Biography

” [1] The articles on Church architecture have been carefully revised by the Rev. G. A. Poole, M. A., vicar of Welford. The Law articles have been revised, partly by the Rev. James Brogden, A. M., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and partly by William Johnston, of Gray’s Inn, Esq., barrister-at-law. To Mr. Johnston, known to the literary world as the author of “England as it is,” the thanks of the present writer are also due for the kindne with which he has a isted him in correcting the pre , and for many valuable suggestions. The original di ertations remain unaltered; but the circumstances of the Church of England have changed considerably from what they were when the Church Dictionary was first published. At that time the Protestant ism of the Church of England was universally recognised, and the fear was lest her pretensions to Catholicity should be ignored. But now an affectation of repudiating our Protestant ism is prevalent, while by ignorant or designing men Protestant ism is misrepresented as the antithesis, not, as is the case, to Romanism, but to Catholicism; at the same time, Catholicism is confounded with Romanism, primitive truth with med iæval error, and the theology of the Schools with that of the Fathers: while, therefore, the articles bearing on the catholicity, orthodoxy, and primitive character of the Church of England are retained, the articles relating to the heresies and peculiarities of the Church of Rome have been expanded; and strong as they were in former editions in condemnation of the papal system, they have been rendered more useful, under the present exigencies of the Church, by a reference to the decisions of the so-called Council of Trent, so as to enable the reader to see what the peculiar tenets of that corrupt portion of the Christian world really are. Vicarage, Leeds, 21 Sept. 1852. last lingering recognition of the effect of the capital in representing that horizontal line, which was so decided in the cla ic architrave, and to which the spirit of Gothic architecture is in the main so greatly opposed.