Eight Charges Delivered to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Oxford and Canterbury: To Which Are Added, Instructions to Candidates for Orders; And a Latin Speech Intended to Have Been Made at the Opening of the Convocation in 1761 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Eight Charges Delivered to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Oxford and Canterbury: To Which Are Added, Instructions to Candidates for Orders; And a Latin Speech Intended to Have Been Made at the Opening of the Convocation in 1761 Men have always complained of their own Times: and always with too much Reafon. But though it is natural to think thofe Evils the greateft, which we feel ourfelves; and therefore Mifiakes are -eafily made, in com paring one Age with another: yet in thisowe cannot be mif'caken, that an ...
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Excerpt from Eight Charges Delivered to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Oxford and Canterbury: To Which Are Added, Instructions to Candidates for Orders; And a Latin Speech Intended to Have Been Made at the Opening of the Convocation in 1761 Men have always complained of their own Times: and always with too much Reafon. But though it is natural to think thofe Evils the greateft, which we feel ourfelves; and therefore Mifiakes are -eafily made, in com paring one Age with another: yet in thisowe cannot be mif'caken, that an Open and pro fefl'ed Difregard to Religion is become, through a Variety of unhappy Caufes, the diftinguifliing Charac'ter of the prefent Age that this revil is grown to a great Height in the Metropolis of the Nation 5 is daily fpreading through every Part of it and, bad in itfelf as any can be, muil of Necefiity bring in molt others after it. Indeed it hath already brought in fuch diltolutenefs and Contempt of Principle in the higher Part of the World, and fuch profligate Intem perance, and Fearlefihefs of committing Crimes, in the lower, as mufi, if this Tor rent of Impiety flop not, become abfolutely fatal. And God knows, far from flopping, it receives, through'the ill Defigns of form: Perfons, and the Inconfideratenefs of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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