ENCHIRIDION THEOLOGICUM

ANTI-ROMANUM.

TRACTS

ON

THE POINTS AT ISSUE

BETWEEN THE

CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND ROME. -

DR. ISAAC BARROW'S TREATISE ON THE POPE'S SUPREMACY,

AND

HIS DISCOURSE ON THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LII.

Clar. Press

PREFACE.

THIS second volume of Tracts on the points at issue between the Churches of England and Rome contains the Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy and the Discourse concerning the Unity of the Church, the learned and able productions of Dr. Isaac Barrow.

They were first published after his death by Dr. Tillotson, then Dean and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, the first of them having been particularly described by its Author on his death-bed, as "indifferent perfect, though not altogether as he intended it, if God had granted him longer life." The reputation however, which it has since acquired, will be better expressed in the words of its Publisher. "It is not only a just but an admirable Discourse upon this subject; which many others have handled before, but he hath exhausted it: insomuch that no argument of moment, nay, hardly any consideration properly belonging to it, hath escaped his large and comprehensive mind. He hath said enough to silence the controversy for ever, and to deter all wise men, of both sides, from meddling any further with it."

The Discourse concerning the Unity of the Church has been commended, not only as containing a power

a He died in the year 1677.