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Title: 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bloss, William Escott
Subjects: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890 Great Britain -- Church history 19th century
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and issue of his doctrines, Holiness before peace, and Growth the only evidence of life. Joseph Milner (1744-97) was head master of Hull Grammar School, and afternoon lecturer at the Parish Church. In 1770 he became an Evangelical as the result of reading Hookers sermon on Justification, and set to work upon his Church History, which contends with Scotts Commentary for the first place among the Evangelical literature of the eighteenth century. His aim was to write a history of the good which Christianity had accomplished and to set forth the blessed effects which Christianity had produced in all, even the darkest ages. Milner expressly declared his intention of touching but slightly upon the heresies and disputes which were the principal subjects dealt with by most Church historians. His history, in fact, was to be a history of real, not nominal. Christians. He lived to carry his work from the Apostles to the middle of the thirteenth century. His brother, Isaac Milner (1751-1820), published two more
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Rev. Thomas Scott. From the Original FiiDii/y Picture. To face p. 70. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 71 volumes on the same plan and in part from manuscripts Joseph Milner had left behind. Isaac Milner became President of Queens College, Cambridge, in 1788, where together with Charles Simeon her endered yeoman service to the Evangelical cause. The history turned the attention of English readers to the almost forgotten writings of the early Fathers, and in Newmans case it marked the birth of that love of patristic literature which exercised a strong determining influence upon his religious convictions. John Newton (1725-1807), the predecessor of Thomas Scott as curate of Olney, and afterwards (1779) rector of St. Mary, Woolnoth, is perhaps best known to us as the author of many of our favourite hymns. Some are included in our Hymns Ancientand Modern: Approach my soul the mercy seat, How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, Come my soul thy suit prepare, Glorious things of Thee are spoken, are all from his pen. A few twixtoldnewstudy00blos

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