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    The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge
    The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge
    The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge
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    The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge

    By B. W. (Berkeley William) Randolph

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge - B. W. (Berkeley William) Randolph

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      Title: The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge

      Author: B. W. Randolph

      Release Date: March 19, 2005 [EBook #15412]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VIRGIN-BIRTH OF OUR LORD ***

      Produced by Michael Madden

      THE VIRGIN-BIRTH OF OUR LORD

      A PAPER READ (IN SUBSTANCE) BEFORE THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY TRINITY AT CAMBRIDGE

      BY

      B. W. RANDOLPH, D.D.

      PRINCIPAL OF ELY THEOLOGICAL, COLLEGE

      HON, CANON OF ELY

      EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN

      Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem: non horruisti

      Virginis uterum.

      LONGMANS, GREEN, AND Co., 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY

      1903

      WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION TO

      VINCENT HENRY STANTON, D.D.

      ELY PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE

      UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

      Dedisti Jesum Christum, Filium tuum unicum, ut . . . pro nobis nasceretur qui, operante Spiritu Sancto, verus Homo factus est ex substantia Virginis Marie matris sue.

      Pref. in Die Nat. Dom.

      PREFACE

      This paper was read before the S. T. C. (Sanctae Trinitatis Confraternitas) on March 10th of this years at one of the ordinary meetings of the Brotherhood. It is published now in the hope that it may thus reach a wider circle.

      To suppose that any one can hold the Catholic doctrine of the Incarnation without believing the miraculous Conception and Birth, is, in the writer's opinion, a delusion. There is no trace in Church History, so far as he is aware, of any believers in the Incarnation who were not also believers in the Virgin-Birth. The modern endeavour to divorce the one from the other appears to be part of the attempt now being made to get rid of the miraculous altogether from Christianity.

      Professor Harnack appears to urge us to accept the Easter message while we need not, he thinks, believe the Easter faith.* He means apparently by this that we can deny the literal fact of our Lord's Resurrection, while we may believe in a future life. What St. Paul would really have said to a Christianity such as this seems to be plain from his words to the Corinthian converts who were denying the Resurrection in his day: If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. (I Cor. xv. 14.)

      — * Harnack, What is Christianity? p. 160. —

      Deny the Resurrection of our Lord, and you take away the key-stone from the Apostolic preaching, and the whole edifice falls to the ground. Any unprejudiced reader of the sermons and speeches of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Acts will surely recognize how true this is.

      Similarly in regard to the human Birth of our Lord. Once admit that He was born as other men, and the Incarnation fades away. A child born naturally of human parents can never be God Incarnate. There can be no new start given to humanity by such a birth. The entail of original sin would not be cut off nor could the Christ so born be described as the Second Adam—the Lord from heaven. Christians could not look to such a one as their Redeemer or Saviour, still less as the Author to them of a new spiritual life.

      Another man would have appeared among men, giving mankind the example of a beautiful human life, but unable in any other way to benefit the race of men. Further, a Christ such as this would not

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