The Sunday Library, Vol. 6: Or the Protestant's Manual for the Sabbath-Day; Being a Selection of Sermons From Eminent Divines of the Church of ... Occasional Biographical Sketches and Notes - Softcover

Dibdin, T. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331421071 ISBN 13: 9781331421078

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Sunday Library, Vol. 6: Or the Protestant's Manual for the Sabbath-Day; Being a Selection of Sermons From Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly Within the Last Half Century; With Occasional Biographical Sketches and Notes

It is a melancholy consideration, that creatures endued with reason and humanity should ever come to employ force against one another, and make the dreadful addition of the miseries of war to the many, unavoidable sufferings Of life. But wicked as this is, when passion and resentment, desire of unjust gain, or fondness of infamous glory, prompts to it; yet when injuries of pernicious consequence are done to a nation, and persisted in, and no competent redress can be obtained, it becomes then both ne cessary for particular societies, and beneficial to human society in general, that invaded rights be vigorously asserted by the only way left. When the sword is drawn for justice alone, and ever ready to be sheathed as soon as that is granted, then Heaven may be appealed to, with hopes of a favourable sentence coming forth from his Presence, whose eyes behold the thing that is But if the assertors of a righteous cause he in other respects a sinful people, it is,evidently just for God, who bath the cognisance of both these things, to regard whichsoever of them infinite wisdom shall direct.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor

Excerpt from The Sunday Library, Vol. 6: Or the Protestant's Manual for the Sabbath-Day; Being a Selection of Sermons From Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly Within the Last Half Century; With Occasional Biographical Sketches and Notes

The name of Secker is imperishable in the annals of the Church of England. The eleve of Butler, Bishop of Durham, and the patron of Porteus, Bishop of London, could be a personage of no mean acquirements or ordinary judgment. Such a personage was Dr. Secker. His earlier taste led him to the study of medicine, and he took the degree of M.D. at Leyden; but Bishop Butter, then preacher at the Rolls, called him home to the cultivation of theological studies; and in his twenty-ninth year he was ordained. His patron, by his elevation to the See of Durham, rewarded him, in his thirty-fourth year, with a stall in his Cathedral; and his talents continuing to justify the strong opinions which both the public and his patron had entertained of his ability, as well as moral worth and soundness of doctrine, in 1732 he was appointed Chaplain to the King, and made Rector of St James's. In 1735 he was made Bishop of Bristol; in 1737 he was translated to Oxford; to which, in 1750, the Deanery of St. Paul's was annexed; in 1758 he was raised to the See of Canterbury. He died in 1768, and was buried at Lambeth. He gave his books to the Lambeth library.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331421071
• ISBN 13: 9781331421078
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar