GEORGE BELL & SONS. LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY. "Each volume is elegantly printed in royal 8vo., and illustrated with a very large number of well-executed engravings, printed in colours. . . . . They form a complete library of reference on the several subjects to which they are devoted, and nothing more complete in their way has lately appeared."-The Bookseller. BREE'S BIRDS OF EUROPE AND THEIR EGGS, not observed in the British Isles. With 238 beautifully coloured Plates. Five vols. 51. 55. COUCH'S HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. With 256 carefully coloured Plates. Four vols. GATTY'S (MRS. ALFRED) BRITISH SEAWEEDS. rous coloured Illustrations. Two vols. 27. 10s. Nume HIBBERD'S (SHIRLEY) NEW AND RARE BEAUTIFULLEAVED PLANTS. With 64 coloured Full-page Illustrations. Executed expressly for this work. One vol. 1. 55. Eight vols. 67. 6s. Illustrated with 79 coloured 2l. 25. LOWE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND EXOTIC LOWE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES. With 74 finely coloured Plates. One vol. 17. Is. LOWE'S BEAUTIFUL-LEAVED PLANTS: being a description of the most beautiful-leaved Plants in cultivation in this country. With 60 coloured Illustrations. One vol. 17. IS. MORRIS' HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. With 360 finely coloured Engravings. Six vols. 67. 6s. MORRIS' NESTS AND EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS. With 223 beautifully coloured Engravings. Three vols. 37. 35. MORRIS' BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. With 71 beautifully coloured Plates. One vol. 17. Is. MORRIS' BRITISH MOTHS. With coloured Illustrations of nearly 2000 specimens. Four vols. 67. 6s. TRIPP'S BRITISH MOSSES. With 39 coloured Plates, con taining a figure of each species. Two vols. 27. 105. WOOSTER'S ALPINE PLANTS. First Series. With 54 coloured Plates. 255. WOOSTER'S ALPINE PLANTS. Second Series. With 54 coloured Plates. 255. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. STANDARD WORKS PUBLISHED BY GEORGE BELL & SONS. *For List of BOHN'S LIBRARIES see the end of the Volume. LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN DOGMAS: BY DR. AUGUSTUS NEANDER.. EDITED BY DR. J. L. JACOBI. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY J. E. RYLAND, M.A., EDITOR OF FOSTER'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE, AND OF DR. KITTO'S MEMOIRS; THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, ETC., ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. 1 LONDON: BELL & DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1872. BT21 1872 PREFACE. vil NEANDER'S Lectures on the History of Christian Dogmas were among those to which he attached peculiar importance, and which he felt special pleasure in delivering. His hearers will recollect with interest his vivid delineation of the great men whose forms he summoned to pass before them, and how, inspired by the power of Christian life in them, he described sympathetically the course of their development. Elevated himself by the truth and greatness of his ideas, he attracted his hearers into an admiration of their sublimity, and infused into them something of the love for those great minds which filled his own heart. When obliged to animadvert on their defects, he did it earnestly, yet as one who was fully conscious of his own. Neander, in all he performed, ever kept the Ethical in closest connexion with the Scientific. Deep truthfulness was a leading feature of his character; it held him back from wishing to advance Truth itself by disingenuous methods. Of this he gave proof, frequently and plainly, when his conduct was censured (as was often the case, down to a recent period) by those who were imperfectly acquainted with his position, or less scrupulous than himself about the means they employed. It was the truthfulness, also, stamped on his works which inspired confidence, for few Historians were so well qualified to receive and to communicate the Historical with unalloyed receptivity. His method was adapted to excite cautious deliberation, for he clearly marked the respective limits of Probability and Certainty, and when Truth was found he loved to make it fruitful by protracted contemplation; but if genuine Objectivity consists not merely in confidence of assertion but 356 |