The Merry Monarch Vol. 2 Or England Under Charles II. Its Art Literature and Society - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. The Prose Writers Op The Restoration. Bishop Jeremy Taylor?Dr. Egbert South?Dr. Isaac Barrow?Bishop Beveridge?Dr. Ralph Cudworth ? Benjamin Whichcote ? John Bunyan ? Thomas Hobbes?Abraham Cowlf.y?Izaak Walton?John Dryden? Sir William Temple?Thomas Rymer? Dr. Henry More?Valentine Greatrakes?Dr. Theophilus Gale?James Harrington?Sir Robert Filmer? Bishop Cumberland ? Bishop Wilkins ? Bishop Sprat?Earl Op Clarendon?Bishop Burnet ?Anthony 1 Wood?Sir illiam Dugdale?Elias Ashmole?Archbishop Leighton?Bishop Ken ? Richard Baxter?George Fox ? William Penn ? Sir Roger L'esthange?Robert Boyle?John Ray ? Thomas Sydenham?Sir Isaac Newton?Sib Thomas Browne. Charles II. had been seven years on the throne when Jeremy Taylor died. Chronologically, therefore, we may claim the English Chrysostom as one of the Prose Writers of the Restoration; but, with a single exception, his great works had all been written in the reign of Charles I., or during the Commonwealth, and in style they are related to those of the Elizabethan rather than to those of the Caroline school. The exception is his great treatise on casuistical divinity, the " Ductor Dubitantium " on which he himself based his hopes of fame. This was issued in the year of the Restoration; and in the same year he published his tractate on the Lord's Supper, entitled, " The Worthy Communicant," and received his episcopal preferment. His sermon, " Via Intelligentiae," was published in 1662. Also, the three sermons which he dedicated to the Duchess of Ormond; and the "Dissuasivefrom Popery," which he wrote at the request of the Irish Bishops. On the strength of these post-Restoration publications, we include the great bishop in our list of " Worthies," thankful that the lustre of his name lights up the dark pages of Charle...