"If it may now answer the expectation of many pious, and prudent persons, who have desired the publishing of it, as a seasonable preparative to some moderation in the midst of those extremes, which this age abounds with, it will attain the end intended by the author; and it is likely to be more operative, by the great reputation he had, and hath in the hearts of all good men, being far from the least suspicion to be biased by any private ends, but only aiming at the reducing of order, peace, and unity, which God is the author of, and not of confusion."
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Nicholas Bernard of Gray’s Inn, in a foreword to Ussher's Reduction of the Episcopacy (1674).
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James Ussher
James Ussher (December 15, 1581 – March 3, 1656) was the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Provost of Trinity College Dublin. He was a prolific scholar, a revered church leader, and a dedicated mediator – he maintained an esteemed reputation among all sides of the religious and political upheavals which wracked the British Isles throughout the early- and mid-17th century. He is most famous for his research in patristics (having identified the genuine letters of St.
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