Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Charlemagne on Following Josiah's Example in Restoring Biblical Worship

"[W]e read in the Books of the Kings how the holy Josiah, going about the kingdom given to him by God, correcting and admonishing, strove to recall the people to the worship of the true God; not that I can make myself his equal in holiness, but that we must ever follow the example of the holy men everywhere ..." 

-- Charlemagne


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Cited in Charles Luke Wells, The Age of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), ed., John Fulton (New York: The Christian Literature Co., 1898), 228, 229.

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