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Post-Mediæval Preachers: Some Account Of The Most Celebrated Preachers Of the 15th, 16th, &. 17th Centuries; With Outlines Of Their Sermons, And Specimens Of Their Style.
Post-Mediæval Preachers: Some Account Of The Most Celebrated Preachers Of the 15th, 16th, &. 17th Centuries; With Outlines Of Their Sermons, And Specimens Of Their Style.
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"Post-Mediaeval Preachers; Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style" is full of helpful and suggestive matter, ready to the mind and pen of the weary priest, who, after a day's toil in the distracting round of minute and inconclusive, but not the less necessary clerical duty, sits down in his study to prepare a sermon. They will strengthen and refresh his soul, like the upper and nether springs. Nor are they less rich in interest to the general reader.
The records which have been handed down to us of sermons delivered during the middle ages, would, upon a slight and superficial survey, conduct us to diametrically opposite conclusions. On the one side, we see friar preachers dealing with the great truths of revelation, as the performers of the mystery dramas dealt with the events of the Old and New Testaments; that is, presenting them with strange and grotesque uncouthness, and always, if possible, giving them an aspect more or less ridiculous, yet with an equally strange intermingling of wild imagery and tender pathos. On the other side, we see men imbued with apostolical piety and fervour, preaching with apostolical unction and force; now thundering avalanches of vehement remonstrance against every form of evil, whether in high or low places, and now breathing consolation and hope to the penitent in the most tender tones. Monks preach before monarchs, and lash the vices of the royal courtiers. They mount the pulpit of the abbey church, and abbot and prior, simple recluses and lay brethren, acolytes and door-keepers, wince alike under their severe and homely thrusts. Pretentious women enter the sanctuary in all the pomp and pride of station, of splendid attire or youthful beauty; they leave it thoroughly ashamed of themselves, weeping tears of repentance, and saying in heart, if not with voice articulate, "God be merciful to me a sinner." It is observable that some of the preachers of Austria and Italy still affect the style and manner of these old times, and that the listener to their discourses might imagine that one of the grotesque gargoyles had become suddenly vocal, or a statue had stepped down from its flamboyant niche and was addressing the congregation.
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"Post-Mediaeval Preachers; Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style" is full of helpful and suggestive matter, ready to the mind and pen of the weary priest, who, after a day's toil in the distracting round of minute and inconclusive, but not the less necessary clerical duty, sits down in his study to prepare a sermon. They will strengthen and refresh his soul, like the upper and nether springs. Nor are they less rich in interest to the general reader.
The records which have been handed down to us of sermons delivered during the middle ages, would, upon a slight and superficial survey, conduct us to diametrically opposite conclusions. On the one side, we see friar preachers dealing with the great truths of revelation, as the performers of the mystery dramas dealt with the events of the Old and New Testaments; that is, presenting them with strange and grotesque uncouthness, and always, if possible, giving them an aspect more or less ridiculous, yet with an equally strange intermingling of wild imagery and tender pathos. On the other side, we see men imbued with apostolical piety and fervour, preaching with apostolical unction and force; now thundering avalanches of vehement remonstrance against every form of evil, whether in high or low places, and now breathing consolation and hope to the penitent in the most tender tones. Monks preach before monarchs, and lash the vices of the royal courtiers. They mount the pulpit of the abbey church, and abbot and prior, simple recluses and lay brethren, acolytes and door-keepers, wince alike under their severe and homely thrusts. Pretentious women enter the sanctuary in all the pomp and pride of station, of splendid attire or youthful beauty; they leave it thoroughly ashamed of themselves, weeping tears of repentance, and saying in heart, if not with voice articulate, "God be merciful to me a sinner." It is observable that some of the preachers of Austria and Italy still affect the style and manner of these old times, and that the listener to their discourses might imagine that one of the grotesque gargoyles had become suddenly vocal, or a statue had stepped down from its flamboyant niche and was addressing the congregation.
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