History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the ... 8
History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the ... 8
Milman Henry Hart
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INCENTIVES FOR CHURCH BUILDINGS. 427 began to raise their guildhalls) were the church and the castle. The castle was built more for strength than for splendor. Architecture had the Church alone and her adjacent buildings on which to lavish all her skill, and to expend the inexhaustible treasures poured at her feet. To build the Church was admitted at once as the most admirable virtue, as the most uncon- tested sign of piety, as the fullest atonement for sin, as the amplest restitution for robbe...ry or wrong, as the bounden tribute of the loyal subject of God, as the most unquestioned recognition of the sovereignty and mercy of God. If these incentives were forever working without the Church, besides these, what powerful concur- incentiTef 1 , . f . • • for Church rent and subsidiary motives were m action baudings. within the Church I Every Prelate, even each mem- ber of a Chapter (if he had any noble or less sordid feeling than personal indulgence in pomp and luxury, or the least ecclesiastical public spirit), would feel emulation of his spiritual ancestors : he would delight to put to shame the less prodigal, the more parsimoni- ous, generosity of his predecessor, would endeavor to transcend him in the richness of his oblation to God or to the Patron Saint.
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