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Excerpt from Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Vol. 4 of 4: Doctor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church; Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford
To the great effort to save souls in the midst of this general unsettlement and to keep them in the Faith, Dr. Pusey devoted nearly all his later years. The Ritualistic controversy which raged throughout the whole period interested him only indirectly. His whole heart was engaged in defending the Faith not only against open attacks, but also against the unwise counsels of those Churchmen who seemed to imagine that some kind Of advantage could be gained by making a present to opponents Of this or that unpopular portion Of the Christian creeds. From the vantage-ground''of the full Faith Of the Catholic Church, and with his wide knowledge and clear insight into the limits of any possible range of Physical Science, he was able not only to steady and reassure many troubled minds, but alsoto make timely contributions of permanent value to the cause of Christian apology.
But besides the change in the character of Dr. Pusey''s later work, there was a yet greater change in the feelings of Churchmen towards him. The vindication of the Tractarian position naturally involved the restoration of its chief living champion to an in?uence wider and deeper than he had ever exercised before. His age, character, and history gave to the utterances of this period a moral weight which was quite unique; and on questions on which all Christians were agreed, his words commanded un usual attention and respect throughout the Church. In the ''university pulpit especially, where he ad dressed his hearers as My sons,'' the attractive force of the claim which that title implied was deeply felt, and his solemn counsels and earnest exhortations carried with them the authority Of a revered parent or of an aged prophet.
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To the great effort to save souls in the midst of this general unsettlement and to keep them in the Faith, Dr. Pusey devoted nearly all his later years. The Ritualistic controversy which raged throughout the whole period interested him only indirectly. His whole heart was engaged in defending the Faith not only against open attacks, but also against the unwise counsels of those Churchmen who seemed to imagine that some kind Of advantage could be gained by making a present to opponents Of this or that unpopular portion Of the Christian creeds. From the vantage-ground''of the full Faith Of the Catholic Church, and with his wide knowledge and clear insight into the limits of any possible range of Physical Science, he was able not only to steady and reassure many troubled minds, but alsoto make timely contributions of permanent value to the cause of Christian apology.
But besides the change in the character of Dr. Pusey''s later work, there was a yet greater change in the feelings of Churchmen towards him. The vindication of the Tractarian position naturally involved the restoration of its chief living champion to an in?uence wider and deeper than he had ever exercised before. His age, character, and history gave to the utterances of this period a moral weight which was quite unique; and on questions on which all Christians were agreed, his words commanded un usual attention and respect throughout the Church. In the ''university pulpit especially, where he ad dressed his hearers as My sons,'' the attractive force of the claim which that title implied was deeply felt, and his solemn counsels and earnest exhortations carried with them the authority Of a revered parent or of an aged prophet.
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This 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.
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