This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... 153 chapter iv the nonjuring clergy Although the Nonjuring bishops were all of them more or less capable, and some really distinguished, men, there were among 'the inferior clergy' others who were quite their equals in piety, learning, and general reputation, as the present chapter will show. Let us ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... 153 chapter iv the nonjuring clergy Although the Nonjuring bishops were all of them more or less capable, and some really distinguished, men, there were among 'the inferior clergy' others who were quite their equals in piety, learning, and general reputation, as the present chapter will show. Let us begin with one who was called to his rest within five years of his deprivation, but the sanctity of whose life and the value of whose writings caused his name constantly to be appealed to, so that 'he being dead yet speaketh.' John Kettlewell (1653-95) is one of those few men who are recognised by all parties as veritable saints. His naturally sweet and amiable disposition was purified and elevated by Divine grace. Truthful and open as the daylight, a man whom you could trust with absolute confidence, having very strong convictions of his own, yet gentle and forbearing to those who disagreed with him, utterly unselfish, yet quite ready to assert himself when truth required it; modest and retiring, yet always to the front when any good was to be done, he attracted all who came into contact with him by his sheer goodness. His life may be very simply and briefly told. He was associated from his earliest years, and all through his life, with George Hickes, being born in the same neighbourhood and educated at the same school under the same master. Thence he proceeded to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, but having taken his degree he again followed his friend, being elected to a Yorkshire fellowship at Lincoln College. Hickes, who was then a distinguished fellow of Lincoln, may have used his influence to procure the election; but Kettlewell had no need of any favour; he might well have stood on his own merits, intellectual as well as moral and social. For...
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