IN THE HOLY LAND
"Last scene of all,
Which ends this strange eventful history."
Our tale is all but told. Osric reached the Holy Land in safety, more
fortunate than many of his fellows; and there, hearing Brian's
recommendations and acknowledged as his son, joined the order of the
Knights Templars,--that splendid order which was astonishing the world
by its valour and its achievements, whose members were half monks, half
warriors, and wore the surplice over the very coat of mail; having their
chief church in the purified Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple
of Jerusalem, and their mission to protect pilgrims and defend the Holy
City.
He was speedily admitted to knighthood, a distinction his valour fully
justified; and we leave him--gratifying both the old and the new man:
the old man in his love of fighting, the new man in his self-conquest--a
far nobler thing after all. It was a combination sanctioned by the
holiest, best men of that age; such as St. Bernard, whose hymns still
occupy a foremost place in our worship.[31]
Brian still continued his warlike career, but there was a great change
in his mode of warfare. Wallingford Castle was no longer sullied by
unnecessary cruelties. Coupe-gorge and Tustain had an easy time of it.
In 1152 Stephen again besieged Wallingford, but the skill and valour of
Brian Fitz-Count forced him to retreat. Again, having reduced the
Castle of Newbury, he returned, and strove to reduce the place by
famine, blocking them in on every side; so that they were forced to send
a message to Henry Plantagenet to come to their aid from Normandy. He
embarked in January 1153 with three thousand foot and a hundred and
forty horse. Most of the great nobles of the west joined his standard in
his passage through England, and he was in time to relieve Wallingford,
besieging the besiegers in their Crowmarsh fort. Stephen came in turn to
relieve them with the barons who adhered to his standard, accompanied by
his son, the heir presumptive, Eustace, animated with strong emulation
against Henry. On his approach, Henry made a sudden sally, and took by
storm the fort at the head of the bridge, which Stephen had erected the
year before, and following the cruel customs of the war, caused all the
defenders to be beheaded on the bridge. Then leaving a sufficient force
to bridle Crowmarsh, Henry marched out with great alacrity to offer
Stephen a pitched battle and decide the war. He had not gone far when he
found Stephen encamped on Cholsey Common, and both sides prepared for
battle with eagerness.
But the Earl of Arundel, assembling all the nobility and principal
leaders, addressed them.
"It is now fourteen years since the rage of civil war first infected the
kingdom. During that melancholy period what blood has been shed, what
desolation and misery brought on the people! The laws have lost their
force; the Crown its authority; this great and noble nation has been
delivered over as a prey to the basest of foreigners,--the abominable
scum of Flanders, Brabant, and Brittany,--robbers rather than soldiers,
restrained by no laws, Divine or human,--instruments of all tyranny,
cruelty, and violence. At the same time our cruel neighbours the Welsh
and the Scotch, taking advantage of our distress, have ravaged our
borders. And for what good? When Maude was Queen, she alienated all
hearts by her pride and violence, and made them regret Stephen. And when
Stephen returned to power, he made them regret Maude. He discharged not
his foreign hirelings; but they have lived ever since at free-quarters,
plundering our houses, burning our cities, preying upon the very bowels
of the land, like vultures upon a dying beast. Now, here are two new
armies of Angevins, Gascons, and what not. If Henry conquer, he must
confiscate our property to repay them, as the Conqueror that of the
English, after Senlac. If Stephen conquer, have we any reason to think
he will reign better than before? Therefore let us make a third
party--that of peace. Let Stephen reign (with proper restraint) for
life, and Henry, as combining the royal descent of both nations, succeed
him."
The proposal was accepted with avidity, with loud shouts, "So be it: God
wills it."
Astonishment and rage seized Eustace, thus left out in the cold; but his
father, weary of strife, gave way, and Stephen and Henry met within a
little distance from the two camps, in a meadow near Wallingford, the
river flowing between the two armies--which had been purposely so
disposed to prevent collision--and the conditions of peace were
virtually settled on the river-bank.
Eustace went off in a great rage with the knights of his own household,
and ravaged the country right and left, showing what an escape England
had in his disappointment. His furious passion, coupled with violent
exertion, brought on a brain fever, of which he died. Alas, poor young
prince! But his death saved thousands of innocent lives, and brought
peace to poor old England. The treaty was finally concluded in November
1153, in the fourteenth year of the war. Stephen died the following
year, and Henry quietly succeeded; who sent the free-lances back to the
continent, and demolished one thousand one hundred and fifteen robbers'
castles.
----
"Peace and no more from out its brazen portals
The blasts of war's great organ shake the skies,
But beautiful as songs of the immortals,
The holy harmonies of peace arise."
And now Brian Fitz-Count could carry out his heart's desire, and follow
Osric to the Crusades. His wife, Maude of Wallingford, had before
retired into Normandy, weary of strife and turmoil, and taken the veil,
with his consent, in a convent connected with the great monastery of
Bec.
In the chamber overlooking the south terrace, the river, and the glacis,
once the bower of Maude d'Oyley, sat the young King Henry. He was of
ruddy countenance and well favoured, like David of old. His chest was
broad but his stature short, his manners graceful and dignified.
Before him stood the lord of the castle.
"And so thou _wilt_ leave us! For the sake of thy long and great
services to our cause, I would fain have retained thee here."
"My liege, I wish to atone for a life of violence and bloodshed. I must
save my poor soul."
"Hast thou sinned more than other men?"
"I know not, only that I repent me of my life of violence: I have been a
man of blood from my youth, and I go to the tomb of Him Who bled for me
that I may lay my sins there."
"And who shall succeed thee here?"
"I care not. I have neither kith nor kin save one--a Knight Templar. A
noble soldier, but, by the rules of his stern order, he is pledged to
poverty, chastity, and obedience."
"I have heard that the Templars abound in those virtues, but they are a
monastic body, and can hold no property independently of their noble
order; and I have no wish to see Wallingford Castle a fief of theirs."
"I leave it all to thee, my liege, and only ask permission to say
farewell."
"God be with thee, since go thou must."
Brian kissed the royal hand and was gone.
Once he looked back at the keep of Wallingford Castle from the summit of
Nuffield in the Chilterns, on his road to London _en route_ for the sea.
Ah! what a look was that!
He never saw it again.
And when he had gone one of the first acts of the king was to seize as
an "escheat" the Castle and honour of Wallingford which Brian Fitz-Count
and Maude his wife, having entered the religious life, had ceased to
hold.
----
The sun was setting in the valley between Mount Ebal and Mount
Gerizim--the mountains of blessing and cursing. In the entrance to the
gorge, thirty-four miles from Jerusalem and fifteen south of Samaria,
was the village of El Askar, once called Sychar.
An ancient well, surmounted by an alcove more than a hundred feet
deep--the gift of Jacob to his son Joseph--was to be seen hard by; and
many pilgrims paused and drank where the Son of God once slaked His
human thirst.
The rounded mass of Ebal lay to the south-east of the valley, of Gerizim
to the north-west; at the foot of the former lay the village.
As in that olden time, it yet wanted four months of harvest. The
corn-fields were still green; the foliage of leafy trees afforded
delicious shades, as when He sat weary by that well, old even then.
Oh what memories of blessing and cursing, of Jacob and Joseph, of Joshua
and Gideon, clung to that sacred spot! But, like stars in the presence
of a sun, their lustre paled at the remembrance that His sacred Feet
trod that hallowed soil.
In a whitewashed caravansary of El Askar lay a dying penitent,--a
pilgrim returning from Jerusalem, then governed by a Christian king. He
seemed prematurely old,--worn out by the toils of the way and the change
of climate and mode of life. He lacked not worldly wealth, which there,
as elsewhere, commanded attention; yet his feet were blistered and sore,
for he had of choice travelled barefoot to the Holy Sepulchre.
A military party was passing along the vale, bound from Acre to
Jerusalem, clad in flexible mail from head to foot; armed, for the rules
of their order forbade them ever to lay their arms aside. But over their
armour long monastic mantles of scarlet were worn, with a huge white
cross on the left shoulder. They were of the array of the Knights
Templars. Soldiers, yet monks! of such high renown that scarcely a great
family in Europe but was represented in their ranks. Their diet was
simple, their discipline exact; they shunned no hardship, declined no
combat; they had few ties to life, but were prepared to sacrifice all
for the sake of the holy warfare and the Temple of God. Their homes,
their churches, lacked ornament, and were rigidly simple, as became
their vow of poverty. Never yet had they disgraced their holy calling,
or neglected to bear their white banner into the heart of the foe; so
that the Moslem trembled at the war-cry of the Templars--"God and His
Temple."
Such were the Templars in their early days.
The leader of this particular party was a knight in the prime of life,
of noble, prepossessing bearing; who managed his horse as if rider and
steed were one, like the Centaur of old.
They encamped for the night in the open, hard by the Sacred Well.
Scarcely were the camp-fires lit, when a villager sought an audience of
the commander, which was at once granted.
"Noble seigneur," he said, "a Christian pilgrim lies dying at the
caravansary hard by, and craves the consolations of religion. Thou art
both monk and soldier?"
"I am."
"And wilt visit the dying man?"
"At once."
And only draining a goblet of wine and munching a crust, the leader
followed the guide, retaining his arms, according to rule; first telling
his subordinate in command where he was going.
On the slopes of the eastern hill stood the caravansary, built in the
form of a hollow square; the courtyard devoted to horses and cattle,
chambers opening all round the inner colonnade, with windows looking
outward upon the country.
There the Templar was taken to a chamber, where, upon a rude pallet,
was stretched the dying man.
"Thou art ill, my brother; canst thou converse with me?"
"God has left me that strength."
"With what tongue dost thou adore the God of our fathers?"
"English or French. But who art thou?"
The dying man raised himself up on his elbows.
"Osric!"
"My father!"
It was indeed Brian Fitz-Count who lay dying on that couch. They
embraced fervently.
"_Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine in pace_," he said. "Osric, my son,
is yet alive--I see him: God permits me to see him, to gladden my eyes.
Osric, thou shalt close them; and here shalt thou bury thy father."
"Tell me, my sire, hast thou long arrived? why have we not met before?"
"I have been to Jerusalem; I have wept on Calvary; I have prayed at the
Holy Sepulchre; and there I have received the assurance that He has cast
my sins behind my back, and blotted them out, nailing them to His Cross.
I then sought thee, and heard thou wert at Acre, at the commandery of
St. John. I sought thee, but passed thee on the road unwittingly. Then I
retraced my steps; but the malaria, which ever hangs about the ruins of
old cities, has prostrated me. My hours are numbered; but what have I
yet to live for? no, _Nunc dimittis, nunc dimittis, Domine; quia oculi
mei viderunt salutare Tuum_."
And he sank back as in ecstasy, holding still the hand of his son, and
covering it with kisses.
The setting sun cast a flood of glory on the vale beneath, on Jacob's
Well.
Once more the sick man rose on his bed, and gazed on the sacred spot
where once the Redeemer sat, and talked with the woman of Samaria.
"He sat there, weary, weary, seeking His sheep; and I am one. He has
found me. Oh my God, Thou didst thirst for my soul; let that thirst be
satisfied."
Then to Osric--
"Hast thou not a priest in thy troop, my son?"
"Our chaplain is with us."
"Let him bring me the Viaticum. I am starting on my last long journey, I
want my provision for the way."
The priest arrived; the last rites were administered.
"Like David of old, I have been a man of blood; like him, I have
repented that I have shed innocent blood," said the sick penitent.
"And like Nathan, I tell thee, my brother," said the priest, "that the
Lord hath put away thy sin."
"And my faith accepts the blessed assurance."
"Osric, my son, let me bless thee before I die; thou dost not know,
canst never know on earth, what thou didst for me."
"God bless thee too, my father. We shall meet before His throne when
time shall be no more."
----
He fell back as if exhausted, and for a long time lay speechless. At
last he raised himself on his elbow and looked steadfastly up.
"Hark! they are calling the roll-call above."
He listened intently for a moment, then, as if he had heard his own
name, he answered--
"ADSUM."
And Brian Fitz-Count was no more.
THE END
_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_.
FOOTNOTE:
[31] As the admirers of Captain Hedley Vicars and other military
Christians sanction the combination even now.
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Strafford--Archbishop Laud--Carlyle's Cromwell--Luther.
VOLUME II.--Dr. Arnold--Blanco White--Dr. Pusey's Sermon--The Book of
Job--Maurice's Theological Essays--Indian Conversion--The Argument of
Design--The Principle of Causation considered in opposition to Atheistic
Theories--In Memoriam--The Author's Articles and Works.
Mozley on Miracles.
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EIGHT LECTURES ON MIRACLES: being the Bampton Lectures for 1865.
By J. B. Mozley, D.D.,
_Late Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Oxford_.
Mozley's Parochial Sermons.
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SERMONS, PAROCHIAL AND OCCASIONAL.
By J. B. Mozley, D.D.,
_Late Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Oxford_.
Contents.
The Right Eye and the Right Hand--Temptation treated as Opportunity--The
Influences of Habit on Devotion--Thought for the Morrow--The Relief of
Utterance--Seeking a Sign--David Numbering the People--The Heroism of
Faith--Proverbs--The Teaching of Events--Growing Worse--Our Lord the
Sacrifice for Sin--The Parable of the Sower--The Religious Enjoyment of
Nature--The Threefold Office of the Holy Spirit--Wisdom and Folly Tested
by Experience--Moses, a Leader--The Unjust Steward--Sowing to the
Spirit--True Religion, a Manifestation--St. Paul's Exaltation of
Labour--Jeremiah's Witness against Idolatry--Isaiah's Estimate of
Worldly Greatness--The Shortness of Life--The Endless State of
Being--The Witness of the Apostles--Life a Probation--Christian
Mysteries, the Common Heritage--Our Lord's Hour--Fear--The Educating
Power of Strong Impressions--The Secret Justice of Temporal
Providence--Jacob as a Prince Prevailing with God.
Mozley's Lectures.
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LECTURES AND OTHER THEOLOGICAL PAPERS.
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_Late Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Oxford_.
The Prayer Book in Latin.
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FEMALE CHARACTERS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. A Series of Sermons.
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_Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford_.
Contents.
Eve--Sarah--Lot's Wife--Rebekah--Leah and
Rachel--Miriam--Rahab--Deborah--Ruth--Hannah--The Witch of
Endor--Bathsheba--Rizpah--The Queen of Sheba--The Widow of
Zarephath--Jezebel--The Shunammite--Esther--Elisabeth--Anna--The Woman
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Canaan--Martha--Mary--Salome--The Wife of Pilate--Dorcas--The Blessed
Virgin.
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Edited by the Rev. John Henry Blunt, D.D.,
_Editor of the 'Dictionary of Theology,' 'Annotated Book of Common
Prayer,' etc., etc._
Body's Life of Temptation.
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THE LIFE OF TEMPTATION. A Course of Lectures delivered in substance
at St. Peter's, Eaton Square; also at All Saints', Margaret Street.
By the Rev. George Body, D.D.,
_Canon of Durham_.
Contents.
The Leading into Temptation--The Rationale of Temptation--Why we are
Tempted--Safety in Temptation--With Jesus in Temptation--The End of
Temptation.
Knox Little's Manchester Sermons.
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SERMONS PREACHED FOR THE MOST PART IN MANCHESTER.
By the Rev. W. J. Knox Little, M.A.,
_Canon Residentiary of Worcester, and Vicar of Hoar Cross_.
Contents.
The Soul instructed by God--The Claim of God upon the Soul--The
Supernatural Powers of the Soul--The Soul in its Inner Life--The Soul in
the World and at the Judgment--The Law of Preparation--The Principle of
Preparation--The Temper of Preparation--The Energy of Preparation--The
Soul's Need and God's Nature--The Martyr of Jesus--The Secret of
Prophetic Power--The Law of Sacrifice--The Comfort of God--The Symbolism
of the Cross--The Beatitude of Mary, the Mother of the Lord.
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CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTIVES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. Ten Sermons
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By the Rev. W. J. Knox Little, M.A.,
_Canon Residentiary of Worcester, and Vicar of Hoar Cross_.
Contents.
Christian Work--Christian Advance--Christian Watching--Christian
Battle--Christian Suffering--Christian Joy--For the Love of Man--For the
sake of Jesus--For the Glory of God--The Claims of Christ.
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THE WITNESS OF THE PASSION OF OUR MOST HOLY REDEEMER.
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_Canon Residentiary of Worcester, and Vicar of Hoar Cross_.
Williams's Devotional Commentary.
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A DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE.
By the Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D.,
_Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford_.
THOUGHTS ON THE STUDY OF THE HOLY GOSPELS.
A HARMONY OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.
OUR LORD'S NATIVITY.
OUR LORD'S MINISTRY (SECOND YEAR).
OUR LORD'S MINISTRY (THIRD YEAR).
THE HOLY WEEK.
OUR LORD'S PASSION.
OUR LORD'S RESURRECTION.
Voices of Comfort.
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VOICES OF COMFORT.
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Communion of Saints, Day 20. The Comforter, Day 22. The Light of Hope,
Day 25. The Coming of Christ, Day 28.' Each day begins with passages of
Holy Scripture. These are followed by articles in prose, which are
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The Star of Childhood.
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THE STAR OF CHILDHOOD: a First Book of Prayers and Instruction for
Children.
Compiled by a Priest.
Edited by the Rev. T. T. Carter, M.A.
_With Illustrations after Fra Angelico._
The Guide to Heaven.
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THE GUIDE TO HEAVEN: a Book of Prayers for every Want. For the Working
Classes.
Compiled by a Priest.
Edited by the Rev. T. T. Carter, M.A.
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H. L. Sidney Lear's For Days and Years.
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FOR DAYS AND YEARS. A Book containing a Text, Short Reading and Hymn for
Every Day in the Church's Year.
Selected by H. L. Sidney Lear.
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SERMONS ON THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS FOR THE SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
By the Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D.,
_Author of a 'Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative.'_
Moberly's Parochial Sermons.
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PAROCHIAL SERMONS, chiefly preached at Brighstone, Isle of Wight.
By George Moberly, D.C.L.,
_Late Bishop of Salisbury_.
Contents.
The Night is far spent, the Day is at hand--Elijah, the Warner of the
Second Advent of the Lord--Christmas--Epiphany--The Rich Man and
Lazarus--The Seventh Day Rest--I will arise and go to my
Father--Confirmation, a Revival--Korah--The Law of Liberty--Buried with
Him in Baptism--The Waiting Church of the Hundred and Twenty--Whitsun
Day. I will not leave you comfortless--Whitsun Day. Walking after the
Spirit--The Barren Fig Tree--Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O
Lord--Feeding the Four Thousand--We are debtors--He that thinketh he
standeth--The Strength of Working Prayer--Elijah's Sacrifice--If thou
hadst known, even thou--Harvest Thanksgiving--Jonadab, the Son of
Rechab--The Transfiguration; Death and Glory--Welcome to Everlasting
Habitations--The Question of the Sadducees.
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PLAIN SERMONS, PREACHED AT BRIGHSTONE.
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_Late Bishop of Salisbury_.
Contents.
Except a man be born again--The Lord with the Doctors--The Draw-Net--I
will lay me down in peace--Ye have not so learned Christ--Trinity
Sunday--My Flesh is Meat indeed--The Corn of Wheat dying and
multiplied--The Seed Corn springing to new life--I am the Way, the
Truth, and the Life--The Ruler of the Sea--Stewards of the Mysteries of
God--Ephphatha--The Widow of Nain--Josiah's discovery of the Law--The
Invisible World: Angels--Prayers, especially Daily Prayers--They all
with one consent began to make excuse--Ascension Day--The Comforter--The
Tokens of the Spirit--Elijah's Warning, Fathers and Children--Thou shalt
see them no more for ever--Baskets full of fragments--Harvest--The
Marriage Supper of the Lamb--The Last Judgment.
Luckock's Footprints of the Son of Man.
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FOOTPRINTS OF THE SON OF MAN AS TRACED BY SAINT MARK: being Eighty
Portions for Private Study, Family Reading, and Instructions in
Church.
By Herbert Mortimer Luckock, D.D.,
_Canon of Ely; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely; and Principal of
the Theological College_.
With an Introduction by the late Bishop of Ely.
Goulburn's Thoughts on Personal Religion.
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its two Chief Elements--Devotion and Practice.
By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., D.C.L.,
_Dean of Norwich_.
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Goulburn's Pursuit of Holiness.
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THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS: a Sequel to 'Thoughts on Personal
Religion,' intended to carry the Reader somewhat farther onward in
the Spiritual Life.
By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., D.C.L.,
_Dean of Norwich_.
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Goulburn on the Lord's Supper.
_Sixth Edition. Small 8vo. 6s._
A COMMENTARY, Expository and Devotional, on the Order of the
Administration of the Lord's Supper, according to the Use of the
Church of England; to which is added an Appendix on Fasting
Communion, Non-communicating Attendance, Auricular Confession, the
Doctrine of Sacrifice, and the Eucharistic Sacrifice.
By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., D.C.L.,
_Dean of Norwich_.
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Goulburn's Holy Catholic Church.
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THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH: its Divine Ideal, Ministry, and
Institutions. A short Treatise. With a Catechism on each Chapter,
forming a Course of Methodical Instruction on the subject.
By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., D.C.L.,
_Dean of Norwich_.
Contents.
What the Church is, and when and how it was founded--Duty of the Church
towards those who hold to the Apostles' Doctrine, in separation from the
Apostles' fellowship--The Unity of the Church and its Disruption--The
Survey of Zion's towers, bulwarks, and palaces--The Institution of the
Ministry, and its relation to the Church--The Holy Eucharist at its
successive Stages--On the Powers of the Church in Council--The Church
presenting, exhibiting, and defending the Truth--The Church guiding into
and illustrating the Truth--On the Prayer Book as a Commentary on the
Bible--Index.
Goulburn's Collects of the Day.
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THE COLLECTS OF THE DAY: an Exposition, Critical and Devotional, of
the Collects appointed at the Communion. With Preliminary Essays on
their Structure, Sources, and General Character, and Appendices
containing Expositions of the Discarded Collects of the First
Prayer Book of 1549, and of the Collects of Morning and Evening
Prayer.
By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., D.C.L.,
_Dean of Norwich_.
Contents.
VOLUME I. BOOK I. _Introductory._--On the Excellencies of the
Collects--On the Origin of the word Collect--On the Structure of a
Collect, as illustrated by the Collect in the Burial Service--Of the
Sources of the Collects: Of the Sacramentary of Leo, of the Sacramentary
of Gelasius, of Gregory the Great and his Sacramentary, of the Use of
Sarum, and of S. Osmund its Compiler--On the Collects of Archbishop
Cranmer--Of the Restoration Collects, and of John Cosin, Prince-Bishop
of Durham--Of the Collects, as representing the Genius of the English
Church. BOOK II. Part I.--_The Constant Collect._ Part II.--_Collects
varying with the Ecclesiastical Season_--Advent to Whitsunday.
VOLUME II. BOOK II. _contd._--Trinity Sunday to All Saints' Day. BOOK
III.--_On the Collects after the Offertory._ APPENDIX A.--_Collects in
the First Reformed Prayer Book of 1549 which were suppressed in
1552_--The Collect for the First Communion on Christmas Day--The Collect
for S. Mary Magdalene's Day (July 22). APPENDIX B.--_Exposition of the
Collects of Morning and Evening Prayer_--The Second at Morning Prayer,
for Peace--The Third at Morning Prayer, for Grace--The Second at Evening
Prayer, for Peace--The Third at Evening Prayer, for Aid against all
Perils.
Knox Little's Good Friday Addresses.
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THE THREE HOURS' AGONY OF OUR BLESSED REDEEMER: being Addresses in
the form of Meditations delivered in S. Alban's Church, Manchester,
on Good Friday 1877.
By the Rev. W. J. Knox Little, M.A.,
_Canon Residentiary of Worcester, and Vicar of Hoar Cross_.
Luckock's After Death.
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AFTER DEATH. An Examination of the Testimony of Primitive Times
respecting the State of the Faithful Dead, and their relationship
to the Living.
By Herbert Mortimer Luckock, D.D.,
_Canon of Ely, etc._
Contents.
PART I.--The Test of Catholicity--The Value of the Testimony of the
Primitive Fathers--The Intermediate State--Change in the Intermediate
State--Prayers for the Dead: Reasons for Our Lord's Silence on the
Subject--The Testimony of Holy Scripture--The Testimony of the
Catacombs--The Testimony of the Early Fathers--The Testimony of the
Primitive Liturgies--Prayers for the Pardon of Sins of Infirmity, and
the Effacement of Sinful Stains--The Inefficacy of Prayer for those who
died in wilful unrepented Sin.
PART II.--Primitive Testimony to the Intercession of the
Saints--Primitive Testimony to the Invocation of the Saints--The
Trustworthiness of the Patristic Evidence for Invocation tested--The
Primitive Liturgies and the Roman Catacombs--Patristic Opinions on the
Extent of the Knowledge possessed by the Saints--The Testimony of Holy
Scripture upon the same Subject--The Beatific Vision not yet attained by
any of the Saints--Conclusions drawn from the foregoing Testimony.
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS.--(_a._) Is a fuller Recognition of the Practice
of Praying for the Dead desirable or not?--(_b._) Is it lawful or
desirable to practise Invocation of Saints in any form or not?--Table of
Fathers, Councils, etc.--Passages of Scripture explained or
quoted--General Index.
S. Bonaventure's Life of Christ.
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THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
By S. Bonaventure.
Translated and Edited by the Rev. W. H. Hutchings,
_Rector of Kirkby Misperton, Yorkshire_.
'The whole volume is full of gems and rich veins of thought, and
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for their daily meditations, we can scarcely imagine a more
acceptable book.'--_Literary Churchman._
Newman's Selection from Sermons.
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SELECTION, adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year, from
the 'Parochial and Plain Sermons' of JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, B.D.,
sometime Vicar of S. Mary's, Oxford.
Edited by the Rev. W. J. Copeland, B.D.,
_Late Rector of Farnham, Essex_.
Contents.
_Advent_:--Self-denial the Test of Religious Earnestness--Divine
Calls--The Ventures of Faith--Watching. _Christmas Day_:--Religious Joy.
_New Year's Sunday_:--The Lapse of Time. _Epiphany_:--Remembrance of
Past Mercies--Equanimity--The Immortality of the Soul--Christian
Manhood--Sincerity and Hypocrisy--Christian Sympathy.
_Septuagesima_:--Present Blessings. _Sexagesima_:--Endurance, the
Christian's Portion. _Quinquagesima_:--Love, the One Thing Needful.
_Lent_:--The Individuality of the Soul--Life the Season of
Repentance--Bodily Suffering--Tears of Christ at the Grave of
Lazarus--Christ's Privations a Meditation for Christians--The Cross of
Christ the Measure of the World. _Good Friday_:--The Crucifixion.
_Easter Day_:--Keeping Fast and Festival. _Easter-Tide_:--Witnesses of
the Resurrection--A Particular Providence as Revealed in the
Gospel--Christ Manifested in Remembrance--The Invisible World--Waiting
for Christ. _Ascension_:--Warfare the Condition of Victory. _Sunday
after Ascension_:--Rising with Christ. _Whitsunday_:--The Weapons of
Saints. _Trinity Sunday_:--The Mysteriousness of our Present Being.
_Sundays after Trinity_:--Holiness Necessary for Future Blessedness--The
Religious Use of Excited Feelings--The Self-wise Inquirer--Scripture a
Record of Human Sorrow--The Danger of Riches--Obedience without Love as
instanced in the Character of Balaam--Moral Consequences of Single
Sins--The Greatness and Littleness of Human Life--Moral Effects of
Communion with God--The Thought of God the Stay of the Soul--The Power
of the Will--The Gospel Palaces--Religion a Weariness to the Natural
Man--The World our Enemy--The Praise of Men--Religion Pleasant to the
Religious--Mental Prayer--Curiosity a Temptation to Sin--Miracles no
Remedy for Unbelief--Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed--The
Shepherd of our Souls--Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World.
Jennings' Ecclesia Anglicana.
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ECCLESIA ANGLICANA. A History of the Church of Christ in England, from
the Earliest to the Present Times.
By the Rev. Arthur Charles Jennings, M.A.,
_Jesus College, Cambridge, sometime Tyrwhitt Scholar, Crosse Scholar,
Hebrew University Prizeman, Fry Scholar of S. John's College, Carus and
Scholefield Prizeman, and Rector of King's Stanley._
Bickersteth's The Lord's Table.
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THE LORD'S TABLE; or, Meditations on the Holy Communion Office in the
Book of Common Prayer.
By E. H. Bickersteth, D.D.,
_Bishop of Exeter_.
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