The Judgment of the Extent of Christs Death, List of books
Which are the Primates works, and which not.
A Catalogue of the Works already printed of Doctor James Usher, late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, which are owned by him.
In Latine.
DE Ecclesiarum Christianarum successione & Statu. Quarto, Londini, 1613.
Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge, 4o. Dublinii 1630.
Historia Goteschalci, 4o. Dublinii 1631.
De Primordiis Ecclesiarum Britanicarum, 4o. Dublinii 1639.
Ignatii Epistolae cum annotationibus, 4o. Oxoniae 1645.
De Anno Solari Macedonum, 8o. Londini 1648.
Annales Veteris Testamenti, Fol. Londini 1650.
Annales Novi Testamenti usque ad extremum Templi & Reipublicae Judaicae excidium, &c. Fol. Londini 2654.
Epistola ad Capellum de Variantibus textus Hebraici Lectionibus, 4o. Londinii 1652.
De Graeca Septuaginta Interpretum versione Syntagma 4o. Londini 1655.
These four last are sold by John Crook, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard.
In English.
AN Answer to a challenge made by the Jesuite Malone in Ireland, Anno 1631.
A Sermon preached before the House of Commons, Febr. 18. 1618.
A Declaration of the visibility of the Church, preached in a Sermon before King James, June 20. 1624.
A Speech delivered in the Castle-Chamber in Dublin, the 22. of November, 1622.
The Religion profest by the ancient Irish and Brittains, 4o. 1631.
These five are bound together in Quarto.
Immanuel, or the Incarnation of the Son of God, 4o. Dublin. 1639.
A Geographical Description of the Lesser Asia, 4o. Oxford, 1644.
The judgement of Doctor Reynolds, touching the Original of Episcopacy more largely confirmed out of Antiquity, An. 1641.
His Discourse of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitanes, in 4o. Oxford, 1644.
His small Catechisme re-viewed, 12o. London, 1654.
☞His aforesaid Annals of the Old and New Testament; with the Synchronismus of Heathen Story to the destruction of Jerusalem, translated out of Latin into English now at the Presse, Fol. to be sold by John Crook, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard.
In regard there have been, and are divers books printed, which go under the name of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh, but are not his, and more may be obtruded to the injury of him, I have thought fit, at the request of the Printer, to give the Reader this advertisement following.
IN Anno… 1640. There was a book printed, entitled the Bishop of Armaghs direction to the house of Parliament, concerning the Liturgy and Episcopal Government, and Anno 1641. Another book entitled Vox Hiberniae, being some pretended notes of his, at a publick fast. Both these at his Petition were suppressed by order from the House of Lords and Commons, 11. Feb. 1641. and I hope will not be revived.
In Anno 1651. A book called (A Method for Meditation, or a manual of Divine duties, which most injuriously is printed in his name, but is none of his, which he directed me then to declare publickly as from him, yet in 1657. It is again reprinted to his great dishonour.
For his small Catechisme the Reader is to take notice, that there was a false one Printed without his knowledge, and is still sold for his. The injury he received by it compelled him to review it, with an Epistle of his own before it, which is the mark to know the right Edition, though being framed for his private use in his younger yeares, (about 23.) he had no intention of it for the publick.
If any Sermon-Notes taken from him have been Printed in his lifetime under his name, or shall be hereafter) which divers have of late attempted) The Reader is to take notice that it was against his minde, and that they are disowned, by him, which as he endeavoured to his utmost to suppresse, while he was living, so it was his fear to be injured in it after his death.
For a further confirmation of which, I shall give you part of a Letter of his, while he was Bishop of Meath, (upon the like intention of a Printer, who had gotten into his hands some Notes of his Sermons, said to be preached by him in London, and was about to publish them) which he wrote to Doctor Featly, Chaplain to the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the stopping of them, in these words.
I beseech you to use all your power to save me from that disgrace, which undiscreet and covetous men go about to fasten upon me, or else I must be driven to protest against their injurious dealings with me, and say as Donatus once did, Mala illis sit, qui mea festinant edere ante me.
But I repose cenfidence in you, that you will take order that so great a wrong as this may not be done unto me. Remember me to worthy Doctor Goad, and forget not in your prayers.
Dublin, Sept. 16. 1622. Your most assured loving friend, and fellow labourer J. A. MEDENSIS.
THat book entitled the summe and substance of Christian religion, some of the materials with the Method are his, collected by him in his yonger years, for his own private use: but, being so unpolished, defective, and full of mistakes, he was much displeased at the publishing of it in his name. And though it be much commended at home, and by Ludovicus Crocius abroad, yet that he did disown it as it is now set forth, this Letter following, wrote to Mr. John Downham, (who caused it to be printed) doth sufficiently confirm, as followeth.
SIR,
YOu may be pleased to take notice, that the Catechisme you write of is none of mine, but transcribed out of Mr, Cartwrights Catechisme, and Mr. Crooks, and some other English Divines, but drawn together in one Method, as a kind of Common-place-book, where other mens judgements and reasons are simply laid down, though not approved in all points by the Collector; besides that the Collection (such as it is) being lent abroad to divers in scattered sheets, hath for a great part of it miscarried, the one half of it as I suppose (well nigh) being no way to be recovered, so that so imperfect a thing Copied verbatim out of others, and in divers places dissonant from mine own judgement, may not by any meanes be owned by me; But if it shall seem good to any industrious person to cut off what is weak and superfluous therein, and supply the wants thereof, and cast it into a new mould of his own framing, I shall be very well content that he make what use he pleaseth of any the materials therein, and set out the whole in his own name: and this is the resolution of
May 13. 1645. Your most assured loving friend JA. ARMACHANUS.
A Book entituled Confessions and Proofs of Protestant Divines of Reformed Churches for Episcopacy, &c. though it be a very Learned one, yet it is not his; OnelyOnly that of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans (Frequently bound up with the former) is owned by him. unto which he was earnestly moved by a Letter from Doctor Hall, the late Reverend and Learned Bishop of Norwich, then Bishop of Exeter; which, shewing the great esteem he had of him, is annexed as followeth.
To the most Reverend Father in God, and my most Honoured Lord, the Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland.
Most Reverend, and my most worthily Honoured, Lord.
THat which fell from me yesterday, suddenly and transcursively, hath since taken up my after-midnight thoughts, and I must crave leave, what I then moved, to importune, that your Grace would be pleased to bestow one sheet of paper upon these distracted times, in the subject of Episcopacy, shewing the Apostolical Original of it, and the grounds of it from Scripture, and the immediately succeeding antiquity; Every line of it coming from your Graces hand, would be super rotas suas: as Solomons expression is, very Apples of Gold, with Pictures of Silver, and more worth than volumes from us: Think, that I stand before you like the Man of Macedon, and that you hear me say, Come and help us: And as your Grace is wholly given up to the common good of the Church, say, whether you can deny it? and if please your Grace to take your rise from my humble motion to expresse your self in this question, wherein I am publickly interested, or otherwise, to professe your voluntary resolutions for the setling of many, either misled, or doubting Soules, it will be the most acceptable, and (I hope) the most successefull work that your Grace hath ever undertaken; It was my earnest motion long ago to (foreign) to intreat this labour from your Grace; which now comes from my meannesse; your Gracious humility will not even from so low hands disregard it; with my zealous suit, and hopefull expectation of a yeilding answer, I humbly take leave, and am
Your Graces humbly, and heartily devoted JOS. EXON.
FINIS.
End of the text · James Ussher, The Judgment of the Extent of Christs Death (1658)