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BULLINGER ( Heinrich ). Fiftie godlie and learned sermons, diuided into fiue decades

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BULLINGER ( Heinrich ). Fiftie godlie and learned sermons, diuided into fiue decades

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
BULLINGER ( Heinrich ). Fiftie godlie and learned sermons, diuided into fiue decades, conteyning the chiefe and principall pointes of Christian religion, written in three seuerall tomes or sections, by Henrie Bullinger minister of the churche of Tigure in Swicerlande. Whereunto is adioyned a triple or three-folde table verie fruitefull and necessarie. Translated out of Latine into English by H.I. student in diuinitie. Imprinted at London by [Henry Middleton for] Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleete-streate a little aboue the Conduite, 1577FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a large printer's device on title-page, mostly printed in black letter throughout, pages (48), 108, 113 - 246, (2, blank) ; (3), 252 - 489, 491 - 781 ; (2), 812 - 1069, 1066(bis) - 1073, 1078 - 1142, (1, blank), wanting leaves G7-G8 (pp 109-112), with the original blank leaf Q4, from p 492 onwards the even page numbers are on the rectos, 4to, contemporary blindstamped unlettered calf : headband worn but binding strong, stitching weak and some sections slightly sprung, without the flyleaves, at end some old vellum ms strips in red, black and blue, used in the binding, title-page lightly stained, light marginal hair-line worming towards end, but not serious : a very good, well-margined copy. STC 4056. A translation of Sermonum decades quinque. Johann Heinrich Bullinger (1504–75), Swiss reformer, successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster. A much less controversial figure than Calvin or Luther, whose importance has long been underestimated ; recent research shows that he was one of the most influential theologians of the Protestant Reformation in the 16C. He was a personal friend and advisor of many leading personalities of the reformation era and corresponded with Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran, and Baptist theologians, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I of England, Lady Jane Grey, Christian II of Denmark, Philipp I of Hesse and Frederick III, Elector Palatine. In the time of Elizabeth I he became something of an oracle among many of the English higher clergy who had enjoyed his hospitality during the reign of Mary. Elizabeth herself found his prestige a valuable support against the more rigidly Calvinistic Puritans for her settlement of Church affairs ; and when, in 1570, Pius V made the final breach between the Papacy and the English Church, it was to Bullinger that she turned to prepare her reply to the Papal charges (ODCC). Bullinger’s life-span coincides exactly with that of Matthew Parker (also 1504–75), the first reformed Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth I.english pre 1641; RELIGION; SERMONS; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;