AN

ECCLESIASTICAL BIOGRAPHY,

CONTAINING THE

Lives of Ancient Fathers and Modern Divines,

INTERSPERSED WITH NOTICES OF

HERETICS AND SCHISMATICS,

FORMING

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN EVERY AGE.

BY

WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, D.D.,

VICAR OF LEEDS.

VOL. VII.

LONDON:

F. AND J. RIVINGTON;

PARKER, OXFORD; J. AND J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE;

T. HARRISON, LEEDS.

1851.

210.9.393.

PREFACE.

IN the present volume of the Ecclesiastical Biography, the reader will find an account

OF ANCIENT HERESIES, under the heads of Manes, Marcion, Montanus, Noetus, Macedonius, Paul of Samosata;

OF THE ELIZABETHAN REFORMATION, in the Life of Archbishop Parker;

OF THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION, in the Articles. on Luther, Melanchthon, and Munzer;

OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE SCOTTISH KIRK, under the head of Melville;

OF THE FOUNDATION OF JESUITISM, in the Life of Loyola;

OF THE MODERN GREEK CHURCH, under the head of Lucar;

OF MODERN ROMANISM, in the Life of Parsons.

It is hoped that one more Volume will conIclude the Work.

VICARAGE, LEEDS,

January 1st, 1851.

W. F. H.