Note 377 — X. SACRAMENTS.
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In Rabbi Ben Ezra the true measure of such work's beneficence is shewn:—
Not on the vulgar mass Called 'work,' must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice: But all the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount.
[378] Cf. A. Knox, Remains, ii. 138.
[379] Cf. Plato, Phaedo, 85 C, D.
[380] H. P. Liddon, Some Elements of Religion, pp. 116, 117. Cf. the wonderful venture towards a conception of the disembodied soul and of its manner of life, in the Dream of Gerontius: and also in Battle and After, by R. St. John Tyrwhitt, p. 7.
[381] Lotze, Microcosmus, Bk. III. c. i. § 2.
[382] Cf. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, Bk. II. ch. ii. §§ 125, 126.
[383] A. Knox, Remains, vol. ii. pp. 228, 229. The writer of this essay desires to acknowledge with gratitude the help he has found in the remarkable treatise here referred to.
[384] Cf. Hooker, V. liv. 6.
[385] Cf. A. Knox, ii. 210.
[386] H. P. Liddon, Bampton Lectures, pp. 101-105.
[387] Cf. S. John iii. 3-13; vi. 51-67.
[388] 1 Cor. x. 17; Gal. iii. 27, 28; Eph. iv. 5.
[389] Acts ii. 38, 41, 42.
[390] Cf. Rom. vi. 3, 4; Gal. iii. 27, 28; Col. ii. 12, 20-23.
[391] Cf. 1 Cor. x. 17, xii. 25, 26.
[392] W. Shirley, The Church in the Apostolic Age, p. 103.
[393] Moberly's Bampton Lectures, pp. 29, 30.
[394] 1 Cor. xv. 44.
[395] Cf. Professor Milligan, The Resurrection of Our Lord, Lect. vi. Pt. i. § c.
[396] Bright's Ancient Collects, p. 152.
[397] C. Gore, Roman Catholic Claims, p. 170.
[398] S. Th. iii. Qu. LXV. Art. 1, 4, 3.
[399] Calv. Inst. IV. xiv. 20.
[400] Conc. Trident. Sess. VII. Can. iii.
[401] Richard Baxter, Confirmation and Restauration pp. 88, 89; Ecclesiastical Cases of Conscience, Qu. 99. Cf. J. S. Pollock, Richard Baxter on the Sacraments, § 58.
[402] Hooker V. lvi. 9: cf. E. B. Pusey, University Sermons, p. 11, 'This is (if we may reverently so speak) the order of the mystery of the Incarnation, that the Eternal Word so took our flesh into Himself, as to impart to it His own inherent life; so then we partaking of it, that life is transmitted on to us also, and not to our souls only, but our bodies also, since we become flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, and He who is wholly life, is imparted to us wholly. The Life which He is, spreads around, first giving its own vitality to that sinless flesh which He united indissolubly with Himself, and in it encircling and vivifying our whole nature, and then, through that bread which is His flesh, finding an entrance to us individually, penetrating us, soul and body and spirit, and irradiating and transforming us into His own light and life.'
[403] J. B. Mozley, Lectures and other Theological Papers, p. 204.
[404] Hooker V. lxvii. 11; S. Irenaeus iv. 18.
[405] Cf. A. Knox, ii. 234-6.
[406] Cf. Martensen, Christian Dogmatics, p. 182.