THE WHOLE WORKS OF THE MOST REV. JAMES USSHER, D.D., LORD ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH, AND PRIMATE OF ALL IRELAND. NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND AN ACCOUNT OF HIS WRITINGS, BY CHARLES RICHARD ELRINGTON, D.D., LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Dublin, IN SEVENTEEN VOLUMES. VOL. XVII. DUBLIN: HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY, 609.5 485.1 1847 V.17 ADVERTISEMENT. THE unexpected death of Dr. Elrington, on the 18th of January, 1850, deprived the University of one of its brightest ornaments, and the Irish Church of its most learned theologian. His edition of Ussher's Works, upon which he had been labouring for upwards of twenty years, was unfortunately left by him unfinished, and the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College committed to me the task of completing it. Dr. Elrington had completed the first thirteen volumes, with 400 pages of the fourteenth volume, the progress of which was then interrupted"; but he proceeded with the fifteenth and sixteenth volumes, and finished them before his death. My first duty was, therefore, to endea vour to ascertain the nature of the difficulty which had caused the interruption of the fourteenth volume, and to complete that volume as well as I a The fifteenth volume was issued with the following notice:-"The publication of the fourteenth volume is unavoidably postponed." |