Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, And Successors; a Biography
Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, And Successors; a Biography
Robert Aris Willmott
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the celebrated exclamation — " This man, indeed, deserves the name of an author. His books will get reverence by age, for there are in them such seeds of eternity, that, if the rest be like this, they shall endure till the last fire shall consume all learning."^ Tt has been shown that the theatrical amuse- ments, which the Elizabethan court encouraged, 1 Eccles. Polity, B. 1. ^ Quoted by Isaac Walton. Hosted by Google CONTEMPORARIES, AND SUCCESSORS. 69 and the multitude loved, were not unfelt e...ven by theologians of the times. Hooker would be another witness. It marked the watchful zeal of the clergy thus to quicken the immediate impression of their teaching, by adapting it, in some measure, to the prevailing taste and manners of their learners. They might have pleaded the example of St. Paul, who seems to have continually tm-ned his eye to the Greek theatre for illustrations and images; and whose noble admonition to the Corinthians, respect- ing the vanity of human life and worldly distinc- tions, can only be interpreted by the analogy of the drama.
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