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Selections From the Writings of Archbishop Leighton, Ed. With Notes by W. Blair
Selections From the Writings of Archbishop Leighton Ed With Notes by W Blair Author:Robert Leighton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PRjELECTlONES THEOLOGlC. (Theological Lectures.) Pr. electio Procemialis : Introductory Lecture. I Undertake a great work, sensible of my own littleness, yea, as one who is least of all, I venture upon a work which is the greatest of all ;1 for, among the pursuits of men, can any one be named 1 Magnum opus parvus aggredior, imo opus omnium maximum, omnium minimus. It is difficult without a circumlocution to render this terse Latin into equivalent English. Cicero uses " Magnum quid aggredi." And there may have been in the mind of Leighton the Horatian phrase, " Nee conamur tenues grandia," " We humble writers do not undertake high themes" (Carm. i. 6. 9); or that other, " operosa parvus carmina fingo" (Carm. iv. 2. 31-32), " I, a diminutive thing, like a Matinian bee, compose elaborate odes." Horace, doubtless, has his own small stature implied in this allusion, "apis Matinee more modogue, parvus." And Leighton, with this reminiscence of Horace, may have intended a playful allusion to his own personnel, or short stature, as well as a bold contrast between the great task to which he addressed himself, and his consciousness of inadequacy and slender ability for its discharge. more noble than that of forming anew the minds of men after the Divine image ? But, as I think, there is no one who will not acknowledge that this is the genuine and principal end, not only of pastors in their congregations, but also of Doctors in the schools. And although this academical office, in many respects ungrudgingly yields to that other, the pastoral, in this one respect, however, it seems to have somewhat of a loftier...« less