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 FROM THE LIBRARY OF 
 REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D. 
 
 BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO 
 
 THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 
 
SONGS and HYMNS 
 
 OF 
 
 earliest 6reeft Christian i^oets 
 
 BISHOPS AND OTHERS 
 
 ^ranslano into dEnglt'sj Mzv$z 
 
 BY 
 
 ALLEN W. CHATFIELD, MA. 
 
 VICAR OF MUCH MARCLS 
 
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 1876 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PREFACE v 
 
 SYNESIUS, Citizen of Cyrene, and Bishop of 
 
 Ptolemais i 
 
 I. Ode 7 
 
 II. Ode 14 
 
 III. Ode 19 
 
 IV. Ode 56 
 
 V. Ode 70 
 
 VI. Ode 75 
 
 VII. Ode 78 
 
 VIII. Ode 81 
 
 IX. Ode 84 
 
 X. Ode 88 
 
 GREGORY, Bishop of Nazianzus 91 
 
 I. Hymn to Christ 93 
 
 II. Hymn to God 98 
 
 III. Hymn to Christ on Easter Day (after 
 
 LONG SILENCE) 102 
 
 IV. Song or Poem to his own Soul 106 
 
 V. A Morning Prayer or Vow 120 
 
 VI. Failure as to the same 121 
 
 VII. An Evening Hymn 122 
 
 VIII. An Admonitory Poem to a Virgin .. .. 125 
 
 a 2 
 
COXTENTS. 
 
 1'AGE 
 
 THE NAASSENI, A Psalm of 137 
 
 METHODIUS, Bishop and Martyr 139 
 
 Virgins' Song 141 
 
 CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA 154 
 
 Hymn to Christ 155 
 
 A POSTSCRIPT 159 
 
 VERY ANCIENT HYMNS OF UNKNOWN 
 AUTHORSHIPS, LITERALLY RENDERED 
 IN PROSE. 
 
 I. A Morning Hymn 161 
 
 II. An Evening Hymn 164 
 
 III. A Hymn at Lamp-light 165 
 
 IV. A Prayer at Dinner-time (or Grace before 
 
 a Meal) 166 
 
ERRATA 
 
 Page 6l, line 2, for " Father" read " Father's." 
 Page 138, line 2, for second "hither" read " thither." 
 Page 166, line 3, for "your" read "our." 
 
PREFACE 
 
 FOUR years ago the Anthologia Grczca Carminum 
 Christianorum (Leipsic, 187 1) was put into 
 my hands by a friend, to look for hymns, Eucharistic 
 especially, which, when rendered into English, might 
 be suitable for the general use of the Church. Of 
 Eucharistic hymns I did not find one in the volume. 
 But I lighted frequently on detached passages here 
 and there, which might form the groundwork of useful 
 and popular hymns for general Christian worship. 
 I did not then know that the late Dr. J. M. Neale had 
 applied his magic wand to several of such passages 
 which are to be found in the later portion of the 
 Anthologia. 
 
 My attention, however, was at once arrested by the 
 beauty and majesty of the earlier portion of the 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 volume, which contains the Odes of Synesius, the 
 Hymns and Songs of Gregory Nazianzen, a Hymn of 
 Clement of Alexandria, and the Bridal Song of the 
 earlier Methodius. In my humble opinion there is 
 nothing in the second, the later, and by far the 
 larger portion at all comparable in point of spirit or 
 originality with what I have specified in the first 
 short portion of the book. Moreover, all, or almost 
 all, the later Greek Church poetry, or harmonious 
 prose, which gradually took the place of the old 
 poetry, is full of Mariolatry, of which I find nothing 
 in the older portion referred to. 
 
 Such is the marvellous versatility of the Greek 
 language and its power of wort-bilden, or compounding 
 of words, that in or before the sixth century such 
 words as Ozotoko*;, OcofjL^rojp, deoyewrjTwp, came into 
 general use; grammatically and beautifully formed, 
 and logically too, so far as school logic is concerned ; 
 for if the Blessed Virgin is the mother of Him who is 
 also God, she is, says such logic, the mother of God. 
 Thus, by the genius of the language, aided by miser- 
 able school logic, the Blessed Virgin, the mother of 
 the Man Christ Jesus, is made the mother of God ; 
 and as darkness and ignorance rapidly prevailed, so 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 the worship of the Blessed Trinity is literally capped 
 by the worship of the Ozotokos, the prayer or 
 doxology to the Virgin in each case forming the 
 grand climax. 1 
 
 Rome, as always in the old times, borrowed from 
 Greece, and then stamped these and other monstrous 
 departures from primitive truth with the seal of her 
 own falsely assumed authority, and it became law 
 like that of the Medes and Persians, w r hich altereth 
 not. 
 
 But let the descendants of the once noblest people 
 on earth, the inheritors also of the glorious and 
 divine treasures preserved in the old language — the 
 finest ever spoken — let the Greek people and the 
 Greek Church think and act with the mind unfettered; 
 let them go back to the pure fountain and drink for 
 themselves. The eye of the mind will be enlightened ; 
 they will see that neither Mariolatry, nor saint 
 worship, nor angel worship, has any place in God's 
 own truth. " See thou do it not," said the angel to 
 St. John, 2 when he was about to fall down and 
 
 1 See, for example, throughout the "Great Canon," by St. Andrew of 
 Crete, the last stanza of each of the nine Odes, pp. 147-157. ; 
 
 2 Rev. xxii. 9. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 worship (only it poo-Kwrja at) before his feet. Oh 
 that in obedience to such divine injunction the 
 great Eastern Church would arise and shake itself 
 from the dust ; would cast to the moles and to the 
 bats such relics of past darkness and idolatrous 
 practice ! 
 
 I was attracted also to the first part of the volume 
 by the grand old Greek metres. To me they are 
 vastly to be preferred to the later metrical or harmo- 
 nious prose, or the mediaeval and modern jingle. This 
 last form of poetry may be required by the English 
 and other modern languages which have not the 
 metrical perfection natural to the old Greek and Latin 
 tongues ; but to adopt the modern fashion in refer- 
 ence to the ancient Greek and Latin seems to me 
 an unnecessary and miserable distortion. That the 
 old metres can express sublime thought and divine 
 truth is abundantly attested by the Anacreontics of 
 Synesius and Gregory. The dactylics also of the 
 latter, his hexameters and pentameters, as well as 
 his iambics, bear the same evidence. 
 
 How the change gradually took place in Greek 
 poetry, how accent strangled quantity, and how har- 
 monious prose succeeded to the grand old poetry, is 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 elaborately set forth in the preface of the learned 
 editors of the Greek Anthology. The same contains 
 also a masterly essay on the music of the Greek 
 Church. 
 
 I follow their order as convenient, though chrono- 
 logically the reverse of what it ought to be, and place 
 Synesius first. 
 
 Much Marcle Vicarage, 
 September i, 1876. 
 
SYNESIUS 
 
 BISHOP OF PTOLEMAIS 
 (Born circ. a.d. 375, Died 430). 
 
 SYNESIUS was a man of mark in his day, and 
 would have been a man of mark in any day. 
 
 To begin with the advantages which belonged to 
 him by birth, he could boast a pedigree such as, 
 says Gibbon, " could not be equalled in the history 
 of mankind," of seventeen centuries from earliest 
 heroic times, down through the kings of Sparta, and the 
 founders of Cyrene : " all the names recorded in the 
 public registers of Cyrene ; " and he was well worthy 
 of his "pure and illustrious pedigree." 1 
 
 As a philosopher, his merits, measured by the 
 standard of the age in which he lived, are of high 
 
 » See Tlte Decline and Fall of the Roma?i Emfiire. Oxford edition, 
 1827, vol. ii. p. 446, and the foot notes. Also vol. iv. pp. 38, 39. 
 
 B 2 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 order. Otherwise, it is easy, in our age, to condemn 
 the whole Neoplatonic philosophy as "tumid, inflated, 
 and false." 
 
 As a statesman and patriot, he deserves the highest 
 praise. For three years (a.d. 397-400) he toiled, as 
 he himself tells us in his third Ode, and strove and 
 wept at the court of Arcadius, endeavouring to 
 stimulate his degraded and degenerate countrymen to 
 worthy efforts against the Goths, who were threatening 
 not only his own beloved Libya, but the whole 
 empire. His noble appeal, and his continued exer- 
 tions, called forth abundant commendation and praise, 
 but no permanent results. "The court of Arcadius 
 indulged the zeal, applauded the eloquence, and 
 neglected the advice of Synesius." 
 
 But there must have been some lull in the rising 
 storm, or some partial success ; for Synesius expresses, 
 in the ode referred to, his heartfelt thankfulness for 
 the same. Certainly within the three following years 
 considerable victories were gained by Stilicho in Italy. 
 Hence may have arisen relief to Libya. And Synesius 
 may have composed the Ode, or added the part 
 referred to, after those events. 
 
 With regard to his Christianity and theological 
 
INTRODUCTION TO SYNESIUS. 
 
 views, it seems to me Synesius has had scant justice 
 done to him. The learned editors of the Anthologia 
 (see Prolegomena, p. x, lib. i., where sex must be a 
 misprint for quinque) think that he had not yet even 
 professed Christianity when he wrote five (viz. I. II. 
 III. IV. VI.) out of the ten hymns or odes ; that in 
 the third, the very long one, he speaks of going round 
 to pagan temples in supplication to the gods. But I 
 would ask, had not pagan temples been put down 
 finally, at least some years before Synesius visited 
 Thrace? Whatever new life paganism may have 
 received during the short reign of Julian (a.d. 360- 
 363), it was crushed out during the reign of Theo- 
 dosius the Great (a.d. 382-395). His sons divided 
 the empire, Honorius reigning in the West, Arcadius 
 in the East. It was to the court of Arcadius that 
 Synesius went as a deputy from Cyrene. Again, may 
 not Synesius be understood as speaking of Christian 
 churches or temples, Christian ministers or guardian 
 saints (in the growing notion of the day), and Chris- 
 tain rites and ceremonies, though employing in his 
 poetry terms that in pagan times might have been 
 applied to pagan worship ? I am persuaded that it is 
 so ) and that, if not always orthodox, he yet shows 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 himself in all these poems to be a reverent and 
 sincere Christian. 
 
 I cannot enter at length into the famous dispute as 
 to what Synesius held, or did not hold, on the doctrine 
 of the Resurrection. It has been commonly said 
 that he did not accept it at all. Gibbon reiterates the 
 same ; and in reply to Bishop Jeremy Taylor and others, 
 who, I believe rightly, qualify this, thinking that 
 Synesius dissembled, or represented his difficulties too 
 strongly, in order that he might not be forced into 
 the holy office, Bingham 1 quotes and interprets, but 
 I think not fully nor fairly, the words of Synesius 
 himself: ttjv Ka6<j)jJLLXrjfjievr]v dvdcrracriv lepov tl koX 
 a7roppr)TOV rjyrjfiai, koll 7roXXov Sea> rats rov TrXi)6ov<z 
 
 vTToXrj\l/€(jiv 6 fjLoXoyrjcr at .... Surely there is much 
 qualification here. " The every-day-talked-of resurrec- 
 tion I have regarded as a sacred thing, and that 
 cannot be spoken of." He does not say that he 
 does not believe it at all, but that, whereas it is in 
 every one's mouth, stated and defined, he has been in 
 the habit of regarding it as a sacred and ineffable 
 mystery ; and that he is far from acceding to the 
 notions of the multitude (on it or other points). 
 
 1 Christian Antiquities, vol. i. pp. 464-5, London edition, 1843. 
 
INTRODUCTION TO SYNE SI US. 
 
 That he held the doctrine itself is to me clear, from 
 what he himself says, both elsewhere, and particularly 
 in his beautiful tenth Ode. He believes in, and adores, 
 the risen Saviour, and looks forward with longing 
 desire in the future state to be with Him, and to 
 " sing His praise who is the Healer of souls and the 
 Healer of limbs, with the Great Father and the 
 Holy Spirit." I know not how Mosheim can call 
 such a man a semi-Christian. 1 Mosheim's translator 
 and annotator 2 does something in the way of cor- 
 recting or qualifying such judgment. 
 
 It is certain that, when later in life (viz. a.d. 410) 
 he was made Bishop of Ptolemai's, Synesius acquitted 
 himself nobly and faithfully in the sacred office to 
 which, entirely against his will, he had been ap- 
 pointed. " The philosophic bishop supported with 
 dignity the character which he had assumed with 
 reluctance." 3 
 
 All admit that he was a man of learning and wisdom, 
 of excellent character, and blameless life. His refine- 
 ment of mind, his delicacy of feeling, and his loving 
 disposition, as well as his zeal and energy, must strike 
 
 1 See Ecclesiastical History. London edition, 1845, vol. i. pp. 310, 439. 
 
 2 See the Notes, ibid. 
 
 3 Gibbon, Decline a?id Fall, vol. ii. p. 446. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 every attentive reader. I would specially refer to his 
 eighth Ode, in which is presented to us a picture of 
 conjugal, parental, and domestic tenderness, that 
 nowhere can be surpassed. 
 
 His poetry in the original Greek will be allowed by 
 all scholars to be pure, varied, sweet, and beautiful. 
 
 Much must be lost in any translation whatever. 
 If I may have had only slight success in attempting to 
 reproduce to the English reader the mind of this good 
 and great man, I shall indeed be thankful. 
 
I. 
 
 "Aye fJLOiy Aiyeia <£op/xiyf, 
 
 (Anacreontic: Dimeter ionic.) 
 
 Wake, wake, I pray thee, shrill-toned lyre ! 
 
 No more to fan the Teian 1 fire, 
 
 No more the Lesbian 2 strain to raise, 
 
 Wake, wake to hymn of nobler praise ! 
 
 Sound Dorian 3 ode, in other guise, 
 
 Than once to maid with laughing eyes, 
 
 Or youth whose form and golden tresses 
 
 Might woo the wanton air's caresses ! 
 
 A better theme inspires my song, 
 
 And bears my soul far hence along. i o 
 
 A Virgin's God-conceiving throes, 
 
 Wisdom's own cure for mortal woes — 
 
 1 Anacreon was of Teos. 
 
 2 Sappho of Lesbos. 
 
 3 The Dorian dialect was generally used for graver and sublimer subjects. 
 
IIYMXS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 This bids me now my harp-strings ply, 
 
 And earth's black loves and miseries fly. 
 
 For what is strength, or beauty's sway, 
 
 Or gold, or fame — what doth it weigh — 
 
 Or royal honours — in the scale ? 
 
 What these 'gainst search for God avail ? 
 
 Let this man urge the well-horsed car, 
 
 That shoot the true-aimed arrow far ; 20 
 
 Another watch o'er golden heap, 
 
 And safe his hoarded treasure keep ; 
 
 To one be pride of glossy hair 
 
 Flowing o'er neck in wavelets fair ; 
 
 Another court the favouring glances 
 
 Of boys and girls in hymns and dances. 
 
 Not such for me ! But this I pray, 
 
 Unknown to spend life's quiet day ; 
 
 To this vain world unmarked, unknown, 
 
 But God's truth knowing as my own. 30 
 
 Wisdom present herself to me ! 
 
 Good guide of youth and age is she, 
 
 Of wealth good stewardess and queen, 
 
 Alike in poverty serene; 
 
 Beyond earth's sorrows smiling gay, 
 
 To calm content she points the way. 
 
SYNESIUb. 
 
 That priceless wisdom first I ask, 
 
 To guide and sweeten all life's task, 
 
 And then sufficient humble store 
 
 To keep me from my neighbour's door ; 40 
 
 That I may ne'er, oppressed with need, 
 
 Harbour dark thoughts of selfish greed. 
 
 Hark ! 'tis the sweet cicada's song : 
 He drinks the dew, and chirps along. 
 And, lo ! my strings unbidden sound, 
 And here and there a voice around ! 
 What in the world — what melody 
 Will pang divine bring forth to me ? 
 
 'Tis so ! Self-sprung Beginning He, 
 
 Father and Lord of all that be : 50 
 
 Not made, not born, on high alone 
 
 He hath o'er lofty heaven His throne. 
 
 There glory changeless He displays, 
 
 And sceptre there eternal sways ; 
 
 Of unities pure Unity, 
 
 And Sole of sole existence He ! 
 
 High ether pure He did combine, 
 
 And quicken into Life Divine. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 He then, ere yet the ages ran, 
 In mode ineffable to man, 60 
 
 The Godhead through the Firstborn poured : T 
 Hence Three, yet One, the Triune Lord. 
 
 And now the heavenly fount around 
 Behold, with children's beauty crowned, 
 Forth from the centre as they spring, 
 Or round it flow in joyous ring. 
 
 But stop, rash lyre, thy lofty flight, 
 
 Nor touch things hid from mortal sight ! 
 
 To men below it is not given 
 
 To tell high mystic rites of heaven. 70 
 
 The things beneath do thou reveal ; 
 
 The things above let silence seal. 
 
 But Mind now cares for worlds alone, 
 In which reflected mind is shown : 
 A good beginning this we sing, 
 For thence man's spirit hath its spring : 
 
 1 Lit. : The Sole Unity poured forth through the first-sown Form in an 
 ineffable way had a threefold supreme help. 
 
SYNE SI US. 
 
 For now to matter came there down 
 
 Mind incorruptible, high crown, 
 
 Severed in each, and fragment small, 
 
 Yet true descent from God of all. 80 
 
 This whole, in every part one-centred, 
 
 Whole into whole as it hath entered, 
 
 Takes station at the eternal poles, 
 
 And heaven's resplendent circle rolls. 
 
 Divided next, to those again, 
 
 In given form who yet retain 
 
 Their dowry unimpaired of mind, 
 
 There are high offices assigned ; 
 
 The chariot race of stars one guides, 
 
 One o'er the angelic choir presides. go 
 
 But, ah ! another, empty, vain, 
 
 Self-dragged by down-inclining chain, 
 
 Hath found a form of lower earth, 
 
 Deep fallen from his heavenly birth : 
 
 From home apostate far he flew, 
 
 And cups of Lethe's darkness drew ; 
 
 Of eyeless soul and murky mind, 
 
 To heaven's true joy and glory blind ; 
 
 Fain he to joyless earth repaired, 
 
 A god by mortal things ensnared. 100 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 All dark ! yet, lo ! to mortal eves 
 
 A ray of cheering light doth rise ! 
 
 A door of hope is opened high, 
 
 And helping hand is stretched out nigh, 
 
 To lift the fallen here on earth 
 
 Back to the honours of their birth, 
 
 When they, emerging from the strife 
 
 And din and cares of stonn-tossed life, 
 
 To holy paths have turned indeed, 
 
 Which to their Father's palace lead. no 
 
 Blest he who from the entangling mesh 
 
 Of matter and of greedy flesh 
 
 Hath fled, and on with springing bound 
 
 The upward way to God hath found ! 
 
 Blest he who, after fates severe, 
 
 And toils and many a bitter tear, 
 
 And all the crowd of anxious cares 
 
 Which earth to all her votaries shares, 
 
 To mind's true course at length restored, 
 
 Hath God's own shining depth explored ! 120 
 
 A task it is, to lift above 
 
 Whole outstretched soul in new-born love ! 
 
SYNE SI US. 13 
 
 Yet only make determined start, 
 
 With wings of mind and honest heart, 
 
 And nigh to thee will He appear 
 
 With stretched-forth hands, thy Father dear. 
 
 Before will run a shining light, 
 
 And all thy upward paths make bright : 
 
 Fields of sweet thought thou now shalt tread, 
 
 Pledge of true beauty, for thee spread ! 130 
 
 Come, O my soul, and drink of this, 
 
 A fountain flowing with all bliss ; 
 
 And to thy Father, lifting prayer, 
 
 Without delay, up-mount the air. 
 
 Leaving to earth the things of earth, 
 
 In God assert thy godlike birth ; 
 
 And mingling with thy Father, Friend, 
 
 Taste joys above that never end. 
 
14 HYMNS 0? GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 ii. 
 
 TIaAt (/>eyyos, ttoXiv doos, 
 
 {Anacreontic: Dimeter ionic.) 
 
 Again we hail the opening morn, 
 Again breaks forth the day new-born, 
 Which, rising in victorious might, 
 Chases away black-wandering night ! 
 Again, my mind, in early songs 
 Praise Him to whom all praise belongs ; 
 Who gave to morning dawn the light 
 Who gave the glittering stars to night, 
 Which to their Maker and their King 
 Around the world in chorus sing. 
 For o'er prolific matter, high, 
 Moves ether pure in fiery sky ; 
 Where glides the moon in glorious trim, 
 Cutting the last encircling rim : 
 
SYNESIUS. 15 
 
 For to the eighth revolving stream 
 
 The star-borne courses brightly gleam. 
 
 But now beyond the starry poles 
 
 A counter sea of glory rolls. 
 
 Unbosomed ; and with dance divine 
 
 Doth the Eternal Mind enshrine, 
 
 Which covered hath with hoary wings 
 
 The palace of the King of kings. 
 
 What is beyond none may relate, 
 
 Nor mind of man can penetrate : 
 
 Eternal severance restrains, 
 
 And happy silence ever reigns. 
 
 From Root, or Spring, or Fountain one 
 
 A threefold lighted Form hath shone : 
 
 For where the Father dwells above, 
 
 There dwelleth too His own heart's love, 30 
 
 His glorious Son, wisdom perfect, 
 
 And of all worlds the Architect : 
 
 And in the Unity combined 
 
 The Spirit's holy Light hath shined. 
 
 One Root of Good, one Fount of Love, 
 
 Whence sprung the bliss supreme above : 
 
 And the bright holy lamps divine 
 
 In equal glory ever shine. 
 
 * c 
 
1 6 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And thence in this fair world of ours, 
 
 With high-born intellectual powers, 40 
 
 A chorus now of deathless kings 
 
 The Triune glory ever sings. 
 
 And near the Fount of Love and Truth 
 
 Angelic band in changeless youth, 
 
 Guided by holy Wisdom's mind, 
 
 Immortal wreath of beauty find. 
 
 But some with dark averted eyes 
 
 Fall mindless from the lofty skies 
 
 Downward the gloomy depths among, 
 
 And bring the higher world along \ 50 
 
 Down, down to Matter's utmost bound, 
 
 Where, settling in the depth profound, 
 
 Nature assigns them birth and place, 
 
 A God-like, 1 though God-fallen race. 
 
 Hence giant heroes took their birth, 
 
 The mighty conquerors of earth ; 
 
 And hence Breath sown o'er all the ground 
 
 Each varying type of life hath found. 
 
 But all things to Thy counsel hold, 
 
 Things past, or present, new or old : 60 
 
 1 Lit : A much-talking and much-plotting crowd of demons (i. e. demigods). 
 
SYNE SI US. 17 
 
 Whate'er we have, whate'er we share, 
 
 Of all from Thee the sources are. 
 
 The Father and the Mother Thou, 
 
 Male, female, unto Thee we bow : 
 
 Or voice be heard, or all be still, 
 
 'Tis just as ordered by Thy will. 
 
 And Thou or Nature Thyself art, 
 
 Or Nature is Thy counterpart : 
 
 And Thou art King ; and ages all 
 
 Within Thine age unmeasured fall. 70 
 
 May I my song aright renew, 
 
 O Thou, the Root whence all things grew ! 
 
 Hail ! Thou, the world's Original ; 
 
 Hail ! Thou, the Spring, First Cause of all. 
 
 All numbers blending into one, 
 
 The Uncreated, God alone ! 
 
 All hail, all hail, 1 Thou One Divine ! 
 
 All joy, all happiness be Thine ! 
 
 Bend Thou, O bend propitious ear, 
 
 And this my hymn of praises hear, 80 
 
 Speed on true Wisdom's opening day, 
 
 Pour blessings down in rich array : 
 
 1 X a ?P € — X a ' l P 0LS — X at V 6i|/ - We cannot imitate in English the beau- 
 tiful play on these words. 
 
 C 2 
 
iS HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Yea, grace-distilling streams pour down, 
 
 That I may win contentment's crown 
 
 In life's sweet calm ; the happy mean 
 
 Give me, riches and want between. 
 
 Off from my limbs diseases ward, 
 
 My soul from stormy passions guard : 
 
 Let no dark thoughts my steps attend : 
 
 My life from biting cares defend ; 90 
 
 Lest mind, borne down by earthly ill, 
 
 To soar should find nor time nor will. 
 
 But grant me with free wing to rise, 
 
 And join the chorus of the skies, 
 
 And there with Thine for ever sing 
 
 The glories of my God and King ! 
 
SYNE SI US. 19 
 
 in. 1 
 
 Aye [Mot if/v^a 
 
 ( Anapcestic monometer.) 
 
 1. (i-ii). 
 
 Lift up thyself, my soul, 
 
 Above this world's control ! 
 Spend and be spent in holy hymns of praise : 
 
 Be armed with pure desire, 
 
 Burn with celestial fire : 
 Unto the King of gods our voice we raise : 
 
 To Him a crown we weave, and bring 
 A sacrifice of words, a bloodless offering. 
 
 1 In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there 
 is no weariness from monotony ; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and 
 spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a con- 
 stant and pleasing variety. But this being impossible in an English trans- 
 lation, I have adopted the measure which Milton so beautifully employs in 
 the Hymn of the Nativity. For the convenience of those who may wish to 
 refer to the original, I mark the lines at the head of each stanza. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 II. (n-22). 
 
 Thee on the troubled deep, 
 
 Thee o'er the islands steep, 
 Thee through the mighty continents of land, 
 
 Thee in the city's throng, 
 
 Or mountain tops along, 
 Or when in celebrated plains I stand, 
 Thee, Thee, O blessed One, I sing, 
 Thee, Thee, O Father of the world, Eternal King \ 
 
 in. (23-36). 
 
 Thy praise I hymn by night, 
 
 Thy praise at morning light, 
 Thy praise by day, Thy praise at eventide. 
 
 This know the hoary stars, 
 
 And moon with silver bars, 
 And chiefly he that doth on high preside 
 
 O'er all the host of heaven, the sun, 
 AVho measuring time for holy souls his course doth run. 
 
SYNE SI US. 21 
 
 iv. (37-5o)« 
 
 Fain to thy folds I sped, 
 
 And to Thy bosom fled, 
 Winging my steps from Matter's wide-spread rule : 
 
 Now on famed mountain peak, 
 
 Thy face alone to seek ; 
 Now on the plain I hailed thy vestibule. 
 
 A suppliant thus to many a shrine 
 Of sacred rites I came, and mysteries divine. 
 
 v. (51-67). 
 
 And now to southern land, 
 
 And Libya's desert strand 
 I roamed, where neither godless spirit reigns, 
 
 Nor teeming cities' strife 
 
 Calls men to busy life \ 
 That so my soul, from woeful toils and pains 
 
 And passions' war and groans set free, 
 And all the ills of fate, might harmonize with Thee. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 vi. (68-75). 
 
 And might, in blest relief, 
 
 Unshackled now from grief, 
 With lips and tongue all cleansed, and hallowed mind, 
 
 Repay the hymn to Thee, 
 
 The hymn full due from me. 
 Be Earth and Ether holily combined 
 And Air and Sea with one accord 
 Be still, and join in adoration to the Lord ! 
 
 vii. (76-85). 
 
 Swift breath of winds, be still, 
 
 And whirling pool and rill, 
 And floods that are at rivers' mouths forth hurled ; 
 
 And streams from fountain-heads 
 
 That rush down rocky beds : 
 And hushed be ye, deep hollows of the world ; 
 
 While breath in holy hymns is spent, 
 And sacrifice of praise in upward strains is sent. 
 
SYNESIUS. 23 
 
 VIII. (86-94). 
 
 Down sink the serpent's trail ! 
 
 Nor let their craft prevail ! 
 Down sink the winged dragon underground ; 
 
 Who loves to cloud the soul, 
 
 The god who doth control 
 This lower world, and idol-worship found, 
 
 And urgeth on the dogs of hell 
 Against God's praying people, His true Israel ! 
 
 ix. (9S-107). 
 
 O blessed Father, Friend, 
 
 My soul do Thou defend 
 From soul-devouring dogs ; defend my prayer, 
 
 Defend my deeds, my life, 
 
 From their destructive strife : 
 And charge Thy holy angels, that they bear 
 
 To Thee this offering of my mind : 
 For hymns they carry that with Thee acceptance find. 
 
24 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 X. (108-117). 
 
 Now am I borne along 
 
 To lists of sacred song : 
 Now holy words in streams spontaneous flow : 
 
 A voice within me rings, 
 
 And toucheth my heart-strings : 
 But unto me, O Father, mercy show \ 
 
 Forgive, O Blessed, if I stray, 
 In theme divine, and miss the rightful ordered way. 
 
 xi. (118-125). 
 
 What eye can steadfast gaze, 
 
 When Thy dread beacons blaze ? 
 What eye so wise, so strong, of mortal man, 
 
 That it unclosed may bear 
 
 Thy vivid lightning's glare ? 
 E'en of the mighty ones on high none can, 
 
 However strong, however bold, 
 The glorious brightness of Thy Majesty behold. 
 
SYNESIUS. 25 
 
 xii. (126-137). 
 
 Now aims the mind too far, 
 
 And finds repelling bar, 
 Nor can it penetrate by utmost strain 
 
 The depths so dazzling bright, 
 
 Where Thou dost dwell in light : 
 So, falling back from efforts feebly vain, 
 
 It courts within its proper scope 
 An object known whereon to fix the eye of hope ; 
 
 xiii. (138-146). 
 
 That for Thy hymns it might 
 Thence pluck fair flowers of light, 
 
 Nor leave to thankless winds an offering : 
 But render back to Thee 
 Thine own, for Thine they be ; 
 
 For what of all things is not Thine, O King ? 
 O Father of all fathers, Thou ! 
 
 To Thine eternal Fatherhood all beings bow ! 
 
26 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XIV. (147-157). 
 
 But Father Thou hadst none \ 
 
 Thou art the self-sprung One, 
 Before all worlds the sole great Mind existing : 
 
 Germ of whate'er we see, 
 
 Spur of all things that be : 
 Root of first worlds, by Thee alone subsisting : 
 
 Light of all light, Truth's basis sure ; 
 And Wisdom's everflowing stream, and fountain pure. 
 
 xv. (158-165). 
 
 O Mind immutable ! 
 
 O Light inscrutable ! 
 Thine is the eye that guides the lightning fire : 
 
 In Thee the ages live, 
 
 Thou dost their limits give ; 
 Who can Thy praises reach, Eternal Sire ? 
 
 Thou art beyond the dreams of men ; 
 Beyond the reach of mind, or highest angel's ken. 
 
SYNESIUS. 27 
 
 xvi. (166-173). 
 
 O'er all Thy rule is spread, 
 
 The living and the dead ; 
 To minds that be, the parent Mind Thou art ; 
 
 All heaven Thou dost control, 
 
 Thou nourishest the soul, 
 And dost to spirit energy impart ; 
 
 The Spring Thou art whence all things flow, 
 And from eternity the Root whence all things grow. 
 
 xvii. (174-183). 
 
 The only One, yet all ; 
 
 In Thee all numbers fall ; 
 The only One, yet countless evermore : 
 
 The self-existent Mind, 
 
 Yet mind with law combined ; 
 Mind's realm, yet all the realm of mind before : 
 
 Through all, yet all beyond, art Thou : 
 To Thee, the Seed of all existing things, we bow. 
 
28 IIYMXS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XVIII. (184-190). 
 
 Thou art the Eternal Root, 
 
 Thou art the spreading Shoot ! 
 Or male or female Thou be called, 'tis one ; 
 
 To mind Thou nature art, 
 
 And dost Thyself impart, 
 But mind enlightened ne'er can say, 'tis done; 
 
 But here and there a word outpours, 
 While feebly it the unfathomed depth around explores. 
 
 xix. (191-198), 
 
 Thou art the Parent Tree, 
 
 All have their life from Thee, 
 Or stem or branch, whatever is, is Thine. 
 
 Thou art the Light of light, 
 
 The Light of day so bright, 
 The Light that shineth evermore Divine : 
 
 Thou art, again, the hidden Light, 
 By its own glory hidden far from mortal sight. 
 
SYNES1US. 29 
 
 xx. (199-209). 
 
 Yet one, yet all, one Lord, 
 One only, yet forth poured, 
 
 Through all forth poured in holy Mystery 
 Of Thee thus sprung the Son, 
 Wisdom, the glorious One, 
 
 Creator of the universe to be. 
 The Godhead severed into twain 
 
 By birth ineffable, unsevered doth remain. 
 
 xxi. (210-216). 
 
 Yet One, though Twain, though Three : 
 
 Mysterious Trinity ! 
 For Thou art One in Three, and Three in One. 
 
 I sing Thee, Unity ! 
 
 I sing IThee, Trinity ! 
 The Triune King, the Father, Spirit, Son ! 
 
 The Light divided is not spent, 
 The One pervading mind, though parted, is not rent. 
 
30 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XXII. (217-224). 
 
 Thy holy Will is done, 
 
 'Tis through the Eternal Son \ 
 And from the outpoured Godhead forth there springs, 
 
 Which cannot be exprest 
 
 In words, the Spirit Blest, 
 The Uncreated ! we of wondrous things 
 
 Have spoken ; but we speak not there : 
 We dare not if we could, we could not if we dare. 
 
 xxiii. (225-231). 
 
 Who knows the Eternal Laws ? 
 
 Who knows the First Great Cause ? 
 We may not say a Second, or a Third. 
 
 O Birth beyond our reach ; 
 
 O Spring defying speech ! 
 What mortal to the task himself could gird ? 
 
 O matchless Holy One, between 
 The Father and the Son Thy Light doth intervene. 
 
SYNE SI US. 31 
 
 XXIV. (232-240). 
 
 All reverence to Thee, 
 Eternal Spirit, be ! 
 Thou of the Three the middle rank dost hold. 
 And now, most glorious Son, 
 Thy praises be begun ! 
 Thy birth, thy generation, is untold : 
 
 The Father's Son, the Father's Will, 
 With Him Thou present wast, and present Thou art 
 still. 
 
 xxv. (241-253). 
 
 Thou with the Father art, 
 
 And ever next His heart ; 
 Nor can deep flowing Time Thy birth reveal ; 
 
 Nor aged ^Eon say 
 
 When was Thy natal day ; 
 He never learned, nor could remove the seal. 
 
 Son with the Father ! He the same 
 Who should hereafter give to ^Eon birth and name. 
 
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32 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XXVI. (254-265). 
 
 Who hath adjudged the eye 
 Into God's depths to pry ? 
 The subtle tongue will dare, but man is blind. 
 Such daring is in vain, 
 Tis godless and profane. 
 Thou dost to Thine pour light upon the mind, 
 
 And guard their hearts with holy care, 
 That they in darkness sink not through gross matter's 
 snare. 
 
 xxvii. (266-275). 
 
 To Thee all holy praise 
 
 It well befits to raise ; 
 For Thou of all art Father, all are Thine : 
 
 Thou all the worlds didst found, 
 
 Thou dost all ages bound, 
 Thou framedst all the host of heaven divine ; 
 
 To Thee all minds of light do sing, 
 And starry spheres intelligent hail Thee their King ! 
 
SYNESIUS. 33 
 
 xxviii. (276-285). 
 
 While round in holy choir 
 
 Dance their bright orbs of fire, 
 The blest ones all do shout and sing before Thee ; 
 
 The world within, around, 
 
 They all Thy praise resound, 
 All in their stations evermore adore Thee : 
 Those in the zones ; and those outside, 
 Who yet their several posts assigned in wisdom guide. 
 
 xxix. (286-300). 
 
 These come to guard, or tame, 
 Earth's helmsmen, sons of fame ; 
 Of link angelic, and who draw their birth 
 From old heroic race ; 
 Who ever take their place, 
 By hidden ways, o'er men and things of earth : 
 
 And though of an unyielding will, 
 To dark-rayed worldly glories ever yield they still. 
 
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34 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XXX. (301-31 1). 
 
 To Thee blithe nature sings, 
 And all from her that springs : 
 For Thou with heavenly breath dost them renew, 
 Forth pouring from above 
 Thy stores of grace and love, 
 Which ever fresh descend in showers and dew ; 
 
 Thou to all nature nature art, 
 O Lord of worlds unstained ! and dost Thine own 
 impart. 
 
 xxxi. (312-319). 
 
 For nature Thou didst train 
 And school, that she again 
 Might parent be of every mortal thing ; 
 The faithful counterpart 
 Of all that Thyself art, 
 Of life and health the everflowing spring ! 
 
 That to the world's extremest bound 
 Each part in turn with living beauty might be 
 crowned. 
 
SYATES/US. 35 
 
 xxxii. (320-328). 
 
 For it were never right 
 
 That things should jar and fight, 
 Or dregs of earth with excellence contend ; 
 
 But all by Thy decree 
 
 Is wrought in harmony ; 
 Nor aught shall perish, nor the chorus end ; 
 
 But each from other takes its share, 
 And all through one another taste Thy loving care. 
 
 xxxiii. (329-334)- 
 
 The eternal wheel revolves, 
 And the dark riddle solves ; 
 Things die ; Thou sendest forth Thy breath, they 
 live, 
 And in fresh glory bloom, 
 Renewed from mortal doom. 
 Thus nurtured nature nurturing doth give ; 
 
 And she doth sing a deathless song 
 To Thee by all her children through the ages long. 
 
36 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XXXIV. (335-342). 
 
 In colour or in skin 
 
 Without, or life within, 
 And deeds, however varied they may be, 
 
 Yet nature moulds them all 
 
 Obedient to her call, 
 And links them fast in holy unity ; 
 
 And from all creatures thus doth raise 
 Of differing voices one harmonious hymn of praise. 
 
 xxxv. (343-357). 
 
 To Thee, their Lord and King, 
 All things their tribute bring 
 Of ceaseless praise ; the night, the morn, the sky, 
 The lightning flash, the snow, 
 And things that spring and grow ; 
 All bodies and all spirits ; birds that fly, 
 
 And beasts that graze ; seeds, plants, and roots ; 
 The sea with all that swims, and earth with all her 
 fruits. 
 
SYNE SI US. 37 
 
 xxxvi. (358-367)- 
 
 The waves of trouble roll ; 
 
 Look Thou upon my soul, 
 To act so powerless, to learn so slow, 
 
 Where on Thy Libyan sands 
 
 The mystic temple stands ; 
 For hither I, Thy holy will to know, 
 
 Oppressed with grief, my steps have bent, 
 On prayer and supplication unto Thee intent. 
 
 xxxvii. (368-374). 
 
 Before Thy favouring eye 
 
 Earth's gloomy vapours fly : 
 Look Thou on me, and bid my sorrows cease. 
 
 'Tis so ! e'en now my heart 
 
 Through food Thy hymns impart — 
 For Thine they are — hath nourishment of peace. 
 
 And points my mind with keen desire 
 To rise afresh to thoughts and words of heavenly fire. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 xxxviii. (375"3 8 °). 
 
 But send, O King, Thy light, 
 
 To quicken my dull sight, 
 And guide me on the road that leads to Thee. 
 
 And, Father, grant, I pray, 
 
 That from the body's sway 
 My better part, escaping, may be free, 
 And not again be downward hurled 
 Beneath the floods and eddies of this troubled world. 
 
 xxxix. (381-391). 
 
 Yet here, while in the strife 
 
 Of world-enchained life, 
 O Blessed, may kind fortune smile on me ; 
 
 Nor stormy tempest blow 
 
 To check the holy glow, 
 Or rudely break the mind's tranquillity ; 
 
 Lest inrush of the worldly flood 
 Should leave to me no leisure for the things of God. 
 
SYNESIUS. 39 
 
 XL. (392-401). 
 
 And whereto I have striven, 
 
 By grace which Thou hast given, 
 (For all good gifts of help and strength are Thine), 
 
 May I the ground retain, 
 
 Nor e'er fall back again. 
 For which Thy gifts this humble wreath of mine 
 
 From holy fields to Thee I bring, 
 O Thou of all creations pure the Eternal King ; 
 
 xli. (402-409). 
 
 To Thee and to Thy Son, 
 
 Thine own, the only One, 
 Alone of Thee begotten, the All-wise, 
 
 Whom from eternity 
 
 Thou hadst, and hast, with Thee, 
 Though forth from Thee He came to harmonize 
 
 All things, and fashion, form, and guide, 
 By wisdom's breath outpoured, and over all preside. 
 
40 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XLII. (410-416). 
 
 The hoary ages wake, 
 
 And their due courses take, 
 At his command ; and of His matchless skill, 
 
 And workmanship divine, 
 
 As if by plumb and line, 
 This rugged world He mouldeth to His will, 
 
 Whate'er exists above the ground, 
 Or on its surface, or within its depths profound. 
 
 xliii. (417-427). 
 
 And merciful and kind 
 He shines with holy mind 
 On toiling mortals ; and doth bring relief; 
 For He doth loose the chain 
 Of toilsome care and pain ; 
 Effects their good, and drives away their grief. 
 
 The God who did the world create, 
 What marvel that His own He guard from whelming 
 fate? 
 
SYNE SI US. 41 
 
 XLIV. (428-440). 
 
 And hither southward now, 
 
 That I might pay this vow 
 To Thee the mighty world's eternal guide, 
 
 I came from northern Thrace, 
 
 Where three years' dreary space 
 Near the Imperial Court I did abide, 
 In toil, with tears and anguish sore, 
 For on my shoulders I my mother country bore. 
 
 xlv. (441-454). 
 
 And well Thou know'st, good Lord, 
 
 How from my limbs was poured 
 A sweat of agony from day to day : 
 
 Nor rest had I by night 
 
 In that dire mental fight : 
 But watered was the couch on which I lay 
 From streaming eyes. Then to and fro, 
 To every shrine a suppliant I made haste to 
 
42 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XLVI. (455-462). 
 
 To all in turn I bring 
 
 Prayer, chaplet, offering, 
 And water with my tears each sacred floor, 
 
 That I might not with pain 
 
 Have journey made in vain, 
 But that Thou wouldst wide-open hopeful door. 
 
 Thus in my own and country's need 
 I with Thy holy ones through fruitful Thrace did plead \ 
 
 xlvii. (463-473). 
 
 And who across the main, 
 Guard Carthaginian plain, 
 I sought them all, if they might succour me, 
 Throughout the region round, 
 Whom Thou with rays hadst crowned 
 Angelic, Thine attendant saints to be. 
 
 The blest ones helped my eager prayers, 
 They helped my many toils, and soothed my many 
 cares. 
 
SYNESIUS. 43 
 
 XLVIII. (474-489). 
 
 Life did no pleasure yield, 
 
 While my poor country reeled 
 Half stunned : but Thou hast righted her, O King ! 
 
 The Rock of Ages Thou, 
 
 To whom the world doth bow ! 
 Crushed were my limbs, my soul a lifeless thing : 
 
 But Thou from Heaven hast breathed at length 
 New vigour on my soul, and on my limbs new strength. 
 
 xlix. (490-497). 
 
 For Thou hast brought relief, 
 And stayed o'erflowing grief : 
 Toils have an end, the wearied soul hath rest. 
 'Twas by Thy wisdom planned, 
 'Twas wrought out by Thy hand. 
 Thou to my mind hast given refreshment blest. 
 
 Now, O my God, do Thou ordain, 
 That to the Libyans these Thine own sweet gifts 
 remain ; 
 
44 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 L. (498-505). 
 
 Of our long tribulation, 
 
 Of Thy so great Salvation, 
 A lasting record ! Hear Thy suppliant's prayer ; 
 
 And henceforth may my life 
 
 Be safe from harmful strife. 
 Loose me from toil, disease, and deadly care. 
 
 Thus to Thy servant bow Thine ear, 
 And grant my mental life be ever bright and clear. 
 
 Li. (506-523). 
 
 I would not showers of wealth 
 To try the soul's best health, 
 And leave no leisure for the things divine ; 
 Nor poverty would I, 
 With downcast sullen eye, 
 Black spectre to the house, prone to repine, 
 
 Bowed down to earth with earthly cares. 
 Both grovel on the ground, and both are dangerous 
 snares. 
 
SYNE SI US. 45 
 
 LII. (524-532). 
 
 And both forgetful are 
 Of better things by far, 
 The mind, and all that to the mind doth cling, 
 Unless, heavenly Friend, 
 Thou shouldst Thy help extend. 
 Yea, Father, wisdom's holy self and spring, 
 
 Upon this faltering soul of mine 
 The light of mind from Thine own bosom cause to 
 shine. 
 
 lhi. (533-543)' 
 
 And on my heart, I pray, 
 
 Turn Thou blest wisdom's ray, 
 With helping hand, and point the holy road 
 
 That leadeth unto Thee ; 
 
 And set Thy seal on me, 
 And let me have the token of my God ; 
 
 And from my life, and from my prayer, 
 Drive earthly demons of presumption and despair, 
 
46 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 liv. (544-553). 
 
 And may my body be 
 
 From all dishonour free, 
 As fortress unassailable to foe ; 
 
 And may my spirit pure 
 
 Unto the end endure 
 By Thine all-saving help. Full well I know, 
 
 That I do bear dark worldly stain, 
 And held in bondage am by earthly passions' chain ; 
 
 LV. (544-563). 
 
 But Thou deliverer art, 
 And cleanser of the heart. 
 From evils circling round escape afford, 
 And from diseases all, 
 And bonds that fret and gall. 
 I bear Thy seed, of noble mind, good Lord, 
 
 A spark that issued forth from Thee, 
 And flashing down through depths of matter lit on 
 me. 
 
SYNE SI US. 47 
 
 LVI. (564-574). 
 
 For in the world, O King, 
 Thou mad'st a soul to spring, 
 And in the body, through the soul, a mind : 
 O pity then Thine own, 
 The handmaid from Thy throne : 
 From Thee descending, hapless I did bind 
 
 Myself as labourer free to earth : 
 Not labourer now, but slave, downfallen from my 
 birth. 
 
 lvii. (575-585). 
 
 For, me the world around 
 With witchery hath bound, 
 Some little strength may yet remain in me 
 Of secret inner light, 
 Not yet extinguished quite : 
 But o'er my head is rolled a mighty sea, 
 That doth make blind the mental eye 
 That would its God and things of heavenly worth 
 descry. 
 
48 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 LVIII. (586-592). 
 
 O look with pitying eye, 
 
 And hear the mournful cry 
 Of Thine own child, O Father good and kind : 
 
 Whom oft when she would rise 
 
 Up to her native skies, 
 Impelled by holy efforts of the mind, 
 
 Yet fascination of this world 
 Hath choked, and back to earth's dark mazes hurled. 
 
 LIX - (S93-6o2). 
 
 But O ! send forth Thy light, 
 
 A beacon fire through night, 
 To guide and cheer me on my upward way ; 
 
 And may that seed take root, 
 
 And, striking out its shoot 
 From small beginning, head of flower display. 
 
 O Father, such Thy help divine, 
 Enthrone me in the lisrht of life above to shine 
 
SYNE SI US. 49 
 
 LX. (603-611). 
 
 Where nature cannot clasp 
 With her resistless grasp : 
 And whence no longer earth, or web of fate, 
 Can back recall to woe 
 And vain desires below. 
 Let brood deceitful that I scorn and hate 
 
 Of worldly passions scattered be, 
 And leave thy servant, O my God, at peace with 
 Thee ! 
 
 LXI. (612-627). 
 
 Me and earth's din betwixt 
 Be fiery barrier fixed. 
 Thy grace, O Father, to my soul reveal ; 
 And let thy suppliant find, 
 With outspread wings of mind, 
 The ascending path, and bear aloft Thy seal, 
 
 A terror to the up-springing foe, 
 Who breathe to mortals godless thoughts from depths 
 below ; 
 
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5o HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 LXII. (628-635). 
 
 But badge and token known 
 
 To those about Thy throne, 
 The holy ones, who all the heights survey 
 
 Of Thy bright world, and stand 
 
 As guards in high command, 
 Bearing the keys of upward fiery way, 
 
 That they may give an entrance free, 
 And open wide the gates of heavenly light to me. 
 
 lxiii. (636-645). 
 
 But still while creeping here 
 Upon this empty sphere 
 Of earth, yet not of earth grant me to be ; 
 But from a better root 
 E'en here attesting fruit 
 To bear of fire-proved deeds, my God, to Thee ; 
 
 And Thy true voice to hear and know, 
 And whate'er warms and makes in souls blest hope to 
 grow. 
 
SYNE SI US. 
 
 LXIV. (646-653). 
 
 It doth me now repent 
 
 Of life on earth ill-spent : 
 Begone, the blear-eyed haze of godless men, 
 
 And built-up cities' strength : 
 
 Begone, ye breadth and length 
 Of worldly aims, nor harass me again, 
 
 Ye sweet calamities, ye toys 
 Of mighty seeming, bootless boons, and joyless joys. 
 
 lxv. (654-661). 
 
 Tranced by your bravery 
 The soul in slavery 
 To earth is held; and wretched is indeed ; 
 For of her own good things 
 This cup oblivion brings : 
 And things, wherewith to satisfy her need 
 
 She hoped, are forthwith snatched away ; 
 And from vain dream she wakes to envy's shaft a 
 prey. 
 
52 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 LXVI. (662-670). 
 
 For fortune here below 
 
 A double face doth show, 
 False queen : whom if you haply win and trust, 
 
 And in her livery shine, 
 
 And at her table dine, 
 Soon rue your lot with bitter tears you must, 
 
 When down from pedestal so high 
 You fall in widespread ruin, and neglected lie. 
 
 lxvii. (671-683). 
 
 For here, from adverse sides, 
 
 Now good, now ill, betides : 
 To mortals such is life's necessity. 
 
 To God, or what hath birth 
 
 From God, but not to earth, 
 Is good unmingled with adversity. 
 
 Did cup of sweets intoxicate ? 
 Ensnared I learnt by crop of woes a lesson late. 
 
SYNE SI US. 53 
 
 LXVIII. (684-693). 
 
 I hate these laws of change ; 
 
 And hence now upward range, 
 With wings expanded, to the peaceful sky : 
 
 To bright ethereal plains, 
 
 Where my dear Father reigns, 
 From earth, and earth's two-sided gifts I fly. 
 
 O Steward of the life of mind, 
 To Thee I look ; with Thee may I acceptance find. 
 
 lxix. (694-703). 
 
 My soul doth hang on Thee : 
 
 Heed Thou Thy suppliant's plea, 
 Bound here on earth, yet struggling to ascend 
 
 The upward paths of mind : 
 
 As Thou thus far hast shined, 
 O shine yet more : light wings of succour lend : 
 
 Snap double passions' bond, and chain 
 Of earth unloose, and let my soul her freedom gain. 
 
54 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 LXX. (704-713). 
 
 For nature by these chains 
 Her treacherous power obtains, 
 And binds me down to earth a helpless prey ; 
 But from the body freed, 
 And all its direful need, 
 Grant me to take swift flight to realms of day, 
 To Thine own halls and Thine own breast, 
 Whence flows the Fountain of the soul \ and be at 
 rest. 
 
 lxxi. (714-725). 
 
 A drop from Fountain Head 
 
 Poured forth, to earth I sped, 
 An exile and a wanderer from Thee ; 
 
 Me now, I pray, restore 
 
 To where I was before : 
 With light ancestral may I mingled be ! 
 
 Tune Thou my mind with Thine own choir 
 In holiness to sing the hymns Thou dost inspire. 
 
SYXESIUS. 55 
 
 LXXII. (726-734). 
 
 Once saved from mortal plight, 
 
 Once mingled with the light, 
 O Father, grant I never enter more 
 
 Within earth's black domains 
 
 Of penalties and pains ; 
 But while I yet am chained to this dark shore, 
 
 And bear life's drudgery below, 
 Bid Thou that fortune's breezes on me gently blow. 
 
56 HYxMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 ^>pntsfusu 
 
 IV. 
 2c fJLtv ap)(o/JLeva<;, 
 
 (Anapastic monometer.) 
 
 i. (1-9). 
 
 To Thee at evening gray, 
 To Thee at growth of day, 
 To Thee at noon, to Thee at vesper hour, 
 And when now fades the light, 
 And poured forth is the night, 
 (Both night and day are Thine, and show Thy 
 power), 
 I sing, O Healer of the soul, 
 And of the body too : Thou only mak'st it whole. 
 
SYNE SI US. 57 
 
 II. (10-17). 
 
 And wisdom's spring Thou art, 
 
 And dost of it impart ; 
 And Thou dost drive diseases far away, 
 
 And unto souls dost give 
 
 Untroubled life to live. 
 Which earthly care may not stamp down nor sway, 
 
 Who mother is of pain and woe, 
 And all the thousand ills that culminate below. 
 
 in. (18-27). 
 
 From which O grant to me 
 
 My life be ever free ! 
 That I may praise in thankful hymn and song 
 
 The hidden Root of all, 
 
 Nor severed be, nor fall 
 From God, through ills that to this world belong. 
 
 To Thee, O Father Blessed, I will sing, 
 Who art of this great universe the glorious King. 
 
58 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 iv. (28-37). 
 
 Hushed be the world, and still, 
 While I my task fulfil, 
 And lift to Thee, Supreme, the hymn divine ; 
 And while my prayers I pour, 
 Let all on earth adore ! 
 For earth, and all her workmanship, is Thine. 
 
 Let blustering winds their tumults cease, 
 And rustling trees and shrill-voiced birds be all at 
 peace. 
 
 v. (38-48). 
 
 Let ether listener be 
 
 To holy psalmody : 
 Let air be silent too : and rapid streams 
 
 Adown the earth that pour, 
 
 And waves that lash the shore, 
 Let all be stayed, as it in prayer beseems. 
 
 And demon foes to holy strain, 
 Who haunt recesses dark, and in the tombs remain ; 
 
SYNE SI US, 59 
 
 vi. (49-59)- 
 
 Fly they — far, far away — 
 While I my offerings pay : 
 But all the good, throughout creation's range, 
 The happy ones who serve, 
 Nor from the precepts swerve 
 Of the Great Parent, now in interchange 
 
 Of holy thought and mind may they 
 Befriend, and upward these my hymns and prayers 
 convey ! 
 
 vii. (60-67). 
 
 The One, the only One, 
 The Father Thou alone, 
 The One beginning whence all else began : 
 The Fount whence all founts flow, 
 The Root whence all roots grow ; 
 The Good whence good in all its channels ran ; 
 
 The Star that to all stars gave birth ; 
 The World whence sprang all worlds from highest 
 heaven to earth. 
 
6o HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 VIII. (68-79). 
 
 The Form of all forms known : 
 
 All beauty is Thine own : 
 The hidden Seed, the ages' Parent Prop : 
 
 Of worlds intelligent 
 
 The Father, whence forth sent 
 Ambrosial Breath, and floating drop by drop 
 
 Upon embodied bulk, combines 
 A second world, which in reflected glory shines. 
 
 ix. (80-88). 
 
 O Blessed, Thee I praise, 
 Or whether voice I raise, 
 Or solemn silence keep \ for to Thine ear 
 Not more the uttered speech 
 Than Mind's still voice doth reach : 
 Unuttered though the word, yet Thou dost hear. 
 
 With Thee I praise the First-born One, 
 The First -sprung Light, Thine own Begotten only 
 Son. 
 
SYNE SI US. 61 
 
 x. (89-95). 
 
 Thou Lord of power and might, 
 Light of the Father light, 
 Of the Ineffable the glorious Word ; 
 With the great Father Thee 
 I hymn in unity ; 
 And Holy Spirit too in blest accord, 
 Who did Himself divinely spring 
 Forth from the Father and through Thee, with Thee I 
 sing. 
 
 xi. (96-109). 
 True counsel He unfolds, 
 And middle rule l He holds : 
 Breath holy ! Spur of Father, Spur of Son ! 
 Self-Parent, and Self-Kin, 
 Self-nurtured Root within, 
 The Uncreated, Unbegotten One. 
 The Eternal glory is out-poured 
 Upon the Son : through whom forth springs the Spirit 
 Lord. 
 
 1 Middle Rule. See note on line 57, Ode V. 
 
62 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XII. (i 10-124). 
 
 God and of God is He, 
 
 Mid light in Trinity. 
 Thee Trinity and Unity we name \ 
 
 For Thou art Three, yet One, 
 
 The Father, Spirit, Son : 
 Though severed, yet unsevered, One the same. 
 
 Forth went the Son to do Thy will, 
 And yet with Thee the Father He remaineth still 
 
 xiii. (125-135). 
 
 Thy rule to bear He goes, 
 
 And upon worlds bestows, 
 Whence He Himself received, life's happy store. 
 
 The Word ! to Thee I raise 
 
 With the Great Father, praise. 
 The Mind of the Ineffable, before 
 
 All worlds, did Thee beget ; and Thou 
 Begotten art the Father's Word, to whom all bow ! 
 
SYNESIUS. 63 
 
 xiv. (136-146). 
 
 Thou first from the first Root 
 
 Didst spring, the glorious Shoot ; 
 And since Thy birth all things have birth from Thee. 
 
 The Eternal One, the Seed 
 
 Of all things, so decreed, 
 That Thou, first-sown, the Seed of all shouldst be. 
 
 For Thou dost all in all fulfil ; 
 And 'tis by Thee that nature lived and liveth still ; 
 
 xv. (147-159). 
 
 Where she is highest seen, 
 
 Where in the ranks between, 
 Where lowest : all good gifts of quickening powers 
 
 From God the Father she 
 
 Doth taste and hold through Thee. 
 Guided by Thee, this ageless sphere of ours 
 
 Turns her strong wheels on easy poles, 
 And seventh in the dance of stars unwearied rolls. 
 
 F 
 
64 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XVI. (160-170). 
 
 The many lights on high 
 
 One surface beautify 
 In Thy great world : for Thou dost so ordain : 
 
 And Thou, God's glorious Son, 
 
 Didst make the ages run, 
 And in unbroken course dost them sustain. 
 
 All in this globe Thou dost survey, 
 And all in circuit tend ; and all Thy laws obey. 
 
 xvii. (171-180). 
 
 And in the depths of sky 
 
 Unfathomed we descry 
 Thy ruling hand and power ; for it is there 
 
 That Thou the stars dost lead, 
 
 And in Light's pastures feed 
 The glittering host, with a true Shepherd's care. 
 
 To all in heaven, in earth, below, 
 Thou dost their tasks assign, and life on all bestow. 
 
SYNESIUS. 
 
 XVIII. (181-192). 
 
 To gods and mortal kind, 
 
 Whoe'er have quaffed of mind, 
 By kindly fate, the intellectual shower, 
 
 Thou Lord and Steward art : 
 
 And soul Thou dost impart 
 To those whose life hath nought but soul for dower, 
 
 And nature's unrestrained control : 
 For hangs on Thee the growth of even eyeless soul. 
 
 xix. (193-212). 
 
 And things that lack Thy breath 
 
 Are yet upheld from death ; 
 For Thou hast linked them to the One Supreme : 
 
 Whence flows to earth by Thee 
 
 Life's channel still kept free 
 Through trackless worlds ; and the descending stream 
 
 Of good doth mould this world of ours 
 To form of unseen world of highest mental powers. 
 
 F 2 
 
66 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XX. (213-226). 
 
 A second sun hath shone 
 
 This lower world upon : 
 Parent of later light : and bright-eyed lord 
 
 Of what doth live to-day, 
 
 To-morrow to decay, 
 Base matter : he doth yet to us afford 
 
 All world-born good, by Thy decree ; 
 And is, O Thou God-born, type visible of Thee. 
 
 xxi. (227-237). 
 
 Beyond mind's utmost reach, 
 Beyond all power of speech, 
 Ineffable, unknown, O Father dread ! 
 Thou art of mind the Mind, 
 Of souls the Soul combined, 
 Of natures all Thou art the Fountain-head. 
 
 Behold ! Thy servant bends the knee, 
 And down on earth a poor blind suppliant falls to 
 Thee. 
 
SYNESIUS. 67 
 
 XXII. (238-251). 
 
 But Thou the light dost give, 
 
 The light for mind to live ; 
 To suppliant soul, O Blessed, pity show : 
 
 Diseases chase away, 
 
 And cares the soul which slay, 
 And shameless earthly dog, and fiendish foe : 
 
 Far from my soul and from my prayer, 
 Far from my life and deeds, chase every hurtful snare. 
 
 xxiii. (252-259). 
 
 Armed may my body be 
 Against the enemy, 
 And armed my spirit, and whate'er is mine ; 
 Nor may he entrance find 
 Within my heart or mind. 
 Out be he cast, and out, by help Divine, 
 Remain, and leave me, and take flight, 
 The worldly fiend, who gives to passions strength and 
 might. 
 
68 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 XXIV. (260-274). 
 
 And who obstructs the road 
 Which upward leads to God ; 
 And quencheth aspiration's holy flame. 
 But, O great King, give me, 
 Companion meet to be, 
 An angel of Thine own, of holy name, 
 
 Of holy aid, an angel friend, 
 Who may God-lighted prayer, and all good deeds 
 defend. 
 
 xxv. (275-280). 
 
 A guardian may he be 
 
 Of soul and life to me, 
 And to my prayer and deeds protection yield \ 
 
 My body may he save 
 
 From trouble's rushing wave, 
 And sickness ; and from harm my spirit shield ; 
 
 And o'er my soul oblivion pour 
 Of earthly passions which disturbed my peace before. 
 
SYNE SI US. 69 
 
 xxvi. (281-290). 
 
 So may I spend my life 
 
 All calm and free from strife ! 
 So may my soul, in hymning Thy high praise, 
 
 Mount up with strengthened wing 
 
 From earth, and heavenward spring ! 
 So may I cleanse from worldliness my ways, 
 
 Till I, set free from earth-bound chain, 
 No longer subject am to Fate's imperious reign ; 
 
 xxvii. (291-299). 
 
 But gain those halls above, 
 
 And Thy blest folds of love, 
 Whence forth doth flow the fountain of the soul ! 
 
 But Thou propitious be, 
 
 And helping hand give me ! 
 Call me, O Blessed ! all my ways control ! 
 Hear Thou Thy humble suppliant's cry, 
 And lift my soul from earth to native realms on high ! 
 
;o HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 v. 
 
 YfAVWfJLCV Kovpov VVfXC^a^, 
 
 (Tetrapod : spondaic: catalect) 
 
 Awake, our lute, the child to sing 
 
 Of bride unwedded, holy maid ; 
 True Son of the Eternal King, 
 
 Ere earth's foundations yet were laid. 4 
 
 Ineffable Thy counsels, Lord, 
 
 Father of all, by which was born 
 The Christ ! a virgin's throes afford 
 
 The Light of Life to world forlorn ! 8 
 
 A Man ! and yet of ages gone, 
 
 And of all ages yet to come, 
 Throughout eternity, the One 
 
 Upholder, Perfecter, and Sum. 12 
 
SYNE SI US. 71 
 
 Thyself, O Christ, art Fount of Light, 
 Light of the Father's Light, bright Ray ! 
 
 Dark matter thou didst burst ; and night 
 
 To holy souls Thou turn'st to day. 16 
 
 Yea ! Founder of the world Thou art, 
 And moulder of each starry sphere : 
 
 To earth her spurs Thou dost impart ; 
 
 While men hail Thee their Saviour dear. 20 
 
 For Thee his chariot Titan drives, 
 
 The quenchless fount of morning light . 
 
 From Thee the bull-faced moon derives 
 
 Her power to loose the gloom of night. 24 
 
 By Thee the year with fruit is crowned : 
 By Thee the fiocks and herds are fed : 
 
 Productive Thou dost make the ground ; 
 
 And to the poor Thou givest bread. 28 
 
 For Thou from Thine o'erflowing store 
 
 Of grace ineffable and love, 
 O'er surface of all worlds dost pour 
 
 The fertile sunshine from above. 32 
 
72 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And from Thy bosom forth did spring 
 To life both light, and mind, and soul : 
 
 O pity then Thine own offspring 
 
 Imprisoned under hard control, 36 
 
 By mortal limbs, by flesh and blood, 
 Coerced, and measures stern of fate : 
 
 O save Thine own, Thou great and good, 
 
 Nor let sick mind sick body hate ! 40 
 
 Persuasion to my words nod Thou, 
 And to my deeds such honest fame, 
 
 That truth I never disavow, 
 
 Nor Sparta 1 nor Cyrene shame ! 44 
 
 But may my soul, unbowed by grief, 
 Draw all her nourishment from Thee, 
 
 Stretching both eyes, in calm relief, 
 
 Up to Thy light, from sorrow free ! 48 
 
 That, cleansed from dregs of worldly soil, 
 I may by straight course upward mount, 
 
 And 'scaping from earth's care and toil, 
 
 Be mingled with the soul's own fount ! 5 2 
 
 1 Synesius was a native of Cyrene, which was an ancient colony of 
 Sparta. 
 
SYNESIUS. 73 
 
 Life such of pure content and praise, 
 Do Thou to Thy poor harper grant, 
 
 While still to Thee the hymn I raise, 
 
 And glory to the Father chant, 56 
 
 And Spirit, 1 mid-enthroned compeer, 
 The Parent Root and Branch between ! 
 
 Be such on earth my bright career, 
 
 Nor sin nor sorrow intervene ; 60 
 
 Until, within the courts above, 
 
 The travail of my soul shall cease, 
 Still singing hymns of heavenly love 
 
 In glory and in perfect peace. 64 
 
 Thee, Thee, the Fount of love, we bless, 
 O Father, rock and strength of Thine; 
 
 And Thee alike, His form express, 
 
 And seal, all beauty, Son Divine ; 68 
 
 » Here, as elsewhere, Synesius represents the Holy Spirit as seated be- 
 tween the Father and the Son, or holding the middle rank ; cf. Ode III. 
 1. 220 ; Ode IV. 1. 97, in which latter place, as if to mend Synesius' theology, 
 some sciolist has made additions contrary to the context, which additions 
 
 1 follow the learned editors in rejecting. In the New Testament the sacred 
 order given in Matt, xxviii. 19, is not strictly or always followed ; e. g. 
 
 2 Cor. xiii. 14, 1 Pet. i. 2, Rev. i. 4, 5. May this help to explain the 
 difficult passage Heb. xii. 23, 24? 
 
74 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And Holy Breath, of both the crown, 
 Whose quickening gifts like billows roll : 
 
 Thou with the Father, send Him down 
 
 To cheer and fertilize my soul ! 7 2 
 
SYNESIUS. 75 
 
 VI. 1 
 
 Mera 7rayas ayias avroXo^evrov 
 
 {Trimeter ionic,) 
 
 Thee, with the holy self-sprung Fount, we sing, 
 Who art from all eternity great King, 
 God and of God, immortal, glorious One, 
 The only Father's true and only Son ! 
 To Thee, with Him, our praises all belong ; 
 Thee will we crown with choicest flowers of song. 
 Son of the Father, Thou by birth Divine ! 
 In Thee all bright the Father's glories shine. 
 And from the Father and through Thee, behold ! 
 The spirit issues — mystery threefold ! 10 
 
 And takes the middle place l of light and mind, 
 In Trinity and Unity combined, 
 
 1 See note on Ode V. 1. 57. 
 
76 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Poured was the sacred Fountain into Thee ; 
 
 Yet One it was, and is eternally. 
 
 The Father's Wisdom, Mind, and beauteous Ray, 
 
 Eternal Son, Thou dost to all display. 
 
 Of hidden Deity the outstanding light, 
 
 In Thee the purposes Divine are bright ; 
 
 For thus the Eternal Father did decree, 
 
 That Thou Beginning to all worlds shouldst be; 20 
 
 And bring to bodies shape and form combined 
 
 With powers, from highest source, of thought and 
 
 mind. 
 The orb of heaven in wisdom Thou dost guide, 
 And shepherd o'er the flock of stars preside. 
 Thou leader art of angels' choir and band ; 
 Thou dost the phalanx of God's hosts command. 
 And Thou too dost the mortal race befriend, 
 And all their paths and wandering steps attend. 
 The Spirit undivided Thou dost spread 
 O'er earth, and gather back to fountain-head 30 
 Thy gifts unwasted ; for Thou dost unchain 
 Death's captives, bringing them to life again. 
 Accept, my King, this wreath of hymns from me ; 
 And O ! propitious to Thy servant be ! 
 
SYNE SI US. 77 
 
 Grant Thou calm life : and stay the wandering 
 
 tide, 
 And bid the flood through worldly straits subside ; 
 From soul and limbs diseases dire repel ; 
 And all pernicious rush of passions quell. 
 Or wealth or poverty extreme forefend ; 
 And to just deeds fame honourable send. 40 
 
 Among the people good report accord ; 
 And with persuasion crown the gentle word ; 
 That waveless thus my mind may reap repose, 
 And I ne'er groan oppressed with earth's dark 
 
 woes ; 
 But watered from thy heavenly-flowing rill, 
 My mind I may with wisdom's produce fill. 
 
78 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 VII. 
 
 TIpOJTOS VO/AOV €Vp6fJL0LV 
 
 (Logacedic.) 
 
 I first invented in Thy praise, 
 
 Blessed, these new metric lays. 
 
 Immortal Thou ! of virgin mild 
 
 The holy ever glorious Child : 
 
 Hope of the world, salvation's stem, 
 
 O Jesus of Jerusalem ! 
 
 To Thee I raise the song on high \ 
 
 To Thee my harp-strings joyful ply. 
 
 O show me favour, heavenly King ! 
 
 Accept the music which I bring 10 
 
 Of holy melodies ; for Thou 
 
 Art He to whom my soul doth bow, 
 
SYNE SI US. 79 
 
 God over all, God's mighty Son, 
 
 The ever blest Immortal One ! 
 
 The Eternal Father gave Thee birth ; 
 
 Birth Thou hast given to heaven and earth. 
 
 All worlds are Thine • all nature Thine ; 
 
 And wisdom infinite, divine. 
 
 In heaven, as God, Thy fame is spread ; 
 
 Below, as mingled with the dead. 2c 
 
 But when the blessed day had shone 
 
 That Thou shouldst mortal flesh put on 
 
 Of virgin mother, then the star, 
 
 Seen by the magi from afar 
 
 In eastern clime, perplexed their mind 
 
 And varied skill ; nor could they find 
 
 Or who, or what, the child might be, 
 
 Or what the hidden deity ; 
 
 No answer could their wisdom bring ; 
 
 Or God, or doomed to die, or king. 30 
 
 'Tis well ! meet be your offerings : 
 
 Bring myrrh for death's last sufferings : 
 
 Bring royal presents of fine gold ; 
 
 And gifts of frankincense unfold. 
 
 My God ! here frankincense behold ! 
 
 My King ! deign to receive the gold ! 
 
So HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And ! Thou Saviour born to die, 
 
 Myrrh for Thy tomb let me supply ! 
 
 And cleansed was the earth by Thee, 
 
 And cleansed were the waves of sea ; \o 
 
 And all the paths which upward bear, 
 
 In slender element of air ; 
 
 And dark recesses underground, 
 
 In succour to the dead there bound, 
 
 By Thee, great Conqueror, were trod ; 
 
 And Hades stood aghast at God. 
 
 But O ! propitious be, great King ! 
 
 Smile on the tribute which I bring 
 
 Of tuneful songs and measured lays 
 
 Designed for Thy holy praise. 50 
 
SYNE SI US. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 e Y7ro Sd)piov apfjioyav 
 (Logacedic.) 
 
 ! 'tis no theme of common things 
 That wakes my ivory-fastened strings ! 
 To Thee, in solemn Dorian l strain, 
 
 1 lift my heart and voice amain, 
 O blessed, O Immortal One, 
 The holy Virgin's glorious Son ! 
 
 But, O great King, save Thou my life 
 
 From cares and woes and worldly strife, 
 
 That from calamity all free 
 
 Both night and day I may praise Thee. 10 
 
 And to my mind mayst Thou convey 
 
 From mind's own fount, a clear bright ray. 
 
 1 He uses the epithet Dorian in a general sense, to express that which is 
 grave and sublime. 
 
 G 2 
 
82 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Unto my youth mayst Thou impart 
 
 Soundness of limbs and manly heart : 
 
 And may my deeds reflect Thy light 
 
 In honour, truth, and glory bright. 
 
 And on the ripeness of mine age 
 
 Mayst Thou the wisdom of the sage 
 
 Bestow, with health, the blessed mead 
 
 Of harvest rich from well-sown seed. 20 
 
 And on that darling son of mine 
 
 May Thy preserving mercy shine, 
 
 Whom, when just passing gate of death, 
 
 Thou didst restore to vital breath. 
 
 O Lord of life, 'twas Thou didst wrench 
 
 From Death's firm grasp, his prey, and quench 
 
 My burning grief in floods of joy ; 
 
 For Thou didst give me back my boy ; 
 
 And tears, O Father, Thou didst dry, 
 
 In ^answer to Thy suppliant's cry ! 30 
 
 May son and daughter, much loved pair, 
 
 Thy kind protection ever share, 
 
 And all my house, in happy calm, 
 
 Be sheltered by Thine hand from harm ! 
 
 And, O my Saviour King, bless Thou 
 
 The partner of my wedded vow ; 
 
SYNE SI US. 
 
 From sickness and from sorrow free. 
 
 Faithful, one-minded, may she be, 
 
 Preserved by Thee from thought of sin. 
 
 All bright without, all pure within ! 40 
 
 Untouched by roving passions' tide, 
 
 My honoured wife, my love, my pride ! 
 
 Loose Thou my soul from baneful chains 
 
 Of worldly life, its cares and pains, 
 
 And floods of dismal grief and woe, 
 
 Which overwhelm this earth below. 
 
 O ! thus prepared may I be found 
 
 With holy worshippers around 
 
 To lead the choir, and chants to raise 
 
 To Thy all-glorious Father's praise ; 50 
 
 And to Thy majesty, great King, 
 
 Loud hymns again I hope to sing ; 
 
 Again in voice of praise Thy name 
 
 To bless, Thy honours to proclaim ; 
 
 May be, my harp I shall again 
 
 Tune all-unhurt to highest strain. 
 
84 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 IX. 
 
 TioXw/jpare, xi/St/x-f, 
 
 (Logaozdic.) 
 
 To Thee, much loved, be honour paid, 
 
 O glorious Child of Hebrew maid ! 
 
 To Thee I raise the hymn anew, 
 
 Who didst the serpent's wiles subdue, 
 
 And drive afar the infernal foe 
 
 That filled e'en Paradise with woe : 
 
 For, subtle with forbidden fruit, 
 
 Of woeful knowledge nurse and root, 
 
 Our primal founder he o'ercame, 
 
 And smote the world with death and shame. 10 
 
 All-glorious Thou with many a crown ! 
 
 Thou didst to wretched earth come down, 
 
 To dwell with man by death assailed, 
 
 Thyself in mortal body veiled \ 
 
SYNE SI US. 
 
 And Thou dark Tartarus didst tread, 
 
 Midst countless nations of the dead. 
 
 Then Hades, ancient-born, amazed, 
 
 Did shudder as on Thee he gazed ; 
 
 And the all-devouring savage hound l 
 
 Backward recoiled with frightened bound. 20 
 
 But lo ! to holy souls, oppressed 
 
 With direful woes, Thou gavest rest, 
 
 That they in chorus led by Thee, 
 
 To praise the Father might be free. 
 
 And from below when Thou didst rise, 
 
 The demon-hosts beneath the skies, 
 
 Unnumbered, quaked, O mighty King, 
 
 To hear the judgment Thou should st bring. 
 
 Then did the stars, immortal band, 
 
 Gazing at Thee, astonished stand. 30 
 
 But Ether laughed, the father he — 
 
 The father wise — of harmony ; 
 
 And mingled from his seven-toned lyre 
 
 Bright notes of music's holy lire, 
 
 Raising to Lord of earth and sky, 
 
 The song of victory on high. 
 
 1 The fabled Cerberus, Janitor Orci. 
 
86 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And Lucifer, the guide of day, 
 
 With smiling countenance was gay ; 
 
 And golden Hesperus afar 
 
 Shot beams, the Cythereian star. 40 
 
 And shepherdess of night, the Moon 
 
 Filled her bright crescent with festoon, 
 
 And flowering wreath of liquid fire, 
 
 And led her peers in joyous choir. 
 
 And through the trackless paths of air 
 
 Titan spread out his flaming hair : 
 
 For God's own Son, the master Mind 
 
 Which did all things create and bind 
 
 In mutual law, full well he knew, 
 
 From whom his primal fire he drew. 50 
 
 But Thou, as plying heavenly oar, 
 
 Or wing of bird, didst upward soar 
 
 With holy feet ; and o'er the skies 
 
 And dark-blue-vaulted heaven didst rise, 
 
 Up-mounting to the spheres of light, 
 
 The realms of Mind for ever bright. 
 
 There goodness from the Fountain-head 
 
 In bliss through silent heaven is spread ; 
 
 There nor deep-flowing restless Time 
 
 Dracrs earthborn children through the slime 60 
 
SYNESIUS. 87 
 
 Of coarser matter, nor hard fates 
 Roll turbid floods o'er mortal states ; 
 But Age himself, the ancient-sprung, 
 Is ageless, old at once, and young ; 
 And in the unfading courts of love 
 Is steward to the blest above. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 x. 1 
 
 M]/0J€O Xptcrre, 
 
 (A nap c^st ic m onom eter. ) 
 i. 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me ; 
 
 And this poor offering, 
 Which I do humbly weave for Thee, 
 
 Accept, O Christ, my King. 
 
 2. 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 And purge away my sin : 
 From earthborn passions set me free, 
 
 And make me pure within. 
 
 i In translating this ode I have given my spirit more liberty. It may be 
 considered as a paraphrase or amplification, rather than an exact translation 
 of the original. A brief form of it appears in Hymns Ancient and Modern. 
 
SYNESIUS. 89 
 
 3- 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 With care and woe oppressed ; 
 Let me Thy loving servant be, 
 
 And taste Thy promised rest. 
 
 4. 
 Lord Jesu, think on me 
 
 Amid the battle's strife : 
 In all my pain and misery 
 
 Be Thou my Health and Life, 
 
 5- 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 Nor let me go astray : 
 Through darkness and perplexity 
 
 Point Thou the heavenly way. 
 
 6. 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 When flows the tempest high : 
 When on doth rush the enemy, 
 
 O Saviour, be Thou nigh. 
 
90 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 7- 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 That when the flood is past, 
 I may the Eternal Brightness see, 
 
 And share Thy joy at last. 
 
 8. 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 And grant me my desire, 
 
 That I, with mind and limbs set free, 
 May join the heavenly choir. 
 
 9- 
 
 Lord Jesu, think on me, 
 
 That I may sing above 
 Praise to the Father, and to Thee, 
 
 And to the Holy Dove. 
 
GREGORY 
 
 BISHOP OF NAZIANZUS 
 
 (Born a.d. 325. Died, 389), 
 
 r I ^HIS eminent man needs no introduction from 
 -*■ my humble pen. His praises are, and always 
 have been, in the Church. Born near Nazianzus in 
 Cappadocia, he succeeded his father in that episco- 
 pate. He cultivated his natural gifts, and increased 
 his learning, at Athens. Thence he went forth to be 
 a champion of the Christian faith, and a luminary in 
 the great Church constellation of the fourth century. 
 After the deliverance from the last effort of paganism 
 contrived and led by the Emperor Julian, who had 
 once been his friend and fellow-collegian, he dis- 
 played his great talents and eloquence at Constan- 
 tinople, of which great Eastern capital for a time he 
 
92 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 became bishop. But soon he retired to the solitary 
 cell, which he had before loved and frequented, near 
 his native place, Nazianzus ; and there renewed and 
 exercised his gift of sacred poetry, of which, to name 
 but one, his Hymn to God is an undying record, and 
 may bear comparison with any similar composition in 
 any age. 
 
i. 
 
 HYMN TO CHRIST. 
 
 2e rov a(f)6LTOV fJioydpxW 
 {Dimeter ionicus.) 
 
 i, 
 
 O Thou, the One Supreme, 
 
 O Thou, the deathless King, 
 Be Thou my only theme : 
 Grant me Thyself to sing. 
 To Thee the hymn, to Thee the praise, 
 Celestial choirs for ever raise. 
 
 2. 
 
 For Thee the ages run 
 
 In order as was given ; 
 For Thee shines forth the sun, 
 The day-born eye of heaven : 
 For Thee the moon, and grand array 
 Of stars, hold on their nightly way. 
 
94 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 3- 
 
 With reasonable soul 
 
 For Thee learns favoured man 
 His passions to control, 
 And the Divine to scan ; 
 For Thou of all Creator art, 
 Thou mad'st the whole and every part. 
 
 4- 
 
 All march in ordered band : 
 
 O'er all Thou hold'st the reins : 
 All creatures of Thy hand 
 Thy Providence sustains. 
 For Thou the word didst speak — 'twas done- 
 That Word of Thine is God the Son. 
 
 5- 
 
 For of same honour He, 
 
 Thine own begotten Son, 
 In form and quality 
 
 With Thee the Father one : 
 Who placed all things in harmony, 
 That over all He King might be. 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 95 
 
 6. 
 
 And all Thy works infolding 
 
 In bonds of love and truth, 
 The Spirit all-upholding 
 Renews creation's youth : 
 Foreseeing, He for all provides, 
 And Guardian over all presides. 
 
 7. 
 Thee, Thee, the Triune King, 
 
 The One Eternal Lord, 
 Thee evermore I'll sing, 
 
 By earth and heaven adored, 
 The Three in One, the One in Three, 
 The ever-living Trinity. 
 
 8. 
 
 Immovable of mind, 
 
 Of ways past mortal ken, 
 The boundless, undefined, 
 Wisdom's deep origin, 
 Upholder of the heavenly towers, 
 Ruler of all created powers. 
 
96 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 9- 
 Beginning none, nor end : 
 
 The self-sprung Light art Thou : 
 We cannot comprehend, 
 But to Thy Brightness bow, 
 Whose eye, repelling mortal gaze, 
 All things above, below, surveys. 
 
 10. 
 
 Unseen, yet ever near, 
 
 Father, propitious be : 
 This my petition hear, 
 This boon accord to me : 
 That Light to serve through endless day, 
 And have my sins all washed away ; 
 
 ii. 
 
 That I, with conscience clear 
 
 From every evil thought, 
 May love with filial fear, 
 And worship as I ought, 
 Pure holy hands and heart upraising, 
 And Christ the Lord for ever praising. 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 97 
 
 12. 
 
 To Thee I bend the knee ; 
 
 When He shall come, grant me. 
 That I His glory see, 
 That I His servant be : 
 When He shall come — shall come again ; 
 When He shall come — shall come to reign, 
 
 13- 
 
 Father, propitious be ! 
 
 On me Thy mercy show ! 
 Bow down Thine ear to me, 
 On me Thy grace bestow ; 
 For Thine the glory, Thine the grace, 
 While countless ages run their race. 
 
 H 2 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 II. 
 HYMN TO GOD. 
 
 12 7tolvto)v iiriK€iva * tl yap Oefits a\Xo crc /xeX7rctv; 
 
 {Dactylic hexameter.) 
 
 i. 
 
 O Thou, the One Supreme o'er all ! : 
 
 For by what other name 
 May we upon Thy greatness call, 
 
 Or celebrate Thy fame ? 
 
 Ineffable ! to Thee what speech 
 Can hymns of honour raise ? 
 
 Ineffable ! what tongue can reach 
 The measure of Thy praise ? 
 
 1 Or, Thou beyond the range of all— Tta.V'ruv i-niKtwa. 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIAXZEN. 99 
 
 3. 
 How, unapproached, shall mind of man 
 
 Descry Thy dazzling throne ; 
 And pierce, and find Thee out, and scan. 
 
 Where Thou dost dwell alone ? 
 
 4- 
 Unuttered Thou ! all uttered things 
 
 Have had their birth from Thee : 
 The One unknown ! from Thee the springs 
 
 Of all we know and see ! 
 
 5. 
 
 Mindful, and mindless, all things yield 
 
 To Thy parental sway 
 For Thou to all art life and shield : 
 
 They honour and obey. 
 
 6. 
 
 For round Thee centre all the woes 
 
 Of night and darkling day, 
 The common wants and common throes ; 
 
 And all to Thee do pray. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 7- 
 And all things as they move along 
 
 In order fixed by Thee, 
 Thy watchword heed, in silent song 
 
 Hymning Thy majesty. 
 
 8. 
 
 And lo ! all things abide in Thee, 
 And through the complex whole, 
 
 Thou spread'st Thine own Divinity, 
 Thyself of all the goal. 
 
 9- 
 
 One Being Thou, all things, yet none, 
 Nor one nor yet all things ; 
 
 How call Thee, O mysterious One ? 
 A worthy name who brings ? 
 
 10. 
 All-named from attributes Thine own, 
 
 How call Thee as we ought ? 
 Thou art unlimited, alone, 
 
 Beyond the range of thought. 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 II. 
 
 What heaven-born intellect shall rend 
 The veiling clouds above ? 
 
 Be Thou propitious ! ever send 
 Bright tokens of Thy love ! 
 
 12. 
 
 O Thou the One Supreme o'er all ! 
 
 For by what other name 
 May we upon Thy greatness call, 
 
 Or celebrate Thy fame ? 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 III. 
 
 HYMN TO CHRIST ON EASTER DAY 
 (after long silence), 
 
 Xptcrre avaf, crk 7rpwrov, €7T€t Xoyov i^ept 8coKa, 
 OYjvatov Kare^ujv, cfrOeyiofx airo OTO/iaTcov, 
 
 (Dactylic hexameter, and pentameter.) 
 
 Christ the King ! since breath pent up so long 
 
 1 have outpoured, Thou first shalt be my song ; 
 May this my word, the current of my mind, 
 
 If lawful thus to speak, acceptance find, 
 
 And unto Thee as holy incense rise 
 
 Of holiest priest, a grateful sacrifice ! 
 
 The Father's Brightness, Word of the Great Mind, 
 
 Who cannot be by power of speech defined, 
 
 High Light of highest Light, the Only Son, 
 
 Image and Seal of the Immortal One, ic 
 
 Without beginning; from same Fount of Light 
 
 With the Great Spirit ; infinite in might : 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. \ 03 
 
 All-glorious Thou, and Author of all good : 
 
 From age to age Thy truth hath firmly stood. 
 
 Enthroned Thou reign est high in heaven above, 
 
 Almighty Breath of Mind and Lord of Love. 
 
 Throughout this framed universe Divine 
 
 Whatever is, or shall be, all is Thine : 
 
 Thou madest all, to all Thou givest life, 
 
 And all Thou guidest : nowhere fault or strife, 20 
 
 Nor error in Thy workmanship is found : 
 
 The whole in willing chain to Thee is bound, 
 
 Thou laid'st the world's foundation : and Thy nod 
 
 All things obey, and own their Sovereign God. 
 
 For Thee the lofty sun, the king of day, 
 
 Quenching the stars, holds on his fiery way. 
 
 For Thee, for so Thou bidst, the eye of night, 
 
 The moon, waxes and wanes, full orb of light. 
 
 For Thee the belt of heaven, all-dancing ring, 
 
 And seasons kindly mingling, laugh and sing. 30 
 
 For Thee the fixed stars and planets shine 
 
 In course, and speak Thy wisdom all divine. 
 
 Thy light they are, the heavenly minds that be, 
 
 All sing on high the glorious Trinity. 
 
 Man is Thy glory too, angel below, 
 
 Here placed to sing, O Light, Thy beauteous glow. 
 
io 4 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Immortal, fleshless, glory's highest ray, 
 
 Who mortal flesh yet took'st, man's woes to stay, 
 
 For Thee I live, for Thee my songs arise, 
 
 For Thee I am a breathing sacrifice ; 40 
 
 For this, of all things once possessed by me, 
 
 Alone remains, and this I give to Thee. 
 
 I tie my tongue, and loose it at Thy will ; 
 In either, what Thou wouldst may I fulfil, 
 Speak what is right, nor think aught else beside : 
 From mire select the pearl, with Thee my Guide ; 
 Gold from the sand, the rose from thorny brake, 
 From straw-encumbered ears the pure grain take. 
 
 To Thee, O Christ, this wreath of uttered praise, 
 
 As firstfruits of my loving toil, I raise. 50 
 
 For from the dead, with whom He mingled lay, 
 Great Christ arose, upon this gladsome day ; 
 Gates of grim Hades He did open fling ; 
 And broke death's power, and robbed him of his sting; 
 Rushed from the tomb, appeared to speaking men, 
 For whom, once born, He died and rose again ; 
 That we new-born might rise, from death set free, 
 And ever live, ascending Lord, with Thee. 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 10; 
 
 This day glad Heaven with acclamation rings, 
 
 And choir angelic crowning anthem sings. 60 
 
 This day my closed lips I loose in song 
 
 To Thee, to whom my lute and breath belong. 
 
 Of mind to Mind, of word to the true Word, 
 I here have offered what I could afford : 
 Hereafter, if He will, I hope to bring 
 To the Great Spirit worthier offering. 
 
io6 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 IV. 
 " TO HIS OWN SOUL." l 
 
 tl croc OeXtis yevicrOai ; 
 {Iambic dimeter cataledic.) 
 i. 
 O soul of mine, repining, 
 
 What wouldst have done for thee ? 
 Speak, great or small denning : 
 Granted thy wish shall be. 
 
 2. 
 Of all bright things, prized highest, 
 
 Beneath the rolling sun, 
 Tell that for which thou sighest ; 
 
 For thee it shall be done. 
 
 1 The original is one of the most spirited pieces anywhere to be found, 
 
 truly forcible and racy. 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 3- 
 
 Wouldst thou assume the measure 
 
 Of Gyges, Lydia's king, 
 To hide or show at pleasure 
 
 By power of magic ring ? 
 
 4- 
 Wouldst thou rich Midas follow ? 
 
 " All gold I touch," he cried : 
 Tis given ! e'en gold to swallow : 
 
 So all of gold he died. 
 
 5- 
 Wouldst shine in brilliant trammels, 
 
 With pearls and jewels grand ? 
 Have flocks, and herds, and camels, 
 
 And acres of fat land ? 
 
 6. 
 
 Such things we will not barter : 
 To thee they were a snare : 
 
 They are not in our charter, 
 Nor would I have them there. 
 
108 HYMXS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 7- 
 For since to God advancing 
 
 I came at His own call, 
 Such cares the soul entrancing, 
 
 I have abandoned all. 
 
 Would st have the nations bending 
 
 Beneath thy yoke to day, 
 To-morrow thyself lending 
 
 To grace another's sway ? 
 
 9- 
 
 The sway of one, once marching, 
 
 It might be, at thy side ; 
 Or menial base, now arching 
 
 His neck in lofty pride ? 
 
 10. 
 Wouldst thou in Love's sweet anguish, 
 
 In indolence and ease, 
 Let truth and honour languish, 
 
 And change with chansons breeze ? 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 109 
 
 II. 
 
 Wouldst wed a fair Heth's daughter, 
 
 Fair progeny to see ? 
 Ah me ! of woes and slaughter 
 
 Progenitor to be ! 
 
 Wouldst have the commons sounding 
 The greatness of thy fame, 
 
 And theatres rebounding 
 With echoes of thy name ? 
 
 13. 
 
 Wouldst thou in courts o'erflowing 
 
 With legal mockery, 
 Justice and truth o'erthrowing, 
 
 Pillage, and pillaged be ? 
 
 14. 
 Wouldst take a martial bearing, 
 
 And sport with blood and gore ? 
 Or, Pythian garlands wearing, 
 
 Defy the lion's roar ? 
 
no HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 15- 
 
 Wouldst have the town applauding, 
 And statues reared to thee ? 
 
 The world thy merits lauding, 
 Wouldst thou its idol be ? 
 
 1 6. 
 
 Vain wish ! a shadowy dreaming, 
 A moan of wind hence bound, 
 
 Whiz of an arrow gleaming, 
 A hand-clap's dying sound. 
 
 17. 
 
 Such things will fade to-morrow, 
 However bright to-day : 
 
 And he must sleep in sorrow 
 
 Who makes them his heart's stay. 
 
 18. 
 
 Toys common ! bad men's heaven ' 
 And ah ! when hence they go, 
 
 To none is it then given 
 To carry aught below. 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 1 1 1 
 
 19. 
 
 What then, O soul repining, 
 
 Since these things nothing be, 
 Substantial good defining, 
 
 Wouldst thou have done for thee ? 
 
 20. 
 
 Wouldst be a god, presiding 
 
 At God's own side most high, 
 Angelic chorus guiding, 
 
 All radiant o'er the sky ? 
 
 21. 
 
 Go thou, on pinions gliding 
 
 Of vehement desire, 
 On rapid whirlwind riding 
 
 Whither thou dost aspire. 
 
 To plume thy wing I'm trying, 
 Nor spare the friendly goad : 
 
 Mount upward, bird-like flying 
 On thine ethereal road. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 23. 
 
 But earth's own child on crutches, 
 Since I am yoked to thee, 
 
 As queen in butchers' clutches, 
 Just tell how this must be ; 
 
 24. 
 
 Whom wilt thou have abettor, 
 To be upheld in breath ? 
 
 For I'm no more thy debtor, 
 Nor heed vain threats of death. 
 
 25- 
 Or wouldst thou perfumed table, 
 
 With dainties covered o'er, 
 So art cuisine be able 
 
 To stimulate thee more ? 
 
 26. 
 
 And lyre, and whirl so maddening 
 Of rapid foot and hand, 
 
 And things to tell too saddening, 
 Known to the revelling band ? 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 27. 
 
 Art thou for such things wrangling ? 
 
 Have thy desire ! — but wait : 
 Such things, not life, but strangling, 
 
 To friends insatiate ! 
 
 28. 
 
 For thee a house abideth, 
 
 A rock w r ith self-formed dome ; 
 
 Nature herself provideth : 
 We give thee such a home ! 
 
 29. 
 
 Or if thy fancy leadeth 
 
 To build thyself a cell, 
 But little toil it needeth, 
 
 Where thou mayst safely dwell. 
 
 3°- 
 The body claims small payment, 
 
 Ere it returns to dust : 
 Skins, camel's hair, for raiment 
 Sufficed of old the just. 
 
 1 2 
 
ii- HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And grass, or straw, as chances, 
 Make thou thy humble bed : 
 
 And purple heath, or branches, 
 Thy coverlet be spread. 
 
 32. 
 Such for my guests is meetest : 
 
 No fear to great or small : 
 Plain table : odours sweetest, 
 
 Kind earth's free gifts to all. 
 
 33- 
 Thus housed, we will thee nourish, 
 
 As best we can afford : 
 Wouldst eat ? take bread and flourish ; 
 
 Take meal, if on the board. 
 
 34. 
 Here's salt : and thyme we scant not : 
 
 Such source no toil requires : 
 More luxuries we want not, 
 
 Whate'er the world desires. 
 
GREG OR Y NAZIANZEN. 1 1 5 
 
 35- 
 Or drink wouldst thou ? there springeth 
 
 An everflowing bowl : 
 No bane the fountain bringeth, 
 
 Bright cheerer of the soul. 
 
 36. 
 
 But wouldst unbend in season, 
 
 And not, o'erstrained, repine ? 
 We grant in this is reason, 
 
 Nor grudge the rough-made wine. 
 
 37- 
 But thou dost spurn all measure, 
 
 And wouldst the vessel bore, 
 And take huge draughts of pleasure 
 
 Till thou couldst hold no more. 
 
 38. 
 
 Then seek another helot, 
 
 All lengths with thee to go : 
 No idler I, nor zealot, 
 
 To nurse domestic foe. 
 
u6 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 39- 
 A frozen reptile taken, 
 
 And with fond warmth caressed : 
 See ! it to life doth waken, 
 
 And wound me in the breast. 
 
 40. 
 
 Wouldst boundless gold-roofed mansions, 
 
 Gemmed paragons of art, 
 And master-piece expansions, 
 
 To life which almost start ? 
 
 41. 
 Colours with colours blending 
 
 In opposite array ; 
 Rare tablets, softness lending, 
 
 Or shining bright as day ? 
 
 42. 
 
 Dost long for robes wide-flowing, 
 Pride of the untouched great ; 
 
 And wealth on fingers glowing, 
 Incredible to state ? 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 1 1 7 
 
 43- 
 Art thou at beauty aiming ? 
 
 The wise would scorn to win : 
 More I than all, proclaiming 
 
 That beauty is within. 
 
 44. 
 
 Thus I to men benighted, 
 
 Of earth the creatures fond, 
 For time alone quick-sighted, 
 
 With not a thought beyond. 
 
 45- 
 But ye who soar up higher, 
 
 A noble life to live ; 
 Who would to heaven be nigher, 
 
 Behold what God doth give ! 
 
 46. 
 
 In poorest clay there dwelleth 
 
 That which can never die : 
 With this my bosom swelleth : 
 
 For this I food supply ! 
 
lib HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 47- 
 
 God-minded, thyself harden ! 
 
 Meet calm the flashing sword ! 
 Plant trees for God's own garden ! 
 
 Be worker with the Lord ! 
 
 48. 
 
 Up ! living words be building, 
 In God's blest truth secure. 
 
 Not robbed by foe's false gilding 
 Through pleasure's baneful lure ! 
 
 49. 
 
 Again of life eternal, 
 
 Approach the blessed tree : 
 
 The way, O Thou Supernal, 
 I've found in knowing Thee. 
 
 50. 
 Past, present, never-ending, 
 
 The One great Light in Three ; 
 To whom all things are tending : 
 
 To Thee all glory be ! 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 119 
 
 EPILOGUE. 
 
 5 1 - 
 
 To self the wise thus speaketh, 
 
 Turning his eyes within ; 
 And eager there he seeketh 
 
 To find out lurking sin. 
 
 52. 
 But who to speak refuseth, 
 
 Will pass his days in vain : 
 Nay, more ! the ease he chooseth, 
 
 May end in greatest pain. 
 
HYMXS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 V. 
 A MORNING PRAYER. 
 
 ' Op6pO<5 * 1 StSiOjJLL T<2 06(a) jJLOV Se£t<XS, 
 
 {Iambic trimeter.) 
 
 'Tis dawn : to God I lift my hand, 
 
 To regulate my way ; 
 My passions rule, and unmoved stand, 
 
 And give to Thee the day : 
 
 Not one dark word or deed of sin, 
 
 Nor one base thought allow ; 
 But watch all avenues within, 
 
 And wholly keep my vow. 
 
 Shamed were my age, should I decline ; 
 
 Shamed were Thy table too, 
 At which I stand : — the will is mine : 
 
 Give grace, my Christ, to do. 
 
 *Op6pios violates metre ; I would retain the reading opOpos, and put a 
 colon. Thus, as it seems to me, grammar, sense, and metre, may be all 
 satisfied. 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 VI. 
 
 A HYMN AT NIGHT, AFTER FAILURE TO 
 KEEP VOW. 
 
 ixj/evo-dfjirjv ae rr]v oXiqOuav^ Ao'yc, 
 {lam bic trim eter. ) 
 
 Thou, the Word of truth divine i 
 All light I have not been, 
 
 Nor kept the day as wholly Thine ; 
 For Thou dark spots hast seen. 
 
 The day is down : night hath prevailed : 
 My Lord I have belied ; 
 
 1 vowed, and thought to do, but failed ; 
 
 My steps did somewhere slide. 
 
 There came a darkness from below 
 
 Obscuring safety's way. 
 Thy light, O Christ, again bestow ; 
 
 Turn darkness into day. 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 VII. 
 AN EVENING HYMN. 
 
 2e Kai vvv evXoyovficv, 
 
 (Semi-iambic.) 
 
 i. 
 
 And now again at night, 
 O Christ, the living Word, 
 
 Thou Light of the Eternal Light, 
 Be Thou by us adored. 
 
 Thou dost the Spirit give, 
 Third Light, in glory one ; 
 
 His grace, by whom alone we live, 
 Thou dost refuse to none. 
 
GEEGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 1 23 
 
 3- 
 
 Thou didst the darkness scatter, 
 
 Thou mad'st the light to shine, 
 That now through all primeval matter 
 
 Might spring delight divine. 
 
 4. 
 It, a rude mass before, 
 
 From Thee took order new ; 
 And shapely form, and steadfast law, 
 
 So beautiful to view. 
 
 5- 
 
 And mind of man with light 
 
 From heaven Thou didst endow, 
 By word and wisdom that he might 
 
 Thine image bear below ; 
 
 And lighted in his soul, 
 
 Thine own great Light might see ; 
 And thenceforth not in part, but whole, 
 
 Himself all light might be. 
 
I2 4 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 7- 
 And heaven Thou didst array, 
 
 With those bright orbs above ; 
 And day to night, and night to day, 
 
 Proclaim Thy law of love ; 
 
 8. 
 
 Yielding in turn ; the one 
 
 To worn-out flesh brings rest ! 
 
 The other calls, " Let work be done ! ' 
 Such work as Thou lov'st best. 
 
GREG OR Y NAZIANZEN. 125 
 
 VIII. 
 ADMONITORY ADDRESS TO A VIRGIN. 1 
 
 ILap6£v€, vv/JLcfrrj Xptcrroi', 
 
 ( The Greek is of varied metre, arranged in lines of 
 generally seven syllables each.) 
 
 O Bride of Christ on high, 
 Thy Bridegroom glorify ! 
 Always thyself keep pure, 
 In word and wisdom sure, 
 That bright with Him all-bright 
 Thou e'er mayst dwell in light. 
 Far better spouse is He 
 Than earthly spouse could be : 
 Thy union happier far 
 Than mortal unions are. 10 
 
 1 This poem, though lacking the spirit and vigour of the Address to his 
 own Soul, may yet find acceptance with some ; and though the times are 
 utterly changed, and what in an age of pagan persecution "was good for the 
 present distress " (1 Cor. vii. 26) may be so no longer, yet there is much 
 in it of good instruction : the style is pretty and occasionally elevated. 
 
126 HYMXS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 In bodily estate 
 
 Thou yet didst imitate 
 
 The intellectual powers, 
 
 Giving to Him thy hours : 
 
 And didst acquire on earth 
 
 The angels' right of birth. 
 
 'Tis " bind and loose" below, 
 
 Bodies from bodies grow : 
 
 Above each stands alone, 
 
 Nor loosing there is known. 20 
 
 Of pure existence, they 
 
 First bear the ethereal ray, 
 
 Spirit and fire : none rests, 
 
 Doing great God's behests. 
 
 But now wild matter found — 
 
 All nature flowing round 
 
 With unresisted force — 
 
 A mingled intercourse ; 
 
 But God the flood restrained, 
 
 And marriage laws ordained. 30 
 
 But thou hast hence escaped, 
 
 And upward thy course shaped ; 
 
 From matter's base alloy 
 
 To spirit's holy joy. 
 
GREG OR Y NAZIANZEN. 127 
 
 Mind harmonized with mind, 
 
 Doth truest pleasure find : 
 
 Such harmony is thine, 
 
 A harmony divine. 
 
 With flesh thou war dost wage, 
 
 And helpest God's image : 40 
 
 For thou art God's own breath, 
 
 With body yoked till death : 
 
 That out of wrestling sore, 
 
 At length the battle o'er, 
 
 And earth well beaten down, 
 
 Thou mayst receive the crown, 
 
 To marriage also raise, 
 
 But only second praise. 
 
 That is for passion given, 
 
 This is bright light of heaven: 50 
 
 That founds a pure offspring, 
 
 This is self-offering. 
 
 This honoured was, we hold, 
 
 At seasons marked of old. 
 
 To this in Paradise 
 
 Lo ! Adam testifies : 
 
 For this on Sinai's peak 
 
 Doth Moses also speak ; 
 
I2S HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 And Zachary the priest, 
 
 Of God's true saints not least, 60 
 
 And whom we hail the rather 
 
 As the Forerunner's father. 
 
 But marriage hath its need : 
 
 Hence springs a holy seed : 
 
 And hence the virgin 1 bride, 
 
 Honoured at God's own side. 
 
 Yet of the flesh it is, and earth, 
 
 All earthly from its birth. 
 
 When law and shadows ruled, 
 
 And we were sometime schooled, 70 
 
 Marriage held sceptre mild, 
 
 Yet like a little child. 
 
 But when the letter died, 
 
 The Spirit was supplied : 
 
 For Christ had come and borne 
 
 In flesh our woes and scorn : 
 
 Had brought Redemption nigh, 
 
 And then ascended high : 
 
 Christ, sprung from Virgin's womb, 
 
 Christ, Conqueror o'er the tomb. 80 
 
 i Virgin bride — that is, the Church. So Methodius in his Virgins' Sofig, 
 and all the early Christians. See Rev. xxi. 2, 9, etc. 
 
GRE GOR Y NAZI A NZEN. 1 29 
 
 Then continence did rise, 
 And this base world despise, 
 Which should its course have mended, 
 And high with Christ ascended. 
 
 Thou journey'st well ! but haste ! 
 
 Behind is fiery waste : 
 
 Take to thy steps good heed, 
 
 And to the mountain speed. 
 
 Cast not one backward glance 
 
 On Sodom, lest perchance 90 
 
 Thou, fixed upon the ground, 
 
 A pile of salt be found. 
 
 In battling with the flesh 
 
 Take ever courage fresh, 
 
 Neither by terror bent, 
 
 Nor over-confident. 
 
 Faint not, for He is nigh 
 
 Who will all strength supply. 
 
 A spark may kindle hell : 
 
 Water the flame doth quell. 100 
 
 Full means to thee are lent 
 
 For good self-government. 
 
 k 2 
 
HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Let thou the fear of God 
 
 Freeze the rebellious blood : 
 
 Fasting the flesh control : 
 
 Keep watches o'er thy soul, 
 
 And pour it forth in prayer : 
 
 Such thy true weapons are. 
 
 Add tears : and lowly bed, 
 
 With reeds or rushes spread : no 
 
 One constant flame of love 
 
 Rising to God above. 
 
 And lulling all desire 
 
 Which doth not up aspire. 
 
 The fallen rise by thee ! 
 
 The shipwrecked pitied be ! 
 
 Thyself live out the gale, 
 
 Expanding Hope's bright sail. 
 
 They fall not who ne'er rise, 
 
 But they who try the skies. 120 
 
 Few mount on pinion wings : 
 
 Straight course to humbler things. 
 
 Fell Lucifer through pride : 
 
 Angels in heaven reside. 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 131 
 
 One, traitor, sunk in night : 
 The eleven are stars of light. 
 
 Be pure, be wholly pure, 
 
 Of this make ever sure, 
 
 Lest thou, by heeding not, 
 
 Christ's spotless robe shouldst spot. 130 
 
 Let modest be thine eye : 
 
 Thy tongue speak maidenly : 
 
 Thy mind not pandering, 
 
 Thy foot not wandering : 
 
 Nor loud laugh marking thee, 
 
 As one we blush to see. 
 
 Thy poor and tarnished wear, 
 
 Thy unadorned hair, 
 
 I honour more than pearls, 
 
 Or silken dress, or curls. 14c 
 
 Fair flower is modest face, 
 And paleness is true grace : 
 And virtues plentiful 
 Are braid most beautiful. 
 With paints let others dress 
 The living God's likeness ; 
 
)32 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Live tablet they of sin, 
 
 And all that's base within. 
 
 Whate'er thou hast of beauty, 
 
 Die let it all to duty : 150 
 
 But beauty of the soul — 
 
 Tis God's — it keep thou whole. 
 
 Of men, though good they be, 
 
 The sight 'twere best thou flee. 
 
 Some cheat might thee entrance, 
 
 Or be entranced perchance : 
 
 Eye now with eye bespangling, 
 
 And word with word entangling, 
 
 Then cheek with cheek o'erglowing, 
 
 And mutual passion flowing. 1 60 
 
 'Tis well : but not for thee : 
 
 Not thine the accursed tree : 
 
 The tree of Life thy care : 
 
 The serpent's guile beware ! 
 
 O maiden, hear my word, 
 Have thou no other lord ; 
 Thy Bridegroom reigns above, 
 And bids thee faithful prove. 
 
GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 133 
 
 Thou from the flesh hast fled, 
 
 And it to thee is dead. 170 
 
 Why turn to it again, 
 
 And make thy work all vain ? 
 
 That singleness of thine 
 
 Is a rare gift divine : 
 
 Few they whom it adorns, 
 
 As rose among the thorns. 
 
 Such grace 'tis thine to know : 
 
 High o'er the snares below, 
 
 By which the wicked fall, 
 
 Thou safely passest all 180 
 
 Lo ! one no sooner builds, 
 And bridal chamber gilds, 
 Than she with mournful gloom 
 Forth bears him to the tomb. 
 Felt one a father's pride ? 
 At once the loved child died. 
 And oh ! the mother's pain 
 Of travailing in vain ! 
 
 And jealousy, ah me ! 
 
 How frightful 'tis to see, 190 
 
134 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 When each the other taunts, 
 Where stolen friendship haunts ! 
 
 What wormwood and what gall. 
 Worst recompence of all, 
 To rear up family, 
 And then dishonoured be ! 
 
 One care is thine, one call, 
 
 To look to God in all ! 
 
 But little thou dost need : 
 
 That little God will speed. 200 
 
 Shelter and barley cake 
 Sufficient wealth will make : 
 Nor shall dire need impart 
 Keen edge to tempter's dart, 
 As when Christ, hard bestead, 
 He bade turn stones to bread. 
 
 By thee, however tried, 
 
 Be all base gain denied : 
 
 Fowls of the air God feeds, 
 
 Sure then His saints He heeds. 210 
 
GREGOR Y NAZIANZEN. 1 35 
 
 Of oil, if faith prevail, 
 Thy cruse shall never fail. 
 By Cherith's desert brook 
 At the great Prophet look ! 
 To feed him ravens sped : 
 So too shalt thou be fed ! 
 
 How Thecla from the flame, 1 
 
 And lions, unscathed came, 
 
 Thou know'st : and how great Paul, 
 
 Preacher of truth to all, 220 
 
 Bore hunger, thirst, and cold, 
 
 Through death's worst forms still bold ; 
 
 That thou might'st look, O maid, 
 
 To God alone for aid, 
 
 Who in the wilderness 
 
 With food can myriads bless. 
 
 Lo ! beauty fadeth fast, 
 
 Nor will earth's glories last : 
 
 Wealth is a failing stream, 
 
 And power an empty dream. 230 
 
 1 Thecla, see The Virgins' Song, of Methodius, p. 141. 
 
136 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 But thou, faith's sail unfurled, 
 Hast fled this erring world, 
 Steering thy course on high 
 To realms beyond the sky. 
 There in the holy shrine 
 Thou shalt for ever shine : 
 And there with angels raise 
 The song of endless praise ! 
 
 A better portion far 
 
 Than sons and daughters are ! 240 
 
 But maidens, be ye wise, 
 
 And watch with longing eyes, 
 
 That when Christ shall return 
 
 Your lamps may brightly burn : 
 
 That with the Bridegroom ye 
 
 May enter in, and see 
 
 The beauty and the grace 
 
 Of His own dwelling place, 
 
 And share in truth and love 
 
 The mysteries above. 250 
 
PSALM OF THE NAASSENL 137 
 
 PSALM OF THE NAASSENL 1 
 
 (THE AUTHOR UNKNOWN.) 
 
 No/xos j]v yeviKOs rov Travrbs 6 7rpa>rtcrTOS voos * 
 
 (A ?iapcestic logacedic. ) 
 
 The first Eternal Mind was law to all, 
 And did the Universe to being call : 
 Next, of the First-born forth was chaos spread : 
 And thirdly, soul on task of labour sped : 
 But it in vesture thin, and slight array, 
 O'ercome with toil, to death becomes a prey. 
 At one time regnant it beholds the light ; 
 Then soon laments, cast down in piteous plight. 
 'Tis hazard all : now joy, now grief, befalls ; 
 And now it dies, and now fresh life recalls. 
 
 1 For a full account of the Naasseni, who they were, and what were their 
 opinions, I would refer the reader to Hyppolytus, Antenicene Christian 
 Library, vol. i. book v. Suffice it here to say that they were a learned 
 sect of Gnostics ; that they held very strange opinions ; but were great hymn 
 makers. A translation of this particular Psalm may be found in the same 
 volume, p. 153. I had made my translation before I was aware of this. 
 
I3S HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS, 
 
 In never-ending labyrinth of woes 
 It, wretched, hither now, now hither goes. 
 Then Jesus spake : On earth, O Father, see 
 How things have strayed in dire perplexity 
 Far from Thy Breath : how floods of evil roll. 
 And in base matter overwhelm the soul ! 
 Escape it seeks from bitter woe all round, 
 But knows not where a passage may be found. 
 O Father, Me upon this errand send : 
 Bearing Thy seals, I will the depths descend ; 
 Throughout whole ages I will make my way, 
 All mysteries of darkness turn to day ; 
 And godlike forms I thenceforth will display : 
 Forth Knowledge I will call to quell all strife, 
 And upward show the holy paths of life. 
 
METHODIUS 
 
 BISHOP AND MARTYR 
 
 (Died about a.d. 311). 
 
 A /T ETHODIUS, a father of the Church, and a 
 -*-▼-■- martyr, was Bishop of Olympas or Patara, in 
 Lycia, and afterwards of Tyre in Palestine. He lived 
 during the last half of the third century, and died a 
 martyr at Chalcis in Greece, probably a.d. 311, 
 during the Diocletian persecution. Jerome l ranks 
 him among the popular writers, and commends him 
 especially for the neatness of his style. 2 
 
 This Virgins' Song of his composing is in twenty- 
 four parts, or strophies, each beginning with a letter of 
 the alphabet in order from A to IX 3 Ten virgins are 
 
 1 De Viris Illust. c 83. 
 
 2 Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., vol. i. pp. 236-7. 
 
 6 Cf. Psalm cxlv., with the letters in order of the Hebrew alphabet. In 
 Greek poetry many instances of the same thing occur. It was useful as an 
 aid to the memory. 
 
140 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 supposed to be present. Thecla 1 leads, giving the 
 strophy in each case, the rest join in chorus, singing 
 the burden or refrain (tyvfiviov). The learned editors 
 refer to the %vfnr6<nov of Plato, also to the HapOivca of 
 Alcman and Pindar; which Methodius may in part 
 have imitated. 
 
 1 See in Gregory's Admonitory Address to a Virgin, above, p. 125 : also 
 in the Anacreontic Ode of Sophronius, in which the praises and exploits of 
 this first female martyr are set forth, pp. 32, 44-5, of the Greek Anthology. 
 
THE VIRGIN'S SONG. 141 
 
 THE VIRGINS' SONG. 
 
 ' AvojQev, 7rap6evoL, fiofjs eyepcrtVeKpos rjX 0< * 
 {Iambic metre \ varied.) 
 
 The Bridegroom cometh ! overhead 
 The shout descending wakes the dead ! 
 Go forth to meet the King, 
 The gates just entering ! 
 Virgins, white-robed, with lamps haste eastward forth 
 to meet Him, 
 Haste ye, O haste to greet Him ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
142 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 Earth's mournful bliss I left, and toys 
 Of wanton life, and foolish joys : 
 To Thee alone I cling : 
 Thou art my Life, my King : 
 Grant that I may, O Blessed, ever close to Thee, 
 Thy royal beauty see ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 3- 
 
 Thou art my wealth : for Thee I fled 
 All worldly lure ; and upward sped ; 
 And come in spotless dress 
 Of Thine own Righteousness, 
 With Thee to enter in the bridal chamber gates, 
 Where perfect bliss awaits. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning. 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 143 
 
 4- 
 Saved from the dragon's myriad wiles, 
 By which the simple he beguiles, 
 I bore the dreadful fire, 
 And wild beasts' savage ire ; 
 Waiting till Thou from Heaven, O Hope of all 
 creation, 
 Shouldst come to my salvation ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 5- 
 My home and country for Thy sake, 
 And maiden dance, I did forsake, 
 And mother's pride and race, 
 And thoughts ot rank and place 1 
 For Thou, O Christ the Word, art all in all to me : 
 I long for naught save Thee ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 L 
 
144 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 6. 
 
 Hail ! Christ the Life, unchanging Day, 
 Accept this humble virgin lay : 
 
 To Thee our song of praise 
 
 With heart and voice we raise ! 
 In Thee, O Thou perfection's flower, O Word Divine, 
 
 Love, joy, mind, wisdom, shine. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 7- 
 
 Bride, triumphant now in light, 
 And clad in robes of purest white, 
 
 Sweet-breathing, sinless, free, 
 Ope wide the gates to me : 
 Sit we in self-same company near Christ above, 
 And sing thy marriage, Love ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 
 1 go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 145 
 
 Ah me ! some virgins vainly pour 
 Their sobs and cries outside the door : 
 Their lamps are quenched, and they 
 No burning light display : 
 Their error they would mend : but ah ! they come 
 too late, 
 And closed is the gate. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 For they a foolish part had played, 
 And from the sacred pathway strayed ; 
 
 Oil, they had purchased none : 
 
 Ah ! wretched and undone ! 
 Forbidden with dead lamps the home of bliss to see, 
 
 They wail their misery. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 l 2 
 
146 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 10. 
 
 Lo ! goblet filled with sweetest wine : 
 Drink we, virgins, 'tis Divine ; 
 And forth-set for our need : 
 Lo ! this is drink indeed ; 
 This for the guests, who to the marriage bidden are, 
 The Bridegroom doth prepare. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 ii. 
 
 First type, O Blessed One, of Thee 
 In Abel shining bright we see : 
 To heaven he lifts his eyes, 
 Blood-dripping, and thus cries : 
 Me, by my cruel brother slain, receive, O Lord, 
 O Thou the Eternal Word." 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 147 
 
 12. 
 Joseph, another type of Thee, 
 Won highest prize of purity : 
 
 Whom Thou wouldst own Thy child : 
 He scorned to be beguiled 
 By shameless woman ; stripped, he yet her wrath 
 defied, 
 And straight to Thee he cried : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 A lamb for sacrifice is sought : 
 
 A lamb-like victim Jephthah brought : 
 
 For rash-made vow he cared, 
 
 Nor virgin daughter spared : 
 A type, O Blessed One, of Thy humanity, 
 
 She poured her soul to Thee : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
148 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 14. 
 
 In valour Judith holds high post : 
 The leader of the oppressing host 
 She smote by beauty's lure, 
 Herself a type all pure : 
 He headless lay ; and unto Thee the conquering 
 maid 
 Her love in song displayed : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 15. 
 
 The judges twain, by passion's flame 
 Enkindled, and all dead to shame, 
 Would chaste Susannah bind 
 To their unhallowed mind : 
 To their proposals base she gave a just reply : 
 And raised her voice on high : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 149 
 
 16. 
 'Twere better far that I should die, 
 Than traitress be to marriage tie, 
 And yielding to your will 
 Both soul and body kill : 
 Base men ! God's fire of wrath eternal would me 
 seize : 
 Save me, O Christ, from these ! 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 17. 
 
 And he who thousands washed from sin, 
 Of Thy true light the bringer-in, 
 For virtue's cause alone 
 Is into prison thrown 
 By wicked king : and staining now the ground with 
 gore, 
 He cried to Thee the more : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
150 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 1 8. 
 
 And Thy blest Mother, spotless maid, 
 Was thought her vows to have betrayed, 
 When travailing with Thee, 
 Lord of purity : 
 And found with child of transcendental heavenly 
 birth, 
 She raised her voice from earth : 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 19. 
 Thy saints, all eager that they may 
 Behold the glories of the day 
 Of Thine espousals high, 
 With holy gifts draw nigh : 
 For Thou, O Word, hast called them, Thou the angels' 
 King: 
 White-robed to Thee they sing. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 151 
 
 20. 
 
 holy Church, O heavenly Bride, 
 With hymns, attending at Thy side, 
 
 We yet on earth below 
 Thine honour thus forth-show : 
 All snow-white thou, all beauteous spouse of Christ 
 above, 
 All purity, all love. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 
 1 go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 21. 
 
 Past are corruption, sickness, pain ; 
 Nor tears shall ever flow again ; 
 
 For troubles all have fled ; 
 
 And death himself is dead : 
 And sin and folly with dark dismal train are gone, 
 
 Since grace in glory shone. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
152 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 22. 
 
 No longer Paradise of men 
 
 Is void ; for there God wills again 
 
 That man should safely dwell ; 
 
 Yea, man the same who fell 
 Beneath the serpent's wiles : now in the promised rest, 
 
 Immortal, fearless, blest. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
 23- 
 Thou now to heavenly places raised, 
 By all the virgin choir art praised, 
 O Bride of Heavenly King : 
 And song all new we sing : 
 With lighted torch in hand, with snow-white lilies 
 crowned, 
 Thy praise in Christ we sound. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I iro to meet my Lord returning. 
 
THE VIRGINS' SONG. 153 
 
 24. 
 Father of heaven, supreme in might, 
 Dwelling in pure eternal light 
 With Thine own Son most dear, 
 Admit — for we are here — 
 E'en us within the gates of life, to sing Thy love 
 In Thy blest courts above. 
 
 THE REFRAIN. 
 
 With holy feet, and lamps bright burning, 
 I go to meet my Lord returning. 
 
CLEMENT 
 
 OF ALEXANDRIA 
 (a.d. 170-220). 
 
 THIS is probably the oldest hymn in the volume, 
 as Titus Flavius Clement, the Presbyter and 
 illustrious head of the Catechetical School at Alex- 
 andria, flourished towards the end of the second and 
 the beginning of the third century. I had completed 
 my translation of this celebrated hymn, before I 
 was aware that it had been translated by Dr. W. L. 
 Alexander. 1 
 
 In my translation I have followed the arrangement 
 of the learned editors of the Anthologia Grceca, 
 beginning with what in other editions stands as the 
 ninth line. 
 
 1 See Writings of Clement of Alexandria, vol. i. pp. 341-345, Antenic:ne 
 Christian Library. 
 

 The pi 
 Hefam 
 
 3 7 
 
 E G2WH foe ; 
 
 ".:"..■"-; . . - . '. .:t 
 
 2 h 
 
156 HYMNS OF GREEK BISHOPS. 
 
 O King of holy children, lead the way, 
 And pure may they both follow and obey ! 
 Thou art, O Christ, the living heavenly Way, 
 The ever-flowing Word, unchanging Day, 
 Eternal Light, and mercy's healthful Spring ; 
 The Perfecter of every virtuous thing ; 20 
 
 Pure Life of all the happy ransomed throng 
 Who hymn their God through all the ages long : 
 The heavenly 1 milk, from holy breasts that flows, 
 By which the infant Church in wisdom grows, 
 And graces rare, as it befits the Bride, 
 Adorned, O Jesu Christ, for Thine own side. 
 Thy feeble children gather with sweet smile, 
 To sing with holy mouth, and free from guile, 
 Thyself, in songs and praises without end, 
 The children's leader, and the children's friend. 30 
 
 little children, thus so gently led, 
 So tenderly with truth and reason fed, 
 And filled with the Holy Spirit's dew, 
 Our hymns and praises feeble, yet all true, 
 
 1 In this disputed passage, which I have ventured to render freely, I take 
 the yd\a to be Christ Himself, in same way as /StOT?/, tt^jti, &c., above, 
 and read ind^i^o/mei/ov. 
 
CLEMENT, 157 
 
 In grateful homage unto Christ the King, 
 
 Who taught us life, let us together sing : 
 
 A peaceful choir, Christ-born, and undented, 
 
 A people wise, sing we the strong-born child ; 
 
 Sing we with heart and voice, and never cease 
 
 To praise with one accord the God of Peace ! 40 
 
POSTSCRIPT 
 
 'T^HE task which I had set myself to do is com- 
 -■- pleted. Whatever may be the fortune of the 
 little work, I have had much pleasure, and, I hope, 
 some profit, in the accomplishment of it. 
 
 At intervals from parochial visiting and ministerial 
 duty, on a walk, or reclining by the Wye side, or on 
 the ridge of Marcle Hill, I have made, bit by bit, the 
 translation of the first, the earlier and shorter, part of 
 the Anthologia Grceca Carminum Christianorum. I 
 have had no other edition, no explanatory notes, no 
 help or guidance — nothing but the text of the beautiful 
 Leipsic volume, edited in 187 1 by the eminent scholars, 
 W. Christ and M. Paranikas. Under such circum- 
 stances, it can hardly be otherwise than that I have 
 made blunders which the learned reader will detect 
 
 M 
 
i6o POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 here and there, yet I trust the errors will be few and 
 pardonable. Owing to the difference of idiom, and 
 the exigency of metre, some additions, some omis- 
 sions, there must be. Yet I hope to be able to claim 
 the credit of having fairly and faithfully reproduced 
 the poetic thoughts and holy aspirations of the grand 
 old Greek Christians whose songs and hymns I have 
 ventured to take in hand. 
 
 There remain four short hymns of unknown author- 
 ship (vfAvoL dSeWorot), not in verse, but measured 
 prose. These I now render into plain English, line 
 for line and word for word. They are, I doubt not, 
 true specimens of the "psalms and hymns and spiritual 
 songs " l of the earliest Christians, portions of the 
 divine poetry of the Old Testament combined with 
 the glorious facts and truths of the New. They show 
 also the great antiquity of parts of the Church of 
 England Liturgy and Communion Service, and may 
 well be used now in the way they were designed of 
 old. 
 
 i Eph. v. 9 ; Col. iii. 16. 
 
HYMNS 
 
 OF UNKNOWN AUTHORSHIP. 
 
 I. 
 
 A MORNING HYMN. 
 
 Glory to God in the highest, and upon earth peace, 
 
 Good-will among men : 
 We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we give thanks to 
 Thee, 
 We worship Thee, we glorify Thee, 
 For Thy great glory. 
 O Lord the King in heaven, God the Father Almighty. 
 O Lord the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, 
 And Holy Spirit : 
 O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, 
 
 Who takest 1 away the sins of the world, have 
 
 mercy upon us : 
 O Thou who takest away the sins of the world, 
 receive our prayer : 
 
 1 aipeis, takest away, or beared. 
 
 M 2 
 
1 62 HYMNS OF UNKNOWN AUTHORSHIP. 
 
 Thou who sittest at the right hand of the 
 
 Father, have mercy upon us : 
 For Thou only art holy, Thou only art the Lord, 
 Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. 
 
 Amen. 
 
 Every day will I bless Thee, 
 
 And praise Thy Name for ever, 1 
 
 And for ever and ever. 
 Vouchsafe, O Lord, through this day also 
 
 That we may be kept without sin. 
 Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of our fathers, 
 
 And praised and glorified be Thy Name 
 
 For ever and ever. 2 Amen. 
 
 Blessed art Thou, O Lord : teach me Thy judgments. 
 Blessed art Thou, O Lord : teach me Thy judgments. 
 Blessed art Thou, O Lord : teach me Thy judgments. 
 O Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from generation 
 to generation : 
 
 1 have said : O Lord, have mercy upon me, 
 Heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee. 
 
 i Lit. : For the age, and for the age of the age. 
 2 Lit. : For the ages. 
 
HYMNS OF UNKNO WN A UTHORSHIP. 163 
 
 O Lord, to Thee have I fled for refuge : teach me to 
 do Thy will, 
 
 For Thou art my God, 
 
 For with Thee is the fountain of life. 
 In Thy light shall we see light : 
 
 Extend Thy mercy to them that know Thee. 
 
1 64 HYMNS OF UNKNO WN A UTHORSHIP. 
 
 II. 
 AN EVENING HYMN. 
 
 Praise the Lord, ye His servants, 1 
 
 Praise the Name of the Lord : \ 
 We praise Thee, we hymn Thee, we bless Thee 
 
 For Thy great glory. 
 O Lord the King, the Father of Christ, the Lamb 
 without blemish, 
 Who taketh away the sin of the world, 
 To Thee belongeth praise, to Thee belongeth the hymn, 
 to Thee belongeth glory, 
 The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 
 Throughout all ages. 2 Amen. 
 Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart, O Lord, 
 
 According to Thy word, in peace : 
 For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, 
 Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all 
 
 people, 
 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and (to be) the glory of 
 Thy people Israel. 
 
 1 7ra?5es, servants, or children. L 2 Lit. : For the ages of ages. 
 
H YMNS OF UNKNO WN A UTHORSIIIF. 165 
 
 III. 
 
 A HYMN AT LAMP-LIGHT, 
 
 Propitious Light of holy glory, 
 
 Of the Immortal Heavenly Father, 
 
 Holy, blessed, 
 
 O Jesu Christ, 
 
 Having come to the setting of the sun. 
 
 Having seen the evening light, 
 
 We hymn the Father, the Son, 
 
 And the Holy Spirit, God. 
 
 Thou art worthy at all seasons 
 
 To be hymned with thankful l voices , 
 
 O Son of God, who givest life ; 
 
 Wherefore the world glorineth Thee. 
 
 1 alaiais, lit. auspicious. 
 
1 66 HYMNS OF UNKNOWN AUTHORSHIP. 
 
 IV. 
 A PRAYER AT DINNER-TIME. 
 
 Thou art blessed, O Lord, who nourishest me from 
 my youth, 
 
 Who givest food to all flesh. 
 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness, 
 That at all times having all sufficiency, 
 
 We may abound to every good work 
 
 In Christ Jesus our Lord : 
 With whom to Thee (be) glory, honour, and might. 
 
 For ever and ever. Amen. 
 
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 " Few books have ever given us 
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 sketch of the Acts of the Apostles is 
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 same reverent spirit and quiet en- 
 
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 * Key to the Gospels? which was pub- same instinct for seizing the leading 
 
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 THOUGHTS ON THE STUDY OF THE HOLY GOSPELS. 
 
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 Williams. A rich mine for devotional from each sentence, each apparently 
 
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 "So infinite are the depths and so — Church Review. 
 
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The Holy Scriptures 
 
 WILLIAMS' DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY— Continued. 
 
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 over some of the very darkest passages drawn from atiy one of them.'" — 
 
 in the New Testament." — Rock. ' Church Times. 
 
 Female Characters of Holy Scripture. 
 
 A Series of Sermons. By the Rev. Isaac Williams, 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
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 Ancient Hymns. From the Roman 
 
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 Preparation for Death. Translated from 
 
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 8vo. 5*. 
 
 Sacra Privata: The Private Meditations 
 
 and Prayers of the Right Rev. Thomas W t ilson, D.D., late 
 Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, accommodated to general use. 
 New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author. 32mo. is. 
 Also an Edition in large type. Small 8vo. 2s. 
 
 Strena Christiana; a Christian New 
 
 Year's Gift ; or, Brief Exhortations to the Chief Outward Acts 
 of Virtue. Translated from the Latin of Sir Harbottle 
 Grimston, Bart., Member of Parliament, 1640. 321x10. is. 6d. 
 Or the Latin and English together. 32mo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Christian Watchfulness, in the Pros- 
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 Evangelical Life, as seen in the Ex- 
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 Spiritual Life. By John James, D.D., 
 
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 Morning J^otes of Praise. A Series of 
 
 Meditations upon the Morning Tsalms. Dedicated to the 
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 Pepys. New Edition. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Quiet Moments ; a Four Weeks' Course 
 
 of Thoughts and Meditations before Evening Prayer and at 
 Sunset. By Lady Charlotte-Maria Pepys. New Edi- 
 tion. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. 
 
 A Companion to the Lord's Snpper. 
 
 By the Plain Man's Friend. Fifth Edition. i8mo. Sd. 
 
 A Manual of Devotion, chiefly for the 
 
 use of Schoolboys. By the Rev. William Baker, D.D., 
 Head Master of Merchant Taylors' School. With Preface by 
 J. R. Woodford, D.D., Lord Bishop of Ely. Crown i6mo. 
 2s. 6d. 
 
 The Good Shepherd; or, Christ the 
 
 Pattern, Priest, and Pastor. By the Rev. W. E. Heygate, 
 M. A., Rector of Brighstone. New Edition, Revised. Small 
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 The Book of Clrurcli Law. Being an 
 
 Exposition of the Legal Rights and Duties of the Clergy and 
 Laity of the Church of England. By the Rev. John Henry 
 Blunt, M.A., F.S.A. Revised by Walter G. F. Philli- 
 more, B.C.L., Barrister- at-Law, and Chancellor of the Diocese 
 of Lincoln. Second Edition, thoroughly revised and brought 
 down to the present time. Crown 8vo. *js. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 BOOK I. — The Church and its Laws. — The Constitutional Status of the 
 Church of England — The Law of the Church of England — The Administra- 
 tion of Church Law. 
 
 BOOK II.— The Ministrations of the Church.— Holy Baptism— Confirma- 
 tion — The Holy Communion — Divine Service in General— Holy Matrimony 
 — The Churching of Women — The Visitation of the Sick — The Practice of 
 Confession — The Burial of the Dead. 
 
 BOOK III.— The Parochial Clergy.— Holy Orders— Licensed Curates— The 
 Cure of Souls. 
 
 BOOK IV. — Parochial Lay Officers.— Churchwardens— Church Trustees- 
 Parish Clerks, Sextons and Beadles — Vestries. 
 
 BOOK V. — Churches and Churchyards. — The Acquisition of Churches and 
 Churchyards as Ecclesiastical Property — Churches and Ecclesiastical Persons 
 — Churches and Secular Persons. 
 
 BOOK VI. — The Endowments of the Parochial Clergy. — Incomes- 
 Parsonage Houses — The Sequestration of Benefices. 
 
 APPENDIX.— The Canons of 1603 and 1865— The Church Discipline Act of 1840 
 — The Benefices Resignation Act of 1871— The Ecclesiastical Dilapidations 
 Act of 1871 — The Sequestration Act of 1871 — The Public Worship Regula- 
 tion Act of 1874 — Index. 
 
 " We have tested 'this work o?i various stand on every clergyman's shelves 
 
 joints of a crucial character, and have ready for nse when any legal matter 
 
 found it very accurate and fell in its arises about which its possessor is in 
 
 information. It embodies the results doubt. . . . It is to be hoped that 
 
 of tlie most recent Acts of the Legis- the authorities at our Theological 
 
 lature on the clerical profession and Colleges sufficiently recognize the value 
 
 the rights of the laity ." — Standard. of a little legal knowledge on the part 
 
 "Already in our leading columns of the clergy to recommend this booh to 
 
 we have directed attention to Messrs. their students. It would serve admir- 
 
 lUunt and Phillimore s 1 Book of Church ably as the text-book for a set of lec- 
 
 Law* as an excellent manual for tures. " — CHURCH TlMKS. 
 ordinary use. It is a book wliicli should 
 
 Waterloo parr, llonoon 
 
Parish Work 33 
 
 Directorium Pastorale. The Principles 
 
 and Practice of Pastoral Work in the Church of England. By 
 the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A., F.S.A., Editor of " The 
 Annotated Book of Common Prayer," &c., &c. Third Edition, 
 revised. Crown 8vo. Js, 6d. 
 
 " This is the third edition of a work cJiial clergy is proved by the acceptance 
 •which has become deservedly popular it has already received at their hands, 
 as tlte best extant exposition of the and no faithful parish priest ', who is 
 principles and practice of the pastoral working in real earnest for the ex ten- 
 work in the Church of England. Its sion of spiritual i?istruction amongst 
 hints and suggestions are based on all classes oj his flock, will rise from 
 practical experience, and it is further the perusal of its pages without having 
 recommended by the majority of our obtained some valuable hints as to the 
 Bishops at the ordination of priests and best mode of bringing home our Church's 
 deacons." — Standard. system to the hearts of his people." — 
 
 " Its practical usefulness to the par o- National Church. 
 
 Priest and Parish. By the Rev. Harry 
 
 Jones, M.A., Rector of St. George's-in-the-East, London. 
 Square crown 8vo. 6s. 6d. 
 
 Ars Pastoria. By Frank Parnell, M.A., 
 
 Rector of Oxtead, near Godstone. Small 8vo. 2s. 
 
 Instructions for the Use of Candidates 
 
 for Holy Orders, and of the Parochial Clergy ; with Acts of 
 Parliament relating to the same, and Forms proposed to be 
 used. By Christopher Hodgson, M.A., Secretary to the 
 Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty. Ninth Edition. 8vo. 
 l6s. 
 
 Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Ac- 
 count of the most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, and 
 17th Centuries ; with Outlines of their Sermons, and Specimens 
 of their style. By the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A. Post 
 8vo. 7.5-. 
 
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34 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Mowers and Festivals; or, Directions 
 
 for the Floral Decoration of Churches. By W. A. Barrett, 
 Mus. Baa, Oxon., of St. Paul's Cathedral. With Coloured 
 Illustrations. Second Edition. Square i6mo. $s. 
 
 The Chorister's Guide. By W. A. Bar- 
 
 rett, Mus. Baa, Oxon, of St. Paul's Cathedral. Second 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. is. 6d. 
 
 "... One of the most useful books admirable conciseness, and an equally 
 of instructions for choristers — and, we observable completeness, all that is 
 may add, choral singers generally — necessary a chorister should be taught 
 that has ever emanated from the out of a book, and a great deal calcu- 
 musical press. . . . Mr. Barretfs lated to have a value as bearing in- 
 teaching is not only conveyed to his directly upon his actual practice in 
 readers zvith the consciousness of being singing." — Musical Standard. 
 master of his subject, but he employs " We can highly recommend the 
 words terse a7id clear, so that his present able manual." — Educational 
 meaning may be promptly caicght by Times. 
 the neophyte. . . ." — Athenaeum. " A very useful manual, not only for 
 
 " A nicely grad?iated, clear, and choristers, or ratlier those who may 
 
 excellent iutrodtcctiou to the duties of aim at becoming choristers, but for 
 
 a chorister." — Standard. others, who wish to enter upon the 
 
 "ft seems clear and precise enough study ofm7isic."—^OQK. 
 
 to serve its end." — Examiner. " The work will be found of singular 
 
 " A useful manual for giving boys utility by those who have to instruct 
 
 such a practical and technical knozv- choirs." — Church Times. 
 
 ledge of music as shall e7iable them to "A most grateful contribution to 
 
 sing both with confidence and preci- the agencies for improving our Ser- 
 
 sion." — Church Herald. vices. It is characterised by all that 
 
 "In this little volume we have a clearness in combination with concise- 
 manual long called for by the require- uess of style which has made ' Flowers 
 ments of church music. In a series of a?id Festivals ' so U7iiversally ad- 
 thirty-two lessons it gives, with an mired." — Toronto Herald. 
 
 Church. Organs : their Position and Con- 
 struction. With an Appendix containing some Account of the 
 Mediaeval Organ Case still existing at Old Radnor, South 
 Wales. By Frederick Heathcote Sutton, M.A., Vicar 
 of Theddingworth. With Illustrations. Folio. 6s. 6d. 
 
 Notes on Church Organs : their Position 
 
 and the Materials used in their Construction. By C. K. K. 
 Bishop. With Illustrations. Small 4to. 6s. 
 
 TOatcrtoo pace, ILmrtum 
 
Parish Work 
 
 35 
 
 Stones of the Temple; or, Lessons 
 
 from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church. By Walter 
 Field, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Godmersham. With numerous 
 Illustrations. New Edition. Crown 8vo. Js. 6d. 
 
 "Any one who wishes for simple in- 
 formation on the subjects of Church- 
 architecture and furniture ', cannot do 
 better tha7i consult ' Stones of the 
 Temfile.' Mr. Field modestly dis- 
 claims any i?itention of siipplanting 
 the existing regular treatises, but his 
 book shows an amount of research, and 
 a knowledge of what he is talking 
 abo7it, which make it practically nse- 
 ful as well as pleasant. The woodcuts 
 are numerous, and some of them very 
 pretty." — Graphic. 
 
 "A very charming book, by the Rev. 
 Walter Field, who was for years 
 Secretary of one of the leading Church 
 Societies. Mr. Field has a loving re- 
 verence for the beauty of the domus 
 mansionalis Dei, as the old law books 
 
 called the Parish Church 
 
 Thoroughly sound in Church feeling, 
 Mr. Field has chosen the medium of a 
 tale to embody real incidents ilhistra- 
 tive of the various portio7is of his stib- 
 ject. There is no attempt at elabora- 
 tion of the narrative, which, i?ideed, 
 is rather a string of anecdotes than a 
 story, but each chapter brings home to 
 the mind its own lesson, and each is 
 illustrated with some very interestijig 
 engravings. . . . The work will 
 properly command a hearty reception 
 from Churchmen. The footnotes are 
 occasionally most valuable, and are 
 always pertinent, ajid tlie text is sure 
 to be popular with young folks for 
 Sunday 7 eadiug. " — Standard. 
 
 "Mr. Field's chapters on brasses, 
 chancel screens, crosses, encaustic tiles , 
 mural painti7igs, porches a7id pave- 
 me7its, are agreeably writtefi, a7id 
 people with a tur7i for Rit7calis77i will 
 710 doubt fi7id the77i edifyi7ig. The 
 illustratio7is of Church-architectttre 
 and Church or7ia7ne7its are very at- 
 tractive."— P all Mall Gazette. 
 
 " 'Sto7ies of the Te77zpie' is a grave 
 book, tlie res7ilt of a7itiquaria7i, or 
 rather ecclesiological, tastes and of 
 devotio7ial feeli7igs. We ca7i recoi7i- 
 me7id it to yoioig people of both sexes, 
 a7id it will 7iot disappoint the most 
 lear7ied a7U07ig the 771. . . . Mr. 
 Field has brought together, fro77i well 
 k7iow7i aicthorities, a co7isiderable mass 
 of arc h&o logical i7ifor77iatio7i, which 
 will i7iterest the readers he especially 
 addresses. " — Athenaeum. 
 
 " Very appropriate as a Christmas 
 Prese7it, is a7i elega7it a7id instructive 
 book. . . . Afulla7idclearacco7i7itof 
 the 77iea7ii7ig a7id history of the several 
 parts of the fabric a7id of the fur7iiture 
 of the Church. It is illustrated with 
 a 7iu77iber of carefully drazu7i pictures, 
 sometimes ofe7itire churches, sometimes 
 of re77ia7'kable 77i07ni77ie7its, wi7idows, or 
 wall pai7iti7igs. We 771 ay add that tJie 
 style of the C077i77te7itary, which iscasti7i 
 thefor77i of a dialogiie betwee7i a parso7i 
 and some of his parishio7iers, a7id hangs 
 together by a slight thread of sto7-y, is 
 quiet a7id se7isible, a7id free fro77i exag- 
 geratio7i or i7itole?'a7ice" — Guardian. 
 
 A Handy Book on the Ecclesiastical 
 
 Dilapidations Act, 1871. With the Amendment Act, 1872. 
 By Edward G. Bruton, F.R.I.B.A., Diocesan Surveyor, 
 Oxford. With Analytical Index and Precedent Forms. Second 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. 5^. 
 
 anti at ©iforto antJ Cambridge 
 
36 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 The Church Builder : a Quarterly Journal 
 
 of Church Extension in England and Wales. Published in 
 connexion with "The Incorporated Church Building Society." 
 14 Annual Volumes. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. is. 6d. 
 each. [Sold separately. 
 
 List of Charities, General and Diocesan, 
 
 for the Relief of the Clergy, their Widows and Families. New 
 Edition. Small 8vo. 3*. 
 
 OKatatai pace, ILontJon 
 
5. c&e Cfjurcf) ann Doctrine. 
 
 The Holy Catholic Church ; its Divine 
 
 Ideal, Ministry, and Institutions. A short Treatise. With a 
 Catechism on each Chapter, forming a Course of Methodical 
 Instruction on the subject. By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, 
 D.D., Dean of Norwich. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 
 6s. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 What the Church is, and when and how it was founded — Duty of the Church 
 towards those who hold to the Apostles' doctrine, in separation from the 
 Apostles' fellowship — The Unity of the Church, and its Disruption — The 
 Survey of Zion's towers, bulwarks, and palaces — The Institution of the 
 Ministry, and its relation to the Church— The Holy Eucharist at its suc- 
 cessive stages — On the powers of the Church in Council — The Church 
 presenting, exhibiting, and defending the Truth — The Church guiding into 
 and illustrating the Truth— On the Prayer-Book as a Commentary on the 
 Bible— Index. 
 
 ''Dr. Goulburn has conferred a great "Must prove highly useful, not 
 
 boon on the Church of England by the only to young persons, but to the 
 
 treatise before us, which vi?idicates her very large class, both Churchmen and 
 
 claim as a branch of the Catholic Dissenters, who are painfully ignorant 
 
 Church 071 the allegiance of her chil- of what the Catholic Chtirch really is, 
 
 dren, setting forth as he does, with and of the peculiar and fixed character 
 
 singular precision and power, the of her institutions. ," — Rock. 
 
 grounds of her title-deeds, and the " The catechetical questions and 
 
 Christian character of her doctrine a?id answers at the end of each chapter will 
 
 discipline."— Standard. be useful both for teachers and lear?iers, 
 
 11 His present book would have bee7i and the side-notes at the head of the 
 
 used for an educational book eve7i if he paragraphs are very ha7idy." — Church 
 
 had 7iot i7ivited 77ie7i to 7?iake that use Times. 
 
 of it by appe7idi7ig a catechis77i to each "It co7itai7is a great deal of i7istruc- 
 
 particular chapter, a7id thus foundi7ig tive 77iatter, especially i7i the catechisms 
 
 a course of ' 77iethodical i7istrtictio7i upoii — or, as they 77iight be called, dialogues 
 
 his text. We have 7iot yet C077ie across — a7id is insti7ict with a spirit at 07ice 
 
 a7iy better book for givi7ig to Disse7iters te77iperate and U7icompro77iising. It is 
 
 or to such i7iqtdrers as ho Id fast to Holy a good book for all wlio wish to U7ider- 
 
 Scrifture. It is, we 7ieed scarcely say, sta7id, 7ieither bli7idly asserti7ig it 7ior 
 
 steeped in Scripturahiess, a7id full of bei7ig half asha77ied of it, tlie position 
 bright a7id suggestive interpretations of of a loyal me wber of the E7iglish 
 
 particular texts." — English Church- Church." — Guardian, 
 man. 
 
 antJ at ©xforfc antr Cambridge 
 
38 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical 
 
 Theology. By Various Writers. Edited by the Rev. John 
 Henry Blunt, M.A., F.S.A., Editor of the "Annotated 
 Book of Common Prayer," &c, &c. Second Edition, Im- 
 perial 8vo. 42s. ; or in half-morocco, 52^. 6d. 
 
 " Taken as a whole the articles are oj rhetorical i7icrustation. Of course, 
 
 the work of practised writers, and it is not meant that all these remarks 
 
 well-inforvied and solid theologians, apply in their full extent to every 
 
 . . . . We know no book of its size article, hi a great Dictionary there 
 
 a7id bulk which supplies tlieinf or ynation are compositions, as in a great house 
 
 Jure given at all; Jar less which there are vessels, of various kinds, 
 
 supplies it in a?i arrangement so ac- Some of these at a future day may be 
 
 cessible, with a complete?ies of infor- replaced by otJiers ?nore substantial in 
 
 mation so thorough, ayidwith an ability their build, 7nore proportionate in tlieir 
 
 in the treatme7it of profoiuid subjects outfaie, and more elaborate in their 
 
 so great. Dr. Hook's most useful z'O I- detail. But ad77iitti7ig all this, the 
 
 U77ie is a work of high calibre, but it is whole remai7is a home to which the 
 
 the work of a si7igle 77ii7id. We have stude7it will C07ista7itly recur, sure to 
 
 here a wider ra7tge of tlwtcght fro77t a fiyid spacious cha?nbers, substantial 
 
 greater variety of sides. We have fur7iiture , and {which is most i77ipor- 
 
 herealso the work of 'men who evide7itly ta7it) 710 sti7ited light." — Church Re- 
 
 know what they write about, a7id are view. 
 
 somewhat more profowid {to say the " Withi7i the sphere it has marked 
 
 least) tha7i the writers of the curre7it out for itself, no equally useful book 
 
 Dictio7iaries of Sects a7id Heresies." — ofrefere7ice exists in E7iglish for the 
 
 Guardian. elucidatio7i of theological problems. 
 
 '* Thus it will be obvious that it . . . E71t7n.es which display 77iuch 
 
 takes a very 77iuch wider ra7ige than care, research, a7id judgmeyit hi C0771- 
 
 any U7idertaking of t/ie sa7ue ki7id i7i pilatio7i, a7id which will ?7iake the task 
 
 our la7iguage ; a7id that to those of our of the parish priest who is brought face 
 
 clergy who have 7iot t lie fort U7ie to to face with a7iy of the practical ques- 
 
 sfe7id in books, a7id would ?iot have tio7is which they involve far easier than 
 
 the leisure to use them if they possessed has bee7i hitherto. The very fact that 
 
 the77i, it will be the 77iost serviceable the uttera7ices are here a7id there so>ne- 
 
 a7id reliable substitute for a large lib- what 77iore guarded a7id hesitating 
 
 rary we can thi7ik of. A7id in 77ia7iy tha7i quite accords with our judgi7ie7it, 
 
 cases, while keefi7ig strictly withi7i its is a gai'71 i7i so far as it protects the 
 
 provhice as a Dictio7iary, it co7itrives work froi7i the charge of inculcating 
 
 to be 77iarz<ellously suggestive of thought extre7>ie views, a7id will thus secure 
 
 a7idrefectio7is,7uhich aserious-7ui7ided its ad7nissio7i in 7na7iy places where 
 
 ma7i will take with hi77i a7id p07ider 77ioderatio7i is accoiaited the crowning 
 
 over for his o%v7i elaboration a7id future grace. " — Church Times. 
 
 use. We trust 77iost si7icerely that the "St will be fou7id of ad7nirable ser- 
 
 book 77iay be largely used. For a pre- vice to all stude7its of theology, as 
 
 sent to a Clergy 77ia7i07i his ordination,or adva7ici7ig a7id maintaining the 
 
 fro77i a parishio7ier to his pastor, it would Church's views on all subjects as 
 
 be 7nost appropriate. It 7)iay indeed be fall within the ra7ige of fair argu77ie7it 
 
 called i a box of tools for a working a7id inquiry. It is 7iot ofte7i that a 
 
 clergy 77ian.'" — LiteraryChurchman. work of so c om pre h ensive and so pro- 
 
 t( Seldo7n has a7i E7iglish work of fou7id a 7iature is marked to the very 
 equal magnitude been so per77ieatcd endbyso77ia7iysigusofwidea7idca7-e- 
 with Catholic instincts, a7id at the ful research, sound criticism, and well- 
 tame ti77ie seldo77i has a work on theo- foinided a7id well-expressed belief." — 
 logy been kept so free fro77i tlie drift Standard. 
 
 Haaterloo Place, 5Lontion 
 
Church and Doctrine 39 
 
 Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesias- 
 tical Parties and Schools of Religious Thought. By Various 
 Writers. Edited by the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A., 
 F. S.A., Editor of the "Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical 
 Theology," the "Annotated Book of Common Prayer," &c, 
 &c. Imperial 8vo. 361. ; or in half-morocco, 48s. 
 
 " Taken as a whole, we doubt not "A wJwle library is condensed into 
 
 that tlie Dictionary will prove a useful this admirable volume. All a7cthorities 
 
 work of referetice ; and it may claim are named, a7id an invaluable index 
 
 to give in reasonable compass a niass of is supplied." — Notes and Queries. 
 
 information respecting many religious " We have tested it rigidly, and in 
 
 schools knowledge of tvhich could pre- almost every instance we have beot. 
 
 viously only be acquired from amid a satisfied with the account given under 
 
 host of literature. The articles are the name of sects, heresy, or ecclesi- 
 
 written with great fairness, and in as tic al party." — John Bull. 
 
 many cases display careful scholarly " After all deductions ft is the fullest 
 
 work." — Athenaeum. and most trustworthy book of the kind 
 
 "A very comprehensive and bold that we possess. The quantity of infor- 
 
 undertaking, and is certainly executed mation it presents in a convenient a?id 
 
 with a sufficient amount of ability accessible form is enormous, and having 
 
 and knowledge to entitle the book to once appeared, it becomes indispensable 
 
 rank very high in point of utility." — to the theological student." — Church 
 
 Guardian. Times. 
 
 " That this is a work of some lear-n- "ft has considerable value as a 
 
 ing and research is a fact which copious work of reference, more espe- 
 
 soon becomes obvious to the reader. " — cially since a list of atitiiorities is in 
 
 Spectator. most cases supplied" — Examiner. 
 
 The Doctrine of the Church of England, 
 
 as stated in Ecclesiastical Documents set forth by Authority 
 of Church and State, in the Reformation Period between 1536 
 and 1662. Edited by the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A., 
 F.S. A., Editor of the " Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical 
 Theology," the "Annotated Book of Common Prayer," &c. 
 &c. Svo. Js. 6d. 
 
 The Position of the Celebrant at the 
 
 Holy Communion, as ruled by the Purchas Judgment, con- 
 sidered in a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Winchester. By 
 Morton Shaw, M.A., Rector of Rougham, Suffolk, Rural 
 Dean. Third Edition. 8vo. $s. 
 
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 ments delivered in the Court of Arches, 1867- 1875. By the 
 Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, D.C.L. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 Thirty-two Years of the Church of 
 
 England, 1842-1875 : The Charges of Archdeacon Sinclair. 
 Edited by Willi am Sinclair, M. A., Prebendary of Chichester, 
 Rector of Pulborough, late Vicar of S . George's, Leeds. With 
 a Preface by Archibald Campbell Tait, D.D., Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, and a Historical Introduction by Robert 
 Charles Jenkins, M.A., Hon. Canon of Canterbury, Rector 
 and Vicar of Lyminge. 8vo. 
 
 The Holy Angels : Their Nature and 
 
 Employments, as recorded in the Word of God. Small 8vo. 
 6s. 
 
 A Plain Statement of the Evidence of 
 
 Scripture and Tradition on Church Government. By the Rev. 
 John Mitchell, M. A. Small 8vo. 2s. 
 
 Prophecies and the Prophetic Spirit 
 
 in the Christian Era : an Historical Essay. By John J. 
 Ign. Von Dollinger, D.D., D.C.L. Translated, with 
 Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, by the Rev. Alfred 
 Plummer, M.A., Master of University College, Durham, 
 late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Lectures on the Reunion of the 
 
 Churches. By John J. Ign. Von Dollinger, D.D., D.C.L. 
 
 Authorized Translation, with Preface by Henry Nutcombe 
 Oxenham, M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. 
 Crown 8vo. 5.9. 
 
 TOatcrbo place, Pontoon 
 
Church and Doctrine 41 
 
 Apostolical Succession in the Church 
 
 of England. By the Rev. Arthur W. Haddan, B.D., late 
 Rector of Barton-on-the-Heath. 8vo. 12s. 
 
 " Thoroughly well written.) clear We hope that our extracts will lead 
 and forcible in style, and fair in tone, our readers to study Mr. Haddan for 
 It cannot but re7ider valuable serznce themselves." — Literary Churchman. 
 hi placing the claims of the Church in " This is not only a very able a?id 
 their true light before the English carefully written treatise upon the doc- 
 public." — Guardian. trine of Apostolical Succession, but it 
 
 " Ajnong the many standard theo- is also a calm yet ?wble vindication oj 
 
 logical works devoted to this important the validity of the Anglican Orders: 
 
 subject Mr. Haddan s will hold a high it well sustains the brilliant reputation 
 
 place." — Standard. which Mr. Haddan left behind him at 
 
 " We should be glad to see the volume Oxford, and it supplements his other 
 
 widely circulated and generally read. " profound historical researches in ecclesi- 
 
 — John Bull. astical matters. This book will remai?i 
 
 "A weighty and valuable treatise, for a longtime the classic work upon 
 
 and we hope that the study of its sound English Orders." — Church Review. 
 and xuell-reasoned pages will do much "A very temperate, but a very well 
 
 to fix the importance, a7id the full reasoned book." — Westminster Re- 
 
 meaning of the doctrine in question, in VIEW. 
 the minds of Church people. . . . 
 
 The Civil Power in its Eelations to the 
 
 Church ; considered with Special Reference to the Court of 
 Final Ecclesiastical Appeal in England. By the Rev. James 
 Wayland Joyce, M.A., Prebendary of Hereford, and 
 Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Defence of the English Ordinal, with 
 
 some Observations upon Spiritual Jurisdiction and the Power 
 of the Keys. By the Rev. W. R. Churton, M.A., Fellow 
 of King's College, Cambridge, and Honorary Canon of 
 Rochester Cathedral. 8vo. $s. 
 
 The Religion, Discipline, and Rites of 
 
 the Church of England. Written at the Instance of Edward 
 Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. By John Cosin, sometime Bishop 
 of Durham. Now first published in English. By the Rev. 
 Frederick Meyrick, M. A. Small 8vo. is. 
 
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 Eight Lectures on the Miracles ; being 
 
 the Bampton Lectures for 1865. By J- B. Mozley, D.D., 
 Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, 
 Oxford. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. Js. 6d. 
 
 " There is great brightness and beauty are an example, and a very fine one, 
 in ma7iy of the images in which the of a mode of theological writing which 
 author condenses the issues of his is characteristic of the Church of Eng- 
 arguments. And ma?iy passages are land, and almost peculiar to it. The 
 marked by that peculiar kind of elo- distinguishing features, a combinatio?i 
 queuce which comes with the force of of intense seriousness with a self re- 
 close a?id vigorous thinking ; passages strained, severe calmness, and of very 
 which slime-like steal through their vigorous and wide-ranging reasoning 
 
 very temper, and which are instinct on ttie realities of the case 
 
 with a controlled energy, that vie Its Mr. Mozley 's book belongs to that class 
 
 away all ruggedness of la7iguage. of writings of which Butler may be 
 
 There ca?i be no question that, in tJie taken as the type. It is strong, genuine 
 
 deeper qualities of a scientific theology, argument about difficult ?natters, fairly 
 
 the book is thoroughly worthy of the facing what is difficult, fairly trying 
 
 highest refutation which had been to grapple, not with what appears the 
 
 gamed by Mr. Mozley s previous writ- gist and strong point of a question, but 
 
 ings." — Contemporary Review. with what really and at bottom is the 
 
 "Mr. Mozley's Bampton Lectures knot of it." — Times. 
 
 The Happiness of the Blessed con- 
 sidered as to the Particulars of their State : their Recognition 
 of each other in that State : and its Differences of Degrees. 
 To which are added Musings on the Church and her Services. 
 By Richard Mant, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Down 
 and Connor. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3.?. 6d. 
 
 'A welcome republication of a trea- "All recognise the authority of the 
 Use once highly valued, a?id which can command to set the affections on things 
 never lose its value. Many of our above, and such works as the one now 
 readers already know the fulness and before us will be found helpful towards 
 discrimination with which the author this good e7id. We are, therefore, sin- 
 treats his subject, which 77111st be 07ie of cerely glad that Messrs. Rivi7igton 
 the 7nost delightful topics of meditatio7i have brought out a 7iew editi07i of 
 to all whose hearts are where the only Bishop Manfs valuable treatise." — 
 true treasure is, and particularly to Record. 
 
 those who are e7iteri7ig u/>07i the eve7i- " This beautiful a7id devotio7tal trea- 
 
 i7ig of life."— Church Review. Use, which it is i77ifossible to readwith- 
 
 " The value of this book needs not to outfeeli7ig a 7nore deepened i7ite7~est in 
 
 be referred to, its standard character the eter7ial blessed7iess which awaits 
 
 havi7ig been for 771 any years fast estab- the true servants of our God, C07icludes 
 
 lished. The editio7i in which it re- very appropriately with 'Musings on 
 
 appears has evidently bee7i carefully the Church a7id her Services,' which 
 
 prepared, and will be the mea7is of we cordially reco77U7iend to our readers." 
 
 making it 77iore generally k7io7uu." — — Rock. 
 Bell's Messenger. ' 
 
 Waterloo $Iace, Hontiott 
 
Church and Doctrine 43 
 
 Out of the Body. A Scriptural Inquiry. 
 
 By the Rev. James S. Pollock, M.A., Incumbent of S. 
 Alban's, Birmingham. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Introduction — Scope of the Inquiry — The Presentiment — The Anticipation — The 
 Departure — The Life of the Body — The Life of the Spirit — Dream-Life— 
 The Spirit-World — Spirit-Groups — Helping one another — Limits of Com- 
 munication — Spiritual Manifestations. 
 ** We have read this book with inter- " This is a curious, thoughtful, and 
 est. . . We esteem the honesty with i?iteresting little book, in which the 
 which it is evidently written, and we author endeavours to ascertai?i and to 
 admire the courage which the author define the relations of living ?nen as 
 has shown hi searching the Bible for regards their communication with the 
 evidences as to the destination of de- spirits of those whojn we call dead, as 
 parted spirits, and in accepting such authorised by the words and teaching 
 evidences as he has found" — Bir- of Holy Scripture. . . . Will be 
 MINGHAM Morning News. very welcome to a host of readers on 
 
 " T/ie writer discusses with consider- either side of the disputed ground, and 
 able ability, and in a devout and cannot fail to be of lasting interest 
 reverent frame of mind." — Spiritual and profit to all candid students." — 
 Magazine. Standard. 
 
 The Origin and Development of Eeli- 
 
 gious Belief. By the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A., Author 
 of " Curious Myths of the Middle Ages," &c. 
 
 Vol. I. MONOTHEISM and POLYTHEISM. Second 
 Edition. 8vo. 15^. 
 
 Vol. II. CHRISTIANITY. 8vo. 15*. 
 
 " The ability which Mr. Baring- logy which are certain to make large 
 
 Gould displays in the treatment of a contributions to the purpose he has in 
 
 topic which bra?iches out hi so many hand. It is a contribution to religious 
 
 directions, and requires such precise thought of very high value.''* — Guar- 
 
 handlhig, is apparent. His pages dian. 
 
 abound with the results of large read- "Mr. Baring-Gould's work, from 
 
 hig and calm reflection. The man of the ijnportance of its subject and the 
 
 culture, thought, philosophic cast, is lucid force of "its expositions, as well as 
 
 mirroredin the entire argument. The from the closeness of argument and 
 
 book is sound and healthy in tone, copiousness of illustration with zvhich 
 
 It excites the reader's interest, arid its comprehensive views are treated, 
 
 brightens the path of inquiry operied to is entitled to attentive study, and will 
 
 his view. The language, too, is appro- repay the reader by amusement and 
 
 priate, neat, lucid, often happy, some- instruction." — Morning Post. 
 
 times wonderfully terse and vigorous." "Our space warns us that we are 
 
 — Athenaeum. attempting in vain to compress into a 
 
 " Mr. Baring-Go7ild has undertaken few columns the contents of four hun- 
 
 a great and ambitious work. And no dred pages of a work which has had 
 
 one can deny that he possesses some few equals for brillia?icy, learning, 
 
 eminent qualifications for this great and point in this department of litera- 
 
 work. He has a wealth of erudition ture. We therefore conclude by re- 
 
 of the most varied description, espe- commending the volume itself to all 
 
 cially in those particular regions of students of mind and theology." — 
 
 mediaeval legend and Teutonic 7uytho- Church Times. 
 
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44 
 
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 Our Mother Church : being Simple Talk 
 
 on High Topics. By Anne Mercier. New Edition. 
 Small 8vo. 3*. 6d. 
 
 " IVe have rarely come across a ' The Primitive Church' 'Primitive 
 
 book dealing with an old subject in a Places and Modes of Worship,' ' The 
 
 healthier and, as far as may be, more Early E?iglish Church,' 1 ' The Monastic 
 
 original manner, while yet thoroughly Orders,' ' The Friars,' 'A Review of 
 
 practical. It is intended for and Church History ,' * The Prayer Book,' 
 
 admirably adapted to the use of (four chapters), 'Symbolism,' 'Church 
 
 girls. Thoroughly reverent in its Architecture ,' 'Windows and Bells' 
 
 tone, and bearing hi every page ' Church Music,' ' Church Work.' No 
 
 marks of lear7ied research, it is yet one can fail to comprehend the beauti- 
 
 easy of compreJiension, and explains fully simple, devout, and appropriate 
 
 ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy language in which Mrs. Mercier em- 
 
 cf a lexicon without the accompanying bodies what she has to say; and for 
 
 dulness. It is to be hoped that the the Jacts with which she deals she has 
 
 book will attain to the large circula- 
 tion it justly merits."— John Bull. 
 
 " We have never seen a book for 
 girls of its class which commends 
 itself to us more particularly. The 
 author, who is the wife of an earnest 
 parish priest of the Anglican sc/wol, 
 
 taken good care to have their accuracy 
 assured." — Standard. 
 
 " The plan of this pleasant-looking 
 book is excelle?it It is a kind of Mrs. 
 Markham on the Church of England, 
 written especially for girls, and we 
 shall not be surprised to find it become 
 
 near London, calls her work 'simple a favourite in schools. It is really a 
 
 talk on great subjects,' and calls it by conversational hand-book to the English 
 
 a name that describes it almost as Church's history, doctrine, and ritual, 
 
 completely as we could do in a longer compiled by a very diligent reader frovi 
 
 notice than we can spare the volume, some of the best modern Anglican 
 
 Here are the /leadings of the chapters : — sources." — English Churchman. 
 
 A Selection from the Spiritual Letters 
 
 of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva. Trans- 
 lated by the Author of "Life of S. Francis de Sales," "A 
 Dominican Artist," &c. &c. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 ''It is a collection of epistolary cor- and a great boon it will be to viany. 
 
 respondence of rare interest and excel- 
 lence. With those who have read the 
 Life, there ca?inot but have been a 
 strong desire to know more of so beauti- 
 ful a character." — Church Herald. 
 
 "A few months back we had the 
 pleasure of welcoming the Life of S. 
 Francis de Sales. Here is the pro- 
 mised sequel: — the * Selection from his 
 Spiritual Letters' then a7inounced: — 
 
 The Letters are addressed to people of 
 all sorts: — to men and to women: — 
 to laity and to ecclesiastics, to people 
 living in the world, or at court, a7id 
 to the inmates of Religious Houses. 
 We hope that with our readers it 
 may be totally needless to U7ge such a 
 volume on their notice." — Literary 
 Churchman. 
 
 Also a Cheap Edition, forming a Volume of the " Library 
 of Spiritual Works for English Catholics." 32mo., cloth limp, 
 6d. ; cloth extra, u. [See page 17.] 
 
 E2SatcrIo0 $ lace, 3Lmttion 
 
Church and Doctrine 45 
 
 The Argument Delivered before the 
 
 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. By Archibald 
 John Stephens, LL.D., one of Her Majesty's Counsel in the 
 case of Thomas Byard Sheppard against William Early 
 Bennett, Clerk. With an Appendix containing their Lord- 
 ships' Judgment. 8vo. gs. 
 
 St. John Olnysostom's Liturgy. Trans- 
 lated by H. C. Romanoff, Author of " Sketches of the Rites 
 and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church," &c. With Illus- 
 trations. Square crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 The Intermediate State of the Soul 
 
 between Death and the Resurrection. A Sermon preached at' 
 the Church of All Saints, Windsor. By Chr. Wordsworth, 
 D.D., Bishop of Lincoln. i8mo. is. 
 
 Union with Borne ; or, Is the Church 
 
 of Rome the Babylon of the Apocalypse ? By Chr. Words- 
 worth, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln. Eighth Edition, is. 
 
 Eeport of the Proceedings at the Ee- 
 
 union Conference held at Bonn, September 1874. With a 
 Preface by Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon 
 of St. Paul's, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University 
 of Oxford. Small 8vo. 3.?. 6d. 
 
 Dogmatic Faith : an Inquiry into the 
 
 Relation subsisting between Revelation and Dogma. Being 
 the Bampton Lectures for 1867. By Edward Garbett, 
 M. A., Incumbent of Christ Church, Surbiton. New Edition. 
 Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
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 Letters from Eome on the Council. 
 
 By Quirinus. Reprinted from the "Allgemeine Zeitung." 
 Authorized Translation. Crown 8vo. 12s. 
 
 The Pope and the Council. By Janus. 
 
 Authorized Translation from the German. Fourth Edition. 
 Crown 8vo. *]s t 6d. 
 
 A Yicar's Yiew of Church Patronage. 
 
 By the Rev. J. Godson, M.A., Vicar of Ashby Folville, in 
 the Diocese of Peterborough. Small 8vo. 2s. 
 
 The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church 
 
 of England explained in a Series of Lectures. By the Rev. 
 R. W. J elf, D.D., late Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and 
 sometime Principal of King's College, London. Edited by 
 the Rev. J. R. King, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East, 
 Oxford, and formerly Fellow and Tutor of Merton College. 
 8vo. 15^. 
 
 Waterloo Place, ILotrtion 
 
6. Sermons, 
 
 Some Elements of Religion. Lent 
 
 Lectures. By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon 
 of St. Paul's, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the Univer- 
 sity of Oxford. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 5.?. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Idea of Religion — God, the Object of Religion — The Subject of Religion, 
 the Soul — The Obstacle to Religion, Sin — Prayer, the Characteristic 
 action of Religion — The Mediator, the Guarantee of Religious Life. 
 
 The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour 
 
 Jesus Christ. Being the Bampton Lectures for 1866. 
 By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. 
 Paul's, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of 
 Oxford. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
 Sermons Preached before the Univer- 
 sity of Oxford. By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., 
 Canon of St. Paul's, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in 
 the University of Oxford. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
 ♦ 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 God and the Soul — The Law of Progress — The Honour of Humanity— The 
 Freedom of the Spirit — Immortality — Humility and Action — The Conflict 
 of Faith with undue Exaltation of Intellect — Lessons of the Holy Manger 
 — The Divine Victim — The Risen Life — Our Lord's Ascension, the 
 Church's Gain — Faith in a Holy Ghost — The Divine Indwelling a motive 
 to Holiness. 
 
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48 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 The Life of Justification. A Series of 
 
 Lectures delivered in Substance at All Saints', Margaret Street. 
 By the Rev. George Body, B.A., Rector of Kirkby Misper- 
 ton. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Justification the Want of Humility — Christ our Justification— Union with Christ 
 the Condition of Justification — Conversion and Justification — The Life of 
 Justification — The Progress and End of Justification. 
 
 "On the whole we have rarely met into the current language of to-day." 
 
 with a more clear, intelligible and per- —Union Review. 
 
 suasive statement of the truth as re- " 7 here is real power in these ser- 
 gards the important topics on which mons: — power, real power, and plenty 
 the volume treats. Sermon II. in par- of it. . . . There is such a moral 
 ticular, will strike every one by its veraciousness about him, such a pro- 
 eloquence and beauty, but we scarcely found a?id over-mastering belief that 
 like to specify it, lest in praising it we Christ has proved a bona-fi.de cure for 
 should seem to disparage the other por- uuholiness, a?id such an intensity of 
 tions of this admirable little work." — eagerness to lead others to seek and 
 Church Times. profit by that means of attaini?ig the 
 
 " These discourses show that their true sanctity which alone can enter 
 
 author's position is due to something Heaven — that we wonder not at the 
 
 more and higher than mere Jlue?icy, crowds which hang upon his preaching, 
 
 gesticulation, and flexibility of voice, nor at the success oj his fervid appeals 
 
 He appears as having driaik deeply to the human conscience. IJ any one 
 
 at the fountain of St. Augustine, and doubts our verdict, let him buy this 
 
 as understanding how to translate the volume. No one will regret its per- 
 
 burning words of that mighty genius tisal." — Literary Churchman. 
 
 The Life of Temptation. A Course of 
 
 Lectures delivered in Substance at St. Peter's, Eaton Square ; 
 also at All Saints', Margaret Street. By the Rev. George 
 Body, B.A., Rector of Kirkby Misperton. Third Edition. 
 Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Leading into Temptation — The Rationale of Temptation — Why we are 
 Tempted — Safety in Temptation — With Jesus ^in Temptation — The End of 
 Temptation. 
 
 " Regeneration and conversion seem earnest, soul-stirring words, dealing 
 
 here to occupy their proper places in the with the mvsteries of Christian e.\- 
 
 Christian eco?iomy, and the general perience." — London Quarterly Re- 
 
 subject of temptation is worked out view. 
 
 with considerable ability." — Church u A collection of sermons, pious, 
 
 Times. earnest, and eloquent." — English 
 
 11 This is another volume of sifuple, Churchman. 
 
 WLatzxloo Place, Hwttam 
 
Sermons 49 
 
 Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels 
 
 for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year. By the 
 Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D., Author of a " Devotional Com- 
 mentary on the Gospel Narrative." New Edition. 2 Vols. 
 Crown 8vo. 5.5-. each. wSold separately. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
 
 The King of Salem — The Scriptures bearing Witness — The Church bearing 
 Witness — The Spirit bearing Witness —The Adoption of Sons — Love 
 strong as Death — The Love which passeth Knowledge — Of such is the 
 Kingdom of Heaven — The Spirit of" Adoption — The Old and the New 
 Man — The Day Star in the Heart — Obedience the best Sacrifice — The 
 Meekness and Gentleness of Christ — The Faith that overcometh the 
 World — Our Refuge in Public Troubles — Light and Safety in Love — 
 The Great Manifestation — Perseverance found in Humility — Bringing 
 forth Fruit with Patience — The most excellent Gift — The Call to Re- 
 pentance — The accepted Time — Perseverance in Prayer — The Unclean 
 Spirit returning — The Penitent refreshed — Our Life in the Knowledge 
 of God — The Mind of Christ — The Triumph of the Cross — The Man of 
 Sorrows — The Great Sacrifice — The Memorial of the Great Sacrifice — 
 The Fulfilment— Buried with Christ — The Power of Christ risen — Walk- 
 ing in Newness of Life — Belief in the Resurrection of Christ — The Faith 
 that overcometh the World — Following the Lamb of God — A little while 
 — The Giver of all Good — Requisites of effectual Prayer — Ascending 
 with Christ — The Days of Expectation — They shall walk with Me in 
 White — The Holy Spirit and Baptism — Let all Things be done in order. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
 
 The Door opened in Heaven — Love the mark of God's Children — The Gospel a 
 Feast of Love — The Lost Sheep — Mercy the best preparation for Judg- 
 ment — The peaceable ordering of the World— Brotherly Love and the Life 
 in Christ— The Bread which God giveth— By their Fruits ye shall know 
 them — Looking forward, or Divine Covetousness — The Day of Visitation— 
 The Prayer of the Penitent — Weakness of Faith — Love the fulfilling of the 
 Law — Thankfulness the Life of the Regenerate — My Beloved is Mine and 
 I am His — The Knowledge which is Life Eternal — The Sabbath of Christ 
 found in Meekness — Christ is on the Right Hand of God — The Forgive- 
 ness of Sins — Love and Joy in the Spirit — The Warfare and the Armour of 
 Saints — The Love of Christians — The Earthly and Heavenly Citizenship — 
 Mutual Intercessions — Gleanings after Harvest — Bringing unto Christ — 
 Slowness in believing — Grace not given in Vain — The Refiner's Fire — The 
 Lost Crown — Faith in the Incarnation — Value of an Inspired Gospel — The 
 severe and social Virtues — Go and do thou likewise — Joy at hearing the 
 Bridegroom's Voice — The Strength of God in Man's Weakness — Hidden 
 with Christ in God — Do good, hoping for nothing again— The good ex- 
 change—War in Heaven — Healing and Peace — The Sacrament of Union— 
 They which shall be accounted Worthy. 
 
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50 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Parochial and Plain Sermons. By John 
 
 Henry Newman, B.D., formerly Vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford. 
 Edited by the Rev. W. J. Copeland, B.D., Rector of 
 Farnham, Essex. New Edition. 8 Vols. Crown 8vo. 5*. 
 each. Sold separately. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
 
 Holiness necessary for Future Blessedness — The Immortality of the Soul — 
 Knowledge of God's Will without Obedience— Secret Truths — Self-denial 
 the Test of Religious Earnestness — The Spiritual Mind — Sins of Ignorance 
 and Weakness — God's Commandments not grievous — The Religious use 
 of exalted Feelings — Profession without Practice — Profession without 
 Hypocrisy — Profession without Ostentation — Promising without Doing — 
 Religious Emotion — Religious Faith Rational — The Christian Mysteries — 
 The Self-wise Inquirer — Obedience the Remedy for Religious Perplexity 
 — Times of Private Prayer — Forms of Private Prayer — The Resurrection 
 of the Body — Witnesses of the Resurrection — Christian Reverence— The 
 Religion of the Day — Scripture a Record of Human Sorrow — Christian 
 Manhood. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
 
 The World's Benefactors — Faith without Sight— The Incarnation — Martyrdom 
 — Lovd of Relations and Friends — The Mind of Little Children — Cere- 
 monies of the Church — The Glory of the Christian Church — His Conver- 
 sion viewed in Reference to His Office — Secrecy and Suddenness of Divine 
 Visitations — Divine Decrees — The Reverence due to Her — Christ, a 
 Quickening Spirit — Saving Knowledge — Self-contemplation — Religious 
 Cowardice — The Gospel Witnesses — Mysteries in Religion — The Indwell- 
 ing Spirit — The Kingdom of the Saints — The Gospel, a Trust committed 
 to us — Tolerance of Religious Error — Rebuking Sin — The Christian 
 Ministry — Human Responsibility — Guilelessness — The Danger of Riches — 
 The Powers of Nature — The Danger of Accomplishments — Christian Zeal 
 — Use of Saints' Days. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. 
 
 Abraham and Lot — Wilfulness of Israel in rejecting Samuel — Saul — Early years 
 of David — Jeroboam — Faith and Obedience — Christian Repentance — 
 Contracted Views in Religion — A particular Providence as revealed in 
 the Gospel — Tears of Christ at the Grave of Lazarus — Bodily Suffering — 
 The Humiliation of the Eternal Son — Jewish Zeal a Pattern to Christians 
 — Submission to Church Authority — Contest between Truth and False- 
 hood in the Church — The Church Visible and Invisible — The Visible 
 Church an Encouragement to Faith — The Gift of the Spirit — Regenerating 
 Baptism — Infant Baptism — The Daily Service — The Good Part of Mary — 
 Religious Worship a Remedy for Excitements — Intercession — The Inter- 
 mediate State. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. 
 
 The Strictness of the Law of Christ — Obedience without Love, as instanced in 
 the Character of Balaam — Moral Consequeices of Single Sins — Accept- 
 ance ot Religious Privileges compulsory — Reliance on Religious Observ- 
 ances — The Individuality of the Soul — Chastisement amid Mercy — Peace 
 and Joy amid Chastisement — The State of Grace — The Visible Church 
 for the sake of the Elect — The Communion of Saints — The Church a 
 
 JHSaterloo Pace, ftonfem 
 
Sermons 51 
 
 NEWMAN'S PAROCHIAL AND PLAIN SERMONS— 
 Continued. 
 
 Home for the Lonely — The Invisible World — The Greatness and Little- 
 ness of Human Life — Moral Effects of Communion with God — Christ 
 Hidden from the World — Christ Manifested in Remembrance — The Gain- 
 saying of Korah — The Mysteriousness of our Present Being — The Ventures 
 of Faith — Faith and Love — Watching — Keeping Fast and Festival. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL V. 
 
 Worship, a Preparation for Christ's Coming — Reverence, a Belief in God's 
 Presence — Unreal Words — Shrinking from Christ's Coming — Equanimity — 
 Remembrance of past Mercies — The Mystery of Godliness — The State of 
 Innocence — Christian Sympathy — Righteousness not of us, but in us — The 
 Law of the Spirit — The New Works of the Gospel — The State of Salva- 
 tion — Transgressions and Infirmities — Sins of Infirmity — Sincerity and 
 Hypocrisy — The Testimony of Conscience — Many called, few chosen — 
 Present Blessings — Endurance, the Christian's portion — Affliction a School 
 of Comfort — The thought of God, the stay of the Soul — Love the one thing 
 needful — The Power of the Will. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. 
 
 Fasting, a Source of Trial— Life, the Season of Repentance — Apostolic Absti- 
 nence, a Pattern for Christians — Christ's Privations, a Meditation for 
 Christians — Christ the Son of God made Man — The Incarnate Son, a 
 Sufferer and Sacrifice — The Cross of Christ the Measure of the World — 
 Difficulty of realizing Sacred Privileges — The Gospel Sign addressed to 
 Faith — The Spiritual Presence of Christ in the Church — The Eucharistic 
 Presence — Faith the Title for Justification — Judaism of the present day — 
 The Fellowship of the Apostles — Rising with Christ— Warfare the Condi- 
 tion of Victory — Waiting for Christ— Subjection of the Reason and Feel- 
 ings to the Revealed Word — The Gospel Palaces — The Visible Temple 
 Offerings for the Sanctuary — The Weapons of Saints — Faith without 
 Demonstration — The Mystery of the Holy Trinity — Peace in Believing. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. VII. 
 
 The Lapse of Time — Religion, a Weariness to the Natural Man — The World 
 our Enemy — The Praise of Men — Temporal Advantages — The Season of 
 Epiphany — The Duty of Self-denial — The Yoke of Christ — Moses the 
 Type of Christ — The Crucifixion — Attendance on Holy Communion— 
 The Gospel Feast — Love of Religion, a new Nature — Religion pleasant 
 to the Religious — Mental Prayer — Infant Baptism — The Unity of the 
 Church — Steadfastness in the Old Paths. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. 
 
 Reverence in Worship— Divine Calls— The Trial of Saul— The Call of David- 
 Curiosity a Temptation to Sin — Miracles no remedy for Unbelief — Josiah, 
 a Pattern for the Ignorant — Inward Witness to the Truth of the Gospel — 
 Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed— Endurance of the World's Cen- 
 sure — Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World — Vanity of Human 
 Glory — Truth hidden when not sought after — Obedience to God the Way 
 to Faith in Christ — Sudden Conversions — The Shepherd of our Souls — 
 Religious Joy — Ignorance of Evil. 
 
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52 
 
 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 NEWMAN'S PAROCHIAL AND PLAIN SERMONS— 
 Continued. 
 
 " Dr. Newman: 's sermons stand by 
 themselves in modern English litera- 
 ture ; it might be said, in English 
 literature generally. There have been 
 equally great masterpieces of English 
 writing in this form of composition, 
 and there have been preachers whose 
 theological depth, acquaintance with 
 the heart, earnestness, tenderness, and 
 power have not been inferior to his. 
 But the great writers do not touch, 
 pierce, and get hold of minds as he 
 does, and those who are famous /or the 
 power and results of their preaching 
 do not write as he does" — Saturday 
 Review. 
 
 " They are undeniably models of 
 style in writing of the most faultless 
 kind. As addresses to a miscellane- 
 ous multittide they would have been 
 failures ; but as addresses to a cul- 
 tivated audience of university students 
 and tutors they are without a rival." 
 — Pall Mall Gazette. 
 
 " We have said nothing of the ex- 
 quisite manner of these sermons, the 
 manner of a mind at once tender and 
 holy, at once loving and austere, at 
 07ice real and dramatic, at once fill of 
 insight into human nature and full of 
 the humility which springs from a 
 higher source." — Spectator. 
 
 " We anticipate from the reappear- 
 ance of the series a large measure 
 of good both to the Church and to 
 individuals ; for Dr. Newman's in- 
 fluence as a teacher was, in his Oxford 
 days, almost unrivalled." — Church 
 Times. 
 
 "In reading these sermons, it is 
 impossible to withhold one's high ad- 
 niirat.on for the many fine qualities 
 which they display : — plain, unam- 
 biguous statement of Christian doc- 
 trine according to the preacher's 
 view of it, — practical application of 
 Church dogmas to indiviaual life, 
 character and conduct, — instructive 
 exposition of Scripture, all conveyed 
 in a faultless style and with well-sus- 
 tained eloqueyice." — Nonconformist. 
 
 " These Sermons may still do much 
 good; and we thank the publishers 
 and editor for the spirit— for it re- 
 quired some — to do this service to reli- 
 gion."" — Christian Remembrancer. 
 
 " Sermon-writers cannot do better 
 than study the clear, sharp, polished, 
 and yet simple style i?i which the mean- 
 ing of the once great A nglican preacher 
 is conveyed." — English Churchman. 
 
 " The modest a7id extensive erudi- 
 tion, the large and exact information, 
 the chaste and finished style, and the 
 deep and serious earnestness which com- 
 bined to give such freshness and force 
 to his spoken discourses, reappear i?i 
 many of the noble and edijying ser- 
 ?uous now before us." — Watchman. 
 
 " Few theologians go as deep as Dr. 
 New7nan a7id ca7'ry with the7n the 
 sa7ne lucidity of thought a7id la7iguage . 
 hi this poi7it, as well as in others, his 
 ser77ions 77iight%vell be taken as a model 
 for a pulpit style, even by those who 
 are 7iot always disposed to follow hi77i 
 i7i his theology." — Glasgow Daily 
 Herald. 
 
 Lectures on the Doctrine of Justifica- 
 tion. By John Henry Newman, B.D., sometime Fellow 
 of Oriel College, Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Faith considered as the Instrument of Justification — Love considered as the 
 Formal Cause of Justification — Primary Sense of the term Justification — 
 Secondary Senses of the term Justification — Misuse of the term Just or 
 Righteous — On the Gift of Righteousness — The Characteristics of the 
 Gift of Righteousness — Righteousness viewed as a Gift and as a Quality — 
 Righteousness the Fruit of our Lord's Resurrection — The Office of Justify- 
 ing Faith — The Nature of Justifying Faith— Faith viewed relatively to 
 Rites and Works — On preaching the Gospel — Appendix. 
 
 82iaterkia $Iace, Eonbon 
 
Sermons 53 
 
 Sermons Bearing upon Subjects of the 
 
 DAY. By John Henry Newman, B.D., sometime Fellow 
 of Oriel College, Oxford. Edited by the Rev. W. J. 
 Copeland, B.D., Rector of Farnham, Essex. New Edition. 
 Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Work of the Christian — Saintliness not forfeited by the Penitent — Our 
 Lord's Last Supper and His First — Dangers to the Penitent — The Three 
 Offices of Christ — Faith and Experience — Faith and the World— The 
 Church and the World — Indulgence in Religious Privileges — Connection 
 between Personal and Public Improvement — Christian Nobleness — Joshua, 
 a Type of Christ and His Followers — Elisha, a Type of Christ and His 
 Followers — The Christian Church a continuation of the Jewish — The 
 Principle of continuity between the Jewish and Christian Churches — The 
 Christian Church an Imperial Power — Sanctity the Token of the Christian 
 Empire — Condition of the Members of the Christian Empire — The Apos- 
 tolical Christian — Wisdom and Innocence — Invisible Presence of Christ — 
 Outward and Inward Notes of the Church — Grounds for Steadfastness in 
 our Religious Profession — Elijah the Prophet of the Latter Days — Feast- 
 ing in Captivity — The Parting of Friends. 
 
 "They exhibit all the writer's by a divine whom all men of all creeds 
 
 incisiveness, force of analogy, and delight to honour." — Daily Tele- 
 
 wide acquaintance with Scripture." graph. 
 
 — Church Review. " The pure coinage of a powerful 
 
 " Apart from the surpassing literary brain, acting tinder the impulses of 
 
 merits of these discourses, they are a7i enthusiastic, earnest, and highly 
 
 memorable as the last words spoken conscientious heart."— The Rock. 
 from the pulpit of the English Church 
 
 Fifteen Sermons preached before the 
 
 University of Oxford, between a.d. 1826 and 1843. By John 
 Henry Newman, B.D., sometime Fellow of Oriel College, 
 Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5^. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Philosophical Temper first enjoined by the Gospel — The Influence of Natural 
 and Revealed Religion respectively — Evangelical Sanctity the Perfection 
 of Natural Virtue — The Usurpations of Reason— Personal Influence, the 
 means of Propagating the Truth — Our Justice, as a Principle of Divine 
 Governance — Contest between Faith and Light — Human Responsibility, 
 as Independent of Circumstances — Wilfulness the Sin of Saul — Faith and 
 Reason, contrasted as Habits of Mind — The Nature of Faith in Relation 
 to Reason— Love the Safeguard of Faith against Superstition — Implicit 
 and Explicit Reason — Wisdom, as contrasted with Faith and with Bigotry 
 — The Theory of Developments in Religious Doctrine, 
 
 antj at ffixfori ani ©am&rfoge 
 
54 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Sermons Preached on Different Occa- 
 sions. By Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Dean of 
 Norwich. Fourth Edition. Small 8vo. 6s. 6tl. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Confession, and the Doctrine of the English Church thereupon — The Moral 
 Instincts which lead Men to the Confessional — Pure Religion and Unde- 
 filed — God Keeping and Breaking Silence — The Kingdom that comes not 
 with Observation — Jacob's Dream — The contagious Influence of Faithful 
 Prophesying — Final Impenitence — Final Impenitence exemplified — The 
 Goodness and Severity of God as Manifested in the Atonement — Remedy, 
 the only Form of Doing Good — The Search after Wisdom — The Grounds 
 of True Patriotism — Christ Wielding the Keys of Death and of the World 
 unseen — The Revelation of the Triune God and its Diffusion — The 
 Dispensations — Learning a requisite for the Ministry of the Present Day 
 — Human Instrumentality employed in Man's Salvation — The Stolen Testi- 
 mony — The Building up of the Family — On Preaching Christ Crucified — 
 Have Salt in Yourselves — The Last Sunday of 1861. 
 
 Farewell Counsels of a Pastor to his 
 
 Flock, on Topics of the Day. By Edward Meyrick Goul- 
 burn, D.D., Dean of Norwich. Third Edition. Small 8vo. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Absolution— Ritualism — The Doctrine of the Eucharist— The Atonement— The 
 Stability of an Orthodox Faith — The Stability of Personal Religion — 
 On Preaching Christ Crucified — The Responsibility of Hearers. 
 
 Warnings of the Holy Week, &c. Being 
 
 a Course of Parochial Lectures for the Week before Easter 
 and the Easter Festivals. By the Rev. W. Adams, M.A., 
 Author of "Sacred Allegories," &c. Seventh Edition. 
 Small 8vo. 4s. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Warning given at Bethany — The Warning of the Day of Excitement — The 
 Warning of the Day of Chastisement— The Warning of the Fig Tree — The 
 Warning of Judas — The Warning of Pilate— The Warning of the Day of 
 Rest — The Signs of Our Lord's Presence — The Remedy for Anxious 
 Thoughts— Comfort under Despondency. 
 
 OTaterIo0 place, ILotrton 
 
Sermons 55 
 
 The Catholic Sacrifice. Sermons Preached 
 
 at All Saints, Margaret Street. By the Rev. Berdmore 
 
 Compton, M. A., Vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street. Crown 
 
 8vo. 5j. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Eucharistic Life — The Sacrifice of Sweet Savour — The Pure Offering — 
 The Catholic Oblation — The Sacrificial Feast — The Preparation for the 
 Eucharist — The Introductory Office — The Canon— Degrees of Apprehen- 
 sion—The Fascination of Christ Crucified — The Shewbread — Consecra- 
 tion of Worship and Work — Water, Blood, Wine — The Blood of Sprinkling 
 — The Mystery of Sacraments— The Oblation of Gethsemane — Offertory 
 and Tribute Money. 
 
 The Sayings of the Great Forty Days, 
 
 between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the 
 Outlines of the Kingdom of God. In Five Discourses. With 
 an Examination of Dr. Newman's Theory of Development. 
 By George Moberly, D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Fifth 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
 Plain Sermons, preached at Brighstone. 
 
 By George Moberly, D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Third 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. $s. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Except a Man be Born again— The Lord with the Doctors— The Draw-Net— I 
 will lay me down in Peace — Ye have not so learned Christ — Trinity 
 Sunday — My Flesh is Meat indeed — The Corn of Wheat dying and multi- 
 plied — The Seed Corn springing to new Life — I am the Way, the Truth, 
 and the Life — The Ruler of the Sea — Stewards of the Mysteries of God— 
 Ephphatha — The Widow of Nain — Josiah's Discovery of the Law — The 
 Invisible World : Angels— Prayers, especially Daily Prayers — They all with 
 one consent began to make excuse — Ascension Day — The Comforter — The 
 Tokens of the Spirit — Elijah's Warning, Fathers and Children — Thou 
 shalt see them no more for ever — Baskets full of Fragments — Harvest — The 
 Marriage Supper of the Lamb — The Last Judgment. 
 
 Sermons preached at Winchester Col- 
 lege. By George Moberly, D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. 
 2 Vols. Small 8vo. 6s. 6d. each. Sold separately. 
 
 anS at ©ifotl ani Cambridge 
 
56 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Sermons. By Henry Melvill, B.D., late 
 
 Canon of St. Paul's, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. 
 New Edition. 2 Vols. Crown 8vo. 5^. each. Sold separately. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
 
 The First Prophecy — Christ the Minister of the Church — The Impossibility of 
 Creature-Merit — The Humiliation of the Man Christ Jesus — The Doctrine 
 of the Resurrection viewed in connection with that of the Soul's Im- 
 mortality — The Power of Wickedness and Righteousness to reproduce 
 themselves — The Power of Religion to strengthen the Human Intellect — 
 The Provision made by God for the Poor — St. Paul, a Tent-Maker — The 
 Advantages of a state of Expectation — Truth as it is in Jesus — The Dif- 
 ficulties of Scripture. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL II. 
 
 Jacob's Vision and Vow — The continued Agency of the Father and the Son — The 
 Resurrection of Dry Bones — Protestantism and Popery — Christianity a 
 Sword — The Death of Moses — The Ascension of Christ — The Spirit upon 
 the Waters — The Proportion of Grace to Trial— Pleading before the Moun- 
 tains — Heaven — God's Way in the Sanctuary. 
 
 " Every one who can remember the if I be lifted up, will draw all men to 
 
 days whe?i Canon Melvill was the Me.'" — Record. 
 
 preacher of the day, will be glad to see "Messrs. Rivington have published 
 tJiesefour-a7id-twe7ityofhissermo7isso very opportunely, at a time when 
 7iicely reproduced. His Ser77i07is were Church77ie7i are thi7iki7ig with satis- 
 all the res?ilt of real study a7id ge7iui7ie factio7i of the new blood i7ifused into 
 readi7ig,withfar77iore theology inthe77i the Chapter of St. Paul's, Ser7no7is by 
 tha7i those of 77ia7iy who make much He7iry Melvill, who i7i his day was as 
 77iore professio7i of theology . There are celebrated as a preacher as is Ca7W7i 
 ser77i07is here which we ca7i perso7ially Liddonnow. The ser77W7is are not 07ily 
 remember ; it has been a pleasure to us couched i7i elega7it la7iguage , but are re- 
 to be re7ninded of them, a7id we are plete with 7natter which the younger 
 glad to see them brought before the pre- clergy would do well to study.''' — John 
 sent generatio7i. We hope that they Bull. 
 
 77iay be studied, for they deserve it " Few preachers have had more ad- 
 
 thoroughly ." — Literary Churchman. i7iirers than the Rev. He7iry Melvill, 
 
 " The Sermo7is of Ca7ion Melvill, a7id the 7iew edition of his Ser77W7is, 
 
 now republished t7i two ha7idy volu>7ies, 171 two volumes t will doubtless fi7id 
 
 need 07ily to be 7nentio7ied to be sure of ple7ity of purchasers. The Sermons 
 
 a hearty welco77ie. Sou7id Iear7ii7ig, abou7id in thought, a7id the thojtghts 
 
 well-weighed words, calm and kee7i are co7iched i7i E7iglish which is at 
 
 logic, a7id solem7i devo7it7iess, 77iark 07ice elega7it i7i co7istructio7i a7id easy 
 
 the whole series of 77iasterly disco7crses, to read." — Church Times. 
 
 which embrace so77ie oj the chief doc- . . . . "As they are 77iodels of 
 
 trines of the Church, a7id set the77i forth their particular style of oratory, they 
 
 i7i clear a7id Scriptural stre7igth." — will be variable helps to yoiuig preach- 
 
 Standard. erf."— Union Review. 
 
 " It would be easy to quote portio7is " H e7iry M elvill' s intellect was large, 
 
 of exceeding beauty a7id power. It was his i7uagi7iation brilliant, his ardour 
 
 7iot, however, the char7ii of style, 7ior i7ite7ise, a7id his style st7-07ig, fervid, 
 
 wealth of words, both which Ca7i07i a7id picturesque. Ofte7i he see77/ed to 
 
 M 'elvill possessed hi so great abu7ida7ice, glow with the i7ispiratio7i of a prophet. " 
 
 that he relied 071 to win souls ; but the — American Quarterly Church Re- 
 
 power a7ui spirit of II i77i Who said, 'I, view. 
 
 JUatetkia ^lace, ILontion 
 
Sermons 
 
 57 
 
 Sermons on Certain of the Less 
 
 Prominent Facts and References in Sacred Story. By Henry 
 Melvill, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul's, and Chaplain in 
 Ordinary to the Queen. New Edition. 2 Vols. Crown 8vo. 
 5-r. each. Sold separately. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
 The Faith of Joseph on his Death-bed — Angels as Remembrancers — The Burning 
 of the Magical Books — The Parting Hymn — Caesar's Household — The 
 Sleepless Night—The Well of Bethlehem— The Thirst of Christ— The 
 second Delivery of the Lord's Prayer — Peculiarities in the Miracle in the 
 Coasts of Decapolis — The Latter Rain — The Lowly Errand — Nehemiah 
 before Artaxerxes — Jabez. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
 The Young Man in the Linen Cloth — The Fire on the Shore — The Finding the 
 Guest-Chamber— The Spectre's Sermon a truism — Various Opinions— The 
 Misrepresentations of Eve— Seeking, after Finding — The Bird's Nest — 
 Angels our Guardians in trifles — The appearance of failure — Simon the 
 Cyrenian — The power of the Eye— Pilate's Wife — The Examination of 
 Cain. 
 " We are glad to see this new edition on numerous passages of Scripture, 
 of what we have always considered to which he must henceforth read with 
 
 be MelvilVs best sermons, because in 
 them we have his best thoughts. . . . 
 Many of these sermons are the strong- 
 est arguments yet addticed for internal 
 evidence of the veracity of the Scrip- 
 tural narratives. " — Standard. 
 
 greater iutelligejice and greater in- 
 terest tha?i before.'''' — Edinburgh 
 Courant. 
 
 " For skill in developing the 
 significance of the ' less prominent 
 facts of Holy Scripture ' no one could 
 
 '* Polished, classical, and winning, compete with the late Canon Melvill, 
 
 these sermons bear the marks of liter- four volumes of whose discourses— 
 
 ary labour. A study of them will aid two of thein occupied entirely with his 
 
 the modern preacher to refine and sermons on subjects of this class — are 
 
 polish his discourses, and to add to the before us. His preaching was unique, 
 
 vigour which is now the fashion, the He selected for the most part texts that 
 
 graces of chastened eloquence and win- are 7iot frequently treated, and when 
 
 ning rhetoric." — English Church- he chose those of a more ordinary char- 
 
 MAN. acter, he generally presented them in 
 
 *' The sermons of the lamented Mel- new light, and elicited from them some 
 
 vill are too well known to require any truth which would not have suggested 
 
 commendation from us. We have here itself to a?iy other preacher. He was 
 
 all the power of rhetoric, and the grace singularly ingenious in some of his 
 
 and beauty of style, for which the conceptions, and wonderfully forcible 
 
 author has been distinguished, and and impressive in his mode of develop- 
 
 which have contributed to render him ing and applying them.' 1 '' — Noncon- 
 
 a model to preacJiers, and given him formist. 
 
 a representative position in the history " The publishers of these well-known, 
 
 of the English pulpit." — Weekly Re- almost classic sermons, have conferred 
 
 view. a boon on all lovers of our pulpit liter- 
 
 * Unusually interesting .... ature by this beautiful, portable edition 
 
 No o?ie can read these sermons without of some of the most brilliant and origi- 
 
 deriving instruction from them, with- nal discourses that have bee7i delivered 
 
 out being compelled to acknowledge to this ge?ieration." — British Quar- 
 
 that new light has been cast for him terly Review. 
 
 anti at ©ifoti atti GTambrttirjc 
 
58 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Selection from the Sermons preached 
 
 during the Latter Years of his Life, in the Parish Church of 
 Barnes, and in the Cathedral of St. Paul's. By Henry 
 Melvill, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul's, and Chaplain in 
 Ordinary to the Queen. New Edition. 2 Vols. Crown 8vo. 
 55". each. Sold separately. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
 
 The Parity of the consequences of Adam's Transgression and Christ's Death — 
 The Song of Simeon — The Days of Old — Omissions of Scripture — The 
 Madman in Sport — Peace, Peace, when there is no Peace — Avery ovely 
 Song — This is that King Ahaz — Ariel — New Wine and Old Bottles — 
 Demas — Michael and the Devil — The Folly of Excessive Labour — St. 
 Paul at Philippi — Believing a Lie — The Prodigal Son — The Foolishness 
 of Preaching — Knowledge and Sorrow — The Unjust Steward — The Man 
 born blind. 
 
 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
 
 Rejoicing as in Spoil — Satan a Copyist — The binding the Tares nto 
 Bundles — Two walking together — Agreeing with the Adversary' — God 
 speaking to Moses — Hoping in Mercy — Faith as a Grain of Mustard 
 Seed — Mary's Recompense — War in Heaven — Glory into Shame — The 
 Last Judgment — Man like to Vanity — God so Loved the World— Saul — 
 And what shall this Man do? — The Sickness and Death of Elisha — Abiding 
 in our. Callings — Trinity Sunday. 
 
 "The main characteristics of Canon MelvilVs sermons contain forty 
 
 Canon MelvilVs sermons are these — discourses preached by him in his later 
 
 they are not polemical ; the odium theo- years, and they are prefaced by a short 
 
 logicum is nowhere to be found in them, memoir of one of the -worthiest and 
 
 a7id nowhere is the spirit of true Chris- most impressive preacJters of recent 
 
 tian charity and love absent from them, times. " — Examiner. 
 This will widen their usefulness ; for " Many years have now elapsed since 
 
 tltey will on this accoiait 7nake a ready we first heard He?iry Melvill. But 
 
 way amongst all sects arid creeds of we can still recall the text, the sermon, 
 
 Professing Christians. Again, these the deep impression rnade upon us by 
 
 sermons are eminently practical and the impassio?ied eloquence of the great 
 
 devotional in their tone and aim. The preacher. It was our first, and very 
 
 truths here proclaimed pierce the heart profitable experience of what influence 
 
 to its very core, so true is the preacher* 's there resides in the faithful preaching 
 
 aim, so vigorous is the force with which of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 
 he shoots the convictions of his own For while it was impossible to be in- 
 
 Jie art into the hearts of his hearers." different to the messenger, yet the 
 
 — Standard. message was brought home by him to 
 
 " There are in the sermons before the heart and to the conscience. It is 
 
 us all MelvilVs wonted grace of die- pleasant in these, the latest sermons 
 
 tion, strength of reasoning, and aptness delivered by Mr. Melvill, to f rid the 
 
 of illustration. " — Weekly Review. same faithful utterance. " — Christian 
 
 " Two other volumes of the late Observer. 
 
 OTatetloo place, 3Lontion 
 
Sermons 59 
 
 Lectures delivered at St. Margaret's, 
 
 Lothbury. By the Rev. Henry Melvill, B.D., late Canon 
 of St. Paul's, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. New 
 Edition. Crown 8vo. 5-r. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 The Return of the Dispossessed Spirit— Honey from the Rock — Easter— The 
 Witness in Oneself — The Apocrypha — A Man a Hiding-place — The 
 Hundredfold Recompense— The Life more than Meat — Isaiah's Vision- - 
 St. John the Baptist — Building the Tombs of the Prophets — Manifestation 
 of the Sons of God — St. Paul's Determination — The Song of Moses and 
 the Lamb — The Divine Longsuffering — Sowing the Seed — The Great 
 Multitude — The Kinsman Redeemer — St. Barnabas — Spiritual Decline. 
 
 Sermons on Si3ecial Occasions. By 
 
 Daniel Moore, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, 
 and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington. Crown 8vo. Js. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Words of Christ imperishable — The Gospel Welcome — The Conversion of 
 St. Paul — The Christian's Mission — Business and Godliness — Soberness 
 and Watchfulness — The Joy of the Disciples at the Resurrection — The 
 Saviour's Ascension — Jesus in the Midst — The Moral Attractions of the 
 Cross — The Gospel Workmen — The Work of the Holy Spirit — The Doc- 
 trine of the Holy Trinity — The Law of Moral Recompenses — The Goodness 
 of King Joash — The Tenderness of Christ — Christ our Example in Youth 
 — Jacob in Life and in Death— The Spiritual Mind — Britain's Obligations 
 to the Gospel — The Throne in Mourning — Prayer and Providence — The 
 Unsearchableness of God. 
 
 The Age and the Gospel; Four Ser- 
 mons preached before the University of Cambridge, at the 
 Hulsean Lecture, 1864. With a Discourse on Final Retribu- 
 tion. By Daniel Moore, M. A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the 
 Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington. Crown 8vo. 
 5* 
 
 ani at ©xfcrtJ ani (Jantirfoge 
 
60 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 Sermons preached before the Uni- 
 versity of Oxford, and on various occasions. By J. B. Mozley, 
 D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford, and Canon of 
 Christ Church. 8vo. ios. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Roman Council — The Pharisees— Eternal Life — The Reversal of Human 
 Judgment — War — Nature — The Work of the Spirit on the Natural Man 
 — The Atonement — Our Duty to Equals — The Peaceful Temper — The 
 Strength of Wishes — The unspoken Judgment of Mankind — The true test 
 of Spiritual Birth — Ascension Day — Gratitude — The Principle of Emula- 
 tion — Religion the First Choice — The Influence of Dogmatic Teaching on 
 Education. 
 
 The Mystery of the Temptation : a 
 
 Course of Lectures. By the Rev. W. H. Hutchings, M.A., 
 Sub-Warden of the House of Mercy, Clewer. Crown 8vo. 
 4-f. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 The Entrance into the Temptation — The Fast— The Personality of Satan— 
 The First Temptation — The Second Temptation — The Third Temptation 
 —The End of the Temptation. 
 
 " We can mention with unmixed has always been a characteristically 
 
 praise a series of lectures on 1 The Mys- Anglican virtue has not failed in a 
 
 teryofthe Temptation,' by Mr. Hutch- preacher like Mr. Hutchings." — Aca- 
 
 ings of Clewer. They are deeply demy. 
 
 thoughtful, full, and well-written, in a " Students of Scripture will find in 
 
 style which, from its calmness and ' The Mystery of the Temptation ' 
 
 dignity, befits the subject." — Guar- sound reasoning, the evidences of close 
 
 DiAN. study, and the spirit of 7-evere7ice and 
 
 " This book is one of the refreshing fervent faith." — Morning Post. 
 
 proofs still occasionally met with that " This is a volume of lectures which 
 
 the traditional culture and refinemefit will repay serious study. They are 
 
 of the Anglican clergy is not quite ex- earnest to the last degree." — Literary 
 
 hausted, nor its exhaustion implied, Churchman, 
 
 by the endless and 7>ulgar controversies "Very good indeed." — New York 
 
 that fill the columns of religious news- Church Journal. 
 papers. The sober earnestness that 
 
 The Soul in its Probation: Sermons 
 
 Preached at the Church of S. Alban the Martyr, Holborn, 
 on the Sundays in Lent, 1873. By the Rev. F. N. Oxenham, 
 M.A. 8vo. 5 j. 
 
 Waterloo $lace, ILonlum 
 
Sermons 61 
 
 The Eeligion of the Christ : its His- 
 toric and Literary Development considered as an Evidence of 
 its Origin. Being the Bampton Lectures for 1874. By the 
 Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A., Minister of St. Philip's, 
 Regent Street, and Professor of Hebrew, King's College, 
 London. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. >]s. 6d. 
 
 11 These lectures are a noble contri- " His Bampton Lectures are perhaps 
 
 bution to the evidences of the Christian the most suggestive and elaborate of 
 
 faith. " — BritishQuarterlvReview. all his productions, and would of them- 
 
 " Admirably adapted to meet some of selves win for him a high position as a 
 
 the foremost objections wliich are now writer on Christian evidence." — Free- 
 
 being brought against ' the divine au- man. 
 
 thority of tJie Holy ScripUires.' We " The preface, in which Mr. Leathes 
 
 earnestly recommend our readers to sums up the arguments in his hccid 
 
 buy the book for themselves." — Liter- way, which are 7nore elaborately drawn 
 
 ary Churchman. out in the Lectures, is o?ie of the finest 
 
 "A volume which ought to take its specimens of clear, candid, temperate 
 
 place beside the best standard works 071 reasoni?ig in modern literature.'" — 
 
 the evidences of Christianity — a kind New York Independent. 
 
 of literature in which the Church of " With thoughtful minds it will 
 
 England is peculiarly rich."— Scots- carry great weight." — New York 
 
 man. Churchman. 
 
 The Witness of the Old Testament to 
 
 Christ. Being the Boyle Lectures for the year 1868. By the 
 Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A., Minister of St. Philip's, 
 Regent Street, and Professor of Hebrew, King's College, 
 London. 8vo. gs. 
 
 The Witness of St. Paul to Christ. 
 
 Being the Boyle Lectures for 1869. With an Appendix on 
 he Credibility of the Acts, in Reply to the Recent Strictures 
 of Dr. Davidson. By the Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A., 
 Minister of St. Philip's, Regent Street, and Professor of 
 Hebrew, King's College, London. 8vo. 10s. 6<f. 
 
 The Witness of St. John to Christ. 
 
 Being the Boyle Lectures for 1870. With an Appendix on 
 the Authorship and Integrity of St. John's Gospel, and the 
 Unity of the Johannine Writings. By the Rev. Stanley 
 Leathes, M.A., Minister of St. Philip's, Regent Street, and 
 Professor of Hebrew, King's College, London. 8vo. ior. 6d. 
 
 anli at ©xfort anti (Jamtivitige 
 
62 Rivington's Select Catalogue 
 
 The Permanence of Christianity. Con- 
 sidered in Eight Lectures preached before the University of 
 Oxford, in the year 1872, on the Foundation of the late Rev. 
 John Bampton, M.A. By John Richard Turner Eaton, 
 M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Rector of 
 Lapworth, Warwickshire. 8vo. 12.?. 
 
 Short Sermons on the Psalms in their 
 
 Order. Preached in a Village Church. By W. J. Stracey, 
 M.A., Rector of Oxnead, and Vicar of Buxton, Norfolk, for- 
 merly Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge. Crown 8vo. 
 
 Vol. L— Psalms I— XXV. 5* 
 Vol. II.— Psalms XXVI— LI. $s. 
 
 Twelve Addresses at his Visitation 
 
 of the Cathedral and Diocese of Lincoln, in the year 
 mdccclxxiii. By Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., Bishop of 
 Lincoln. Crown 8vo. 3J. 6d. 
 
 The Church of England and the 
 
 Maccabees ; or, The History of the Maccabees considered 
 with reference to the Present Condition and Prospects of the 
 Church. Two Sermons. By Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., 
 Bishop of Lincoln. Second Edition. Small 8vo. is. 
 
 The Home Life of Jesus of Nazareth, 
 
 and other Sermons. By the Rev. Augustus Gurney, M.A., 
 Vicar of Wribbenhall, Kidderminster. Crown 8vo. 5^. 
 
 TOaUrloa place, ILonfcon 
 
Sermons 63 
 
 The Perfect Man ; or, Jesus an Example 
 
 of Godly Life. By the Rev. Harry Jones, M.A., Rector 
 of S. George-in-the-East. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 
 
 Life in the World; being a Selection 
 
 from Sermons preached at S. Luke's, Berwick Street. By 
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 CONTENTS. 
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 Practical Religion— The Memory of the Just — The Remembrance of Sin 
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 Forming a Volume of "Keys to Christian Knowledge." 
 
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 &c. &c. By the Rev. John Henry Blunt, M.A., F.S.A., 
 Editor of "The Annotated Book of Common Prayer," &c. &c. 
 New Edition. Small 8vo. 3^. 6c/. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 The Bible— The Prayer Book— The Church— Table of Dates— Ministerial Offices 
 — Divine Worship — The Creeds — A Practical Summary of Christian 
 Doctrine — The Great Christian Writers of Early Times — Ancient and 
 Modern Heresies and Sects— The Church Calendar — A short explanation 
 of Words used in Church History and Theology— Index. 
 
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 Edited by John Pilkington Norms, B.D., Canon of 
 Bristol, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester. 
 
 3 Volumes. Small 8vo. $s. 6d. each. SolcT separately. 
 
 The Old Testament. 
 The New Testament. 
 The Prayer Book. 
 
 Or each Volume in Five Parts, is. each Part. 
 
 [These Manuals are intended to supply a five years' course of instruction for 
 young people between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. 
 
 It will be seen that fifteen small graduated text-books are provided :— 
 
 Five on the Old Testament ; 
 Five on the New Testament ; 
 Five on the Catechism and Liturgy. 
 
 In preparing the last, the Editor has thought it best to spread the study of the 
 Catechism over several years, rather than compress it into one. 
 
 This may give rise to what may appear some needless repetition. But the 
 Lessons of our Catechism are of such paramount importance, that it seems de- 
 sirable to keep it continually in our Pupils' hands, as the best key to the study of 
 the Prayer Book. 
 
 There has been a grievous want of definitoicss in our young people's know- 
 ledge of Church doctrine. Especially have the Diocesan Inspectors noticed it 
 in our Pupil Teachers. It has arisen, doubtless, from their Teachers assuming 
 that they had clear elementary ideas about religion, in which really they had 
 never been grounded. It is therefore thought not too much to ask them to give 
 one-third of their time to the study of the Prayer Book. 
 
 In the Old Testament and New Testament Manuals the greatest pains have 
 been taken to give them such a character as shall render it impossible for them 
 to supersede the Sacred Text. Two main objects the writers of the Old and 
 New Testament Manuals have proposed to themselves; first, to stimulate interest; 
 second, to supply a sort of running commentary on the inspired page. Especial 
 pains have been taken to draw the reader's attention to the spiritual teaching of 
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 The writer of the Old Testament Manual has made it his endeavour to help 
 the reader to see our Lord Christ in Law, in Psalms, in Prophets. 
 
 The New Testament Manual is confined to the Gospels and Acts. It was 
 found impossible to include any of the Epistles. But the Fourth Part of the 
 Prayer Book Manual will in some measure supply this deficiency. 
 
 Although they were originally prepared with special regard to Pupil Teachers, 
 they willl be found adapted also for all students of a like age (from thirteen to 
 eighteen) who have not access to many books.] 
 
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 Biidiments of Theology. A First Book 
 
 for Students. By John Pilkington Norris, B.D., Canon 
 of Bristol, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester. 
 Crown 8vo. Js. 6d. 
 
 " It is altogether a remarkable hook. 
 We have seldom seen clear, incisive 
 reasoning; orthodox teaching, and 
 wide-mindedness in such happy com- 
 bination." — Literary Churchman. 
 
 " A most useful book for theological 
 students in the earlier part of their 
 course. . . . The book is one for 
 which the Church owes a debt of grati- 
 tude to Canon Norris, combining, as 
 it does, orthodoxy and learning, and 
 logical accuracy of definition with real 
 charity. We heartily commend it." — 
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 " We can recommend this book to 
 theological students as a useful and 
 compendious manual. It is clear and 
 well arra?iged. . . . We venture 
 to believe that, on the whole, he is a 
 very fair exponent of the teaching of 
 the English Church, and that his book 
 may be profitably used by those for 
 who in it is chiefly intended — that is, 
 candidates for ordination" — Spec- 
 tator. 
 
 " This is a zvork of real help to can- 
 didates for ordination and to the 
 general student of theology." — Stan- 
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 "An admirable theological text- 
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 to all Churchmen desirous Oj an in- 
 sight into the principles of theology, as 
 well as to that class — candidates for 
 ordination— for wlwm it was specially 
 designed."— Scottish Guardian. 
 
 " This work was prepared as a hand- 
 book for theological students. But it 
 is to reach a far wider field. It is 
 capable of doing a most important ser- 
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 or a clearer presentation of the funda- 
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 given in these pages. . . . The 
 author has the rare faculty — it 
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 and of pre sent i'ng any truth in such a 
 sJiape that the reader can easily take 
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 We commend this ivork to Churchmen 
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 derive profit. To the Clergy it will 
 serve as a model method of dogmatic 
 teaching, and to the laity it will be a 
 rich storehouse of information con- 
 cerning the things to be believed. . . . 
 The whole thing is so admirable in- 
 tone, arrangement, and style that it 
 will, no doubt, beco?ne universally 
 popular." — Churchman- (New York). 
 
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 Diocesan Inspector of Schools for the Archdeaconry of Surrey. 
 (Recommended by the late and present Lord Bishops of Win- 
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Allegories and Tales 71 
 
 The First Chronicle of ^Escendnne. 
 
 A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan. By the Rev. A. D. 
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 Author of the " History of the Church under the Roman 
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 times." — John Bull. careful attention to the best authorities 
 
 " We shall be glad when Mr. Crake on tJie history of the period of which he 
 
 takes tip his pett once juore, to give us treats." — National Church. 
 
 a further instalment of the annals of " The facts upon which the Chronicle 
 
 the House of jEscendune." — Church is based have been carefully brought 
 
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 Alfgar the Dane, or the Second Chron- 
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 story of a life singularly full of nobil- des Beaux-Arts (Paris). 
 
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 worthily told." — Spectator. exalted aims, and crowned by no small 
 
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 untimely memorial to a man who fine pieces of criticism in this book, — 
 
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 — Saturday Review. the clear wit of the ma?i, his candour. 
 
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 beyojid most others from a?iy coarse- 
 ness of touch. It wo 71 Id be difficult to 
 fi)id ' the simplicity and purity of a 
 holy life ' more exquisitely illustrated 
 than in Father Besson 's career, both 
 before and after his joining the Domi- 
 nican Order under the auspices of 
 Lacordaire. . . . Certainly we have 
 never come across what could viore 
 strictly be terjned in the truest sense 
 - the life of a beaittiful soidf The 
 author has done well in preseutmg to 
 English readers this singularly grace- 
 ful biography, in which all who can ap- 
 preciate genuine simplicity and noble- 
 ness of Christian character will find 
 niucJi to adniire a?id little or nothing 
 to condemn." —Saturday Review. 
 
 " It would indeed have bee7i a de- 
 plorable omissio7i had so exquisite a 
 biography bee7i by a7iy 7ieglect lost to 
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 so perfect in its si77iple a7id co77iplete 
 devotio7i been withheld from our 
 
 admiratio7i But we have 
 
 dwelt too lo7ig already 07i thisfascinat- 
 i7ig book, aiid 77iust7iow leave it to our 
 readers.' 1 '' — Literary Churchman. 
 
 " A beautiful a7id 77iost i7iteresti7ig 
 sketch of the late Pere Besso7i, an 
 
 artist who forsook the easel for the 
 altar."— Church Times. 
 
 " Whatever a reader i7iay thi7ik of 
 Pere Besso7i's professio7i as a mo7ik, 
 7io 07ie will doubt his good7iess ; 7io 07ie 
 ca7i fail to profit who will patie7itly 
 read his life, as here writte7i by a 
 frie7id, whose sole defect is in bet7ig 
 slightly unctuous. " — Athenjeum. 
 
 " The life of the Rev. Pere Bessoti, 
 who gave up a7i artist's career, to 
 which he was devotedly attached, 
 a7id a 77iother whose affectio7ifor hii7i 
 is 7iot i7iaptly like7ied to that of 
 Mo7iica for St. Augustine, must be 
 read in its e7itirety to be rightly 
 appreciated. A7id the whole te7iour 
 o/ the book is too devotio7ial, too full of 
 expressions of the 77iost touchi7ig de- 
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 possible, eve7i if it was called for, 
 which it is not" — John Bull. 
 
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 simplicity, ca7idour, a7id good fee ling. " 
 — Spectator. 
 
 " A beautiful book, describi7ig the 
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 of 07ie of the co7npa7iio7is of Lacor- 
 daire." — Monthly Packet. 
 
 ' ' We stro7igly reco7n77ie7id it to our 
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 that will delight a7id edify both old a7id 
 young." — Westminster Gazette. 
 
 The Life of Madame Louise de France, 
 
 Daughter of Louis XV. , also known as the Mother Terese de 
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 New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
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 gard as the worst age of Fre7ich godless- dcvotio7i — of a devotion, too, fiill of 
 
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 and faith, let appearances be what they trative talent -as any we have ever 
 
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History and Biography 75 
 
 The Eevival of Priestly Life in the 
 
 Seventeenth Century in France : a Sketch. By the Author of 
 " A Dominican Artist," "Life of S. Francis de Sales," &c. 
 Crown 8vo. 9^. 
 
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 tian, to whatever denominatioii he admire." — Standard. 
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 Life of S. Francis cle Sales. By the 
 
 Author of " A Dominican Artist," &c. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
 
 " It is written with the delicacy, fail to please those readers who can 
 freshness, and absence of all affecta- sympathize with all forms of goodness 
 Hon which characterized the former and devotion to noble purpose." — 
 works by the same hand, and which Westminster Review. 
 render these books so very much more "A book which contains the record 
 pleasant reading than are religious of a life as sweet, pure, and noble, as 
 biographies in ge7ieral. The character any man by divine help, granted to 
 of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop of devout sincerity of soul, has been per- 
 Geneva, is a charming one ; a more viitted to live tipon earth. The ex- 
 simple, pure, and pious life it would ample of this gentle but resolute and 
 be difficult to conceive. His wiaffected energetic spirit, wholly dedicated to 
 humility, his freedom from dogmatism the highest conceivable good, offering 
 in an age when dogma was placed itself, with all the temporal uses oj 
 above religion, his freedom frombigotry mental existence , to the service of in- 
 in an age of persecution, were alike finite and eter7ial be?ieficence , is ex- 
 admirable." — Standard. tremely touching. It is a book worthy 
 
 "The author of 'A Dominican of acceptance." — Daily News. 
 
 Artist? in writing this new life of the " It is not a trans latioyi or adapta- 
 
 wise and loving Bishop and Prince of tion, but an original work, and a very 
 
 Geneva, has aimed less at historical charming portrait of one of the most 
 
 or ecclesiastical investigation than at winning characters in the long gallery 
 
 a vivid and natural representation of of Saints. A ud it is a matter oj entire 
 
 the inner mind and life of the subject thankfulness to us to find a distiuc- 
 
 of his biography, as it can be traced in tively Anglican 7vriter setting forward 
 
 his own writings and in those of his the good Bishop 's work among Pro- 
 
 vtost intimate and affectionate friends, testafits, as a true missionary task to 
 
 The book is written with the grave and reclaim souls from deadly error, and 
 
 quiet grace which characterizes the bring them back to the truth" — Union 
 
 productions of its author, and cannot Review. 
 
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 absolute necessity of ( recollectedness' cultivatio7i of the graces with ivhich he 
 
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 priestly life." — Church Review. "It is easy to see that Henri Per- 
 
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 Henri Perreyve form, for the most the Sorbonne, was a Roman Catholic 
 
 Part, a scries of saintly biographies priest of no ordinary type. With com- 
 
 which have obtained a larger share of fiaratively little of what Protestants 
 
 Popularity than is geiierally acco7'ded call superstition, with great courage 
 
 to books of this description. . . . and sincerity, with a naticre singularly 
 
 The description of his last days will guileless and noble, his priestly voca- 
 
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 seuting as it does an exar)ipie of fort i- did not stifle his human sympathies 
 
 tude under suffering, a>id resignation, and aspiratio7is. He could 7wt believe 
 
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 a 7iiuch-coveted a7id useful career, of nounce se7ise a7id reaso7i, i or that a 
 
 rare occurre7ice i7i this age of self priest was 7iot free to speak, act, a7td 
 
 assertion. This is, i7i fact, the esse7i- thi7ik like other men. Indeed, the 
 
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 . . . The tra7islator of the Abbe for his frie7id's free-speaki7ig i7i this 
 
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 E7iglish readers a7i opportwiity of it. Perreyve was the beloved disciple 
 
 profiti7ig by its lesso7is." — Morning of Lacordaire, zvho left him all his 
 
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 i'7ig a beautiful accoiait of a beautiful great pulpit orator." — Pall Mall 
 
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 Life of ' He7iri Perreyve? . . . We 
 
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History and Biography 77 
 
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 Voices of Comfort, edited by T. V. Fosbery . 
 
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