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. 1842 Excerpt: ...third life. "For the life of that great example of holiness, Mr. George Herbert, I profess it to be so far a freewill offering, that it was writ chiefly to please myself, but yet not without some respect to posterity; for though he was not a man that the next age can forget, yet many of his particular acts and virtues ...
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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. 1842 Excerpt: ...third life. "For the life of that great example of holiness, Mr. George Herbert, I profess it to be so far a freewill offering, that it was writ chiefly to please myself, but yet not without some respect to posterity; for though he was not a man that the next age can forget, yet many of his particular acts and virtues might have been neglected, or lost, if I had not collected and presented them to the imitation of those who shall succeed us; for I humbly conceive writing to be both a safer and truer preserver of men's virtuous actions than tradition, especially as it is managed in this age "And now I wish, that as that learned Jew, Jo sephus, and others, so these men had also writ their own lives; but since it is not the fashion of these times, I wish their relations or friends would do it for them, before delays make it too difficult. And I desire this the more, because it is an honour due to the dead, and a generous debt due to those that shall live and succeed us, and would to them prove both a content and satisfaction. For when the next age shall, as this does, admire the learning and clear reason which that excellent casuist Dr. Sanderson (the late bishop of Lincoln) hath demonstrated in his sermons and other writings, who, if they love virtue, would not rejoice to know that this good man was as remarkable for the meekness and innocence of his life, as for his great and useful learning j and indeed as remarkable for his fortitude in his long and patient suffering (under them that then called themselves the godly party), as for that doctrine which he had preached and printed in the happy days of the nation's and the Church's peace? And who would not be content to have the like account of Dr. Field, that great schoolman, and others of noted lea...
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Add this copy of Lives of English Laymen, Lord Falkland, Izaak Walton, to cart. $63.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.
