The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . on. That which in later ages has been accomplished by a congre-gation of writers, or a mission of divines, was in the earlier periodsthe word of some prominent bishop, whose reputation for wisdom orsanctity governed the convictions of his contemporaries ; while in theyet more primitive ages it would seem to have been arrived at in-stinctively by the Churchs spiritual cognisance of what was due tothe Church. It is indeed this which imparts so high an interest tothe study of certain dogmas; it is in fa
The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . on. That which in later ages has been accomplished by a congre-gation of writers, or a mission of divines, was in the earlier periodsthe word of some prominent bishop, whose reputation for wisdom orsanctity governed the convictions of his contemporaries ; while in theyet more primitive ages it would seem to have been arrived at in-stinctively by the Churchs spiritual cognisance of what was due tothe Church. It is indeed this which imparts so high an interest tothe study of certain dogmas; it is in fact the study of the freshsoul of early Christendom, of the currents and impulses which swayedits deepest collective life, of not merely the truths which we hold ofthe Christian Church, but the successive moods and characteristics ofthe passion with which she pressed them to her heart. The sudden change from Isaiah to Genesis is probably to be ex-plained by the consideration that on Septuagesima Sunday we passa great dividing line of the Christian year, and, as the name of thevol. iv. L 161. SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY day implies, everything is relative to, preparatory for, the EasterFestival. Before looking once more in our lives fully in the facethose stupendous acts which constitute the very chord and centre ofthe Christian Creed, the Passion and the Resurrection from the deadof the Incarnate Son of God, we are led to take our measure, themeasure of our true place in the universe, and our relation to theBeing who created it. We fall back upon these elementary truthsfor a moment, that we may the better do justice to the real sig-nificance of those central doctrines of the Christian Creed, since theyfill up the outline, and afford a relief from difficulties which naturalreligion or elementary primitive traditions cannot fail to suggest. Aserious theism, a reverent study of God or nature is the true in-structor. To know what God is, and what we are, is to have foundthe schoolmaster, wh
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