THE
FATHERS

OF THE
ENGLISH CHURCH;

"Or,
A Selection

FROM THE
WRITINGS OF THE REFORMERS

AND
EARLY PROTESTANT DIVINES,

OF THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING
VARIOUS TRACTS AND EXTRACTS

FROM THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM TINDAL,
JOHN FRITH,
PATRICK HAMILTON,
GEORGE JOY,
ROBERT BARNES:

WITH
MEMORIALS OF THEIR LIVES AND WRITINGS,

FROM
FOX AND BISHOP BALE,

LONDON:
Printed for John HATCHARD, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190,

opposite Albany House, Piccadilly;
And Sold by Messrs. RIVINGTONS, St. Paul's Churchyard, and L. B. SEELEY,
Ave Maria Lane, London ; PARKER, Oxford; DEIGHTON, Cambridge ;
and every other Bookseller in the United Kingdom.

то
HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

GEORGE III.

OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

KING,
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c. &c.

TO THE MOST REVEREND
THE ARCHBISHOPS;

THE RIGHT REVEREND

THE BISHOPS;
AND THE REVEREND

THE CLERGY,
OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND:

THIS WORK,

INTENDED AS A MONUMENT

TO THE HONOUR OF
THOSE HOLY MARTYRS, VENERABLE CONFESSORS,

AND EARLY PROTESTANT DIVINES,

TO WHOM, UNDER GOD,
THE REFORMED CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THESE REALMS

OWES ITS

RISE, PROGRESS,
AND SUBSEQUENT ESTABLISHMENT,

IS,
WITH GREAT RESPECT,

DEDICATED,
AND SUBMITTED TO THEIR PATRONAGE,

BY

THE EDITORS.