THE WORKS OF JOHN JEWEL, D.D. BISHOP OF SALISBURY, EDITED BY RICHARD WILLIAM JELF, D. D. CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE LONDON; FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. I. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXLVIII. EDITOR'S PREFACE. D URING nearly three centuries the works of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury, have maintained their place in the standard Theological literature of the Reformed Church of England; each succeeding generation1, echoing the well-known words of Richard Hooker in honour of "the worthiest divine that Christendom had bred for some hundreds of years 2." The influence which he exercised over his contemporaries is evidenced at once by the widely spread effects of his celebrated Challenge at Paul's Cross, by the importance attached throughout Europe 3 to his Apology for the Church of England and to its Defence, and by the task assigned, apparently to him alone, of revising the XXXIX Articles in 1571. Nor has the popularity of his writings been confined to a few readers in his own generation, or to the solitary student of after-times. His works have been the armoury from which polemical divines have borrowed their 1 A remarkable list of such testimonials was given in the Quarterly Review, vol. lxix. pp.476,477. 2 See Hooker, Eccl. Pol. vol. i. P. 314. ed. 1841. To shew the importance at tached to the Apologia Ecclesiæ Anglicana by foreign reformers see the Harmonia Confessionum, (1581), in which the text of the Apology is adopted as the representative of the English confession. In the Catal. of Confessions, the eighth is designated as "Anglica, Apologiæ generali anno 1562, Anglicarum ecclesiarum nomine conscriptæ inserta." The estimation in which it was held |
