Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time (Volume 4 ); From the Restoration of King Charles II to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne. to Which Is Prefixed, a Summary Recapitualtion of Affairs in Church and State, Fr (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1818. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... pressed, and to seek out men of virtue and piety, and bring them into such degrees of confidence as they may be capable of; to encourage a due and a generous freedom in their advices; to be ready to see his own errors, that he may correct them; and to entertain every thing that is suggested to him for the good of his people, and for the benefit of mankind; and to make a difference between those who court hisfavour for their own ends, who study to flatter, and by that, to please him, often to his own ruin, and those who have great views and noble aims, who set him on to pursue designs worthy of him, without mean or partial regards to any ends or interests of their own. It is not enough for a prince, not to encourage vice or impiety by his own ill practices; it ought to appear that these are odious to him, and that they give him horror. A declaration of this kind, solemnly made and steadily pursued, would soon bring on at least an exterior-reformation, which would have a great effect on the body of the nation, and on the rising generation, though it were but hypocritically put on at first. Such a prince would be perhaps too great a blessing to a wicked world: Queen Mary seemed to have the seeds of all this in her; but the world was not worthy of her, and so God took her from it. I will conclude this whole address to posterity with that An exhoriawhich is the most important of all other things, and which JJXc'oine alone will carry every thing else along with it, which is to tTM'.* TMiirecommend, in the most solemn and serious manner, the gu,0b' study and practice of religion to all sorts of men, as that which is both the light of the world, and the salt of the earth. Nothing does so open our faculties, and compose, and direct the whole man, as an inward sense of G...