Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speech, Vol. 7

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Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speech, Vol. 7: With Elucidations, IllustratedHistorical Books, and what indeed is magmamuy the cause and origin of that, our common spiritual notions, if any notion of ours may still deserve to be called spiritual, are fatal to a right understanding of that Seventeenth Century. The Chris tian Doctrines which then dwelt alive in every heart, have now in a manner died out of allhearts, - very mournfultobehold, and are not the guidance of this world any more. Nay worse still, the Cant of them does yet dwell alive with us, little doubting that it is Cant, - in which fatal intermediate state the Eternal Smdness of this Universe itself, of this Human Life itself, has fallen dark to the most of us, and we think thattooacantandacreed. Thustheold namessuggestnew things to us, not august and divine, but hypocritical, pitia ble, detestable. The old names and similitudes of belief still circulate from tongue to tongue, though now in such a ghastly condition. Not as commandments of the Living God, which we must do, or perish eternally, alas, no, as something very different from that! Here properly lies the grand unintelligi bility of the Seventeenth Century for us. From this source has proceeded our maltreatment of it, our miseditings, mis writings, and all the other avalanche of Human Stupidity, wherewith, as our impatient friend complains, we have allowed it to be overwhelmed. We have allowed some other things to be overwhelmed! Would to Heaven that were the worst fruit we had gathered from our Unbelief and our Cant of Belief!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.