The Golden Centenary Author:John Evans General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Subjects: Religion / Ethics Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edit... more »ion of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART I. TESTIMONIES JV BEHALF OF CANDOUR AND VNANIMITY, BY DIVINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. RICHARD HOOKER, RECTOR OF BISH01''S BOURNE, NEAR CANTERBURY, DIED 1600. Far more comfort it were for us (so small is the joy we take in strifes) to labour under the same yoke, as men that look for the same eternal reward of their labours; to be enjoined with you in bands of indissoluble love and amity ; to live as if, our persons being many, our souls were but one, rather than in such dismembered sort to spend our few and wretched days in a tedious prosecuting of wearisome contentions, the end whereof, if they have not some speedy end, will be heavy on both sides. Brought already we are even to that estate which Gregory Nazianzen mournfully describeth, saying -- " My mind leadeth me (since there is no other remedy) to fly, and to convey myself into some corner, out of sight, where I may escape from this cloudy tempest of maliciousness, whereby all parts are entered into a deadly war amongst themselves, and that little remnant of love which was, is now consumed to nothing ! The only godliness we glory in, is tofind out somewhat whereby we may judge others to be ungodly. Each other's faults we observe as matters of exprobation, and not of grief. By these means we are grown hateful in the eyes of the Heathens themselves, and (which woundeth us the more deeply) able we are not to deny but that we have deservedtheir hatred. With the better sort of our own, our fame and credit is clean lost. The le...« less