Eight cases of conscience occasionally determined by the late Reverend Father in God, Robert Sanderson, Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
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- Title
- Eight cases of conscience occasionally determined by the late Reverend Father in God, Robert Sanderson, Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
- Author
- Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Henry Brome, James Collins, and Christopher Wilkinson ...,
- 1674.
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"Eight cases of conscience occasionally determined by the late Reverend Father in God, Robert Sanderson, Lord Bishop of Lincoln." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61830.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.
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A LETTER from a Friend concerning the ensuing CASES.
SIR,
HAving perused the Papers you sent me, I can safely vouch them for Genuine, and not in the least Spurious, by that resem∣blance they wear of their Reverend Author; and therefore you need not fear to bring them to the Publick Test, and let them look the Sun in the face.
'Tis true, their first Commission was but short, and long since expired, they being designed only to visit and respectively satisfie some private Friends; yet I cannot see what injury you will offer to his sacred ashes, if, by renewing that, you send them on a little farther Embassie for the common good.
Indeed the least remains of so matchless a Cham∣pion, so invincible an Advocate in foro Theologico, like the filings and fragments of Gold, ought not to be lost; and pity the world was not worthy many more of his learned Labours.
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But — Praestat de Carthagine tacere quàm pauca dicere, far be it from me to ••pinion the wings of his Fame, with any rude Letters of Commendation; or, by way of precarious Pedan∣try, to court any man into a belief of his worth, since that were to attempt Iliads after Homer, and spoil a Piece done already to the life by his own Pencil, the works whereof do sufficiently praise him in the gates
All I aim at is, to commend and promote your pious intention, to give the world security, by making these Papers publick, that they shall never hereafter stand in need of any other hand to snatch them out of the fire, a doom (you say) once written upon them.
I have no farther trouble to give you, but to thank you for those excellent Pieces of the same Hand and Stamp (as every Intelligent Reader will easily dis∣cern) with which as an accession to this Edition, your Care and Piety hath obliged the Publick: Only again let me bespeak your vigilance over the Press, which by her daily teeming and expertness, or (at least) negligence of the Midwife, is wont of late to spoil good births with monstrous deformities, and unpardonable Errata; so you will avoid a double guilt contracted by some without fear or wit, of abu∣sing your critical Reader on the one hand, and your most judiciously exact Writer on the other; and (if that may contribute any thing more) very much gra∣tifie the most unworthy of his Admirers.