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Title: Gloria Crucis
addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907

Author: J. H. Beibitz

Release Date: January 3, 2008 [eBook #24153]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1908 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

GLORIA CRUCIS

ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
HOLY WEEK AND GOOD FRIDAY, 1907

BY
THE REV. J. H. BEIBITZ, M.A.
VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, LICHFIELD

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1908

_All rights reserved_

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INTRODUCTION

These addresses, delivered in Lichfield Cathedral {0} in Holy Week, 1907,
are published at the request of some who heard them. It has only been
possible to endeavour to reproduce them in substance.

The writer desires to express his obligations to various works from which
he has derived much assistance, such as, above all, Du Bose's _Gospel in
the Gospels_, Askwith's _Conception of Christian Holiness_, Tennant's
_Origin of Sin_, and Jevons' _Introduction to the History of Religion_.

To the first and the last of these he is especially indebted in regard to
the view here taken of the Atonement.

It seems to him that no view of that great and central truth can possibly
be true, which (i) represents it as the result of a transaction between
the Father and the Son, which is ditheism pure and simple; or which (ii)
regards it as intended to relieve us of the penalty of our sins, instead
of having as its one motive, meaning, and purpose the "cure of sinning."

So far as we can see, the results of sin, seen and unseen, in this world
and beyond it, must follow naturally and necessarily from that
constitution of the universe (including human nature) which is the
expression of the Divine Mind. If this is true, and if that Mind is the
Mind of Him Who is Love, then all punishment must be remedial, must have,
for its object and intention at least, the conversion of t