Jesus The Son Of Mary, Or, The Doctrine Of The Catholic Church Upon The Incarnation Of God The Son, Considered In Its Bearings Upon The Reverence Shewn By Catholics To his Blessed Mother

Jesus The Son Of Mary, Or, The Doctrine Of The Catholic Church Upon The Incarnation Of God The Son, Considered In Its Bearings Upon The Reverence Shewn...To His Blessed Mother BY REV. JOHN BRANDE MORRIS, PREFACE. IT may seem a bold thing to offer to the English public a Work like the present, which necessarily treats of such doctrinal questions, as may, to those unused to theology, appear intricate and uninteresting. To those who look at the title of this Work with any such prepossession, it may be suggested to read the Second Part of the Work, before they enter upon the speculative portions of the Worlc contained in the First and Third Parts. The Incarnation is a strange and new thing upon the earth the Second Part of this Work deals with this strange thing more as matter of fact than of theory. The other two Parts nlay be said to consider the principles of our Lord and Kings policy in becoming incarnate, not of the stones or of the earth, but of a Woman. The ancients discussed, whether facts or l rincipless hould bc put before people-first and the reader can decide for himself which of the two he should wish to enter upon before the other. In regard to the principles here adopted, the writer has thought himself in all open questions at liberty to adopt those, which seemed the most useful for his immediate purpose without wishing thereby to imply that he himself might, in every single case, adopt them upon further consideration in all defined questions, it is needless to say that he has but one course, and is glad to have but one, left open to him. In the application of any principles, mortals, and especially sinners, may be mistaken but if it is any satisfaction to the reader to know it, the application of the principles not to speak of the principles themselves is of no new date in the authors mind. In the main, that application occurred to him in the year 1845, when he was driven, in making notes to St. Ephrem, to study the doctrine of the Trinity and the Incarnation as stated by the great Petavius a. The mine, therefore, from which the principles here used have been chiefly drawn, is the Fathers. There is yet sufficient reverence for antiquity, to induce one to hope that their statements ill carry some weight with them. In quoting the Scriptures, the Anglican version a It may he worth observing, one has s right to his opinion that Bull earned Elimself a re-but my own impression is, that putat. ion by finding fault wit11 he found fault without sufficient FL single chapter in the huge reason. work of this great man. Every has been sometimes used, where it seemed more likely to tell, and not to be against the Vulgate. Here and there a reference has beell given to works in the library of the beloved Society of which the author was once a member, but to which he has not now access. There are many whose kindness in assisting him to carry out this work, it mould be more pleasant for himself to specify, than he has presumed it would be to themselves not to pass unnoticed he therefore contents himself with a general aclcnowledgment to these. But the kindness of his friend, the Rev. WILLI-AM TVATERTVORToHf Hereford, in reviewing the sheets as they passed through the press, he will, it is hoped, forgive him for thus publicly mentioning. P. ior Park, Rosary Sunday. SUBSCRIBERS. The Most Rev. Paul Cullen, D. D...