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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: twelve tribes of Israel, and so be perpetual guardians and maintainers of the law of truth and charity which he left in that new Israel. Thus He disposed to them the kingdom which had been disposed to Him.1- In this manner the covenant, the legislation, the worship, the adoption, the glory, and the promises, which made according to S. Paul the distinction of the Jewish Church, passed over to the Christian, which became in a higher sense than the former, in the words of S. Peter, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people. Moses, Aaron, and David having been gathered up into the one Christ, the race of Abraham became the race of the God-Man. Now, what Moses did in the type, Peter did in the antitype. As Moses drew out the life of the Jewish people as a personal relation to God in what they believed, in what they worshipped, and in what they did, which made up the adoption of sons, so the Christian life which Peter set up at Rome was the establishment of the same relation to Christ in doctrine, worship, and morals. Obedience to him in these three things formed his kingdom. The whole domain of truth was guaranteed to the Christian asthe illumination given by the one Prophet. His worship was the perpetual recognition of the Redeemer in the very act of His sacrifice; while his morality was summed up in charity, the filial spirit, which raised the cardinal virtues to the level of divine gifts, and was thus the fulfilment of the law a.s perfected by Christ. The painter in the catacombs of the second and third centuries, the sculptor on the monuments of the fourth and fifth, conveyed all this when they represented Peter on the very scene of his spiritual triumph, the centre of the world's power, and the seat of idolatry, striking with the rod of divi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217625739
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217625738
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr

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