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Excerpt from Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising the History of England From the Descent of the Saxons to A. D. 1235; Formerly Ascribed to Matthew Paris
The second book of this work, commencing with the time of grace, treats of the nativity of our Saviour, and of his works in the ?esh, of the calling of the apostles, and of the saints of God now glorified in heaven, arranged according to the years of incarnation, without omitting one, down to our times, on whom the ends of the world are come; in the course of which it treats of all the Roman pontiffs and emperors. It treats, moreover, of archbishops, bishops, and other dignities of the church, of kings, and princes, and other great men, who in their times lived in different regions, and of their acts, whether good or evil. It treats, moreover, of the various chances that have befallen mankind, the prodigious and portentous manifestations of God's wrath, to the end that, being admonished by past evils, men may betake themselves to humiliation and repentance, taking an example for imita tion from the good, and shunning the ways of the perverse.
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