Christianity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from ChristianityThat, like Wesley and most other reformers, Christ first tried to work through the existing religious stitutions is probable: the traditions of his early teaching in synagogues are clear. They may have ten ultimately closed against him, or the crowds ay have swelled so that he could only address them t of doors. We know very little of the mental eases md strugles through which he passed in the irty years preceding his public consecration by tptism to the new kingdom preached by John. But hr that he speaks as one who feels himself member a new society, and by no means reakm Qwfull extent and bearing of the revolution he espoused. He has rebelled against his class, and' taken his place with the humblest religious community, which boasted of the poverty of their prophet, whose food was wild honey and his dress a leathem girdle. Christ is impatient of anything inharmonious with the equality and democracy of the fraternity he has entered. It is curious to peruse the laborious pedigrees by which the gospels try to connect him with royalty, and the homage afterwards paid by the church to his mother, beside the records of his own repudiation of such things. They tell him his mother and brothers stand outside and wish to speak to him but he points to his followers, and will acknowledgl only them as mother and brothers. Blessed is the womb that bare thee l cries a woman, but, with the like impatience, he exclaims N o l blessed are the] who hear the word of God and keep it. There is t strong infusion of the Essene communism in this, ant there are not wanting various early (as I think) utter auces disparaging marriage, in which the celibaq favoured by that society is re¿ected. But this could have only been transitional with him At last he beat his music out - and great music i was. He was no ascetic against whom it was urged This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.