Notes on Irving's Ben-Ezra[1]

1827.

Christ the Word
The ScripturesThe SpiritThe Church
The Preacher

Such seemeth to me to be the scheme of the Faith in Christ. The written Word, the Spirit and the Church, are co-ordinate, the indispensable conditions and the working causes of the perpetuity and continued re-nascence and spiritual life of Christ still militant. The Eternal Word, Christ from everlasting, is the

prothesis

or identity;—the Scriptures and the Church are the two poles, or the

thesis

and

antithesis

; the Preacher in direct line under the Spirit, but likewise the point of junction of the written Word and the Church, being the