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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eat lictis. V On S. Martin's Da a savourite subject

whole of these symbolica expositions rom mediaevalsermons, ook at the residuum, that hich very one

sho v than that os the mos famous among ur Wn commentators The mere uisiste facts of Scripture,

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than the sirst hapter os Genesis There are three remari abi potnis hicli, Domi Ambrose ili ho Bosormation, ere discusse an re-dis ussed, ut hich

days ad Wo lessings, and why, after the Statement that o said, letis mali man in ur mage asterou likeness,V he historica nari ative continues that We ore forme in the nive, ut says nothin abolitth likenes of the Creator Evencis, grant that theoxplanations os these passages are forced and sane sul,-Whicli system hoWs the greater reverene so the letteros Scripture that of those ho passive Sueli DCtS Sitot orthyis attention or of thoseolio laborioucly, even hould ille also u successsully, investigat them 3 Sueli Commentators, hoWever, have re noW defendedthemselves by reserring o Lor Bacon' not Ver-MSedictum liat, a Wines made hom tho irs crusti os thogrape are the pureSt so the eastes interpretations of Scripture are the mos prositable. The philosopher might have remembere that tho liquor hich lows om that firs crusticis no Wine at nil, ut a crude and unu holesomeleverage. I cannot e dente that o modern interpreters have abundanti acto on his re-

commendation.

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Histor Whicli videnti contained a deos spiritualmennii ig, it is that o Loah and Rachel. The two sisters like Mary an Martha in the et Testament, have Sometime been held to et sortii the activo and the contemplative liso and there is a sublime passage in . Augustino Contra Faustum 22 52, based on this iden;-are Sometimes alien a the types of earthinandheavent lise sometimus as the synagogue and the Church-and the allusiones hicli occurrat through themidulo Ages O this mos common symbolis have investe it vitti no mali inarum beauty o Bernardi Cluti :- Iuno Jacob Israel o Lia tunc Hacho ossiciotur:

Tunc Sion atria pulchraque patria perficietur.

So Adam o S. Vietor:- Lippam Liam latent multa, Quibus videns Eaelio fulta Pari nubit cedere. So again the panegyris of S. Thomas:-

Post Agar ludibrium Sarae natus datur Post Liam ad libitum Jacob uxoratur.

But oti his history, regnant ascit is visi meaning, Scottolle Commentator has nothin belle to remarii

thau ha solioWAQ- ne annota ut lamen to se Jacob cheato into polygam in s extraordinar a manner, an in deo the malico and artifice of Laban are cleari discernibi in the transac-tion. The LORD ho ever, S set onerili in against another, that there scies diisereno in the comparative happines of man hi nil hau superficiat observers imagine an tu homo. Ordinar circum Stauces os private ille His haud should

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Iuohin his subject a be earn froin the Concordanti Moroles of S. Anton os adita. his is a collectionis texis, arrange unde disserent eads, sor

the convenien e of the reacher ani contaitiin sve books. here is careel a mora o religious subject

u hicli is no thus uento at longili. The las book is

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In addition to hicli, have the more usual texis Domtho Episti and Gospei so the day.

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self, orare his ossicers.

Eeclesiasticus xxxii 1: Is thouae ad th mastor, lisbno thyset up butae among them asino of the est; aliediligent care so them, and so sit O n.

Something of the fame in may be trade in tho

aeritings o Bisho Andre vos and his contemporarieS, Who also assor man instances of a praetice so dea tomediaeva Writers that o elicitin a prodigiolis depili osmeaning rom ne comparativel unimportant Ord. Thus illiam Austiti, ne of the mos devotional uriters though adaman, of the time of ing James I., has est a sermon On the ordes, An Lartholomeis, sorS BartholomeW' day Aster noticing, hat is perseetlytruo that the nam Bartholome neve appear in Soripture Mathou bein precede by the copulative particle, he prooeed to dilate on the luistian ut and bonos o mutua holmani assistance a doctrine hichis thus entiret evolve Do the ono ord, And. heingeniolis reparte With Whicli a proacher of this indu asinoe me is ellano . Havinibocome a candidat for sonae lectui estiis, he was required, in his turn, to exhibit his talent in the pulpit an naturali Wish- in to malle the mos of them, he ook or his texi theword ut He hunc deduced the truth that nodo is Without it cross. Naaman asin might man fialour, an honourabie, ut-he as a lepor. lio sive icked citius ere a fruitsul a tho arden o Gom; but-thenien o Sodom ere Wicked ani sitiners besore the LORD

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An undesigne pice of symbolism once los an Iristi divine themitre. horidan, the frient of ean wist, Wa requeSted by a country olei gyni an to tali his diitysortimin the ex Sunilay. The doctor then in hiisavour a Dublin Casile, complied, and reached an id Sermon on the vortis, 'Sufficient utito the da is hoc ut thereos It happoned that the unda in questionWa the anniversar of the accession of themotis of Hanover; and the supposed insuit Was never Orgiven. A the fame time it, ill e ound that the more recondite texis ere generali adhesse ad clerum and that sermons reachen to aristi congregation arentinos alWay based on the Gospolis the Episti of thoday. his custom, in many paris os Europe acquiredulinos the orce of a lam an a romactabie relio oscit stili exist in a communion hicli has reserve mucho the hvsk of the cariter Church, he wedisti Estnb-lishment Here tho proachor is to this a compelle lio tali his texi illic Doui the Episti or froni the Gospei and so inconvenient has the law been soliud, that at the present moment, I bellove a Commission is siti in sor tho addition o Desii Epistius and Ospcis, no to e sed in tho itur , butrio at rixa greater variet o texis to the reaeher. Bishop CoSin, ho, With ad his excelletices, ould have introduceu SOme-

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thin os a cast-iron system into ecclesiastica polity, lament in one of his sermons that permissio had beeugiven to the clergyrio choos their texis sto any ther portionis Scripture than thos appotnte so the day. It would belli totis to learn wheu it bucam the Stablished practice in England that a Sermon must have a teXt, and that a texi musti talien Dom Scripture. Neither vas a requisite in earlier times. Thus e sometimessumit selectod rom an Antiphon. eter of lois has Sermon o S. AndreW' day, of hicli the ex is, Salae, cru preciosa e suscipe discipulum ejus qui pependit

in te magister meus, Christus Anythis is a Ver common praetice mong modern RuSSian reueherS, hos requently han thei sermonsi a rosarion instoad Os Verse of Seripture There are innumerable instances

in hicli the sermon begitis Without an textis ali, and soni in hiel the verse of a hymn form the text. Thus, sor example, Peter of Celles reaches rom that

- Gloria tibi Domine, Qui natus es de Virgine, Cum Spiritu Paraclito

Et nunc, et in perpetuum.'

So Vonorabio Bede talios his ex froin tho

Felix per omnes ostiam mundi cardines Apostolorum praepollet alacriter, Me.

In the sermonsi Cierke, o Canterbury one of the translator of the Bible, o have an instanc o tW in Whioli ho textris alien Dom tho Catechisin. Nox to tho intimate nowledge os Scripture hichmediaeval Writer display their ou eris ad ting them-

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INTRODUCTION. xliiisetve to the aut an requiromenis os the oor nndigitorant sine os thoi mos remari able charaeteristies. It a not, e may be fure, vi thout cause that ueh

ti arers, os explaining even hos circumstances hichwould se ni o Deedio explanation, O deserit,in everything, and eamn nothin to the possibilit os a mis-take, et deserves to e imitato by us. It is notu ithout deop rcason, though abfirst sight the observationseem absurd that reiser, the reat German divine, Whil discussin the question, hether ou LORD erenaile to the ros besore or aster iis elevation determinos on the former; lecause, say he 'it is more convenient to the Christiati's imagination that it shoulds have been. An Dot ni by simplicity and cle ness, ut by trikin Stories, homel proveri S and appropriate similes, id these reat me find thei Wanto the hearis of theloor Thus the orthy Archdeaconis Bath, Peteris Blois, preachin professedi to the eople, relates a long allegory based on the psychomachia fΡi ridentius, in Whicli the contes of aithoith hor Various Opponent is et sortii partis it Wil bo ound in the followin pages. nother interestin Sermon, Osthe fame riter's, noli uinis Day, is olearly ad-dresse to a oor congregation, an is o cupiet in potnting ut o the ne hand the blessing o povorty; and on the ther, the dangor os ille mista e which Wovidconmund the oor of this orti With the oor tu spirit. The good Archileacon spealis With a latuites Which

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the justice to bellove that he considere the legendon hieli ho ound his description tot of authoi ity.)

time, divel on the main subjectis thoi discoui se umto the very end. Is the had been describin tho torments of heli, illi the torments of hol tho concluded is the had been speat in of the gloriosis aradiso, theytook care that o ster-Word should divert the atten-