Letters To Radulphus On The Mosaic Account Of The Creation - Together With Other Treatises (1876) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: On some points views are not so pronounced, as they probably would bave been, in one direction or the other, had he outlived the " tragedy of Luther." On some, no doubt, his montai vision was obscured by the mysticism of his favourite Dionysius. Still, on the whole, I think that an impartial survey of his collected writings would show a moderate Augustinism, such as influenced the framors of our seventeenth Article. And in this, as in many other characteristics of his teaching, we may thankfully observe how unbroken is the continuity between him and ourselves; and how hia spirit, no leas than his sepulchre, " is with us unto this day." 4.?On The Commentary on The First Epistle or St. Pbteb. Some account of this work has been already given, in the appendix to the Lectures on Romans; but it may be as (3) Its remission in Baptism: infra, 116; De Sacramentit, 89 (" Infantes baptizati nubeculain original njustitiae adventu himiuis habent propulsam, modo qua: secutura est vita sacramento respondent.") (4) Justification by faith: infra, 62, 91, 92, 114, 122, 125, 126. (5) This faith to show itself in works: infra, 53, 107, 118. (6) Election and Predestination: infra, 91, 97, 99, 125 ("The gracious God, that justifieth the ungodly altogether without merits, and of his mere grace and good will makes the sinner righteous with the righteousness of faith"), 126 ("For God has been gracious to sinners, His enemies, of pure spontaneousness, without any merit, on their part preceding, or being expected in the future"); De Sacramentit, 62; Hierarchie, 149; Lecture on Roman, 40, 45; /. Corinthian, 28, 89. At the same time, on this last subject of predestination, the one, perhaps, more than all others associated with the name of Augustine, Colet's language cert...