BRUTUM FULMEN: or The bull of Pope Pius V. concerning the damnation, excommunication, and deposition of Q. Elizabeth, as also the absolution of her subjects from their oath of allegiance, with a peremptory injunction, upon pain of an anathema, never to obey any of her laws or commands. With some observations and animadversions upon it. By Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Whereunto is annex'd the bull of Pope Paul the Third, containing the damnation, excommunication, &c. of King Henry the Eighth.

Barlow Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas.

Published by London printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1681

1st Edition. 4to. [24], 294, [10] p. Paper detached from pastedowns, contents leaves to rear with some creasing to fore-edge, light browning, very light marginal dampstaining to some leaves, contemporary calf with double blind rule to boards and floral device to corners in blind, some loss to edges of upper board, spine crudely repaired to head and tail with rope exposed in part. Signed Ann Wentworth & Lovelace to head of title page. Anne Lovelace, 7th Baroness Wentworth (née Wentworth) (1623 1697) English peeress.Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), B826; ESTC R228077; Thomas Barlow (1608/9 1691), Bishop of Lincoln . He was an enthusiastic proponent of the Test Act (1678) and was outraged by Bishop Gunning's denial in the House of Lords that the Church of Rome was idolatrous. In Popery or, The Principles and Position of the Church of Rome Very Dangerous to All (1678) and Brutum fulmen (1680), Barlow produced vitriolic attacks on the papacy and its pretensions, especially its claims to be able to depose princes, and thorough demonstrations that 'the pope is the great Antichrist, the man of sin, and the son of perdition' . ODNB.For fifty years Barlow remained at Oxford holding various appointments and establishing himself as an authority on points of controversial divinity and cases of casuistry, in particular he was regarded as a great master of the whole controversy between the protestants and the papists. He possessed a talent for personal realignment according to the changes in authority in the C16th. Through the use of influential contacts Barlow had himself appointed to the Bishopric of Lincoln in 1675. Whilst the country was still reacting to the Popish Plot Barlow pubished the above work, the work was to inflame the nations prevailing extremism by his assertion that, on the basis of learned proffs the pope is the great Antichrist, the man of sin and the son of perdition. US$399. Seller Inventory # 289738

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Title: BRUTUM FULMEN: or The bull of Pope Pius V. ...
Publisher: London printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard
Publication Date: 1681
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition