This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... THIRD BOOK (continued.) FIfiST PART. (continued.) THE CHURCH AMONG THE GENTJLES. 24. THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH UNDER ITS HEAVIEST ASSAULT. (Chap. xv. 1--35). The history of the Apostles exhibits the Church to us under two opposite aspects. Under one it introduces her to us in her perfection. At ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... THIRD BOOK (continued.) FIfiST PART. (continued.) THE CHURCH AMONG THE GENTJLES. 24. THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH UNDER ITS HEAVIEST ASSAULT. (Chap. xv. 1--35). The history of the Apostles exhibits the Church to us under two opposite aspects. Under one it introduces her to us in her perfection. At her birth she appears to us as the reconciliation of all earthly contradictions; as a harmonious choir hymning the praise of God with the tongues of all nations and peoples under heaven; she appears as the happy bride resting on the bosom of her beloved; and while the world grows faint-hearted and desponds before the signs of the last days, she, in singleness of heart, looks forward to the time of her union with him. The other aspect under which the Church is also here depicted is equally extensive, though of a wholly different kind. Under it the Church is represented in labour and in warfare; she can call nothing her own; she has yet everything to win; to labour for it and to gain it by a hard struggle. And just as her whole being was filled and pervaded by that sense of bliss, so did this feeling of want and destitution pervade and ran through her entire frame. We are VOL. II. A conducted into the very secrecy of her profoundest principles; there to see her tremble and heave with agony and alarm. It is the same conflict as that which the Gospels open to our eyes in the life of our Lord; here, too, on the one hand, there gleams the Heavenly radiance of the majesty of the only begotten Son of God, and on the other lowers the abysmal, deadly darkness of despair and of abandonment by God. But with these two opposite aspects, as well of the life of the Lord as of that of the early Church, it fares not alike in the conception of them....
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Volume III only. Translated by Theod. Meyer. Dark gray or brown embossed cloth, spine has been repaired with black library tape, white handwritten lettering on spine. Corners bumped and worn, cover shows slight rubbing. Ex-university-library with the usual indications. Page edges quite tan. Binding loosening a bit, but all pages are present and secure. Pages some tanned but clean, no other markings. 383 pages. Ships in cardboard with U. S. tracking.
