Works
Among his numerous books the chief original works were:
- "Ancient Church Government", 5 parts (1662–85);
- "Guide in Controversies" (1667), and a long appendix thereto (1675);
- four theological works against Edward Stillingfleet;
- "Life of Christ" (1685);
- "Motives to Holy Living" (1688);
- "Discourse on the Eucharist" (1688);
- "On Images and Idolatry" (1689);
- an incomplete treatise on Antichrist (1689).
He also translated the "Life of St. Teresa" and St. Augustine's "Confessions", and paraphrased the Epistles of St. Paul (with Walker and Allestree) and the Apocalypse. A large collection of his unpublished manuscripts, with autograph letters and writings relating to him, which was formed in the eighteenth century by Cuthbert Constable, came into the possession of Sir Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield.
Read more about this topic: Abraham Woodhead
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)