Collected Writings of the late Thomas Carlyle, Esq

Preface

. It has appeared to some of the friends of the late Me. Thomas Carlyle, of the Scottish Bar, that the several short writings published by him between the years 1845 and 1854 (all of which have run out of print), possess more than a passing interest, and that the sound religious and political principles set forth in them are such as to make it desirable to gather up these works into one, and issue them in a convenient and enduring form. The present Volume is therefore sent forth, in the belief that it will form a valuable addition to many libraries, on account of its intrinsic worth, and may afford a welcome guidance to many a thinking man in these last days, when the principles of our most holy Faith are beirig stealthily undermined, and even openly attacked, November, IS77 CONTENTS. Paoh The Moral Phenomena of Germany (1845) . . 13 On the Sacrament op Holy Baptism (1850) . . 149 The One Catholic Supremacy (1851) . . .169 The Door op Hope for Britain (1853) . . .189 The Door of Hope for Christendom (1853) . 212 Apostles Given, Lost, and Eestoeed (1853) . .273 On the Office of the Paraclete in the Prayers op the Church (1853) 329 On Symbols in Worship (1853) 341 On the Epistles to the Seven Churches (1854) . 361 Warning for the Unwary Against Spiritual Evil (1854) 405 Shall Turkey Live or Die?

(1854). . . . 419 Pleadings with My Mother: the Church in Scotland (1854) THE MORAL PHENOMENA OF GERMANY. Second Edition — Enlarged. 1845. B NOTE ON CHRISTIAN PRIESTHOOD. " The works by which our blessed Lord became the Head of the Church are peculiar to Himself, and delegated to none ; but those which He performs as Headof the Church are not only capable of delegation, but intended to be delegated. That His functions are capable of delegation is proved by their having been devolved on some. These functions are priestly, because He is a priest ; and they are permanently delegated, because He and the work to be done in His Church abide the same. He alone became incarnate, and suffered vicarious death ; but He has delegated to His servants to present the memorial of His death, which He pleads in heaven.

He alone opened the way to the Father ; but He delegates to His servants to approach not merely to Him, but to the Father through Him. He alone took away sins j but having, as Son of Man, received power to bind and to loose, He delegates that power to His servants. If such delegation conflicts with the truth of His sole mediatorship, the delegation of preaching does so no less. If none may absolve but Christ in person, none may preach but He in person. The authority given by Him to bind and loose was as explicit, and is as enduring, as the commission to preach. If the one was given to men, so was the other. If the one is now pleaded as a warrant, so may the other. Yet His priestly functions, though delegated, are not transferred. His priesthood is not less, and cannot be more, than His ministers', towards God and man.

They have no authority or office of their own." CONTENTS. PAOI I. Introduction 7 II. Government 13 III. Nobility 20 IV. Society 27 V. The Learned , 39 VI. The Church 57 VII. Conclusion