CONTENTS. A Spiritual and Most Precious Pearl ............ Fruitful Lessons upon the Passion, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, • and sending of the Holy Ghost ........ A Treatise on the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ ......... 422 The Order of the Church of Christ in Denmark and other countries for the Lord's Supper, Baptism, and Holy Wedlock ............... 467 Abridgement of the Enchiridion of Erasmus .......... Fac-simile of Title-page and Colophon of the second edition of the Treatise on the Lord's Supper ...... Additions to the Translator's Preface, from the second edition......... 530 the expedition of lord Russell for the suppression of the rebels in Devonshire. He was subsequently appointed coadjutor to Veysy, bishop of Exeter, and finally, in 1551, consecrated bishop of that see on the resignation of Veysy. On the accession of Mary, in 1553, he was deprived of his bishoprick; but at the intercession of the king of Denmark he was allowed to leave the kingdom, from whence he went to Denmark, and was at length appointed to the parochial charge of Bergzabern in the dutchy of Deux-Ponts; where he remained till he went to Geneva, at which place he appears to have lived till the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558, when he returned to England; and on the 17th of December 1559, he officiated at the consecration of Archbishop Parker. He was collated on the third of March 1563 to the living of St Magnus, London Bridge, by Bishop Grindal, which in the course of the year 1566 he resigned. He died in February 1569 at the advanced age of eighty-one years, and was buried on the 19th of that month in St Bartholomew's Church, behind the Exchange. Although he was not restored to the bishoprick of Exeter after his return from exile, nor promoted to any other bishoprick, it is evident that he never relinquished his episcopal character, (as some have asserted that he did,) as he always signs himself—“ Myles Coverdale, quondam Exoniensis.” With regard to the works of Bishop Coverdale, much uncertainty has existed respecting them, from the circumstage that so few of them have been reprinted since the along the century in which they were first published: one of them however, The Old Faith, was reprinted with a at titlo in 1624, and another, THE SPIRITUAL PEARL, www in the prosent century. They are to be found almost monty in the libraries of public bodies, or in the collections wwwvato individuals. Evon of those works which are best ful, tow copios are to be mot with; while of others the umbonu are roduced to two or throo copios, and in more world. Tration from H. B r .) 1.4 III. *Treatise on Justitication. From the same the expedition of lord Russell for the suppression of the rebels in Devonshire. He was subsequently appointed coadjutor to Veysy, bishop of Exeter, and finally, in 1551, consecrated bishop of that see on the resignation of Veysy. On the accession of Mary, in 1553, he was deprived of his bishoprick; but at the intercession of the king of Denmark he was allowed to leave the kingdom, from whence he went to Denmark, and was at length appointed to the parochial charge of Bergzabern in the dutchy of Deux-Ponts; where he remained till he went to Geneva, at which place he appears to have lived till the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558, when he returned to England; and on the 17th of December 1559, he officiated at the consecration of Archbishop Parker. He was collated on the third of March 1563 to the living of St Magnus, London Bridge, by Bishop Grindal, which in the course of the year 1566 he resigned. He died in February 1569 at the advanced age of eighty-one years, and was buried on the 19th of that month in St Bartholomew's Church, behind the Exchange. Although he was not restored to the bishoprick of Exeter after his return from exile, nor promoted to any other bishoprick, it is evident that he never relinquished his episcopal character, (as some have asserted that he did,) as he always signs himself—“ Myles Coverdale, quondam Exoniensis.” With regard to the works of Bishop Coverdale, much uncertainty has existed respecting them, from the circumstance that so few of them have been reprinted since the close of the century in which they were first published: one of them however, The Old Faith, was reprinted with a different title in 1624, and another, The SPIRITUAL PEARL, twice in the present century. They are to be found almost entirely in the libraries of public bodies, or in the collections of private individuals. Even of those works which are best known, few copies are to be met with ; while of others the numbers are reduced to two or three copies, and in more |