Nald Pecock's Book of Faith A Fifteenth Century Theological Tractate Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Nald Pecock's Book of Faith: A Fifteenth Century Theological Tractate

There can be little doubt that it was Pecock's last completed work. In his prologue, the author mentions the Represser as of Six years' standing, and in exact accordance with this time, as Water land was the first to notice, 'speaking Of the same war between England and France, he sets it at forty years in this book, as he had in the Represser at thirty-four.'1 It is true, as Babington has noted,2 that there are two refer onces to the Book of Faith in the Represser; a fact which, under ordinary circumstances, would seem to make it at least as early as the other work. But a knowledge Of Pecock's literary methods makes this inference unnecessary. Babington explains the cross reference by pointing to the author's habit of working at several volumes coincidently: 'pocock seems to have had several works half finished at the same time, which after wards came out at difi'erent times; and thus one.

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