xx PREFACE, 



AN ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING THE CONTROVERSIES 

 OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (a). 



This was first published in the year 1641, with 

 out the author s name (). The following is the 



title : 



A Wise and Moderate Discourse, 



concerning 

 Church Affaires, 



As it was written, long since, by the fa 

 mous Authour of those Consi 

 derations, which seem to 

 have some reference 



to this, 

 Now published for the common good. 



Imprinted in the yeere 1641. 

 It was next published with the present title, in 

 the Resuscitatio. 



(a) Page 28 of this volume. 

 (b) There is a copy in the British museum, and MSS. 



Ays. 4263. 



In Blackburne s edition, vol. I. 192, he thus notices this 

 tract: &quot; Next follows an Advertisement touching the controver 

 sies of the Church of England, p. 418. This treatise was ori 

 ginally printed in the year 1641, without the author s name 

 and under a different title : called, &quot; A wise and moderate 

 discourse concerning Church affairs ; as it was written long 

 since, by the famous author of those considerations, which 

 seem to have some reference to this.&quot; It is plain from p. 428, 

 that it was wrote in the reign of Q. Elizabeth. Dr. Bancroft 

 had collated and corrected this piece in more than an hundred 

 places : and I am to ask the reader s pardon for mislaying the 

 copy containing these his farther emendations. 



