Excerpt from Tracts on the Points at Issue Between the Churches of England and Rome, Vol. 1 of 2
This Collection of Tracts on the points at issue between the Churches of England and Rome was begun by the late Dr. Burton, Regius Professor of Divinity, and has been continued since his death, with the view of bringing together such writings, as might appear to be best suited to the state of the controversy and the disposition of men's minds, in the present day. The Tracts were written by the most eminent Divines of the seventeenth century, and are most of them difficult to be procured separately from the other works of their respective authors. They are also arranged in this Collection in such a manner, as not only to furnish, when taken together, a complete view of the whole controversy, but also to make each volume an integral production in itself.
The present volume contains two Tracts by Bishop Taylor, "A Dissuasive from Popery, in two parts," and "The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the blessed Sacrament proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation."
The latter work was published in the year 1654, when Taylor had been living in retirement at Golden Grove, a retirement however interrupted by the frequent vicissitudes of imprisonment and protection, which followed from the troubles of that disastrous period, and the respect and sympathy acquired by him from his character and sufferings. "Here again."
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Barrow was born in London. He went to school first at Charterhouse, and subsequently to Felstead. He completed his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his uncle and namesake, afterwards Bishop of St Asaph, was a Fellow. He took to hard study, distinguishing himself in classics and mathematics; after taking his degree in 1648, he was elected to a fellowship in 1649; he then resided for a few years in college, and became candidate for the Greek Professorship at Cambridge, but in 1655 he was driven out by the persecution of the Independents. He spent the next four years traveling across France, Italy and even Constantinople, and after many adventures returned to England in 1659.
In 1660, he was ordained and appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Cambridge. In 1662 he was made professor of geometry at Gresham College, and in 1663 was selected as the first occupier of the Lucasian chair at Cambridge.
For the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the study of divinity. He was made a D.D. by royal mandate in 1670, and two years later Master of Trinity College (1672), where he founded the library, and held the post until his death.
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