Excerpt from The Theological Works of the Most Reverend John Sharp, D.D., Late Archbishop of York, Vol. 5 of 5 IN the preface to the two volumes of Archbishop Sharp's Works, which were lately printed, mention is made of a small reserve of discourses in the popish controversy, which might possibly some time or other he published, with other of his papers relating to that controversy. When that preface was wrote, the editor had not determined with himself whether this collection should ever come abroad or no. Much less had he any apprehensions that he should, in so short a time, commit it to the press; for he looked upon that dispute as out of vogue, and little attended to; and also considered that the writings of the protestant divines in the reigns of king Charles and king James II. Were very numerous as well as excel lent; and therefore that these discourses (though properly enough a part of the popish controversy) would seem superfluous and unseasonable. And under these reasons he was disposed to acquiesce, had not the late attempts of the Roman catholics in and about London given occasion to revive the neg lected dispute, and to put men upon_a review of the subjects in debate between the church of Eng land and the church of Rome. This he thought a seasonable juncture for bringing to light the follow ing treatises, which have been suppressed above fifty years, and perhaps might always have continued so. 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.