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. 1911 Excerpt: ...be resident, more than they are compelled to read out of a printed book." And the Bishops, he complains, look for nothing more than this. "Though they be so much men as do want the gift, yet they do boldly seek to have the place of teacher." While the pastors whom the Lord desires--he goes on--"are such as feed his ...
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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. 1911 Excerpt: ...be resident, more than they are compelled to read out of a printed book." And the Bishops, he complains, look for nothing more than this. "Though they be so much men as do want the gift, yet they do boldly seek to have the place of teacher." While the pastors whom the Lord desires--he goes on--"are such as feed his people with knowledge and understanding." Such pastors, also, did the apostles, St. Paul among them, send out; "that by sound doctrine, they might convince the gainsayers, apt to teach, rightly dividing the word of truth." 3 Very definitely 1 Strype, Life ofParker (ed. 1821), iii. 96. 2 Humphrey and Sampson to Bullinger. Zurich Letters, edited for the Parker Society by Rev. Hastings Robinson, D.D., i. 158. 3 Strype, Annals of the Reformation (ed. 1S24), III. i. 322, 323. is the superior importance of life over organisation asserted in a letter of Humphrey's upon the same theme. "Religion requireth naked Christ to be preached, professed, and glorified, that graviora legis by the faithful ministry of feeding pastors should be furthered; and after that go by order tending to the edification, and not destruction advanced."1 Of mere factiousness not a single trace is in all this to be discerned: indeed, its existence as the driving motive of opposition is negatived by the letter, and yet more by the spirit, of it all. It was on life, as exalted above organisation, on religion in its innermost values, on spiritual ideals, on holiness in the sense of" goodness in itself,"2 on perfectness, that the thought and yearning of Humphrey, Sampson and their coadjutors, were steadfastly fixed. Upon a just survey of the facts no other verdict can be pronounced. The condemnation of Humphrey and Sampson was by n...
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