The Christian Ecclesia Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- I AT AN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS
- II AT A UNIVERSITY COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS
- III IN EMMANUEL COLLEGE CHAPEL
- IV AT THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP WESTCOTT
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
I - AT AN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- I AT AN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS
- II AT A UNIVERSITY COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS
- III IN EMMANUEL COLLEGE CHAPEL
- IV AT THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP WESTCOTT
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Summary
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
Every high crisis in our lives is or ought to be to us the lifting of a veil; perhaps the lifting of many veils. Our ordinary occupations of mind and body do not force upon our sight anything beyond that world of near and familiar circumstance in which we are all evidently moving. Either some seclusion from the common life or some rare stirring of our own inner nature is usually needed to bring within our ken the great, deeply seated powers which move the world and which move ourselves. When the crisis has passed, the exceptional faculty of sight which it conferred grows dim. But not in vain, not without God's appointment. If the vision departs leaving us unchanged, the fault is our own. It was given us for a little space that it might be converted by the alchemy of life into imperishable knowledge, the foundation of an ever tried and ever renewed faith.
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- The Christian EcclesiaA Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and Four Sermons, pp. 237 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1897