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Between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as

the Outlines of the Kingdom of God

IN FIVE DISCOURSES

WITH AN EXAMINATION OF MR. NEWMAN'S THEORY OF DEVELOPMENTS

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Τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ. ACT. SS. APOST. i. 3.

Ταῦτα δὲ γέγραπται, ἵνα πιστεύσητε ὅτι ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἵνα πιστεύοντες ζωὴν ἔχητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.

S. JOAN. xx. 31.

Fratres, pro magno audiri solent verba novissima parentis ituri in sepulcrum, et contemnuntur Domini verba novissima ascendentis in cœlum? Existimemus Dominum nostrum testamentum scripsisse, et in testamento suo novissima verba posuisse.

S. AUGUSTIN. Serm. cclxv. de Asc. Dom.

Ad dies quadraginta remoratus est, ut de eo ad præcepta vitalia instrui possent, et discerent quæ docerent. S. CYPRIAN. de Idol. Van.

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Preface

TO THE SECOND EDITION

THE

HE alterations which have been made in this Edition have been principally expansions and enlargements of the argument, which had before been more shortly and summarily stated. These I must leave to speak for themselves; only expressing my regret that still they are more summary than I could wish them. But the greatness of the subject, and my own continual and pressing occupations, have made it impossible for me to take so wide a range of argument and illustration as the subject admits, and perhaps requires.

In one point I have made an alteration of arrangement; for whereas in the former Edition I had placed the Pastoral Commission before

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