This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... be deemed strange to celebrate them in a yearly festival, if regard were had only to the sorrowful circumstances of the passion itself; they might be made, as in Holy Week, the occasion of penitential, rather than of festal observance. But their consequences have issued in deliverance so inestimably great, in glory so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ... be deemed strange to celebrate them in a yearly festival, if regard were had only to the sorrowful circumstances of the passion itself; they might be made, as in Holy Week, the occasion of penitential, rather than of festal observance. But their consequences have issued in deliverance so inestimably great, in glory so infinite, that what was once painful and ignominious assumes another form to our eyes; the squalid accidents of the prison and the tomb are invested with the blessed light of heaven. For a similar reason, the Cross itself, which to the imagination of an ancient Roman appeared a far more degraded instrument of punishment than the gibbet is to ours, inasmuch as no free-born Roman could be subjected to its infliction, the Cross itself, is now a type of triumph; it is multiplied in a hundred varying and beautiful forms, expressive of the sanctifying grace and life that have issued from its once infamous wood. Let it, therefore, no longer surprise any one that the church of Christ should bless God for the Seven Dolours of the holy Virgin; that they should be honoured with a yearly festival. She wept and suffered; and her children, at the remembrance of her sorrow, weep also; but from her woes and their cause, namely, the vicarious sufferings of Jesus, came our redemption: they purchased the final extinction of sin, the fountain of unnumbered griefs: they procured the advent of the Comforter; they opened for mourners a passage to the place of rest and refreshment, where God wipeth away every tear from the eye. Nor is the church unmindful of the morning of joy that, in regard to Mary herself, succeeded to the night of weeping. While we commemorate her sorrows, we celebrate the sevenfold glory which irradiates her royal head, as she is seated now, on...
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