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BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)

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BULL, See also:GEORGE (1634–1710) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Wells on the 25th of See also:March 1634, and educated at See also:Tiverton school, See also:Devonshire. He entered See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1647, but had to leave in 1649 in consequence of his refusal to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to the See also:Commonwealth. He was ordained privately by See also:Bishop See also:Skinner in 1655. His first See also:benefice held was that of St George's near See also:Bristol, from which he See also:rose successively to be See also:rector of Suddington in See also:Gloucestershire (1658), See also:prebendary of See also:Gloucester (1678), See also:archdeacon of See also:Llandaff (1686), and in 1705. bishop of St See also:David's. He died on the 17th of See also:February 1710. During the See also:time of the Commonwealth he adhered to the forms of the See also:Church of See also:England, and under See also:James II. preached strenuously against See also:Roman Catholicism. His See also:works display See also:great erudition and powerful thinking. The See also:Harmonia A postolica (167o) is an See also:attempt to show the fundamental agreement between the doctrines of See also:Paul and James with regard to See also:justification. The Defensio Fidei Nicenae (r685), his-greatest See also:work, tries to show that the See also:doctrine of the Trinity was held by the ante-Nicene fathers of the church, and retains its value as a thorough-going examination of all the pertinent passages in See also:early church literature. The Judicium Ecclesiae Catholicae (1694) and Primitiva et Apostolica Traditio (1710) won high praise from See also:Bossuet and other See also:French divines. Following on Bossuet's criticisms of the Judicium, Bull wrote .a See also:treatise on The Corruptions of the Church of See also:Rome, which became very popular. The best edition of Bull's works is that in 7 vols., published at Oxford by the See also:Clarendon See also:Press, under the superintendence of E.

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Burton, in 1827. This edition contains the See also:Life by See also:Robert See also:Nelson. The Harmonia, Defensio and Judicium are translated in the Library of Anglo-See also:Catholic See also:Theology (Oxford, 1842-1855).

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