The Catholicity of the Anglican Church. the Protestant Idea of Antichrist. Milman's View of Christianity. the Reformation of the Eleventh Century. Pri

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...this strange aversion to mention sin and the forgiveness of sin? Again: of the passage which speaks of " the unclean VOL. II. 15 spirit going out of a man," etc., he observes that Christ "reverts in language of more than usual energy" (that is, not "gentle" language, we presume, ) "to the incapacity of the age and nation to discern the real and intrinsic superiority of His religion."--P. 236. In our Lord's slowly granting the request of the Syrophcenician, who wished for the crumbs that were the dog's portion, with the words, "O woman, great is thy faith" Mr. Milman discerns but a condescension to the prejudices" of the Jews and His Apostles, by which "Jesus was enabled to display His own benevolence without awakening, or confirming if already awakened, the quick suspicion of His followers."--P. 253. In the same spirit he elsewhere observes that the Apostles, "with cautious deference to Jewish feeling, were forbidded to proceed beyond the borders of the Holy Land."--P. 238. The words, "Ye are of your father the devil," (words which Mr. Milman apparently feels to be inconsistent with what he considers our Lord's "gentleness,") become "the spirit of evil, in whose darkest and most bloody temper they were ready to act, was rather the parent of men with dispositions so diabolic."--P. 268. The discourse in the Synagogue of Capernaum, after the miracle of the loaves, related by St. John, ch. vi., is explained to mean merely " the improvement of the moral and spiritual condition of man, described under the strong but not unusual figure of nourishment administered to the soul."--P. 243. How can an earnest mind, contemplating our...