The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D. D, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D. D, Vol. 1: 1631 1659 Fuller belonged to an age which caught a reflection from the glories of the Elizabethan period, and before church oratory had frozen into the decorous commonplaces that were current in the "Augustan" period of Anne and the early Georges. Yet there are many of Fuller´s contemporaries, possibly of equal or even greater contemporary popularity, whose sermons would not bear reprinting. His, however, preserve their vitality. This is partly no doubt due to the peculiar charm of his remarkably original style; the odd fancies and the daring but always reverent conceits; the entirely unexpected light in which old truths are placed and old texts freshly illustrated. But something is also due to his sobriety of judgment, and his constant desire to attain the golden mean. This is in all ages an offence to the zealots of the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left, and the man who aims to walk in this middle path must expect to be misjudged; to be denounced by one section as an obstructive and by another as a more or less disguised revolutionary. Fuller did not escape this danger, and yet living in times when Civil War divided all England into two hostile camps, he had the esteem of good men of all parties, and managed to retain and to use with franknesse and vigour a liberty of prophesying which was neither a needless source of irritation nor a smoothing down of the truth, as he held it, to mere commonplace. His sermons deal with some temporary matters, but are for the most part concerned with the permanent elements in human nature and human life. Whoever will dig into them will find in them the solid gold of wisdom, of consolation, and of reproof. It is strange that Fuller should have waited so long for a biographer; it is strange that two centuries should have passed away before his sermons were collected from the necessary ephemeral form of their first publication. Either of these tasks might have been congenial work for one of the many sons of Cambridge, who give themselves to the pursuits of learning and literature. Both were undertaken by a busy Manchester man, the late Mr. John Eglington Bailey, F.S.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.
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