CHURCH AND STATE AS SEEN IN
THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM.
BY
T. W. ALLIES, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
"PER CRUCEM AD LUCEM, THE RESULT OF A LIFE,"
"A LIFE'S DECISION," "JOURNAL IN FRANCE AND LETTERS FROM ITALY," "THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM," ETC.
LONDON: BURNS AND OATES.
1882.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PROLOGUE.
PAGE
The Kingdom as Prophesied and as Fulfilled, xix
CHAPTER I.
Relation Between the Civil and the Spiritual Powers from Adam to Christ.
1. The Divine and the Human Society, founded in Adam, refounded in Noah. The origin of man, of woman, of marriage, and of the human family, 1
Archetypal character of the fact that man is created a Race, 3
Sole creation of Adam in the maturity of thought and speech and the perfection of knowledge, as shown in the naming of creatures,
4
Subsequent building of woman from man, 5
The divine Image and Likeness in the individual man, 5
A further Image of the ever-blessed Trinity in the Race, 6
Indication of the Headship and the Passion of Christ in the original creation, 8
Beauty and splendour of the divine plan, 9
The part in the divine plan which belongs to man's free-will, 10
The divine treatment of man as a Race not broken by the Fall, 11
Adam after the Fall the head of the civil and the religious order, 12
Bearing of man's condition before the Fall upon his subsequent state, 13
Adam receives in a great promise a disclosure of the future, 14
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He becomes the Teacher and likewise the Priest of his Race, 15
The rite of sacrifice, 15
Triple dignity of Adam in this first society, 16[Pg vi]
Man breaks up this society by the misuse of his free-will, 17
Resumption of the unity of the Race and its reparation in Noah, 18
Condition of man, individual and collective, at this new beginning of the race; marriage and sacrifice, 19
Express establishment of civil government by divine authority, 20
Union of religion with civil government from the beginning, 21
Parallel between Adam and Noah, 22
2. The Divine and Human Society in the Dispersion.
Unity of human language withdrawn on account of a great sin, 24
Coeval with which the various nations spring forth out of the one original society, 26
Injury to human society by the degradation of the conception of God, 28
Loss of belief in the divine unity followed by loss of the sense of man's brotherhood, 29
Proof of this brotherhood recovered by science in the case of the Aryan family of nations, 31
The one universal society becomes many nations at enmity with each other, 32
Their state after a long lapse of time, when their several histories begin, 33
Original goods of the race still remaining--
1. Marriage, 35
2. Religion as centered in the rite of sacrifice, 37
3. Civil government, 38
4. Alliance between government and religion, 41
Cumulative testimony of the four in their contrast with slavery to the unity of man's Race, as its origin is recorded by Moses,
43
Summary of the course of mankind from the Dispersion to Christ, 44
3. Further Testimony of Law, Government, and Priesthood in the Dispersion.
The fiction of universal savagery, or different races, or simial descent, 45
The author of "Ancient Law" upon original society,46
Proof from comparative jurisprudence of the patriarchal theory, 47
Law and government in their commencement, 48
Family the ancient unit of society, 49
Universal belief or assumption of blood-relationship, 50[Pg vii]
The Roman Patria Potestas a relic of the original rule, 52
Family everything, the individual unknown, 52
Original union of religion with government, 53
Origin of law and property, 54
Summary of the foregoing witness, 55
The Two Powers from the beginning, 56
Degradation of worship and degradation of society in Gentilism, 57
Deification of the State, 58
Which, however, remains a lawful power, 59
The distinction between sacerdotal and civil power in the Roman republic, 60
The power of the Pontifex Maximus united to that of the Principate, 62
The College of Pontifices reversing a tribunitial law, 63
The distinction between Sacerdotal and Civil Power running through all ancient nations, 64
Witness of the heathen priesthood to the unity of man's Race, 65
The providence of Abraham's call, 66
Relation of the Two Powers in the Mosaic law, 67
The actual result of the coming of Christ, 68
CHAPTER II.
Relation between the Spiritual and the Civil Powers after Christ.
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1. The Spiritual Power in its Source and Nature.
The Spiritual Power not only allied but subordinate to the Civil throughout the Gentile world at the death of Christ, 70
1. Its independence in Israel alone, as acknowledged by the people, a result of the creation of the Aaronic priesthood, 72
Special offices of the High Priest, 73
2. The part of the High Priest through the whole history from Moses to Christ, 75
3. The actual jurisdiction of the High Priest under the Roman Empire, 77
4. The High-priesthood and the system of worship over which it presided viewed as a prophecy and preparation for Christ, 80[Pg viii]
Bearing of the High-priesthood to Christ at His coming, 82
The undisputed circumstances of Christ's death, 83
Extreme antecedent improbability of what followed, 84
Its dependence upon a supernatural and miraculous fact, 85
As the Race springs from Adam in Paradise, so the Spiritual Power from Christ at His Resurrection, 86
The inward cohesion of Priesthood, Teaching, and Jurisdiction, 87
The two forces of the Primacy and the Hierarchy from the beginning, 90
The unity and triplicity of power in the regimen of the Church an image of the Divine Unity and Trinity, 92
2. The Spiritual Power a Complete Society.
The supernatural society exists for a supernatural end, 93
To which the present life is subordinated, 94