Sermons Preached in Lent 1845, and on Several Former Occasions, Before the University of Cambridge (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2017 M10 24 - 516 páginas Excerpt from Sermons Preached in Lent 1845, and on Several Former Occasions, Before the University of Cambridge In the circumstances that made this question suitable to their purpose, no less than in the spirit of those that proposed it, we may trace the operation of those merely human traditions, which on this point of civil subjection, as on others, had corrupted the doctrine of Moses and the prophets. The leading persons concerned in this application were Pharisees, as the narration of St Matthew distinctly informs us: and from the artful terms by which it is prefaced, ostentatiously commend ing our Lord's fearless teaching in divine matters, the opinion of the framers of the question may be easily traced: they thought that a regard to God's honour, without any intermixture of worldly con siderations, would infallibly dictate an answer in the negative. It is true that the courtly historian of the Jews in the time of Vespasian has laboured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
