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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He conquered. hus, HR1s overthre hi Who, in other ages, had overthro rus in Adam.

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Τhi is tho Right Handis Gom for in that Right Hand thero is a sui deligh as here is abundance of amiction

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tho Head, and the cliildron imitato the ather. Os thu

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against the lion and the eis; thus Gideon against Amalek; thus Moses and ostiua against haraoli, against Sihon and g, and against the adversaries of the eople, and thus veream them. Ad these ereth mighties of the might o Israel, instruete in War, and stanning Withir u Word on the tower of Lebanon, whic tio eth gainst Damascus that is, againSt thederit, ho thirsis for the lood of our ouis. But no letis comerio ur W batiles, and considerthe position os ur nemi es an letos observe illi What superabundanee o militis stores they have et uptheir engines against us. For e had the pro fide ourselves illi that Whioli is necessar so the War, is evalue at iis prope prio the stren his ouae adversaries. Behold, there re belovembrethren, the princes os darknes With breastplate an inield, With hors and chario equipped Willi,eapon o War, athering themsetve to-gether Domini the 4nd of heaven, and rushin to the overthro os ad Christianaeople, and more speciali tothe congregations os religious ouses. Some ut heir trus in chariois, and som in horses; ut, tolli remember the Nume of the Lord ur God. Letos picti e them, then, o ursolve o the est hand like goat of Vil mou -Πay, ather, a Taging

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the ity hioticis calle Babylon. The trus in thoirstrongili an tu heir armes; e either inio vino in spear, ut in the ame of the ORD. Iuda has bound to the ine is fou k hat is, has surrendore imis Bodytomis assion and He halli the leaster of ur War. David has lata his te thousand triumphin in hisbod o the ood of the ros ove the pomors of the ais Samson, hora interpretatio is heir sua, has

Tho interiretation hiel the preacher here gives of the vine and theson in the benecliction fraudati, is curiousi contrasted illi that os Otho mediaeva writers Ruper os Deut De Trinitate et operibus iis ix. 3M this vine e Gentiles, attin for CHRIA fill, sisHim sacerio sede aro nos test, Eho the oa os an ass, o bioli animalthe estate os the Gentiles is compared, o account os tho solivis heir forme Work : e re test, I say, to this Vive, thas, after the stram, widelicis tho oost os asses, o may eat theSe most Weet rupes, and, by the assistanee of the HOL GHoSΤ, a d in that most xcellent i os homoly Scriptu es.' Again, S. Anton os Padua, in his sermonfor tho ineenth unda aster Trinity thus rite Iudalicis the penitent, the vine is compunction, theos is sensualitD Judati, heresore, biud his as to the vine, hen the penitent subjecis the sensuatit os in heart to compumelion. a The Bisho is here reseri in to that etymolog os Samson' namewhieli, unWarrantable ascit is, is as id a the tune os . Augustine. Hothus spealis in his commentar on the 80th Psalm Thus it is illi

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our Samson, hieli is interprete their sum; that is, tho si in os themon homine hines, notis est.' Thus, ulso, Adam o S. Victor, in an

Samson, b interpretation,

Thus halli brought flumination

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that is ad Melieduess-on his head sittin in the seat of the corner, callis together his princes in his mightymen, and contrive decet an fraud since horis dissident in his W strength Whe opposed O ur Rrray.Τmly though he has received reat licenc Dommim, Without hos permission e could not altae iis, and thout hos assistance e could no conque him he usescit, reain the ridie hich restraius him, and prevenis his injurin us a much ache ould. et us

o us unde the hie of their batile, he devit. The hie of in chiess, pride. the mos pestilent f

a servant Os the true Abraham, ho me ut Nicaea ann anquishest thoeno es of the true laith and it suo illis that the preMher alludes. The writer is here takin a bint i O that ver favourit allegor of mediaevat authors, the Psbchomaehia os rudentius, in hiel the poetrepresent Various temptations as assauiti the ossi in a pitchediatile, an one by One verthro .

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r in tha tho iud, so that tris fleeter tha the in os the tempest, and there is nothis hid Do thoilththereos. This tyrant is the rs to meet iis, and thelastri depart om us, in the rank of Christian Wariare. She rises e re daybreali to the batile, an takes nores id after eveniti tu light. Tur Which Way ou Wis, he attacks ou either belland or besore. Pride

Sometimes h pollutos ne that has noclearning Thisis the queen os in Amagons, hich has o for hersei f

blandishments. oun an old, iris an matron' eser , canon and Onks, nay, and eve hemit them-Selves in Sacheloth and shes, anno auoi her; ut many of them, the more the professo hat heri themore the pursu her. It is strange that the more aman Serves her in his heari, the more ho detest her in