The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D. Volume 1-2; Late Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford (Paperback)

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.1870 Excerpt: ... power under the Gospel being reserved to Christ alone, and its character being quite distinct from those other powers of government, teaching, and ministration, which the Church may have and must have. But from the natural confusion between government with ministration in a religious society, and the notion of priesthood, the master falsehood gradually stole in unperceived, till long time had so sanctioned it, that when at last men saw and allowed its legitimate consequences, itself was still spared as a harmless and venerable error, if not as a sacred truth. But I have sent you a sermon in manuscript, a thing intolerable, and therefore I will end abruptly, as they say my sermons are apt to do. Thank you for your allusion to our visit to Oxford; we hope that we may at any rate see something of you, and you need not dread my coming up with any designs of arguing or entering into controversy; my visits to Oxford are always intended to be for peace, and not for war. CCLVI. TO AN OLD PUPIL, (g.) Rugby, December 4, 1840. I thank you for a certain pamphlet which gave me a day or two ago; I must earnestly wish it success; and such moral reforms are among the purest delights which a man can ever enjoy in this life. I delight too, most heartily, that the change of profession is decided. May God's blessing be with your decision, through His Son now and ever. CCLVII. TO THE SAME. Fox How, December 28, 1840. I honor and sympathize with an anxiety to follow our Lord's will in matters of real moral importance, as much as I shrink from the habit of exalting every notice of what was once done in matters of form into a law, that the same ought always to be done, and that Christ has commanded it. But I do not feel your objection to taking an oath when required by a lawful an...