Writings of John Bradford

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... THE HURT OF HEARING MASS. Tho "Hurt of hearing mass," in the following reprint, follows, unless it be otherwise noted, the text of the edition of Copland, without date, of which the title is given immediately after this preface. Passages in this Treatiso, some of which are of considerable length, now are first printed from Lansdown MS. No. 389, fol. 38, reverse--74, in the British Museum. The text of this reprint has throughout been compared with that MS., and occasionally with another early transcript, also in the British Museum, MS. 422. No. 19, fol. 104--131, in the Harleian collection, and with the edition printed by Eirkham, 1580. Bradford has reforred to this Treatise in Letters XLI. p. 116, XLIV. p. 126, and XCIII. p. 236, above. The reasoning also in p. 513 is quoted in the very scarce first edition of Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 1563, p. 889, or ed. 1843--9, Vol. VI. p. 358. The subject of this Treatise, being amid the fierce persecutions of the sixteenth century of deep interest, has been frequently handled both by tho English and Foreign Reformers2. Bradford, in particular, The names of Calvin, Viret, Bullinger, and Hooper, are referred to on the margin of p. 300. See Calvin. Tractat. Theol. secund. part, class, tert. Advers. Pseudonicodemitas, De fugiendis impiornm illicitis sacris epistola, 1537, Excusatio ad pseudo-Nicodemos, 1545, and other Treatises, Op. Tom. VIII. pp.409--99, Amstel. 1667--71. Viret, " Of the principal points which are at this day in controversy concerning the holy supper of Jesus Christ, and of the mass of the Romish church,... translated by John Shot," Barker, London, 1579, referred to in Herbert, Typogr. Antiq.,Vol. II. p. 1080, Lond. 1785--90; and " An epistle to the faithful, necessary for all the children of God, es...