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Life and Writings of Blessed Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr Under Henry VIII.

Life and Writings of Blessed Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England and Martyr Under Henry VIII.

Bridgett, Thomas Edward

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ISBN10: 1150566922
ISBN13: 9781150566929
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Via DOMESTIC HE strange fascination exerted by More, which has made X even the foes of his religion speak of him both reverently and affectionately, is probably due to the beautiful details of his domestic life that have been handed down to us DEGREESrather than to his wit or literary excellence. Had he been all that he was in life and death, with one only exception--an ecclesiastic, instead of a father of a family--he would have been still great, amiable, and holy, but Macaulay would. probably not have selected him as a choice specimen of human wisdom and virtue, in stating his paradoxes about transubstantiation. Thus the very circumstances, by which in his own eyes More was placed on a lower level than his unmarried and consecrated fellow-martyrs, have raised him to a higher estimation in the minds of modern Englishmen; the worldly wretch, as he called himself, who had twice gone to earthly nuptials, is preferred to the blessed fathers of the Charterhouse, whom More admired going like bridegrooms to their (heavenly) marriage . Yet, while holding with the Church of all ages, that it is a more blessed state to remain unmarried for the kingdom of heaven's sake, we may nevertheless, and for that very reason, admire all the more a married man and a father, to whom family ties were no impediment, whose heart remained undivided and altogether God's, and who equalled on the scaffold both the constancy and the joy of his venerable fellow-sufferers; and we may thank God for giving to us in both states of life, examples, variously attractive yet equally admirable, of the oower 01 His grace. Section I. The Family. We owe to Erasmus more than one beautiful picture of More's domestic life, and I will translate his words without abridgment or interruption, reserving...

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