Remains Literary And Theological of Connop Thirlwall Late Lord Bishop of St Da
Remains Literary And Theological of Connop Thirlwall Late Lord Bishop of St Da
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It was perhaps unavoidable that in this respect they should simply reflect the character and be carried along with the tendencies of their time. They were not, however, merely passive. They contri- buted by the weight of their authority to aggravate the evil of the prevailing ignorance and superstition. Among the documents belonging to this period which bear the name of canons, many are but a renewal of older well-known but neglected ordinances ; others simply pastoral exhortations or admonitio...ns, from which their authors can hardly have expected any very important results. They must at least have been conscious that the effect would entirelv depend on the zeal and diligence which they might them- selves exert, each in his separate sphere of action. With the largest measure of success, the operation of their enactments would have been for the most part only restrictive and coercive ; but they manifestly failed to accomplish even this object. One of the most signal proofs of their inability to enforce their decrees, appears in the indulgence which they were constrained to yield to wealthy transgressors, by the commutation of bodily austerities for pecuniary payments, and the admission of a vicarious penance, which, while it removed the terrors of ecclesiastical discipline from the worst offenders, and gave a virtual licence to the grossest sins, struck at the root of all personal religion, and reduced the practical test of repentance to a purely mechanical process, which might be as effectually performed by another as by the penitent himself.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It was perhaps unavoidable that in this respect they should simply reflect the character and be carried along with the tendencies of their time. They were not, however, merely passive. They contri- buted by the weight of their authority to aggravate the evil of the prevailing ignorance and superstition. Among the documents belonging to this period which bear the name of canons, many are but a renewal of older well-known but neglected ordinances ; others simply pastoral exhortations or admonitio...ns, from which their authors can hardly have expected any very important results. They must at least have been conscious that the effect would entirelv depend on the zeal and diligence which they might them- selves exert, each in his separate sphere of action. With the largest measure of success, the operation of their enactments would have been for the most part only restrictive and coercive ; but they manifestly failed to accomplish even this object. One of the most signal proofs of their inability to enforce their decrees, appears in the indulgence which they were constrained to yield to wealthy transgressors, by the commutation of bodily austerities for pecuniary payments, and the admission of a vicarious penance, which, while it removed the terrors of ecclesiastical discipline from the worst offenders, and gave a virtual licence to the grossest sins, struck at the root of all personal religion, and reduced the practical test of repentance to a purely mechanical process, which might be as effectually performed by another as by the penitent himself.
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