Excerpt from Hippolytus and His Age, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, the Beginnings and Prospects of Christianity
The First Volume gives the confession of Hippolytus, and his portrait as one of the leading men of the first seven Christian generations: the Second presents the picture of his Age, by exhibiting the Book of the ancient Church and giving its interpretation. The First Part presents the documents of early Christianity, in which the common consciousness and the Christian life of that age are authentically recorded. They are the picture: their interpretation and application are attempted in the Second Part. Such being its object, it, first of all, lays before us the picture itself, in an explanatory form. It, secondly, reflects in that picture the present time, connected with it through the history of fifteen centuries. Lastly, it endeavours to deduce from it a practical application for the reform of our present state. Of the subjects which come thus under our consideration, there is one which unites the two elements, the community-life and theology - namely, the Liturgies of the ancient Church. I have excluded from the general Text-Books of ancient Christianity all liturgical formularies which contain extraneous matter not common to all ancient Churches and consequently to all the Liturgies transmitted to us.
The object of the First Part of the Picture is to restore the authentic texts of the "Church- and House-Book of the early Christians," and of the "Law-Book of the Ante-Nicene Church." The first we exhibit rescued by our researches from the rubbish in which it was enveloped for centuries, and disencumbered of the fraud and misunderstanding by which it was defaced. The second, the Law-Book, we have been enabled to present in its more original text, under the guidance of the Coptic Collection.
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