Canadian Methodist Magazine (Volume 2) - Softcover

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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.1875 Excerpt: ... extinguish;--and perhaps all those resources might have failed in the attempt. This is intimated by all the historians of the Church, and is referred to in the quotation from Lord Lindsay's work which I have before given. But the very reverse of all this was the case; they permitted themselves to be driven into the Catacombs by their heathen fellow-subjects, instead of opposing them, and when the arm of power required it they did not refuse to bare the neck to the uplifted sworo. Again,--in the language of these simple records we see IfOW closely they adhered to the written Word; there is nothing in them savouring of human tradition. In this view too there is something for us in the present day to consider. When the profound theologian wishes to give us what he esteems the true teaching of the Church, and takes us back to times when she is supposed to speak with no uncertain voice, and points us to the traditions of the Fathers as the exponents of Christian doctrine, it is well that we have it in our power to oppose practice to precept, and that we can carry him to these speaking tablets, and show him how much superior light there was, and how much more of Scripture truth, in the poor and unlearned of those very days, than in those who were esteemed to be the luminaries of the Church, but who were too often entangled in the mazes of human wisdom. It shows us that the nearer we approach the fountain of living waters, the less desire we shall feel to tiust to the broken cisterns that can hold no water. There is also negative testimony against many of the so-called developments which have taken place in the latter periods of the Church. 1 have already hinted at some instances, but it will be as well to refer to them more particularly. On one point, namely, wit...

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