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Ecclesiastical Biography; Or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution Selected and Illustr. with Notes by C. Wordsworth. or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected wi

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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. 1853. Excerpt: ... EARL OF ROCHESTER. It must be confessed, that the credit of religion hath much suffered, in the age we live in, through the vain pretences of many to it, who have only acted a part in it for the sake of some private interests of their own. And it is the usual logic of Atheists, Crimine ab uno, disce omnes, if there be any hypocrites, all who make shew of religion are such; on which account, the Hypocrisy of one age makes way for the Atheism of the next. BistlOl' Stillingfleet. ADVERTISEMENT. The following Narrative is reprinted intire from Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Hon. John Earl of Rochester, who died the 26A of July, 1680: written by his own direction on his death-bed, by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. London, 1680; a volume, which Doctor Johnson has declared in his Lives of the Poets, that "the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." PREFACE. The celebrating the praises of the dead, is an argument so worn out by long and frequent use, and now becomes so nauseous, by the flattery that usually attends it, that it is no wonder if funeral orations, or panegyrics, are more considered for the elegancy of style, and fineness of wit, than for the authority they carry with them as to the truth of matters of fact. And yet I am not hereby deterred from meddling with this kind of argument, nor from handling it with all the plainness I can; delivering only what I myself heard and saw, without any borrowed ornament. I do easily foresee how many will be engaged, for the support of their impious maxims, and immoral practices, to disparage what I am to write. Others will censure it, because it comes from one of my profession, too many supposing us to be induced to frame such discourses, for ca...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154267730
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 308
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154267733
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 553 gr

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