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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... related of the Duke of Wellington that, on hearing one of his officers speak lightly of Eevelation, he asked him, "Did you ever read Paley?"--"No."--"Then you are not qualified to give an opinion." The translations to which I alluded form the "Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church." Also in "The Christian's Family Library" there is one volume, entitled "The Christian Fathers of the First and Second Century; their Principal Eemains at large; with Selections from their other Writings." Milner and Mosheim may both be consulted for the general character of the Fathers; also, Horne's "Introduction." Conybeare's "Bampton Lectures," contain an analytical examination into the character, value, and just application of the writings of the Christian Fathers during the AnteNicene period. Dr. Burton also published " Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ." In the works of N. Lardner (a Socinian writer) we have a careful examination of the testimony which the Fathers have afforded to the Scriptures. Dr. Clarke's "Succession of Sacred Literature," with his "Bibliographical Miscellany," and more particularly Cave's " Lives of the Fathers of the First Four Ages of the Church," are books of high authority. Secondly. The Schoolmen. At the beginning of the Eeformation a monk declared that Greek was "the mother of all heresy," and that as to Hebrew, "it is certain that all who learn it become instantly Jews." For this abhorrence of learning we must blame its abuse by the Schoolmen, of whom Luther said "they did nothing but propose paradoxes, and that their whole art was built on a contempt of Scripture." Bonaventura, Aquinas, Bradwardine, Wickliffe, Huss, and Jerome, are the names of the principal Schoolmen; the life and opinions of Wick...
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