Non-Miraculous Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in the Chapel of ...
Non-Miraculous Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in the Chapel of ...
George Salmon
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Peter's Epistle were su^ested by others in that of St. James, though separately considered the proof would not be decisive. I have spent so much time in laying before you the proofs of the claims that the document which we are considering has to be regarded as belonging to the very earliest age of the Christian Church, that I have left myself but little to dwell on the picture which it repre- sents of the religion of the Church at that time. It must be owned that the specially Christian doctrin...e \ Digitized by Google The Epistle of St. James. 291 appears here in a less developed form than in later inspired writings, and that the teaching has more affinities with that of the Old Testament prophets, and with the teaching of our blessed Lord Himself, than with that of the letters of St. Paul, or even of St, Peter and St. John. It is not, however, unlike that of the dis- courses of St. Peter recorded in the Acts. The phe- nomenon that here presents itself is in accordance with the fact that our Lord did not, during His personal ministry, reveal all the mysteries of His kingdom, but left them to be taught to His Church by the Apostles whom His Spirit was to guide into all the truth.
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