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. 1852 Excerpt: ...of my flock, to visit my diocese, to govern my church, to answer the enemies of Christ, suddenly there hath come a message to me from the court, that I must attend such a triumph, or receive such an ambassador. What have we to do with princes' courts? If we are in love with majesty, where is a greater excellence than ...
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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. 1852 Excerpt: ...of my flock, to visit my diocese, to govern my church, to answer the enemies of Christ, suddenly there hath come a message to me from the court, that I must attend such a triumph, or receive such an ambassador. What have we to do with princes' courts? If we are in love with majesty, where is a greater excellence than whom we serve? If we are in love with stately buildings, are there higher roofs than our cathedrals? If with apparel, is there a greater ornament than that of the clergy? Or is there better company than a communion with the saints? Truly, most Reverend Fathers, what this vanity in temporal things may work iu you I know not; but sure I am, that in i. e. Persecute the Lollards and Lutherans. myself I find it a great impediment to devotion. Wherefore I think it necessary (and high time it is) that we that are the heads should begin to give example to the inferior clergy as to these particulars, whereby we may all be the better conformable to the image of God. For in this trade of life which we now lead, neither can there be likelihood of perpetuity in the same state and condition wherein we now stand, or safety to the clergy." It may be remarked, that the ostentation of Wolsey, and the superiority which he claimed and asserted, even over the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his own province, was deeply offensive to the great body of his clerical brethren, who, though apparently included in Fisher's censure, would take care to apply it, in their minds, to the Cardinal alone. The events between 1516, and 1529, are so vast, and so infinitely ramified, the great outlines are so universally known, and the detail so complex, and in many parts so obscure, that while such a sketch of them as could be reduced within our limits, could be nothing more than ...
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