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A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in Explanation of Some Statements Contained in a Letter by the Rev. W.
A Letter to the Right Hon and Right Rev the Lord Bishop of London in Explanation of Some Statements Contained in a Letter by the Rev W Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey Title: A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in Explanation of Some Statements Contained in a Letter by the Rev. W. Dodsworth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: J. H. Parker Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Ministry / Past... more »oral Resources 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 edition 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 Excerpt: An unpublished treatise of Fenelon, on Christian Perfection, and other pieces, were translated at the end of the life of Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1711). In 1720, John Ball, " late lecturer of St. Bartholomew's the Less," published the " Art of dying well, written originally in Latin by Card. Bellarmine." In his preface he says; " I shall not distrust the reader's judgment so far, as to imagine that he will dislike the Book on the account of the Authour, and not rather consider what he has wrote upon the subject, than who it was that wrote it, and then I persuade myself that I shall have no occasion to make any apology for the publication of it. For a wise and a good man will be willing to receive instruction from whatsoever hand it comes. . . . " Any pretence that there have been other excellent discourses publish'd on the same subject, I believe, can be no reasonable objection against this; because the contemplation of death may be very well manag'd by different authors, as the same prospect may be finely drawn by different hands. " Wherever my Author goes off into the Romish innovations, I have attempted to give him another turn. I must further own that I have taken some liberty, where it was proper, to enlarge his thoughts." His book is, perhaps, like Dean Stanhope's, rath...« less