Volume 1

Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature / Samuel Halkett and John Laing.

  • Samuel Halkett
Date:
1926-[1962]
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    CHRISTIANS (the) best exercise: being an earnest invitation to the frequenting of the Common Prayer. [By Thomas Comber, D.D.] 4to. [Bodli] London,1689 In all respects the same as “A discourse concerning the daily frequenting the com¬ mon prayer, 1687, 8vo.—MS. note on the Bodleian copy. CHRISTIAN’S (the) Bible companion ; or supplementary form of a symbolical chronometer of Scriptural prophecy. By Rev. William Hewson.] 4to. Smale’s Whitby Authors, p. 174.] Glasgow, 1855 CHRISTIAN’S (the) blessed choice, or the godly man’s resolution to cleave fast to God and his truth, notwith¬ standing trials, troubles, and persecu¬ tions. ... By J. H. [John Hart], a servant of Jesus Christ. 8vo. [Brit. Musi] London, 1688 CHRISTIANS (the) bvlwarke against Satans battery. Or, the doctrine of Ivstification, so plainely and pithily layd out in the severall maine branches of it, as the fruits thereof may be to the faithfull, as so many preservatives against the poysonous heresies and prevailing iniquities of these last times. By H. B. Pastor of S. Mathews Friday- Street [Henry Burton.] 4to. Pp. 384. [Bod/.] London, 1632 CHRISTIAN’S (the) daily walk. By O. N. [Henry Oasland, M.A., minister at Bewdley, Worcestershire]. 8vo. [Calamy’s Nonconf. Mem., edited by Palmer, vol. ii., p.387.] London, [? 1660] CHRISTIAN’S (the) exercise. ... By Thomas a Kempis [translated by Francis Lee, D.D., with preface by Robert Nelson]. 8vo. [L. A. Wheat¬ ley’s Story of the Imitatio Christi, p. 178.] London, 1715 Other anonymous English translations of the “ Imitation of Christ,” see “ The Christians Pattern,” below. CHRISTIAN’S (the) humble plea for his God and Saviour: a poem in blank verse, in answer to Dr Priestley against the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. [By John Fawcett, D.D.] 8vo. [Whitley’s Baft. Bib/., i., p. 194.] London, 1772 Signed “ Christophilus.” A third edition appeared in 1781. CHRISTIANS (the) justification stated. Shewing how the righteousness of Christ, the Gospel-covenant, faith, and God himself, do operate to our justi¬ fication. By W. A. [William Allen, D.D., vicar of Bridgwater, Somerset¬ shire]. 8vo. Pp. 293. [Green’s Bibl. Somers., ii., p. 109.] London, 1678 CHRISTIAN’S (the) manual, being a translation from the Enchiridion militis Christiani of Erasmus [by John Spier]. i2mo. [Gent. Mag., Nov. 1800, p. 1104.] London, 1752 CHRISTIAN’S (the) mirror ; or words in season. By A. L. O. E. authoress of The giant killer, etc. [Charlotte Maria Tucker]. 8vo. Pp. 254. London, 1859 CHRISTIAN’S mistake. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, etc. [Dinah Maria Mulock, later Mrs Craik]. 8vo. Pp. 324. [Camb. Univ. Lib.] London, N.D. CHRISTIANS (the) Pattern; or a divine treatise of the Imitation of Christ; written originally in Latine by Thomas of Kempis above 200 years since. [Translated by F. B., i.e., Anthony Hoskins, and revised by John Worthington.] i6mo. Pp. 390. [Brit. Musi] London, N.D. [1668] This devotional treatise, sometimes attri¬ buted to Jean Gerson, has been issued in countless editions and translations ; a very large collection of these is in the British Museum. For other English transla¬ tions published anonymously, see “ The Christian’s exercise,” “The Folowing of Christ . . .,” and “ The Imitation or following of Christ . . .” It is now generally agreed that the author was Thomas Haemmerlein, of Kempen. CHRISTIAN’S (the) remembrancer; or, the Bible and Testament in verse. By T. W. [Rev. Thomas Wills, B.A.j. Fcap 8vo. N.P., 1788 CHRISTIANS (the) sacrifice, much better than all the legall sacrifices of thejewes. . . . [By Thomas Stoughton.] 4to. [Watt’s Bibl. Brit.] London, 1622 CHRISTIAN’S (the) secret of a happy life. By H. W. S. [Hannah Whitall Smith]. Revised . . . edition. 8vo. Pp. 199. [Brit. Musi] London, N.D., [1876] CHRISTIAN’S (the) strength: a pastor’s word of exhortation to his flock, in explanation of their watchword for the year “Their strength is to sit still.” [By Rev. J. C. Matthews.] Fcap 8vo. Maidstone, i860 CHRISTIAN’S (a) survey of all the primary events and periods of the world ; from the commencement of history to the conclusion of prophecy. [By Granville Penn.] Second edition, improved. 8vo. [D. N. B., vol. 44, p. 303.] London, 1812 CHRISTIAN’S (the) triumph. By a Glasgow merchant [Henry K—Wood.] i2mo. [Kirk’s Sufpi] Edinburgh, 1870