The sermon ended with Tillotson quoting "the Counsel of the Wise Man", from the Wisdom of the Solomon. The vast majority of references to the Apocrypha in Tillotson's sermons are from Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom, used to show how reason and wisdom should shape the moral life.
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - "the ecclesiastical ministry is the divine institution of God himself" (p.321):
On how the Jacobite (i.e. Miaphysite) philosopher YaαΈ₯yΓ‘ ibn ΚΏAdΔ« (893β974AD) cultivated the study of philosophy in 10th century Baghdad, under the Abbasid caliphate, "to promote a realm of public discourse in which both Christians and Muslims could participate".
"Faith assents to the revelations of the Gospel, not only because they are well proved, but because they are excellent things; not only because my reason is convinced, but my reason yields upon the fairer terms, because my affections are gained."
Jeremy Taylor
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - on how ecclesiastical power and jurisdiction is "limited in every part", "hemmed in by definite laws" (p.320f):
From the Epistle Dedicatory of Jeremy Taylor's 'A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying' (1646) - a characteristic Taylor critique of religious war and of the Enthusiasm that seeks to justify religious war:
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - praise for the pre-Reformation theologian Jean Gerson (1363-1429), a leading conciliarist (p.317):
An interesting reference to contrasting 17th century Protestant views on the use of classical sources in moral theology. That Taylor and Sanderson supported the humanist approach is significant.
(Note: contrary to Green, BartholomΓ€us Keckermann was Reformed.)
From the Epistle Dedicatory of Jeremy Taylor's 'A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying' (1646) - an echo of "This war without an enemy", pointing to the kindness of an unnamed Parliamentarian in Wales towards the Royalist Taylor, with Acts 28.2 emphasising this:
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - a via media between Crusades and Anabaptists: force of arms can have no role in "building the Church", but the duty of the civil magistrate is to protect the Church (p.314).
William Laud, then Dean of Gloucester, in his 1621 sermon before King James - on the need for Commonwealth and Church, civil wisdom and religion:
From the Epistle Dedicatory of Jeremy Taylor's 'A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying' (1646) - Hatton was a friend and patron of Taylor, encouraging humanist scholarship. The dedication sets the context for this work - the collapse of royal and ecclesiastical authority.
it may be auxiliary. Wise men ... are nor violently attached to these things, nor do they violently hate them".
'Reflections on the Revolution in France' echoing Tillotson.
Edmund Burke, Latitudinarian:
"The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the sovereign of the world; in a confidence in his declarations; and an imitation of his perfections. The rest is our own. It may be prejudicial to the great end; 1/2
"A well-ordered church, sharing practices with the ecclesia Anglicana defended by Hooker; an admirable Erasmian character ... and both embedded in a patriotism and political order praised by Richard Field and Edmund Burke."
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βIn the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.β
The first page of βWhat to Look for in Springβ
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"The remedies still to come are, in fact, of such a kind that they taste bitter to the tongue, but grow sweet once they are absorbed" (III.1).
"That it may please thee to bless and keep the forces of the King and to shield them in all dangers and adversities ..." - from the Litany.
"I love the Cambridge Platonists. How could I not? Ralph Cudworth in particular. And I have the highest possible regard for [Peter] Sterry" - David Bentley Hart.
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"Among the printed Sermons, those of the late Archbishop Tillotson are well known and approved
by all."
Bishop George Bull, a High Church Tory, to his clergy in 1708.
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - on how the Church is "prophetic and apostolic, and also orthodox" (p.309):
Richard Hooker's praise for the Church of Heidelberg, as he recounts how its peace under the Zurich form of church order was disturbed by an agitation promoting the Genevan order (LEP Preface, 2.9):
Once again ... the 'Cathars' did not exist outside the fevered imagination of some enthusiastic Dominicans.
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Classical wisdom throughout the sermons (in fact, in every sermon) has a significant theological point: Classical wisdom coheres with the Christian revelation.
Jeremy Taylor in 'The Mercy of the Divine Judgments; or, God's Method in Curing Sinners', Part II, Sermon XIII, second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on our need of God's "wholesome, but ill-tasted mercies". Taylor here quotes from Pseudo-Phalaris. This use of 1/2
"Lindsay's use of Musculus' sacramental theology ... brings us again to see how the Jacobean Church of Scotland ... offered a deeply attractive expression of the wider Jacobean ecclesial vision."
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Jeremy Taylor in 'The Mercy of the Divine Judgments; or, God's Method in Curing Sinners', Part II, Sermon XIII, second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "and bind each other in the eternal enclosures and circlings of immortality":
From the 5th volume (1551) of Bullinger's Decades, his sermon 'Of the Holy Catholic Church' - Bullinger here not only affirms the use of the Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed, but sets forth an argument that Hooker will also use (p.304):
" ... you are only one atom of the mass of humanity, and have neither such virtue nor vice, as that you should be singled out for supernatural favours or afflictions."
Samuel Johnson's counsel against Enthusiasm.
