But two deviations from it, which the Papacy needed and used for the strengthening of its dominion, weakened and finally in the sixteenth century brought it nigh to destruction: monkery and the celibacy of the clergy.
Another important matter was this--that monkery had taken its rise in Egypt and in Syria, where the climate and the habits of the people were very different from those of the western countries.
And although, when they were brought into the west, people for a time obeyed them as well as they could, it was found that they would not obey them any longer when the first heat of zeal for monkery had passed away.
The whole monkery came down with the canonical books; they informed him of all things, from "Genesis" down to "the doctrine of the apostles.
Even till a later day, when monkery itself was abolished, the same Gothic taste lingered among us in its aversion to the classical poets of antiquity, as the works of idolaters!
Masses, Purgatory, Invocation of Saints, monkeryand one’s own works.
For there is no monkery in Al-Islam and marriage is one of the institutions of the Apostles (on whom be the Peace!
From this false standard proceeded at length the celibacy of the clergy and monkery with all their attendant evils.
Dowling, describing the extravagance of monkery and the false standard of piety and holiness it created, declares that monkery "actually affected the church universal.
Milner, adverting to the institution of monkery in the third century, expresses his "regret that the faith and love of the gospel received toward the close of it a dreadful blow from the encouragement of this unchristian practise.
But his first impressions were favorable; monkery really seemed to bring him heart's ease and peace, and there was no one to disabuse his mind of the delusion.
Luther had grasped the fundamental idea in monkery quite well: flight from the secular life as a means to become exceptionally holy.
Catholics view monkery as the highest ideal of the Christian life, and blame Luther for entering this mode of life when he was altogether unfit for it.
He thought he had found in monkery a gold-mine of holiness that would be sufficient not only for himself, but also for his parents.
By their own principles monkery is not a natural life; yet, when a monk fails in his monkery, they fault him for not being natural.
The formalism of monkery was well displayed in the code drawn up by Lanfranc, who was made Archbishop of Canterbury by William the Conqueror.
The basis ofmonkery was entire seclusion from the world and its busy ways, in order to fix the mind on holy contemplations, and hence monasteries were built in wilds and deserts.
He could afterward truthfully say: "It is true, I was a pious monk, and if ever a monk could have gained heaven by his monkery I would have gained it.
But it was above all the halo of false holiness which it possessed in the eyes of the people that made monkery such a curse to the church.
Who will assure you that you are good and that you are pleasing to God with your papistic, Turkish monkery and holiness?
We sought comfort and salvation in self-devised trivialities, in penances, confessions and satisfactions, in self-righteous works of monkery and in obedience to the commands of the Pope.
Hence, such monkery can not be a holy, godly life.
Similarly popery set off its abominations of the mass, of monkery and the worship of saints; and the world in turn seeks to set off that idolatry to make it stand before God's Word.
What a picture of the cruel, unclean and hypocritical monkery that was eating at the heart's core of English society is given to us in this terse and brave little book?
By such mental conceptions of utter desolation, impoverishment and misery does our Author express the bitterness of the then proved experience by Englishmen, of the combined hierarchy and monkery of Rome.
As the squall of rain pelted, the coloured caps bowed, With Thankful still leading and Monkery close, The hoofs smacked the clayland, the flying clods rose.
For Monkery landed, but dwelt on the fence So that Counter Vair passed him in galloping thence.
For Stormalong blundered and dwelt as he landed, Counter Vair's man was beaten and Monkery stranded.
Then with straining of leather, Grey Glory and Monkerylanded together.
Mohammed did his best to abolish the priest and his craft by making each Moslem paterfamilias a pontifex in his own household and he severely condemned monkery and celibacy.
I have said Mohammed would have "no monkery in Al-Islam," but human nature willed otherwise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monkery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
