The contents and teachings of the catacombs at Rome : or, Three popular lectures entitled paganism, Christianity, and popery, delivered before working men ; being a vindication of pure and primitive Christianity and an exposure to the corruptions of popery ; derived from the sepulchral remains of the early Christians at Rome

Benjamin Scott

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• Catacombs
• Catholic Church
• History of Christianity

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• Nombre de lectures: 3
• Langue: English
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CONTENTS AND TEACHINGS
TUEOF
CATACOMBS AT HOME;
OR, THRRR POPULAR LECTURES, RNriTJ.ED
DELIVERED BEFORE WORKING-MEN.
HEIVG A VINDICATION OF PUUfi AND PRIMITIVK CHRISTIANITY, AND
AN EXPOSLBE OF THE COBllUPTIONS OF PMPERY, DEIUVED FlIOM THE
Irjialrljral 3Erniain.5
OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS AT ttOME.
Now I saw in niy dream, that at the end of the valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and
mangled bodies of men j....and while I was musing what should be the reason,
I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants I'oPEand Pagan dwelt."
John Bunyan.
Recommended, and Illustrated withDiagrams by the Working Men's
Educational Union.
BY
BENJAMIN SCOTT,
HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE UNION.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
1853.
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INTRODUCTION.
The following pages contain the substance of three
early part of the yearLectures, delivered in the
1852, before an audience composed of the working-
statement sufficiently account forclasses ; this will
their style. Gratified by the interest excited on
their dehvery, encouraged by several partial friends
to give them a more enduring form, but chiejly in-
fluenced by a knowledge that they were useful to
some who heard them, and a hope that they may
serviceable class for whose benefityet be to the
they were prepared, the writer has (amidst many
distractions, arising from engagements of another
character) committed them to the press.
The use of no influential name solicitedhas been
to give to the work an importance it does not de-
serve, nor to shield it from the criticisms which its
demeritsmay evoke. The leading desire ofthewriter
willbe gratified, ifit shallinany degree serve to direct
general attention to a subject too much overlooked
by Christianmen in this inquiring age theprimitive
condition the Divine institution Christianity;of of
particularly as exemplified by the inscriptions and
works ofearly artintheMuseums ofEurope. Buried
inponderous and expensive folios, expressed in either
foreign or dead languages, or locked up in the trea-
suries of distant antiquarian collections, the subject
inaccessiblewas to the general reader, until the
recent publication ofthe very learned and deeply in-
"terestingworkbyDr.Charles Maitland, TheChurch
in the Catacombs." Of the merits of that work itVI INTEODUCTION.
wotdd be impertinent in the writer to speak. He
permitted to express the deepmay, however, be
pubHc,obhgation under which he lies, as one of the
pleasure and profit which it has affordedfor the
thehim ; he desires also gratefully to acknowledge
facilities which Dr. Maitland has kindly rendered in
the press,the preparation of this little work for
without which the writer could not have attempted
working-classes that which theto effect for the
Doctor has so admirably accomplished for the read-
public in general.ing
lengthy,The Lectures, it will be observed, are
fault indeed which attendedtheir delivery. Shoulda
Com-they be thought worthy of being used, as the
mittee of the Working Men's Educational Union
illustrated lectures,have designed, as the basis of
they might, perhaps with advantage, be broken up
form lectures, throwing together, toso as to four by
constitute the third, such matter introduced into the
not affectexisting second and third Lectures as does
the contrast of Christianity with Paganism in the
exposition errors of Poperysecond, or the of the
casein the third. In that case, or in the possible
of the division of the lecture on Paganism, some
in the Appendixof the additional matter introduced
mightbeworked inwith advantage, forwhichreason,
chiefly, it has been added.
Messrs. Longman, writer de-To the likewise, the
sires to express his obligations for copyright facilities
kindly afforded by them. In every case in which
*' orThe Church in the Catacombs" has been quoted
referred to, the second edition has been used.
London, January 1, 1863.