The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Literature -- History and criticism
'Y sino ahí está el Doctor Jorge Bull Profesor de Teología, y
Presbitero de la Iglesia Anglicana, que murió Obispo de San David el
año de 1716, cuyas obras teologico--escolasticas, en folio, nada deben
á las mas alambicadas que se han estampado en Salamanca y en Coimbra;
y como los puntos que por la mayor parte trató en ellas son sobre los
misterios capitales de nuestra Santa Fé, conviene á saber, sobre el
misterio de la Trinidad, y sobre el de la Divinidad de Cristo, en los
cuales su Pseudaiglesia Anglicana no se desvia de la Catolica, en
verdad, que los manejó con tanto nervio y con tanta delicadeza, que
los teologos ortodojos mas escolastizados, como si dijéramos
electrizados, hacen grande estimacion de dichas obras. Y aun en los
dos Tratados que escribió acerca de la Justification, que es punto mas
resvaladizo, en los principios que abrazó, no se separó de los
teologos Catolicos; pero en algunas consecuencias que infirio, ya dió
bastantemente á entender la mala leche que habia mamado.'
Fray. Gerundio. ii. 7. Ed.]
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NOTES ON WATERLAND'S IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY TRINITY.[1]
Chap. I. p. 18.
It is the property of the Divine Being to be unsearchable; and if he
were not so, he would not be divine. Must we therefore reject the most
certain truths concerning the Deity, only because they are
incomprehensible, &c.?
It is strange that so sound, so admirable a logician as Waterland,
should have thought 'unsearchable' and 'incomprehensible' synonymous, or
at least equivalent terms:--and this, though St. Paul hath made it the
privilege of the full-grown Christian, 'to search out the deep things of
God himself'.
Chap. IV. p. 111.
'The delivering over unto Satan' seems to have been a form of
excommunication, declaring the person reduced to the state of a
heathen; and in the Apostolical age it was accompanied with
supernatural or miraculous effects upon the bodies of the persons so
delivered.
Unless the passage, ('Acts' v. 1-11.) be an authority, I must doubt the
truth of this assertion, as tending to destroy the essential
spirituality of Christian motives, and, in my judgment, as
irreconcilable with our Lord's declaration, that his kingdom was 'not of
this world'. Let me be once convinced that St. Paul, with the elders of
an Apostolic Church, knowingly and intentionally appended a palsy or a
consumption to the sentence of excommunication, and I shall be obliged
to reconsider my old opinion as to the anti-Christian principle of the
Romish Inquisition.
Ib. p. 114.
'A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition,
reject; knowing that he that is such, is subverted, and sinneth, being
condemned of himself'.--Tit. iii. 10, 11.
This text would be among my minor arguments for doubting the Paulinity
of the Epistle to Titus. It seems to me to breathe the spirit of a later
age, and a more established Church power.
Ib.
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