WHILE the scholars of the Gallican church so nobly distinguished themselves by the cultivation of church-history, our own countrymen were not idle in the same cause. During the same period, a number of illustrious Englishmen pursued ecclesiastical res...
WHILE the scholars of the Gallican church so nobly distinguished themselves by the cultivation of church-history, our own countrymen were not idle in the same cause. During the same period, a number of illustrious Englishmen pursued ecclesiastical researches with characteristic energy and judgment, and produced works which require us still to point to the latter part of the seventeenth century as the brightest age of English learning.