of

each of them

P. 17.

DISCOURSE III.

Concerning the Spirit of God in the faithful; how and in

what manner it doth bear witness with their spirits,

that they are the children of God; and what degree of

hope or persuasion concerning their adoption this wit-

ness of the Spirit doth ordinarily produce in the faith-

ful

P.31.

DISCOURSE IV.

Is printed at the end of vol. VI. See the preface, prefixed

to the Life, p. x.

DISCOURSE V.

Concerning the first covenant, and the state of man before

the fall; according to Scripture, and the sense of the

primitive doctors of the catholic church

P. 52.
VI.

A Vindication of the Church of England from the Errors

and Corruptions of the Church of Rome. Wherein, as is

largely proved, the rule of faith, and all the fundamental

articles of the Christian religion, are received, taught,

professed, and acknowledged. Written at the request of

the countess of Newburgh, in answer to a celebrated

Roman catholic treatise, entitled, The Catholic Scrip-

turist

P.137.

VII.

The corruptions of the Church of Rome, in relation to

ecclesiastical government, the rule of faith, and form

of divine worship; in answer to the bishop of Meaux's

Queries

P. 235.

DISCOURSE I.

DISCOURSE I.a

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR THE FIRST

THREE AGES OF CHRISTIANITY, CONCERNING THE BLESSED TRINITY, CONSIDERED, IN OPPOSITION TO SABELLIANISM AND TRITHEISM.

THE unanimous sense of the catholic doctors of

the church, for the first three ages of Christianity, concerning the article of the Trinity, is in short this:

I. That there are in the Godhead three (not mere names or modes, but) really distinct hypostases or persons, the Father, the Son or Word of God, and the Holy Ghost.

II. That these three persons are one God; which they thus explain :

1. There is but one fountain or principle of divinity, God the Father, who only is Aúródeos, God of and from himself; the Son and Holy Ghost deriving their divinity from him; the Son immediately from the Father, the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, or from the Father by the Son.

2. The Son and Holy Ghost are so derived from the fountain of the divinity, as that they are not separate or separable from it, but do still exist in it, and are most intimately united to it.

a (This discourse was written 1697, for the satisfaction of lord Arundel, as is stated at length in the Life, . LXXXII. p. 422.]

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