Mediæval preachers and mediæval preaching. A series of extracts, translated from the sermons of the middle ages, chronologically arranged; with notes and an introduction

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Tho are ali composed on ne modul-taking tho Gospe sorth day, and expoundiniit verse by verse. Thei tength, and their omewhat recondite charaetor, mali it probabio that the were ali deliversed by tho preaehor o his montis at Becu ut tho ni particular allusion to his audione is tobo ound in tho prologue to tho inth. Spuaking of the Gospol for tho Assumption, he says, My Wn opinion On

The word is vulgariter, hiel maV perhaps, bestaheu O mean in the vernacular language.''

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mons I shal givo a bellor de of his style, by translatinga hole discourse; and I ill alio tho hird, os hieli ho subject is

S. ATT. xiv. 22. An straightiva Iesus constrainedHis discipies to et into a his, and toto before Him to theother fide, hilem sent the multitude tway. In his lection, accordinito it mystical interpretation, axe havea summar descriptio of the state of tho Clivi ch, Do the comin os the 1V1ου to the en of the Worid. For the LORD constrained is discipies to et into a sh , he He committe the Church to thogoverament of the postles and thei folioWors Andibus to orae fore Him unt the ther fide, halcis, obear onWarus toWarus the have of the olestia coun

ine ortu. For, illi is eieci, and on account of His elect He ver remain here vitii the consummation o ad things and me is preceden to the therside of the se of this ori by those ho dati pass

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shali limo sent ali that remis to that place thon, leavin the multitude of the reprobate, and n longer Warning them to e converted, ut ii in them ver toperdition He di depart lieno that He Vi With His loci alone in the kingstom. Wheno it is added, hilete sent the multitude away. For in the end of the oridie illisend way the multitude of His nemies, that the may then e urried by the Devi to evertastin damnation. And when He

mis the missilitudo of the JeWishieopte at the time,lien, a suilli Isaiah He commande His Lud that the should ruin no ain pon it that is, commande His postles that the shohild reacti no longe to the eWs, ut should go to the Gentiles. hus, heresere, e SentaWay that multitude, and went sint a mountoin thatis to the eight of the celestia Linguom, of hicli itha been written, Who hali aseen inlo the hil of the Lord, or ho hali rise u in His hol place P For amotantes is a height, and What is hi glier than heaven 3

Di reade Will nocleo that the Augustinia doctrine os election, os loli S. Anselm asine of the Strongest, a Wellis abies supporters, is prominently brought out in his passage.

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With his e ma compare a verse homin ery fine sequine on the Exaltationis in Cros :- manus mites dium opandit, Re coelorim coelos pandit: Et cum multis illi scandit' Unde solus venerat.V

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test tho fhould ad When 11R1AT, I say, is alliingupo the aves that is, Christinus ear hen He is depressing the ambitious and lost thoughis os the orid. Rightly theresore, is it suid that the discipies feared Whenme a Walliing on the ea; beenus CimStians, although the have et the rinopem the Worixto come, When the so the lose things of this orld depresse are ometimes troublex out the destructioni humangrentness; eitherio theynthiis that this is rought topas by GOD, ut by the enemy. They vere trouble sving, It is a spirit, ecause, While the perceive that in Hor of this ortu is overthrown and the height of Secula elevation is cas do , and the ood of this

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Wori tramplod on the are frequently troi te con- Cerning the hal in os the present lila, ouaus the dono yet understand that it is GOD holoes these things, but tho imagine that it is the spirit of this orld thatis o say, Satan in his crast, ho bring thes things topaSS, and the ery ut to the LoR for ear But, afteraWhile, eighing the matte more diligently they open Di fine Scriptures, and there in that at thes thingsare predicted, and discove that it is no the empi and shado spirit ho has tost his true essenee, ut thevery ORD 'Vlio effect this, an depresses h lostythoughts of the orld that He may be glorified by the

Whateve ean belli anged is no that Whicli it Was. Audin truth, that Whici remuin is no mutation, netther isthere any ast or an future incit, ut Oni a present: Whicli is neve the case illi reSpecto any Creature.

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Conside the ricissitudes of things, and you id inmin

are sent forti to eathen nations. For eter comes domu ut os the hi as osten res an hol doctor de

Di ordo to comprehen tho sud orce of S. Anselm' reasoning therea de must remember that Lam, aud It is L an Που, in Latin be expressed by the Same PhraSe.