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James Usher
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St Augustine : St. Augustines Meditations
About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them.
UnknownCentury: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher
Sleidans : Book of the Four Empires
At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew forth an exact Series of the times wherein each eminent person lived;
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher Print: Book
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At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew forth an exact Series of the times wherein each eminent person lived;
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: James Usher Print: Book
Stapleton : Fortress of the Faith
Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, branding our Church and Religion with novelty in what we dissented from them, he was much troubled at it, not knowing but that his quotations might be right; and he was convinced that the Ancientest must needs be best, as the nearer the Fountain the sweeter, and clearer are the streams; yet withall, he suspected that Stapleton might mis-report the Fathers, or wrest them to his own sense; and therefore he took up a setled resolution, that in due time, if God prolonged his life and health, he would trust onely his own eyes by reading over all the Fathers for his satisfaction herein;
