Horae Apocalypticae; Or a Commentary on the Apoc., Including Also an Examination of Dan

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. 1847 Excerpt: ...and King Christ Jesus, than Archbishop Laud in his spiritual or rather ecclesiastical court? So that the difference on this point between the Free Church and both the English and Scotch Established Churches seems to be still more narrowed. It strikes me that this large view of the Church constituent body, and its various functionaries, has been practically too much overlooked, on one side at least, in the controversy; the Church and the State, Church Courts and Secular Courts, being spoken and written about as antagonistic, and the former only as under Christ, the Church's Head and King. And let me suggest whether another misapplication of language (as it seems to me to be) may not have further confused the question, needlessly widened the difference, and even opened what might be a door to serious error; I mean the use of spiritual for ecclesiastical, in speaking of the members of Church Courts in contradistinction to those of Secular Courts. Says Mr. Hamilton, in See my Note on the text, My kingdom is not of this world, a little supra.--Archbishop Whateley, in his well-known Work on the Kingdom of Christ, already more than once referred to, appears to me to have greatly impoverished and understated Christ's meaning in this declaration j by explaining it (p. 29) wholly or chiefly, as the, renunciation of all secular coercion in behalf of his religion. This view of the words in the text's latter clause arises from his viewing Christ's hingdom in the former clause as meaning only the earthly visible society, called the Church, in its earthly present mixt state: for he says scarce a word in his Treatise of (Ail earthly state being one in which many would profess to attach to Christ's kingdom that really do not, the tares as well as t...