Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings, of Sir Matthew Hale

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings, of Sir Matthew Hale: Knight, Lord Chief Justice of EnglandThere will be some danger, lest the ensuing narrative, viewed as an illustration of practical Christianity, should produce amazement, rather than emulation but such a misuse, alike unfavour able to personal advantage, and dishonouring to God, is to be vigilantly avoided. It should be deeply impressed upon the reader, that the most promi nent features in the moral image of Hale - his delight in the law of the Lord, his patient, and faithful diligence, as a member of society, his studiousness of peace, his urbanity and serious ness, his self-denial, his freedom from ambition identified, as they are, with personal religion, are qualities never set forth in the Bible, as wonderful, or rare but as essential, and ordinary lineaments of the christian character. It is, therefore, evi dent, that the acquisition of. The same mind, the doing of the same things, is, in the case of every individual, no less a duty, no less indis pensable to felicity, no less necessary to the divine glory, than in the case of Hale, and the countless host of believers.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.