Or Bases of Belief concerning Man and God. Price 10s. 6d. SERMONS FOR THE TIMES. · Preached in St. Paul's Cathedral. Price 6s. From the British Quarterly Review, April, 1874: "Sermons for the Times," etc. "Mr. Griffith will be known to some of our readers by his thoughtful and vigorous work on Fundamentals, or Bases of Belief.' He is evangelical in his theology, and apparently free from the taint of sacerdotalism. These sermons transcend the ordinary productions that are published under this term. They are very vigorous, not to say original, in thought. A cultured scholarship pervades them, but is nowhere protruded in them. They are full of devout and earnest religious feeling, and have enough of rhetorical eloquence in their cast to be very effective sermons. They deal with vital questions of the day--the soul, Christ, the Spirit, conscience, moral freedom, prayer, Christ crucified, etc.; not, however, controversially, but affirmatively, and yet both philosophically and scientifically. Mr. Griffith is fully alive to the necessities of modern life and perplexities of modern thought. Far shorter, less scholastic and elaborate, the volume is worthy of standing by the side of Canon Liddon's." From The Inquirer, 30th May, 1874. "Mr. Griffith is already known to us as the author of a work entitled 'Fundamentals, or Bases of Belief,' which was reviewed in these columns about three years ago with marked approval. His Sermons will tend to confirm and extend the reputation he has won as a philosophical thinker. They indicate an aptitude for grasping some of the deeper problems of thought, and a marked taste for the discussion of ethical questions. Correct and elegant in style, they are evidently the productions of a scholarly thinker, who is more anxious to guide his hearers and readers aright than to startle them by ingenious speculations, or bewilder them by novel theories which will not bear the test of time or thorough examination. They are far above the average class of pulpit productions in the amount of closely-packed thought they contain. "One of the characteristics of Mr. Griffith's Sermons is the fulness of apt illustration and quotation by which they are enriched. The extensive attainments of the writer are shown in the felicitous manner in which he uses the choicest thoughts of writers of every age and school. In the first two Sermons alone, for example, we find quotations, either in the text or the notes, from Arnobius, the Iliad,' the Eneid,' Plato, Mr. Gladstone, Statham's From Old to New'-an ultra-Rationalistic work; Milton; John Smith, the Cambridge Platonist; Shakespeare, Burns, Seneca, Augustine, Epictetus, Pythagoras, Cicero, Philo, Archbishop Leighton, Dean Mansel, and Max Müller. "If these Sermons are not so brilliant and imaginative as those of Robertson and Stopford Brooke, so subtle in thought as those of Newman and Pusey, or so rhetorical as those of Liddon, they have distinctive merits of their own in clearness of style and solidity of thought, and a comprehensive estimate of the real essentials of Christianity." STUDIES OF THE DIVINE MASTER. BY THOMAS GRIFFITH, A.M., "I will raise up to them a Prophet like unto thee, and will put my words in his HENRY S. KING & Co., 65, CORNHILL, AND 12, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 1875. "He will teach us of His ways."-Isaiah ii. 3. "This Teacher is the King Messiah."—Kimchi. (All rights reserved.) CH PREFACE. HRISTIAN knowledge comprises in its wide domain the several departments of Historical, Dogmatical, Polemical, Experimental, and Ethical truth. But of the first of these the initial step lies in the historical study of the Founder of our faith; and towards this study the present book offers some help. Yet it does not attempt a complete "Life" of Jesus, but only an outline of such incidents of His public career as formed the occasion, and illustrate the meaning, of His Sayings. And in setting out these Sayings it does not encumber its readers with processes of investigation, but gives only the results of lengthened study. The principle on which this study has been conducted is that of Bishop Ellicott," the interpreting verbally, grammatically, historically, contextually"-by which alone all ancient documents (as indeed all writing and discourse) can be duly apprehended. We must throw ourselves back, as far as possible, on to the point of view at which the writers themselves stood, and from which they looked out on the things they record; we must ask ourselves incessantly, Who wrote? To whom |