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judged according;; to his works. In opposition to the doctrine of the invisible Church of the evangelical Church, they lay great stress on the doctrine of a visi- ble Cliiircli. They take ■what is good anywhere, as well in the Koinish as in the evangelical churches. They aim at nothing less than the accomi)lishment of a relig- ious and moral reformation, and seek to occupy in our day the place held at the beginning of this centur}' by the evangelical party. This end tlicy strive to attain partly by tlieir science and partly by their practice, and thus tlistinguish among themselves between the theorists and anti-theorists. They derive great power from the liigh scientific attainments of many of their members, and try to advance the education of the masses. The founders of this school were S. T. C(jleridge and Thom- as Arnold, and its most eminent followers Hare, AVhate- ly, Jlaurice, Kingsley, Stanley, Alford, Conybeare, and Howson. About one seventh of the English clergy'and a number of bishops belong to it. See Conybeare, Church Pariifs; Schaff, Zust, u. Partheien d. enr/l. Sfaais-Kirche in Deutsch. Zeitschrift. 1856, No. 17; Edward Churton, The Latitndinarians from 1G71-1787 (Lond. 18Gl,8vo) ; Amer. Presh. Rev. 1861, April, art. vi ; Westminster Rev. 1854, January; Bib. Sacra, 1863, p. 865 ; Farrar,C?iV. Hist, of Free Thought; Ga.ss, Doffmenf/eschich.iii (see Index); Stougliton, Eccles. Hist, of Englaiul (since the Eestora- tion), ii, •26"2 sq., 3-11 sq.,859 sq. ; Ilerzog, Real-Encijklop. viii, 215 ; Blunt, Diet. Doctr. and Hist. Theol. p. 395 sq., and his Key to the Knowledge ofCh. Hist. (Mod.) p. 97 sq. On the present Broad Church of England, see Miss Cobbe, Jhoken Lights (London ed. p. 63), and Hurst's History of Rationalism, Eug. edition (greatly enlarged), p. 423^38.
Latomius, Jacohus {.Taques Masson), a celebrated lioman Catholic theologian, was born at Cambron, in Hainault, about the middle of the 15th century, and was educated at the University of Paris. In 1500 he became a resident of Louvain, where he was made a jirofessor of theology. He died in 1544. A zealous disciple of scholasticism, he ardently opposed the Ref- ormation both by his pen and his tongue, and was en- gaged in an able controversy with Luther, who ad- dressed to him Rationis Latomiame confutatio wliile a resident of the Wartburg (comp. KiJstlin, Luther s The- ologie, ii, 55, 366). The Koman Catholics, of course, greatly loved Latomius, and he is spoken of as •' vlr multiB eruditionis, pietatis, modestia?, trium linguarum peritissimus, haereticte pravitatis inquisitor." A collec- tion of his works was made by his nephew. Jacobus La- tomius, his successor at Louvain (died in 1596), and was l)ublished at Louvain in 1550, in folio, containing, 1. A r/irulorum doctiinm LMtheri jwr theologos Lovunienses damnutornni ratio (1519 and 1521) :— 2. Responsio ad libellum a. Liithero emissum pro iisdem articulis (1521) : — 3. 1)e primatu Pontifcis ad versus Martinum Lutherum (1526; also reprinted in Roccaberti Biblioth. max. pon- iificin, Rom. 1689, torn, xiii): — 4. I)e variis qiimstiomim gcmribiis guibus certat ecchsia intus et foris : — b. De eccli'sia et humanm legis obligatione: — 6. De confessione secrela (1525): — 1. Ad helleborum J. CEcolampadii re- sponsio : — 8. LJbellus de fide et operibus, de votis atque institntis monastids .-—9. De trium linguarum et studii theologiri ratione dialogi ii (Ibl^, ito} :— 10. Apologia pro dialogis : — 11. Adversiis lihn/m Krasmide sarcienda (celisi/r Concordia: — 12. Cntfiitatiomun adversus Guil. Tinilidnm libri Hi:— 13. De Matrimonio .-—14. De qiii- busdam articulis in ecclesia controversis :—lo. Disputa- tio quodlibetica tribus qucestionibus absoluta : (1.) Li li- bellum de ecclesia, Phil. Afelancthoni inscriptum ; (2.) Contra orationem factiosorum in Comitiis Ratisbonen.'.i- bus habltam (1544, 8vo).— Ilerzog, Real-Encyldop. xix, 777.
Latria (\«r()f(«\ the name gjvcn in the Roman Catholic Church to the adoration due to (iod alone on account of his su]irema(y, as distinguished from hyper- didia ((|. v.), worslii]) j.aid to the Virgin, and duliu (q. I v.), the worship paid to saints. j
Latroncinium. See Ephesus, Robber Council
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Latta, James, D.D., a Presbyterian mmister, was born in Ireland in 1732; emigrated to America at an early age, and graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1757. He became college tutor at his alma mater, and pursued the study of divinity. He was licensed in 1758, and ordained as an evangelist in 1759. Two years after he accepted a call from the congregation of Deep Run, in Bucks Co., I'a., which he resigned in 1770 for the charge of Chestnut Level, in Lancaster County, Pa. Here he established a school of long-continued celebrity. During the war he accompanied the American army on their campaign as a soldier, and served as chaplain for a time. He vindicated the introduction of the Psalms and Hymns of Dr. A\'atts, and labored faithfully in his ministry till near the close of life. He died Jan. 29, 1801. Latta published a pamphlet showing that the principal subjects of psalmody shoidd be taken from the Gospel, 8vo. — Sprague, Annals, iii, 199; AVilson, Presb. Historical A Imanac, 1865.
Latta, Samuel A., a minister of the M.E. Church South, born April 8, 1804, in Muskingum Co., Ohio, early evinced an aptitude for the Christian ministry, and, hav-- ing practiced medicine from 1824 to 1829, entered thie •ministry by joining the Ohio Conference, and was ap- pointed to the difhcult mission at St. Clair, JMichigan. In 1830 he was stationed at Cinciimati, and in 1831 was travelling agent for the American Colonization Society. In 1832 and 1833 he occupied the Union Circuit; in 1834, Lebanon station ; in 1835 and 1836, Hamilton and Rossville stations. In 1837 he was agent for Augusta College, Ohio, in behalf of which institution he was very successful. In 1838 and 1839 he preaclied at Day- ton, Ohio. From 1840 till his death, June 28, 1852, he maintained a superannuated relation. Dr. Latta was both an excellent preacher and a good physician, but he earned his highest distinction as a writer. For some years he was editor of the Methodist Recoi-der. He had a mind of uncommon strength, quite versatile, and he had improved it by extensive research and studj-. '-He woidd sometimes reason with great i)ower, and his de- scriptions of men and things were often exceedingly striking and beautiful." The work which gained him his greatest fame was The Chain of Sacred Wonders, published in 1851 and 1852, 2 vols. 8vo. — Sprague, ^1 ?J- nuls of the American I'uJpit,vn,lbh.