The Prophets of Christendom

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Excerpt from The Prophets of Christendom: Sketches of Eminent PreachersFathers finds its explanation in the luxuriousness, indifference, and worldliness of the times. Who can rightly appreciate either the strength or the weakness of Eckart, Tauler, and their associates, without remembering the frequent and natural tendency of the Mystic school towards speculative, if not actual, Pantheism What is Luther, apart from a recollection of the corruptions of his age, but a violent enigma? And who can understand the force or value of Bossuet and his successors with out some knowledge of. The splendid ambitions and gilded vices of the Court of Louis XIV.?But when seen in the light of their own era, and surrounded by their own contemporaries, men are neither so great nor so little as they are usually considered. They are not infallibles, nor utter blunderers, they belong neither to the king dom of Brobdignag nor to that of Lilliput, but they are men, great men, but yet men of like passions with ourselves, whose zeal may stir our heart's languor, whose mistakes and errors may warn us, whose examples may stimulate us, and whose work in the world may encourage us to have faith that He who keepeth our Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.