Hollowness, Narrowness, and Fear: WARNINGS FROM THE JEWISH CHURCH. THREE LECTURES DELIVERED AT CUDDESDEN IN EMBER-WEEK, SEPT. 1869, BY J. HANNAH, D.C.L. WARDEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, GLENALMOND. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. BODI OXFORD and LONDON: JAMES PARKER AND CO. 1869. TO THE PRINCIPAL, VICE-PRINCIPAL, AND OTHER OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF CUDDESDEN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, THESE LECTURES DELIVERED IN THEIR CHAPEL, AND PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST, ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, WITH THE AUTHOR'S CORDIAL THANKS FOR THE KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION WITH WHICH THEY WERE RECEIVED. LECTURE I. Hollowness. ST. MATTHEW xxiii. 1—3. "Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to His disciples, saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." IT T is impossible to read the solemn warnings of this chapter conscientiously without a strong feeling of misgiving and fear. Picture to yourselves that Christ addressed its burning words of condemnation to the rightful representatives of that ancient Church which God had Himself established in the Jewish nation, for the purpose of receiving His oracles, and guarding His revelation, and passing on the torch of Divine truth from age to age. No claims could possibly be higher, no prestige could be greater, no authority could be more commanding, than that of the Scribes and Pharisees who really sat in Moses' seat, and whose precepts were to be observed even when their practice was emphatically condemned. Their spiritual downfall supplies the leading proof of a principle to which many of the darkest pages of history bear their witness; the |
