 As for the inferior clergy (says Fuller), the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminency in that age. A rush candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before.  The Life of Bernard Gilpin - Page 106by William Gilpin - 1824 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gilpin - 1830 - 280 pages
...preferment was then vacant, or soon expected to be so. Upon removing to his parish, he found it in great disorder. With a firm resolution, therefore,...seemed a torch, where no brighter light was ever seen be108 fore. Surely preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of WaterEaton,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1837 - 562 pages
...appears by Mr. Tavernour's Sermon. So much for the bishops. As for the inferior clergy, under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminency in that age. A rush-candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely, preaching now ran... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1837 - 564 pages
...Age, as appears by Mr. Tavernour's Sermon. So much for the bishops. As for the inferior clergy, under the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminency in that age. A rush-candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely, preaching now ran... | |
 | Peter Richard Kenrick - Anglican orders - 1841 - 268 pages
...degradation of the clerical character at that time: " As for the inferior clergy under them," (the bishops) " the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral...candle seemed a torch, where no brighter light was ne'er seen before. Surely preaching now ran very low, if it be what I read that Mr. Tavanour of Water... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 488 pages
...was remitted. See Strype's Park. 148. Grind. 91.] ni Sam. xxvi. 12. 0 Psalm xc. clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability appears by was eminencv in that age : a rush candle seemed a Mr.Taver- * ,.,,., nour'« ser- torch,... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 230 pages
...wearing, in addition to his other unclerical dress, a sword by his side. " Surely," says Fuller, " preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of Water Eaton, in Oxfordshire, high sheriff of the county, gave the scholars a sermon in St. Mary's,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1854 - 164 pages
...it in great disorder. With a firm resolution, therefore, of doing what good he could in it, he sat himself in earnest to reprove vice publicly and privately,...that Mr. Tavernour, of Water-Eaton, in Oxfordshire, highsheriif of the county, came in pure charity, not ostentation, and gave the scholars a sermon in... | |
 | John Stoughton - Bible - 1878 - 350 pages
...university, wearing, in addition to his other unclerical dress, a cword by his side. " Surely," says Fuller, "preaching now ran very low, if it be true what I read, that Mr. Tavernour, of Water Eaton, in Oxfordshire, High Sheriff of the county, gave the scholars a sermon in St. Mary's,... | |
 | CHARLOTTE M. YONGE - 1878 - 666 pages
...he died in 1568. ' So much for the Bishops,' says Fuller. ' As for the inferior clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminence in that age ; a rush candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely... | |
 | 1878 - 644 pages
...he died in 1568. ' So much for the Bishops,' says Fuller. ' As for the inferior clergy under them, the best that could be gotten were placed in pastoral charges. Alas ! tolerability was eminence in that age ; a rush candle seemed a torch where no brighter light was ever seen before. Surely... | |
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