A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church
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A thousand years before Calvin and Luther were bom, holy men, deemed worthy of the crown of martyrdom, recorded, on the open page of history, these catalogues of a then bright and unbroken and uncontested succession. Even the Syrian Church, so early and Jewish in its origin as to have incorporated and to this day retained among her rites the circumcision, the slain lamb, and the first-fruits, of the Jewish faith : will show you, in the inaccessible fastnesses where she dwelt alone and has not b...een numbered with the people, nor even been known to her sister churches for fifteen himdred years, a long line of Bishops back to St. Thomas. Eather than the line should be broken, men were found willing to bridge the threatened 33* 890 LOOKISfO FOB THE CHURCH.
chasm by throwing their bodies into fire or flood, to per- fect the chain and connect the future with the past. And now, as you believe the flowers of- the field to be, each in its line, the l^itjniate successors of the originals as they bloomed first from the Creator's hand, although you are quite imable to trace the succession back to the rnii-aculous beginning ; or as you are sure that the line of believers has never failed in happy succession back to the disciples who first sat at the Mastftr's feet, although you are entirely unable to trace the holy line thi-ough the centuries gone by ; or as you know the Bible to be a true copy of a copy of another copy stUl, back to the inspired pens of Moses and Matthew, although you are equally unable to trace the lineal succession : so are we cer- tain that the present Bishops or Apostles are the rightful successors of Apostles who succeeded others, in unbroken chains, back to the hands of the adorable Master.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A thousand years before Calvin and Luther were bom, holy men, deemed worthy of the crown of martyrdom, recorded, on the open page of history, these catalogues of a then bright and unbroken and uncontested succession. Even the Syrian Church, so early and Jewish in its origin as to have incorporated and to this day retained among her rites the circumcision, the slain lamb, and the first-fruits, of the Jewish faith : will show you, in the inaccessible fastnesses where she dwelt alone and has not b...een numbered with the people, nor even been known to her sister churches for fifteen himdred years, a long line of Bishops back to St. Thomas. Eather than the line should be broken, men were found willing to bridge the threatened 33* 890 LOOKISfO FOB THE CHURCH.
chasm by throwing their bodies into fire or flood, to per- fect the chain and connect the future with the past. And now, as you believe the flowers of- the field to be, each in its line, the l^itjniate successors of the originals as they bloomed first from the Creator's hand, although you are quite imable to trace the succession back to the rnii-aculous beginning ; or as you are sure that the line of believers has never failed in happy succession back to the disciples who first sat at the Mastftr's feet, although you are entirely unable to trace the holy line thi-ough the centuries gone by ; or as you know the Bible to be a true copy of a copy of another copy stUl, back to the inspired pens of Moses and Matthew, although you are equally unable to trace the lineal succession : so are we cer- tain that the present Bishops or Apostles are the rightful successors of Apostles who succeeded others, in unbroken chains, back to the hands of the adorable Master.
What to read after A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking for the Church?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Flavel S Flavel Scott Mines to read onlineMoreLess
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