THE CHRISTIAN LIFE; ITS COURSE, ITS HINDRANCES, AND ITS HELPS. BY THOMAS ARNOLD, D.D., HEAD MASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL, AND LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. From the Fifth London Edition. 1856. "As far as the principle on which Archbishop Laud and his followers acted went to re-actuate the idea of the church, as a co-ordinate and living power by right of Christ's institution and express promise, I go along with them; but I soon discover that by the church they meant the clergy, the hierarchy exclusively, and then I fly off from them in a tangent. "For it is this very interpretation of the church, that, according to my conviction, constituted the first and fundamental apostasy; and I hold it for one of the greatest mistakes of our polemical divines, in their controversies with the Romanists, that they trace all the corruptions of the gospel faith to the Papacy."--COLERIDGE, _Literary Remains_, vol. iii. p. 386. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. LECTURE I. GEN. iii. 22.--And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. LECTURE II. 1 COR. xiii. 11.--When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. LECTURE III. 1 COR. xiii. 11.--When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. LECTURE IV. COL. i. 9.--We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. LECTURE V. COL. i. 9.--We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. LECTURE VI. COL. iii. 3.--Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. LECTURE VII. 1 COR. iii. 21--23.--All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours, and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. LECTURE VIII. GAL. v. 16, 17.--Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. LECTURE IX. LUKE xiv. 33.--Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. LECTURE X. 1 TIM. i. 9.--The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane. LECTURE XI. LUKE xxi. 36.--Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. LECTURE XII.