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Excerpt from The Literature of the Church of England, Vol. 2 of 2: Indicated in Selections From the Writings of Eminent Divines; With Memoirs of Their Lives, and Historical Sketches of the Times in Which They Lived
Again, others Of the clergy, without holding any prefer ment, were connived at, in the capacity of preachers or lecturers some conspicuous instances Of this connivance took place towards the close Of Cromwell's career, when the usurper had adopted a more tolerant policy. Thus we have seen Ussher Officiating in the pulpit at Lincoln's Inn, and elsewhere; thus also the venerable Brownrigg, deprived bishop Of Exeter, was preacher at the Temple. At this period likewise, a congregation Of' loyalists met in Oxford; another was regularly kept up in Fleet Street, by Dr. George Wilde, afterwards bishop Of' Londonderry; while Pearson, raised, at the Restoration, to the see of Chester, delivered the substance of his Emposition of the Creed at St. Clement's Church in East Cheap. The bishops, meantime, continued to provide for the succession of the regular ministry, by secret ordination of such young scholars of distinguished piety and attainments, as were willing to strengthen the clerical ranks. Infithis service, Bishop Hall, and Skinner, bishop Of Oxford, took an active part. By a beautiful arrangement of Providence, overruling all events to the furtherance Of the divine purposes, some Of the holiest and most profoundly learned Of the clergy of the next age received imposition of hands from those venerable fathers, at a time when that branch of Christ's Catholic Church, to whose service they vowed themselves, lay prostrate in ruin and proscription, beneath the iron heel Of military despotism, and the insulting hoof of sectarian bigotry. [a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
