Volume 1
An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook.
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Date:
- 1845-1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and heresies. So true is it, as lord Clarendon remarks of him, that ‘he considered the Christian religion no otherwise than as it abhorred and reviled popery, and valued those men most who did that most furiously, while he enquired little after the strict observance and discipline of the church.” ‘No friend was he to the church of England, whereof he was head,” says Aubrey, “but scandalously permitted that poisonous spirit of puritanism to spread all over the whole nation, by his indolence, at least, if not by his connivance and encour- agement, which some years after broke out, and laid a flourishing church and state in the most miserable ruins, and which gave birth to those principles which, unless rooted out, will ever make the nation unhappy.” On the 2nd Feb. 1625-6, he crowned king Charles I. This was perhaps in some degree unfortunate ; for in after times, when the factious would gladly seize upon any thing against the king’s title, and when the royalists required every encouragement, itwas remembered that he was crown- ed by an archbishop whom some still held to be irregular, notwithstanding his pardon and absolution, and whose consecration, indeed, some bishops had rejected on that ground. But though he had presided at the coronation, his growing infirmities, and probably a dislike to the prevail- ing party, kept him away from the court. In his narrative, (which is printed in Rushworth,) he says, ‘‘ I cannot deny that the indisposition of my body kept me from ‘court, and thereby gave occasion to maligners to traduce me, as withdrawing myself from public services, and therefore misliking some courses that were taken; which obstinacy perhaps neither pleased the king, nor the great man [Buckingham, I suppose] that set them on foot. It is true that in the turbulency of some things I had no great invitements to draw me abroad, but to possess my soul in patience, till God sent fairer weather; but the true ground of my abstaining from solemn and public places was the weakness of my feet, proceeding from the gout; which disease being hereditary unto me, and having possessed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33029416_0001_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
