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An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

1699 · 39 entries

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By

Gilbert Burnet

Dates

first published 1699

Tradition

anglican

Also called

Exposition of the XXXIX Articles; Burnet on the Thirty-Nine Articles

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An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Written by Gilbert Bishop of Sarum, the Second Edition Corrected, R. Roberts for Ri. Chiswell, London, 1700 (London); Wing B5792, ESTC R19849 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From EEBO-TCP A30349Checked against a copy at archive.org: every heading, every article’s first page with the article’s own words, twenty pages drawn at random, the first page of the dedication, the preface, the Latin articles and the introduction, the introduction’s collations and the last page, word by word, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-29

License

Public domain

Notes

Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury, published his exposition of the Articles in 1699 (Wing B5791), written, its preface says, at the late Archbishop’s (Tillotson’s) desire and read by him and Queen Mary in draft, and dedicated it to William III; this is its second edition, “corrected”, of 1700. It takes the Articles one by one, each a discourse that opens with the article in the printing’s black letter and goes through its heads, the Scripture, the Fathers and the controversies with Rome, the Socinians and others. Each entry is an article, on all of articles1571’s paragraphs in it, titled by its heading without “ARTICLE I.”; its text is Markdown, the article as Burnet prints it (the English text of 1700, not the 1571 printing’s) a block quote, his margin references footnotes. The dedication to the King, the preface, the Articles in Latin and the Introduction (on the Articles’ making, the subscription, and collations of the Corpus Christi manuscripts and the printing of 1571) are prose/; the title page, the half-title and the table of contents are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A30349 by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --on articles1571 --sermons --italic-j), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, ▪, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek), but where the scan was read. EMENDATIONS.md gives the conventions (the TCP’s I for the printing’s italic and black-letter J, and its U for the black letter’s V) and every correction. The scan is EEBO’s film of the Huntington Library’s copy, the one the TCP transcribed, page for page; the first edition is on archive.org as Google’s scan (anexpositionthi00ivgoog).

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Thirty-Nine Articles (1571)

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