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. 1844 Excerpt: ...the erroneous system of tlie fourth century. left me so abruptly, lest I should appear to be doing him an injury. But I detained him a little while in spite of his haste, and gave him a proof of my friendship, that you may learn from him, all you desire to know.' It is clear enough, that Jerome had no ground for ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ...the erroneous system of tlie fourth century. left me so abruptly, lest I should appear to be doing him an injury. But I detained him a little while in spite of his haste, and gave him a proof of my friendship, that you may learn from him, all you desire to know.' It is clear enough, that Jerome had no ground for complaining of anything unsound or disreputable in Vigilantius, when he spoke of him in such terms as these, and we must search for the cause of the mutual distaste that they began to entertain for each other in other considerations. This inquiry is necessary to the development of the history of Vigilantius, which cannot be traced but by a process of this kind. That part of the ecclesiastical system of the fourth century, which was peculiarly ascetic and rigid, found an impersonation in Jerome, who exhibited its worst and most repulsive traits in the whole tenor of his life and conversation. Sourness, bitterness, envy, intolerance, and dissatisfaction with every manifestation of sanctity which did not come up to his own standard, had become habitual to him, and were betrayed in almost everything that he wrote, said, or did. Censoriousness, and the spirit of invective, were amongst his most strongly-marked failings, and the very best men of the age did not escape his censure. The Recluses were not devoted enough to their retirement to please him; the charitable and self-denying had yet something more to give up; the pious were not long enough at their devotions; the reputed orthodoxy of the Ibid. p. 568. sincerest Christians of his day fell short of his estimate; the Celibates, whether monks or virgins, came under his lash, --for associating with the married, and with persons who were still living in the world. In short, none pleased Jerome but those, ...
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