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Excerpt from A Life of John Colet, D. D: Dean of St. Paul's, and Founder of St. Paul's School; With an Appendix of Some of His English Writings
But it is not for their controversial value alone, as helping to explain or to justify the great religious changes Of the Six teenth century, that I would call attention to those writings, with which it is now for the first time possible fully to illustrate the Life of their author. How important they are for that purpose the copious extracts which follow may suffice to show. That, however, is not all. There is in some of them a beauty and a value above all controversies. I know not how anyone, for instance, can read the Lytell proheme to the boke, which he prefixed to his School Grammar, without admiring alike the soundness of his judgment and the tenderness of his disposi tion. And thus I have thought it might prove a not altogether thankless task, to print in the Appendix both his School Statutes, and the Catechism with which this Lytell proheme is connected, and also his Convocation Sermon, and the Order of a good Christian man's life. Some of these have been reprinted before, but not with that fidelity to the originals which they deserve, and which is here attempted.
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