Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
[Y]ou have preferred the commands of a man to that of God, and have thus scandalized very many. What man of any sense would say that such an audacious act was good, or could become good, by the direction of any man, whatever his dignity? And if it is not good, nor can become good, without doubt it is wholly evil.
Letter II (A.D. 1126) to the Monk Adam in Some Letters of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux. From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales Vicar of Stalefield, ed. Francis Aidan Gasquet (London: John Hodges, 1904), p. 11.
Letter II (A.D. 1126) to the Monk Adam in Some Letters of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux. From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales Vicar of Stalefield, ed. Francis Aidan Gasquet (London: John Hodges, 1904), p. 11.