Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Chambers, William

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ISBN 10: 1334357854 ISBN 13: 9781334357855

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Vol. 15

Penn became a student of Lincoln's Inn, where he continued till~ 1666, when his father sent him over to Ireland to manage his pretty extensive estates in the county of Cork. In this com mission he conducted himself entirely to his father's satisfac tion, residing sometimes on the estates themselves, sometimes in Dublin, where he had the advantage of mixing in the society attending the court of the Duke of Ormond, lordalieutenant of Ireland, and his father's friend. While attending to his business in Ireland, however, a circumstance befell him, which might have induced his father to have acted differently, could he have fore seen it. Being accidentally one day in Cork, he - heard that Thomas Loe, the person whose preaching had so deeply affected him at Oxford, was to address a meeting of Quakers in that city. Penn could not think of losin the Opportunity of again seeing and hearing his old friend, an accordingly he entered the place where Loe was to preach. He took his seat, and had waited for a few minutes, when the preacher rose, and commenced his sermon with the following striking words There is a faith which overcometh the world; and there is a faith which is overcome b the world. The words, and the sermon which they introducedz seemed adapted to his own case. Had not his faith been one which had been overcome by the world? And was it not, there fore, a weak, poor, and useless thing? Such was the force of this reflection, strengthened as it was by intercourse with Lee, that he resolved from that day to devote himself to the service of religion, and to adhere to the sect whose principles he respected most. In short, from that time Penn became a pro fessed Quaker.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1334357854
• ISBN 13: 9781334357855
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