Wilberforce Robert Isaac Anglican Archdeacon (6 results)

Hardcover. x, [1], 214 p.; 18.5 cm. (Ancient and modern library of theological literature ; 5) [First printed in 1840] Good lt. spotted orig. green cloth.

Hardcover. 2nd edition. principle of church authority. [3], 150 p.; 20.5 cm. [First printed earlier in 1851] The second sermon, The principle of Church authority. I. Corinthians, ii. 15. "He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet He himself is judged of no man." was preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's Church, Sunday, May 18, 1851. `The spiritual man therefore, to whose judgment St. Paul refers, is not the individual, but the collective Christian. He does not mean that each man may believe what he chooses for himself, but that each is safe, while he holds that which is accepted of all. There has been one only individual of the human family, whose single judgment might dispense with the aid of external counsellors. The Head of the renewed family alone possessed in Himself all that light, which in their measure He bestows upon His brethren. For "in Him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." In others the spiritual judgment is developed only through communion with Him; and their union with Him is through acceptance of the common faith, and inherence in the common body. For it is only as members of the family of Christ, that men can claim the promise of the Spirit.' (p. 137 f.) Fair ex-lib.slate cloth, lacks upper spine. Light pencil scoring.

Hardcover. 1st American. First American, from the second London edition [1849; first printed in 1848] xv, [17]-411 p.; 20 cm. `The glowing words in which Scripture describes the privileges of Christians, are regarded as something bestowed on them as individuals, as a re-assertion of the claims of nature, and as though by themselves they had access to God; whereas it is only through their great Head that these blessings devolve on them. The royal and priestly nature has been shown not to belong to them in themselves, but by union with Him who by His Mediation has joined them to God. As fallen humanity was first re-consecrated by union with the divine nature in Christ our Head, so all consecrating virtue is bestowed upon His servants through that union with Him, which belongs to them as members of His mystical body. He is the sole King, the only Priest; but they are all heirs, so far as they are one with Him, in a Kingly and Priestly line. That sacerdotal system, whereby we maintain communion with His man's nature, instead of derogating, as some have imagined, from the privilege of individual Christians, is the very circumstance on which their tenure rests.' (p. 307-09) -- 'Since this union is itself foreign to the course of nature, so must the media be by which it is effected; the work cannot depend on their natural influence, but on that influence with which they are supernaturally endowed. And that those outward means which we call Sacraments, are truly attended by an inward effect, that what is done on earth in holy mysteries, effects a real change in the whole nature of those who are acted upon, is known to us by the distinct declarations of God's word.' (p. 314) Worn orig. brown cloth, lacks spine. Pages lightly foxed.

Hardcover. xiii, 15-300 p.; 19 cm. [Reset from London edition of 1849] VG brown cloth, prior sig. at head of title-page. Light foxing.

Hardcover. 1st edition. xxiv, 482 p.; 21.5 cm. '.it will be necessary to notice some other conditions of this sacred presence, by which its reality is at once defined and substantiated. Such are the statements that Our Lord's presence in the Holy Eucharist is supernatural, and not natural; that it is sacramental, and not sensible. These lead to the further assertion that it is real, and not merely symbolical or virtual.' (p. 152) -- 'It is thus that we must discriminate the Infinite from the finite, the Creator from His works. It is no interference therefore with the inalienable prerogatives of Deity, to suppose that capacities of presence, far exceeding the ordinary conditions of nature, as well as other unusual gifts, should be bestowed upon a created substance. And on what of all created substances should they be bestowed so suitably, as on that Humanity which by personal union was one with God? Was it not the very principle of the Incarnation that the Infinite and the finite were brought face to face in the Person of Christ? It must be remembered only that whereas such capacities belong to Godhead by the necessity of its nature, they belong to manhood accidentally only, and by gift. In this consideration lies the safeguard against that error of ubiquity which at times was advocated by Luther.' (p. 159 f.) Good half brown morocco,upper joint cracking. Margin dampstained.

Hardcover. 1st edition. xx, 284 p.; 23 cm. `So soon as my conscience was satisfied that the declaration, to which I had pledged myself, was unlawful, I felt that it was my duty to recall my assent as solemnly as it had been given.' (p. v f.) -- Following a dossier of his abrasive correspondence with Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of York, Wilberforce concludes: `Whether I was right in considering that I ought not to carry the present volume through the Press, without first relieving myself from the obligations of subscription, I leave to the reader's judgment; I can only say that my resolution was not taken without counting the cost. .and if the reader's thoughts suggest to him that it is impossible to unloose ties so binding, or to transplant himself from his ancient seat, when he is too old to take root in a new soil, let him be assured that such also have been the feelings of the writer. And more painful still, is the consciousness that such a step must rend the hearts and cloud the prospects of those who are as dear to men as their own souls. It is at such times that the promises of Scripture come home to the heart with a freshness, which eighteen centuries have not diminished. "There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My sake, and the Gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come, eternal life."' (p. ix f.) Fair orig. brown cloth, lacks spine. Corners lt. creased.