THE SAYINGS OF THE GREAT FORTY DAYS, BETWEEN THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION, REGARDED AS THE OUTLINES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD: Τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ. ACT. SS. APOST. i. 3. S. JOAN. xx. 31. Fratres, pro magno audiri solent verba novissima parentis ituri in sepulcrum, et Ad dies quadraginta remoratus est, ut de eo ad præcepta vitalia instrui possent, et Third Edition. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1846. 336. PREFACE. THE alterations which have been made in this Edition have been principally expansions and enlargements of the argument, which had before been more shortly and summarily stated. These I must leave to speak for themselves; only expressing my regret that still they are more summary than I could wish them. But the greatness of the subject, and my own continual and pressing occupations, have made it impossible for me to take so wide a range of argument and illustration as the subject admits, and perhaps requires. In one point I have made an alteration of arrangement; for whereas in the former Edition I had placed the Pastoral Commission before the Commissions to baptize and to absolve, on the ground of its appearing to be a larger and vaguer Commission, capable of being, as it were, divided, |