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The Life of Dr. George Bull, Lord Bishop of St This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. http://books.google.com i NIVERSSTY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES jw: V "\ THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE BULL, LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVIDS. THE LIFE OF DR. GEORGE BULL, LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S; WITH THE HISTORY OF THOSE CONTROVERSIES IN WHICH HE WAS ENGAGED : AND AN ABSTRACT OF THOSE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES Which he maintained and defended in the Latin tongue. BY OBERT NELSON, Esq. A NEW EDITION. OXFORD, PRINTED BY W. BAXTER ; FOR J. PARKER : AND LAW AND WHITTAKER J AND OGLES, DUNCAN, AND COCHRAN, LONDON. 1816. 5'< /<?<? » .»**> I Bib l&stte-fio CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. -I HE occasion of writing the Life, p. 1. An apology for attempting it, ibid. His own reputation secured by his works, 2. Why it may be acceptable to learned and good men, 3. Reasons for the length of it, 4. I. When and where Mr. Bull was born, 5. His family and parentage, ibid. Early dedicated to the service of the church, 6. II. Educated at Tiverton school in Devonshire, 7. An ac count and character of his master, 8. His great and early progress in classic learning, ibid. III. Removed to Exeter college in Oxford, 9. Taken notice of by two great men, 10. Acquainted with Mr. Clifford, afterwards Lord High Treasurer, 11. IV. He retires from Oxford, upon refusing the Engagement, 12. He goes with his tutor, Mr. Ackland, to North- Cadbury, 13. Influenced to great seriousness by a sister, 14. V. He puts himself under the conduct of an eminent divine, 15. The advantage of seminaries for the candidates of holy Orders, ibid. The fruit to be reaped from them, 1 6. He is put under the direction of Mr. Thomas, 17- He contracts a friendship with Mr. Thomas's son, which was very advantageous to him, 1 8. VI. He enters into holy Orders, 20. He was but one and twenty when ordained Priest, 21. His forwardness in such times an argument of his zeal, 22. ri CONTENTS. VII. He settles at St. George's near Bristol, 23. A little accident which contributed to his reputation, 24. Dis turbed in his Sermon by a Quaker, 25. VIII. The method he took in governing his parish, 27. The parish infested with Antinomian books, 29. The excel lency of Mr. Bull's method, 30. IX. The prayers he used in public, 31 . An instance of the Common-Prayer being admired by the dissenters when used by Mr. Bull, ibid. An eminent danger he was pre served from, 32. He goes to Oxford once a year for the use of libraries, 33. X. Mr. Bull marries Mrs. Bridget Gregory, 35. Her. cha racter, 36'. XI. He was presented to Suddington St. Mary's, 38. He was made privy to the design of a general insurrection in fifty-nine, 39. His preaching at Cirencester, and the occasion of it, 40. XII. He was presented to the vicarage of Suddington St. Peter, 41. He marries a couple publicly by the form of Common-Prayer, 43. Reading the prayers devoutly no . mean attainment, and of great advantage to the people, 44. XIII. His manner of preaching, and the frequency of it, 45. • He only writ the scheme of his sermons, 47. His care in catechising the youth, 48. Baptism and the Eucharist how administered by him, 49. His observation of the holy-days of the Church, 50. XIV. The religious government of his family, 52. His private devotions, 55. The pious frame and temper of his mind, 56. His singing of Psalms in his private de votions, 57. The singing of Psalms of the old version defended by Bishop Beveridge, 58. The character of his sermons, 59. XV. Mr. Bull's manner of governing this parish, 61. He confirms two ladies that were wavering in their religion, 63. A ridiculous story of a Quaker's challenge, 64. His charity to the poor and indigent, ibid. His sentiments upon charity, 65. XVI. His only diversion agreeable conversation, 67. He CONTENTS. vii prosecutes his studies with great application, 68. Several tracts composed by him lost, 69. XVII. He published his first book, called Harmonia Apo- stolica, fyc. 71. An account of this book, 72. The causes and motives of his writing it, 73. A particular obligation laid upon him to consider this controversy, 74. His preparation for writing it, ibid. The method he took in collecting materials, 75. How he came to write in Latin, ibid. • XVIII. The general scope and design of this treatise, 76. His great caution in treating this point of justification, ibid. The dissatisfaction of some Protestant divines here upon, 77. The occasion and grounds of this dissatisfac tion, 78. The judgment of the Church of England va riously represented, ibid. The effect which this conten tion produced, 79. The advantage by it to Mr. Bull's cause, ibid. XIX. Animadversions upon his book, 80. The opposition it met with from three considerable men in the church, 81. And from others, either half-conformists, or non conformists, 82. XX. A review of his method for determining the sense of St. James, 83. The proposition of St. James farther ex plained, 84. This explication vindicated by five several arguments, ibid. XXI. Argument the first, from the testimony of holy Scrip ture, 84. XXII. Argument the second, from the juridical notion of justification, 88. Argument the third, from the notion and nature of faith, 89. XXIII. Argument the fourth, from God's proceeding in the day of judgment, 90. Argument the fifth, from the concession of adversaries, 93. XXIV. The first concession, concerning a living or ope rative faith, 94. Second concession, concerning the neces sity of good works to salvation, 95. An objection an swered, 97- ' XXV. The proposition of St. James demonstrated to ac- rHi CONTENTS. cord with the sense of St. Paul, 97. He shews both the false and true way of solving the difficulty, 98. How the term justification, as used by St. Paul, is to be inter preted, ibid. How the term faith, in this controversy, is to be interpreted, 99. First argument, that St. Paul meaneth such a faith as implies obedience, ibid. Second argument, that St. Paul means such a faith as containeth obedience, 101. Third argument, that St. Paul meaneth such a faith as containeth obedience, 102. The ground of this manner of speaking, 103. XXVI. The first reason, why St Paul useth faith to de scribe the condition required from us, 104. The second reason, why faith is used to express evangelical obedi ence, 106. XXVII. How the term works is to be interpreted in this controversy, 107. Works wrought by the Spirit to be distinguished from all other works, ibid. Faith and works constitute the Gospel-covenant, 108. All sort of works not excluded from justification, ibid. What sort of works rejected from justification, 109. XXVIII. Animadversions on the Harmonia sent to the author, 110. The Animadversions written by Mr^ Charles Gatakerr 111. The sum of the Animadversions, 111 — 115. The character of the animadverter, 115. XXIX. Mr. Bull's motive for taking so much notice of Mr. Gataker's manuscript Animadversions, 116. An abstract of his Examen Censurce, in answer to them, 117— 125. XXX. Some farther observations of Mr. Gataker's ma nagement of this controversy, 12.5. A reflection of Mr. Bull's management of it against him, 127- An account of the eldest Gataker, and how Mr. Bull came to be en gaged with him, 128. XXXI. The occasion and motives of Mr. Truman's writ ing' against the Harmonia, 129. His censure, how differ ent from that of Mr. Gataker, and how favourable to Mr. Bull, 131. How he agreed and disagreed with Mr. Bull, ibid. How some concurred with him in the very offence CONTENTS. ix taken, for whom Mr. Bull had otherwise an esteem, 132. How he came to write against Mr. Bull in English rather than in Latin, 134. XXXII. An account of the several treatises published by him against the doctrine and method of Mr. Bull, 136. An account of the design and method of his last treatise, 1*0. Principal mistakes charged upon Mr. Bull, p. 4, and Pref. p. S. 141. XXXIII. The principles of Mr. Truman opposite to these, 142. His interpretation of the threats and promises of the Old Testament, with a fourfold respect, 14*. His opinion of the Horeb covenant, and that made in the land of Moab, 145. His sentiments concerning the nature of the Mosaic law, ibid. His commendation of Mr. Bull, and agreement with him in some material points, 148. XXXIV. His dissatisfaction, both with Dr. Hammond and Mr. Bull, about their notions of grace, 149. Some other objections raised against Mr. Bull, 153. Some of Mr. Truman's concessions, 154. The result of the whole matter, ibid. XXXV. Mr. Bull answereth him in English, 156. But not contented with that, answereth him in Latin, 157. The substance of his answer, 158. XXXVI. An hypothesis of Mr. Truman's examined, 160. The character of the rectifier, 1 63. XXXVII. Bishop Nicholson, Mr. Bull's patron, dies; his character, 164. Bishop Nicholson's Epitaph writ by Mr. Bull, 165. How a stop was put to Mr. Bull's de signs of vindicating some Catholic doctrines, 167. How public lectures were read against him at Oxford, 169. XXXVIII. How Dr. Tully became Dr. Barlow's second against Mr. Bull, 170.
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