The First General Epistle of St. John the Apostle
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Excerpt from The First General Epistle of St. John the Apostle: Unfolded and Applied None of the causes to which we have adverted are in as powerful action now as they were in the puritan period; and consequently we venture to assert that there are greater diversities between the different writers of that period than between those of the nineteenth century, whom yet no one would think of classing together on any principle of classification except that of contemporaneousness. For proof of this, we need go no further than to the series of works which we are now engaged in reproducing. We venture to assert that, amongst the religious writers of our own day, it would be impossible to name any that are more dissimilar to each other than are the several members of the following pairs: - Thomas Adams and Thomas Goodwin; Sibbes and Charnock; Ward and Clarkson; Airay and Stock; King and Rainolds; Bernard and Cartwright; Torshell and Fuller. We may even go so far as to state, that some of these writers are so free from the characteristics which are commonly considered as distinctive of the age in which they lived, that their works would not be thought out of place if by any accident they were classed among the products of our own day. A sermon of Charnock´s, if delivered in one of our congregations, with only a very few expressions altered, would scarcely startle the hearers, or be detected by them as not a modern production; while we are confident that Torshell´s Exercitation upon Malachi, if it had been published as a new work, would have been welcomed by many as a fine specimen of the "modern criticism!" A somewhat similar remark, though not to quite the same extent, is applicable to the present exposition of a portion of the First Epistle of St John; and this it is that has suggested to us, and this is our apology for introducing in this place, a discussion which may be thought by some to be unconnected with the business which we have in hand. That business is not to compile a full biography of Dr Hardy, but only to give such a brief account of his position and sentiments as may cast light upon the views expressed in the following Commentary, and so put the reader in a position to profit fully by its perusal. Nathanael Hardy was born in the Old Bailey, in the parish of St Martin´s, London, on the 14th of September 1618, and was baptized in the church of that parish. His father, Anthony Hardy, was probably a citizen of good standing; but we are not possessed of any information respecting him. As our main object in this sketch is to indicate the position which Hardy occupied amongst his contemporaries, it may be well to remind our readers of the relation which subsisted between him and a few of the most distinguished of them in respect of the time of his birth. In 1618, then, James I. was in the fifteenth year of his occupancy of the English throne, and his son, afterwards Charles I., was in the eighteenth year of his age; Oliver Cromwell was nineteen years old; Shakespeare had been dead two years, and Milton was ten years old. Hardy was eighteen years younger than Goodwin, ten years younger than Lord Clarendon, five years younger than Jeremy Taylor, and three years younger than Owen and Baxter, who were born in one year. He was three years older than Clarkson, nine years older than Bunyan, and twelve years older than Howe and Barrow. The time when Hardy came into the world was pretty nearly coincident with the beginning of the storm which was destined to break over England, and to sweep away the old landmarks in Church and State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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