![]() ![]() George Herbert had once looked forward to a promising court career. Meanwhile, in 1630, in the quiet Wiltshire village of Bemerton a few miles outside Salisbury, the son of a prominent family took up a post as a country parson. Instead of bringing peace, Laud’s program culminated in two disastrous wars with Scotland-events that helped precipitate the civil wars of the 1640s. Laud hoped to bring unity by simmering down the conflict with Rome, but this of course only fostered further accusations that he was a crypto-papist. The fault lines had begun to show in 1625 when Puritans began to turn the methods honed in the anti-Catholic pamphlet wars on the bishops of their own church. He came to office with an ambitious program of reform designed to bring unity to a fracturing polity. ![]() William Laud, bishop of London since 1628, became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633. The 1630s-the decade of George Herbert’s death-were a tense period in the history of the English church. The Collect: O God, who broughtest thy servant George Herbert through the disappointment of his worldly aspirations to become a priest to thy Temple, a poet of thy praise, and an instrument of thy undivided love in a contentious time: guide us also by thy inner light so that we might worship thee together in the beauty of holiness. The Feast of George Herbert, Priest, 1633.ġ Peter 5:1-4 Matt. ![]()
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