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A COURSE OF LECTURES
EARLY FATHERS,
SOW
IN DELIVERY IN
Rev.
J.
0*
BY ?E
jr
BLUNT,
MARGARET PROFESSOR OF
B.D.,
DIVINITY.
CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS;
FOR
J.
&
J. J.
AM induced
ture,
nearly as
Lec-
it
Intro-
Fathers
will
it
me
whom
would be inconvenient
to
know
Lectures,
them;
it,
it
may
spirit
the lecture-room;
and
extends,
it
likely
govern
to
me
from
out
of
may
have the
Churchmen
vision of our
concern
misconstruction
or
ciple
may
perhaps protect
misrepresentation
culation
it
and
and the
that
to prepare,)
it
effect
to
of
a prin-
in their re-
LECTURE,
GENTLEMEN,
I
gence whilst
am
cir-
about to deliver
and on the
was
called
up
of
the
to
who
last
held
it,
and
Cambridge as a candidate
and looked
endowment,
was
adequately
not
imposes.
On
could
is
bound,
dif-
residence
studies
nearly unintermitted
the professors,
hours, at their
6
disposal
moderate
attainments,
costly
accordingly
some work on
books,
and
scarce
approved
theology,
by
the
(such
night's preparation,
interval
tween
which
his
lectures,)
rence and
and
his
a duty of
little
the
whole
election
for
being
commencement of
cessation.
the University
for
is
when
a considerable part of
its
sea-
are
tures;
age,
when
free
men
lec-
of mature
ac-
quirements; when books are cheap and abundant, and as accessible to the hearers as to
the lecturer
the
it
is
clear,
say,
when
that
adhere
strictly
dation-deed, would
for a Professor
to the letter
be
to
in the sys-
of the foun-
render
his
office
circumstances
cases,
in
other
inter-
In this case,
utterly nugatory.
as
become out
of date
and the
looked
For though
to.
good maxim
man
of them be
spirit
England,
for
himself
finds
may be
it
very
whenever
that
nothing
with
chiefly
to
he
do,
be
direct
infraction,
followed
best
and
its
a similar
in
there,
if
vir-
Canada by
in
now be
ever
it
it
is
in vain to
scripts,)
origi-
to
read manu-
freely to all
milk
men
for
fall
the
in
resi-
many
frequent,
tite
fellow- workers
they
must
be
s/)
skill,
zeal
and
and
yet,
(must
not add,
party interested?)
they
must be
own
so limited,
by drawing
12
8
time and patience
on the
extravagantly
by
or
of
reducing
any case
difficulties
and
duties
much
misgiving
and have
in
and,
might be,
it
my own
trial
of nerve
more
because
needful,
fered with
the
have made,
to
excuse
provision
on
inter-
might otherwise
me
confident
feel
ensure
to
your part;
all
if
till,
it
fair
that
me
to
more numerous
less imperfect,
duce now
will
and
offer
(if
to
it
shall
please
well,)
and
I shall
pro-
be thought
mean
you
appearance amongst
that in the
my
shall
conclude from
forbear-
with
and
deal
has a good
it
a better grace.
will
but
while,
flinch
charge of an
undertaken,
office,
is
which
dis-
have deliberately
my
heart.
.9
When
perfect,
however,
am
been written
they
are
in
truth
ample
leisure
have
very
from
and
been
far
afforded,
many
of
results
though,
reading
systematic
years
the
mean
to
to deliver,
about
in heat or haste
im-
less
it
said lectures
had
should have
am
not sure
and unity
the comprehensiveness
of the
lost in the
absence
my
making my
it.
To
more
specifically.
It is this
my
purpose
to set before
you
first
have gathered
it
perusal of them
for
myself by
fact
which
my own
I
actual
do not refer to
thiness of
spirit
what
offer
and freshness of
and
my
to
for the
greater
matter, than if
you
at
it
second or
10
third hand.
pith
much
abridged; but
seem
passages as
and
to
and, as
force, literally,
fully translated
you the
faith-
believe,
to time
have occurred
may
since, or
me
strike
hereafter,
me
to
which bear,
controversy;
Churches
the
evidences
Christianity in general
the like
indeed
the
of
of
truth
infidel objections
and
alluded,
was,
have
the
points of
discipline
for
my own
to
drawn
to
execute
it,
the
substance of
first
centuries into
out
have already
of
taking
you
along
with
me,
as
is
not
to
be
denied,
that
the
latter
plan,
will
me
11
and probably
writers themselves;
upon
as to conclude
it,
so
shall
my
summary review of
upon the
as they tell
writings,
his
several questions I
have enumerated,
In either case
my
cover
we can
it
subsisted
moment
dis-
my
hearers a notion
of the greatest;
when
for
the
a period
and
at this
some
becom-
to possess
is
slumbering,
necessity
of
is
How
once again.
itself
ways of
may suppose
God fetches his
ends to pass
How
"
The
purposes about
says Souths
are as
as
far
contrivances of heaven,"
much above
our politics,
perhaps of some revival of the Church of England; of some greater and more general know-
'
Vol.
I.
p. 227.
Oxf. Ed.
12
once dispersed, would prepare the way
for its
The admission
of
Roman
the
Catholics
to
an opinion,
we cannot
of which
issues
demand an
more
to their
intimate
settle
it
has
books; to the
remembrance
copies
to little
it
has
SO are
have
lost
one shaft
The
To
to
them
and
re-
and as
When we
We
when they
appreciate the
to
they
are led
made
of
of England
use
events to-
rests
ground,
men
of Ai, be
;;
13
tempted
descend,
to
many
against her
But before
adversaries successfully.
my
lopement of
would contend
they
if
present plan,
must observe,
made by attendance on
whatever those lectures
short road to sound
a course of lectures,
may
be.
There
no
is
own
study,
in
own powers
Haud
is still
is
valuable
arise,
divinity,
is
till
shall
men whose
up
give themselves
it,
and be content
pro-
to
to
know
to direct
them
to
observe the
many
pre-
away in the
who take orders
by those
from school and college, with the
when
but
fresh
14
of study not yet impaired, and their knowledge
of the learned languages
still
untarnished by
means
the
all
(why not
that of
command; and
their
which happens
this
to
comment upon
spring perhaps of
volume of sermons or
now
that,
;
on
little
thought and
less
know-
whilst
investigations;
in
wandering
through
this
first
(if
till
possibly awa-
which
at
to
length
have repaired
to
long before
but with
the
by the
interval,
and
powers of steady
their
Lectures are no
exertion
to
which
15
I
may
they
may
curiosity
their
may
for
effect; they
such a labour;
furnish
acquaintance with an
late
may
may
author as
for
stimu-
them some notion of the treasures accessible to them, which they have
hitherto disregarded
they may satisfy them
they
give
that
when they
such
that, lies in
;
and
lution of losing
no time
intentions in force;
to boast of a clergy,
discretion,
may
retire
will
have
to tell
mark
so
consider
much
to
it
Fathers;
they must in
as
is
state
due
all
we
have, of the
"
16
of
could dispute
this,
who
venerable antiquity
considered
it
indeed
what
of
the substance
is
who compared
ritual;
Who
of her
numerous places
in
with
it
same
effect,
and often
identical
be gathered by a care-
in expression, to
ful
who
ment
There
is
"a minute
even contemporaneous with the Apostles. In 1 Cor. xi.
2
16, where the wearing of hair, long or short, covered or
uncovered, is touched on, reference is made to the " custom
affords if carefully examined, of the existence of
ritual/'
be
it
was of a
at, as perhaps
from mere dwelling-houses, in v. 22, " have ye not
houses to eat and drink in? or despise ye the church of God.'*"
Possibly Acts ii. 46, viii. 3, and xvi. 13, may have a similar
meaning. Mosheim, De Rel. Christian, ante Constant, p. 117;
and Bishop Pearson (On the Creed, Art. ix.) would seem
In 1 Cor. xiv, l6,
to say 1 Cor. xi. 18, and Acts xi. 26.
at Corinth.
distinct
there
after
is
In Acts
xiii.
to point to
2,
Some
To
same Tract.
word "unlearned,"
who was
to say
Amen;
astic
who
is
as
much
as
we
And
furnished in Acts
same kind
is
contains a
summary of
Tepovvre^
(3)
K\d<Tei
KCLi
omnia
ii.
42,
if,
Mosheim
as
fallunt, aut
term the
example of the
in like sort
again, another
thinks,
Koivcov'ia,
Aut me
S.
divini
Mo-
sheim's
comment then
follows,
(De
it
^(ravhi irpoa-Kap^
Con-
tized,
and such
as
who were
enough.
Still
and
shall here
authors
The
fullest
of Justin Martyr,
its
we have
account
65, 66,
67
it
is
in
is
says, the
the Epistles
De
i.
a Litany
eveiTo dvifTTaixeQa
Koivrj
and
Amen
in
the
which
Tre'/jiTrojuei/
in the Apolog.
(Tertullian
the elements
a word was
amply sufficient
amongst
whom
we
for
offers
the
up
all join,
sacra-
the pray-
distribution of
18
many
common
features in
where
(even
the
Strom.
<yv(afxrjv.
inobsequens servus,
filius
Cyprian con-
VII. 6, 848.
in public worship,
divina
cum Dei
memores
iravdricrerai, dvdyvbio-i'i
twv
ypa(p<av ovk
l<raKov<rdtj(r'rat.
" for the means of our preservation " " for the qualities of di^'
for the changes of the seasons"
vers kind of things,"
" for
our restoration to immortality through faith." J ustin Apolog. i.
"
for those in authority
13. Prayers for " the Emperors
ministris
eorum
ac potestatibus,) " for the
under them" (pro
good of the commonwealth" "for quiet Xxmes" "for time to
prepare for the end" TertuUian. Apolog. 39 "for our enemies" Justin Dialog. 35 " for such as do stand, that they
may
may
be raised
Irenaeus refers to
it
manner
in a
to convince
"We
Eucharist ek rou?
aZtoi/a?
i. c. 3.
illas
Tertullian
1. p. 14.
it,
and in the
extuleris,
ex ore quo
'
amen
'
in
omnino
dicere, nisi
Deo
et Christo!"
De
like fa-
postmodum
sanctum
aiwvw
d-n'
Spectac. 25,
one another) as
to
have
prevailed
Cyprian
p. 83.
tells
to
by exclaiming, "
^'
We
Lift
up your
lift
Lord."
fratrum
mentes
sursum
dicendo,
cor</a
respondet
plebs,
cum gratiarum
modo autem
constabit
eis,
sui, et
eum panem
ei
L.
iv.
18. 4. p. 251.
Smyrna, preserved by Eusebius, and which contains an account of the martyrdom of Polycarp, he is represented as
saying, in his last prayer, " For this, and for all things, /
praise thee, I bless thee,
TOVTO
hid
Euseb. B. H. L.
iv.
c.
15. p. 169.
v\o<yto, <re
ho^d^m. k.t.\.
him
familiar.
originis praerogativa
invocato Deo.
coelis,
et
vim
sanctificandi combibunt."
Apart from
this,
aquae viduce,
tet
and
4. p.
De
Baptismo,
4.
p. 225.
aquam
prius a sacerdote, ut
possit
away of
sin.")
The forehead of the party was signed with
the sign of the Cross at Baptism, " Leprae varietate in fronte
maculatus
est,
Domino
ubi sig-
nantur
20
nantur qui
Dominum promerentur"
writes Cyprian.
De
Unitat.
There were promises and vows exacted and responded to in Baptism according to a set form. Cyprian speaks of
interrogations put at Baptism, "sed et ipsa interrogatio quae fit in
Baptismo testis est veritatis. Nam cum dicimus, Credis in vitam
aeternam et remissionem peccatorum per sanctam ecclesiam,"
&c. Ep. Lxx. p. 125; and Tertullian, "vocati sumus ad miliiiam Dei vivi, jam tunc cum in sacramenti verba respondimus*'
Ad Martyr, 3, p. 138, ("manfully to fight under his banner,
and to continue Christ's faithful soldier"). The same author
speaks of these promises and vows, in the case of infants, being
undertaken by the sponsors,
quid enim necesse est, sponEccles. p. 201.
With
renounced the
us,
De
Baptismo,
231.
18, p.
"ad
devil,
Tertullian tells
renuntiare ipsi,
pompce
De
per idolatriam."
p. 291.
but
is
topic.
See Tertullian,
Foeminar.
2. p. 150.
De Idolatr.
De Spectac.
6. p. 88.
13. p. 79-
De Cultu
De Corona.
3. p. 102. Cyprian adds that the "world" was also resceculo renuntiaveramus cum baptizati
nounced at Baptism,
sumus." Ep. VI. p. 12. (" dost thou renounce the devil and
his works, the vain pomp and glory of this world T')
But besides promises and vows to renounce the devil, his
pomps, and the world, the party to be baptized had to make a
all
Tov
ftairr'KrixaTO';
sted-
all this I
elXri(pe.
I.
aquam
ingressi Christianam
mur."
De
Spectac.
4.
9, 4.
fidem in
p. 74.
And
01/
Tertullian, "
legis suae
And Clemens
lia
cum
verba profile^
Alexandrinus
which the
:;
21
M^hich Archbishop
were to
The
and
gives
stles'
Creed.
it
will be found to differ but little from the Apo" The Church, though dispersed over the whole
and the
earth,
Christ, the
and
in
ascension into heaven, of the beloved Jesus Christ our Lord, and
his
restore
rj
fXfv
T7?
yup ExKA^a/a,
779
p.a6riTwu
TO
dyioVf
cAeucrti?,
eyeptxiv
Xrjxjytu
Old
Kat
eK
TOV
Twv
Tt]v
vCKpcov,
Irjaovv,
irpocprjTiou
en
Ta\ da\daaat,
ek eua Kpiarov
koi
tt'kttiu'
neKtjpv^ot ra?
tjyaTrrjfxevov
Ttju
euaapKov
ek
tovi
irdvTa
ko.)
oiKOvofxla':,
irepciTcou
Ttiv
auTOK,
ev
olKovfXPr]<: foj?
irapaXa^uvaa
TreiroirjKora
rd
Zi<T'jrapijivr],
Tra^o?,
llvevpia
koi
koli
ovpavovt
tjpLwv,
toc
Ttjv
dvd-r
Kat tiju
it,
10, 1.
as given
torem
suum
natum
22
natum
gem,
Jesum Christum: exinde prsedicasse novam lenovam promissionem regni caelorum ; virtutes fecisse ;
egisse
et
fixum Cruci
ad dextram Patris
credentes agat
misisse vicariam
in coelos
vim
ereptum sedisse
in vitae aeternae et
advocans
p. 227.
et invitans Spiritvm
(" Defend,
Sanctum."
De
Baptismo,
8.
grace, that
in thy
And
the
'Tax"
11. c. 8,
p. 171
man was
traced,
made
Ep. xiv.
p. 24)
To
all this
practised in the
marking an organized
prayer,
^having
ritual
first
antiquity.
They
29
Popery, be
it
may be
rituals, &c.,
been deposited.
who
of many similar
*'
and against
I will set
down
parallels.
-navroKpdrwp Ka\
/xoi/o?
Kvpto^
fiXeirerai Kaplla,
(piou
Trda-a 'yvfxvo(pavri<t
eudvfxtjfjia
diroKaXvyrTeTat.
VII. c. 33.
"And humbly we
beseech
dead unto
sin,
righteousness^
and
being
living nnto
may
and
ut-
whole body of
and that as he is made
sin;
of his resurrection.
" Glory be to God on high
and
in earth peace,
We praise thee,
towards men.
we
thee,
bless
thee,
we
good will
we worship
we give
glorify thee,
0 Lord
king,
God
the
God, heavenly
Father
Al-
mighty.
"O
Lord
sins
away
22
24
They
make
to
own cause
their
good.
draw an
and
Church^
to
is still
for Prayer, as
touching the
the
Thou
receive
our
prai/er,
In
that
of the
sins
to
f^^;c
jeuvrjTf}';
<Tr\6wc
Ti/jLtj,
0ufl*ea)9,
ov
^i'
ijfjiav'
tov fSacroi
ho^a,
God
Holy
in
have mercy
Lord,
the
the Father.
upon
(p
irofxev,
Trpoa-cfxaueT,
XeycTO)
eXerjaov.
1
will content
places
in
these
constitutions,
Be tovtodv
eKda-Tto
S/aKoi/o?
to*:
Aaoc,
vpoei-
Kvpif
VIII. C. 6.
my
readers to other
for
themselves.
viii.
c.
Cardwell's Pref
King Edward VI. p.
^
to the
x.
Two Books
of
Common
Prayer of
25
ture
men
and
service
told, *'it is
the
for
evident
Holy Scrip-
Church."
plainly repugnant
In the twenty-fourth
is this,
"
It is
a thing
to
and
craments
in
people."
was a godly
''in the
Primitive Church
punished
might
in her
still
petually
made
Homily on
speak
both Greeks
to the Primitive
Salvation, "After
justified only
Christ,
faith,)
by
all
this true
the
old
reference
is
Church.
In the
this wise to
and
and
per-
be
lively faith in
ancient authors,
peril of Idolatry,
"Contrary
to the
which most
26
the most pure and uncorrupt, and contrary to
the sentences and judgments of the most ancient, learned,
corruption of
same, *'Ye
Church
Again, in the
images."
first
as
Now
although
our
Saviour
Christ
is
once confirmed
by
little
candle
to
put
it
shall in this
first
part
this truth
and
Holy
as the
Old Testament
27
tors,
and received
Homily on
Fasting, "Fasting,
Christ's assent,
and
is
by
then, even
natural food
all
In the
And
for the
that
was
it
the four
*'In respect of
which straight knot of charity, the true Christians in the Primitive Church called this supper.
Love
sit
none ought
down
that this
we must be
commanded
it
Church
"Before
sure of especially,
ministered, as our
used
to
to
Whitsunday, **The
it."
true
In
the
Homily
for
is
known
pure
and the
The
de-
may
justly
28
Now
for the
will
compare
in the beginning,
been
you
if
it is
it
was
presently, or hath
purge herself of
first
Romish
and here
to last,
still
be
it
remem-
party, proceeds on a
tivam,
nobiscum facere
causd,
et
discessisse,
tholicos
aut
ab
istis,
et
sed
(sc.
Roman^
ad Apostolos
Patres rediisse
vafre,
bona
Ecclesia)
veteresque Ca-
fide,
coram Deo,
vere,
*'We
29
of God,
tive
returned
the
to
and
Apostles
old
and
Catholic
this
we
good
faith, as in the
clearly, perspicuously."
Again
" Ita
furere videmur, et ab
illis
ticis,
Christo, nec
cum
quoniam
nos quoque,
traducimur pro
jam
rei
sit
istis
h^ere-
cum
nec
cum
ipsi possint,
an ea
fides,
quam videbunt
et
Patrum
testimoniis,
multorum
et
quaedam
hominum
hasreticorum."
furentium,
et
rabies
conspiratio
who have no
sit
ssecu-
as
heretics,
or the
that hope
we stand
which we have
fast,
in Christ
it
to
and
Jesus
30
in order that all
may
for themselves,
whether a
to determine
faith
quod
in nos,
Cumque
quamvis
Apos tolls
civisse.
Again
unum
Atqui nos
Christi, et
Apostolorum, et
eam dubitamus,
Arcam Noe, Sponsam Christi, columnam et
firmamentum
omnem
veritatis
salutis
appellare,
nostrse rationem
aut
ea
in
collocare."
Word
we have withdrawn
For we have
Ark
nor do
we
to
be
scruple to call
31
the pillar and ground of the truth
in
it
again,
Istorum vero
religio,
ita
si
exemplis Primitives
tarn
et
veteribus
Conciliis
antiqua
ex Antiquis Patri-
non probant?
Cur
vetus
patrono
Ecclesice,
And
cur earn ab
bus,
or to place
Ferrum quidem
manum
habuerunt ad
tiquis et Patribus,
de
magnum
flamman semper
et
Conciliis
silentium''
us suppose,
why do
an-
" But
if
would have
it
How
vero
from the
the early
is it
that
Sword and
faggot
keep
still
Again
silence."
Postremo ab
est,
ut Daniel e
cavea leonum
ut tres
illi
non quce
pueri ex incendio
quam ab
istis,
diris et
Accessimus vero
ipsi
quidem,
si
omnia caste ac
reverenter, et
porum rationem
administrari.
quantum nos
ad priscorum
tern-
Conferant enini
S2
Ecclesias nostras suasque inter se."
not as
from
den
it,
the Church as
it
now
it
the Three
we be
withdrawn, but we have
nor,
Finally,
or
indeed, can
fire
said to have
strictly
Then we have
added ourselves,
to a
must themselves
speak the
chastely, reverently,
closely after the
and as
conducted
far as is attainable,
model of primitive
times,
re,
quam
isti
nobis apud
for let
theirs."
ilia
Ec-
appellant Catholicam, et ed
illos
invidiam faciunt,
tamen
id
satis
est
nobis,
de asterna
vita
cogitanti,
nos ab ea Ecclesia
quam
Christus
raturam
quamque nos
ipsi
oculis perspicu^
et Catholicd
Ecclesia
fuisse
et
Patrum,
integram,
utque
TertuUianus
For, although
virginem."
incorruptani
ait,
Church which
they
Catholic,
call
that
and thus
in-
fasten
and ought
be enough
to
who has
pious person
that
for
could err
err, foretold
that
would err
it
from
Church which
who could
;
the
not
and which, we
departed
of which, Christ,
us,
clearly,
had
from
the
holy Fathers,
and
tive
Catholic
Church:
proached, as near as
we
could, to the
Church
And,
observes, that
in
a virgin
to restore
temple there
renew the
rites
neither,
a very beautiful
to
as
34
And we may
her.
Church
is
as if she
for
rest
in fact constructed
and we undertake
ciple,
up
to
shall
we contemplated.
II.
The Puritans and
than
Socinians succeeded
the churchmen
and
upon her
and
safest guardians
still
best
of Hooker,
Hammond, of Sanderson, of
and many more a class of
;
of
Wit-
Taylor,
of
Pearson, of Bull,
divines, to
whom
all
were
to the
Reformers themselves.
troversy
to the
I
have
have named
of this noble
great
first I
Let us take
had
shifted
its
Puritan question
and we
S5
tained,
assault
though the
before,
quarter
different
namely, that she was, on the whole, the Primitive Church restored.
do seem
we have
imagine, that
to
some new
we should
religion,
they relieving
lest
us,
whereas
in truth, the
ceremonies which
us, are
and customs of
the
we have
not things
thei/
are the
Church of Christ
in
scended unto
us'^."
whom
Again
way eased
the
fathers
Was
it
amiss,
till
to abrogate
had been
judgments)
the
of God, and
of our fathers,
down hy agreement of
().
1.
36
general Councils^ hut had accordingly been put in
use
till
for I
have
all
along multiplied
And again,
my
quotations at
why
should
in order to
?)
but
is
presented to us
and
steps
wherein
their followers.
ancienter
is
more
affect,
for
worse
it
tions of
fects
again
and
and
be
to
others
whom we much
better,
it
we had
for
them whom we
*'
the selfsame
resemble them
" As
Where Rome
leaving
;
by chance,
(i. e,
we
truth,
if
writings through,
permanent impression
as their abiding
far as they
all their
whom we
love^"
And
show
indefinitely
make
what was
all
"
"
37
Let these instances out of multitudes suffice
were we
for
Patrum,
Hooker,
to
to
to
more apparent
still
to the
the
am
develop-
times of trouble
on the
more cogent and necessary. Indeed the authority of some of the earliest
Church,
still
by
this
time becoming
formation
instance,
itself.
The
'of
Ignatius, for
the
Epistles
Saviour,
and
the
form
episcopal
till
to
of
be ap-
first
shorter copies
not
to
to refer to
rise
meet
But the
to
first
Fathers
centuries.
38
Socinian causes, put the divines of the seventeenth century on looking at the Fathers in
a fresh
so that
light,
still
faith
And
indeed
should be
Romanist.
ture
which
it
stands
Thus
so.
He
to
reason
to
that
of Scrip-
and
to the
bow
no
substantiation
We
we
it
in a
more
which he
to
re-
Where can
figurative sense.
Primitive
Church?
of so important
The
interpretation
true
a tenet, must,
make
in
Or again
of the Puritan
if
he discovers
and
our favour, as
well content.
we may be
we take
the case
in those texts of
less
to
be bound
How
can
39
we
test
which
in
we find
we may be
Scriptures
is
if
Take
involving
seems
it
and
clear
to us that nothing
Cer-
can be more
explicit
Scripture itself
all,
fect
New
Testament
is to
that
if
the
How
still
more
then, once
much
Church
Primitive
by
who
lived in
as
by
what the
consulting the
those Christians
article, of
who could
can the
probability
ascertaining
the generations
Apostles, and
left in
it,
I ask,
such
of
testimony
versy upon
John
is
aware of the
and
accordingly
on the contro-
v. 7.
40
Dr
Priestley
tive
tion
man who
that
bravely
an act of presump-
examined them
has
to
every
himself,
for
it
own
position of his
slender acquirements on
exposes,)
when
a time
imperfectly
selves,
at
known even
churchmen them-
to
at
any
rate monoculus
inter ccecos.
Whether
therefore
we have
to
defend our
we have not
to
behoves us
which
to
defend
them
her against
all
one or
will avail us
against
to
to
we
shall
efjLoi
find a
TAAE DANTA
/ueXei^:
magazine of arms
fitted for
Fathers
it
man
so that a
liar
II.
can seldom
441.
is
fami-
be taken
41
at
by
a disadvantage
assailants
whilst
it
for
open
to
of these various
either
to
not to
as
discretion,
come
which
thrusts
lay
from
quarters so different.
as well as the
encourages us to
itself,
it
is
not to
Sometimes
tion.
they
that
it
to
is
be borne
contending
are
in
against
mind,
heretical
which
at the
community were
much
qualification
same
may be
in
as in these,
fitting
under
this head.
selves
civil
may
over-anxious desire
to
make
doctrines
their
mon ground
them
led
to
push
that
are
to
such as were
was dangerous.
themselves
safe,
to
Sometimes
tainted with
an
or
extreme
that
heresy.
they
Some-
42
Sometimes that
than
the
of
Church.
universal
that practices
which they
to
innocent,
Sometimes
allude,
liable
though
to
abuse,
consequence.
in
and unguarded \
must undoubtedly
ances,
to ex-
when reading
be
made by
may be made,
us,
and
on the whole.
So
in our courts
there
perhaps
them
is it
it
may be
to reserve in the
some abatement
to
found something
evidence of each of
be made,
for incon-
all
honest
men who
the truth,
by
sifting
the
for
all
Examples of these
evidence of each,
all,
practical
several
from drawing a
purposes
suffi-
43
herself,
much
Our Church
and trustworthy.
ciently correct
sometimes taken
in
for
to the in-
and conservators of
terpretation of Scripture;
them
in
all
but
where they
seem
particularly on
Scriptures
the
altogether
are, or
must be
w^e
things
silent;
to be,
are,
much
opposed
not
less,
Still
only object
is
to
single
out
whatever
im-
and
nor
yet
their head,
as
on them by Pu-
them
set
for
describing
thors,
which they
that
*^
call
antiquity,"
this
whether
present time,
fish
or
in
sea-weed,
insomuch
down from
of old
or shrubs.
44
There
much
is
representations as these
for a long
yet churchmen
know
have
too little
medium
ingly.
went
I
in this Lecture,
was
by churchmen,
that
it
began
Edward
to
believe,
prominence
to require
make an
Was
thought to dispute*^?
to
at least,
conceal,
Of
Prelatical Episcopacy.
As
will take
some
avowal,
churchmen
a venerable
Bishop Hall
which
to give
to
which, from
and
name
or
come
come over
here speak,
as a fair repre-
after the
Reformation
indeed, so
far
much
favour of Puritanism."
Moreover, I
ways of setting forth his real sentiments ; for I will gather them as they escape from him here
and there incidentally in his Contemplations ; having happened
to note the passages down, without any view of making this
use of them,
45
when
it
began
to search the
to
Primitive
On
Reformers,
"
which
it
God's altar
it is
Contempl. B. xx.
whereby he
will
On
God
it
if
we have
fly in
laid
it is
one
new
own
B.
iii. c. 2.
we may
abso-
call
with
old
is
Manasseh.
12.
altar
Ordinances.
The
is
cursed.
071 Schism.
is
it
fit
there should be
hammers of
God!
all
that the
B. xvii.
5.
On
the Temjjle.
Cer-
tainly his heart despised those base priests of his high places,
own
On
" They are gross
clean.
If our lives
Baptisin.
flatterers
had no
Adam, and
is
sinful
in
of nature that
tell
her she
is
sin,
himself
mercy
46
we have
seen, talk so
be ignorant of
once was to
it
And though
we provide
as
and of them?
it,
much
the
sin
he provides the
remedy." Under the Law this was circumcision and sacri" Under the Gospel our Baptism hath the force of both
fice.
it does away our corruption by the water of the Spirit; it
whereby we are
B.
Again: "His
cleansed."
i.
N. T.
c. 5.
was
Purification.
Baptism gives
was
The
virtue
Yea,
to
His
our's.
last
souls of
B.
II. c. 2.
Again
N. T.
similitude of
hopeless.
Adam,
is
Christ's Baptism.
" Even
There
Adam
is
no
cleanse
less
them by
On
this,
Christ
among
On
that
all,
than there
lb.
Adam,
which
will needs
run as soon as
God on
them."
B.
need not
ii. c. 1.
N. T.
the Doctors.
the Episcopalian
If to the earth,
highest.
people.
the
as
is
not exemplified in
47
zeal for the glory of
man who
pre-
"he
alarm,
will
the
to
of every
Holy
the
Scriptures,
and
? "
expressions
the Fathers.
experience,
And
has
it
been found on
(to
that
test,)
the
as in
and that
to
be read,
B.
iii.
3.
it
became pure
The dumb
N. T.
devil
ejected.
On
" They knew themselves Jews, but could not derive their
line; these were yet admitted without difficulty: but those
of the priestly tribe, which could not deduce their genealogy
register, are cashiered as unclean: then God would
be served in a blood ; now in a due succession. If we could
not fetch the line of our pedigree from Christ and his Apostles,
from the
we were
not
by nature ;
fit
our's
by grace
outward ordination ;
justly abandoned."
I will
if
we
B. xxi.
1.
make no remark on
we
are
except to ask,
48
On
and evangelical?
was not
the contrary,
our declension in orthodoxy (properly so termed) coincident with our declension in Church-
man-ship
upon our
was
as
pulpits,
antiquity
ecclesiastical
there are
If therefore
now
called,
them
it
(I
saves
;)
forgive
which
ciples too,
and
feel
is
my own
to follow
from a
namely, an increased
in
them a
an increased conviction
great mystery
vinity
which
is
that,
but
that in
and
'
what
have said
have so
who have a
us.
49
Nobody can
and
most delicate
the multitude of
difficult
it;
and
he
if
all
things ap-
called
is
upon
to
without striving
to,
beware, that
The deeper
he dives
into
the writings
o'er
of the Primitive
crisis
moved, the
the
whole guided
he perceive a
will
now calmly
And
some
particulars
would be glad
if
which
there
may
be
as an individual,
Primitive Church, or
he,
if
fast,
if,
how unspeakable
for a people to
ship
on
real, yet,
a blessing
it
is
for
bearing in mind the caution of
but too
remembered
little
tlie
preacher,
who-
in these days,
and whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith^ ;" he will be slow to disturb that which
is
tion,
first;
content
if
at a
second reforma-
to
something nearer
to
the
platform on which
down;
tled
who,
treading
in
the
steps
of
Churchmen,
time, zealous
they have
left us^
witness
the Ritual
of Scripture appointed
witness the
from
the
shall
first
line
any
be
if
tribute
to
this
nor do
to
efforts
sumptuous confidence
in
of
mine
not
it
I feel
last.
Rejoiced
shall
consummation ever so
despair of
because
the
con-
little
my own
powers, but
Ecclesiastes x. 8, 9.
Catechism.
The
Cranmer's
T
51
are,
God
are dis-
which
If,
if
shall
then, I
had
express in a word
to
am
on ecclesiastical antiquity
duce,
it
would be
this
hearers to say
declaration
of the
Amen
good
should pro-
may
induce
to that part
of the
that they
Ken,
Bishop
'*As
for
my
die in the
communion
land, as
it
of the
of
the Cross
THE END.
con-
religion, I
Church of Eng-
the
tures
my
be cast in
tree
it
all
Papal
adheres
to