The Bioscope, or Dial of Life
by Granville Penn (9781150622687)

Subtitle: Explained. to Which Is Added, a Translation of St. Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, on the Rule of Christian Life: and an Elementary View of General Chronology General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1814 Original Publisher: J. Murray Subjects: Life Chronology, Historical Christian life History / Reference History / World Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Christian Philosophy / General Religion / Christian Life / General Science / Life Sciences / Evolution Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. It seemed desirable, that the foregoing reflections upon the Bioscope should be accompanied by some rule of practical instruction, exhibiting that ManiFested Will, to which it is our great concern to endeavour to conform our own wills during our present allotment of li. fe, I have therefore made choice of the following summary of that Will; which, as far as I have been able to discover, has never before appeared in an English translation. It is, the Epistle of Pa uLinus, Bishop of Nola in Italy, about the year 400, to Celantia, a Roman lady of fashion, rank, and opulence; in reply to various letters, wherein she had earnestly solicited See Preliminary Chapter, p. 13. him to draw out for her some short and distinct Rule Of Christiaic Life, which she might always have at hand, to govern her conversation with the world. In this valuable breviary of Christian excellence, the reader will behold what primitive Christianity was; before superstition, priestcraft, and a reviving passion for sensual worship, had begun to obscure and deface the Christian church. The age of Paulinus was still that age, which, (to use the words of the Abbe du Frcsnoy,) " was " t...

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