Saturday 19 November 2022

Early Anglicans reading Scripture: Bookmarks

That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

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Ashley Null, ‘Thomas Cranmer and the Anglican Way of Reading Scripture,’ Anglican & Episcopal History 75 (2006): 488-526.

John Downame (ed.), Annotations upon all the books of the Old and New Testament wherein the text is explained, doubts resolved, Scriptures parallelled and various readings observed / by the joynt-labour of certain learned divines, thereunto appointed, and therein employed, as is expressed in the preface (London: Printed by John Legatt and John Raworth, 1645), http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36467.0001.001

Contributors:

  • Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671
  • Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645
  • Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654
  • Gouge, William, 1578-1653
  • Ley, John, 1583-1662
  • Reading, John, 1588-1667
  • Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676
  • Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656

See also https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp78144 

The Rt Revd Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Contemplations of the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments, various editions, including Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1836.

John Trapp (1601-1669), A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments: In Five Volumes, Vol. 1: Genesis – Second Chronicles (London: Richard D. Dickinson, 1867)