Milton Not the Author of the Lately-Discovered Arian Work De Doctrina Christiana: Three Discourses Delivered at the Anniversary Meetings of the Royal Society of Literature in the Years 1826, 1827, and 1829, to Which Is Added Milton Contrasted With Milton
Milton Not the Author of the Lately-Discovered Arian Work De Doctrina Christiana: Three Discourses Delivered at the Anniversary Meetings of the Royal Society of Literature in the Years 1826, 1827, and 1829, to Which Is Added Milton Contrasted With Milton,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... MILTON CONTRASTED WITH MILTON, AND WITH (R)!)e Scriptures, ----The reported discovery of a posthumous work of Milton, --a work de Doctrina Christiana by the author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, --was calculated to excite a high degree of interest in the public mind. His profound knowledge of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... MILTON CONTRASTED WITH MILTON, AND WITH (R)!)e Scriptures, ----The reported discovery of a posthumous work of Milton, --a work de Doctrina Christiana by the author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, --was calculated to excite a high degree of interest in the public mind. His profound knowledge of, and reverence for, the Scriptures, his extensive acquaintance with the best ecclesiastical writers of antiquity, his great erudition and sagacity, and the acknowledged orthodoxy of See his latest Biographers, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Todd, and Dr. S'mmons, quoted below, pp. 165,166. his principles in all his printed works, gave just reason to anticipate the acquisition of a new bulwark to the Christian faith, which might add strength even to the labours of Pearson and Bull. The greatest admirers of Milton were accordingly the most impatient for its publication. The Latin work, lately published (with a splendour of form and of learning, such as Milton himself deserved), if amplitude of materials were a just test of its value, would be not unworthy of the great name to which it is ascribed; but it must have disappointed the expectations of a large portion of its readers by the contrariety of its doctrines to the faith professed by Milton in works published by himself at all periods of his life, in his prose writings as well as his poems. The writer, after acknowledging that the reformed Religion was sufficiently defended against the corruptions of Popery, pronounces it to be inadequately fortified in many other points, and that many of its doctrines required to be more strictly examined, and more accurately reformed. He offers his work to the world as the result of many years' unremitted diligence, and unwearied search after truth. In the course of...
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