The Epistles Of Cyprian With The Council Of Carthage On The Baptism Of Heretics To Which Are Added The Extant Works Of S Pacian Bishop Of Barcelona With Notes And Indices Translated By H Carey

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Download or read book The Epistles of S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and Martyr written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Epistles of S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage and Martyr: With the Council of Carthage, Baptism of Heretics; To Which Are Added, the Extant Works of S. Pacian, Bishop of Barcelona; With Notes and Indices The Epistles of S.Cyprian exhibit in detail but one portion of his character of mind or thought. Unlike the collections preserved of S. Ambrose or S. Augustine, not gone has survived, written upon a subject in any sense private, or to a private friend. It was remarked long since by S. Jerome, "Blessed Cyprian, like a most pure fountain, floweth sweetly and softly; and being wholly occupied in the exhortation to holy action, hemmed in by the straits of persecution, he no where discoursed on the Divine Scriptures." Of the Epistles which are preserved, one, at least, which is chiefly taken up with the Sacramental meanings of Holy Scripture, indicates, as well as his "Testimonies," a full possession of the system of Scriptural interpretation, which, whether by intuition or by tradition, was the heritage of the Ancient Church, as he in his turn aided to fix that meaning. That Epistle is like one flash from a mind we love, disclosing to us as it were a new world within it, enlarging and rearranging all our previous thoughts of it, and deepening our reverence towards it. Of a kind, which will with many command little sympathy now, it shews a reverential contemplation and grasp of the hidden meaning of Holy Scripture in its Sacramental aspect, which we must the more admire in one, whose duties, almost fi-om the time of his conversion, were of intense and absorbing activity. One such has been preserved to us perhaps, to correct narrow views as to a mind, chiefly called to the "care of the Churches" and the external maintenance of things deeply internal, discipline and unity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.