This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...diocese frequent letters, breathing the spirit of St. Francis of Sales, and full of all that is sweetest and most delicious in Christian mysticism. In one point alone has Bossuet failed. Captivated by the absolute royalty of which Louis XIV. was the radiant image, he bowed that logical mind, whose rectitude was in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...diocese frequent letters, breathing the spirit of St. Francis of Sales, and full of all that is sweetest and most delicious in Christian mysticism. In one point alone has Bossuet failed. Captivated by the absolute royalty of which Louis XIV. was the radiant image, he bowed that logical mind, whose rectitude was in every other respect truly wonderful, before the splendors of the Great King. "Bossuet," says Mgr. de Villecourt, "possessed a rich and brilliant imagination, noble and sublime conceptions; he dazzled his hearers; he dazzled his readers; I could wish to believe that he never dazzled himself by those splendid flashes of genius which brought so many admirers from all directions. Had he, in the question of the regale, been less taken up with his own talents, kept within the rules of an unbending logic, as he did in most of his controversial w never would he have given the place of truth to opinions which he well knew to be admitted neither by the Roman Pontiff nor by the great majority of the bishops in communion with the Holy See; never would he have consented to make to himself friends among sectaries and men of doubtful faith. Had he never concerned himself about the Declaration of the Clergy of France (a. D. 1682) and its Defence, he would perhaps have seen the confirmation, by the Holy See, of the title of "Last of the Fathers of the Church," bestowed by the admiration of his contemporaries. 16. The part taken by Bossuet, in ihe difficulties between the Holy See and the court of France, was unworthy of his magnificent intellect. The clergy (a. D. 1682), led away by the advice of the Bishop of Meaux, resolved to carry out its opposition to Innocent XI. In the name of all his colleagues in the episcopate, Bossuet addressed ...
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