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'He has set his heart, said William of him, 'on being a martyr, and I have set mine on disappointing him. He died at Shottisbrooke in 1711. After Kettlewell's death, no one was so intimate with Robert Nelson as Dr. George Hickes. They lived near together in Ormond Street, and for the last eleven years of Nelson's life met almost daily.
Flesh and blood and corrupt reason will set up the great law of self-preservation against it, and find a thousand absurdities and contradictions in it. How thoroughly Kettlewell's term was adopted, and how deeply the feeling which it represented was cherished by the saintliest of the High Churchmen of that age, is nowhere more remarkably instanced than in some very famous words of Bishop Ken.
Kettlewell, had he lived long enough, might have come to transfer his idea of sovereignty to Kings, Lords, and Commons speaking through an Act of Parliament, and if so, he would have urged active obedience to its enactments, when not contrary to conscience, and passive obedience if they were so contrary. Kettlewell's treatise is well worth reading. Its last paragraph is most spirited.
In a letter to Nelson, acknowledging the receipt of some of Kettlewell's sermons, which his correspondent had lately edited, he calls their author 'as saintlike a man as ever I knew; and when, in 1696, he was summoned before the Privy Council to give account for a pastoral letter drawn up by the nonjuring bishops on behalf of the deprived clergy, he spoke of it as having been first proposed by 'Mr.
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