Precursors Of Knox Or Memoirs Of Patrick Hamilton

Author : Peter Lorimer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331062370
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Precursors of Knox, Or, Memoirs of Patrick Hamilton written by Peter Lorimer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Precursors of Knox, Or, Memoirs of Patrick Hamilton: The First Preacher and Martyr of the Scottish Reformation; Alexander Alane, or Alesius, Its First Academic Theologian: And Sir David Lindsay, of the Mount, Its First Poet; Collected From Original Sources; I. Patrick Hamilton Nearly three years ago, when the author of the following work was collecting materials for a life of Alexander Alesius, the earliest and one of the most distinguished of the Scottish exiles who were driven out from their country for their attachment to the principles of the Reformation, he came unexpectedly upon the traces of a work in which Alesius had inserted some account of Patrick Hamilton. Following up these traces, he found that Rabus, a German author of the sixteenth century, had introduced a translation of that account into his History of the Martyrs; on perusing which, he discovered that Alesius had noticed several important particulars of Hamilton's character and life, and of his own connexion with him, which were perfectly new to history, as well as extremely interesting and valuable. The author then became anxious to see the original work, which was referred to as a Latin Commentary on the First Book of the Psalms; but no copy of it could be found in the library of the British Museum, the Bodleian, Sion College, or any of the other great libraries of this country to which he had access. It was not till he had travelled in quest of it as far as the old library of Wolfenbuttel in the Grand Duchy of Brunswick, that he got his first sight of a copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."