I. Fcap. 8vo., 6s. THE RELATIONS OF SCIENCE. London: BELL and DALDY. II. Fcap. 8vo., 2s. THE VICTORY OF THE SPIRIT. A Course of Short Sermons on the Eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. London: JOSEPH MASTERS. III. Crown 8vo., 3s. NINETY-NINE HOMILIES OF S. THOMAS AQUINAS, For Forty-nine Sundays of the Christian Year. Translated from the Latin. London: CHURCH PRESS COMPANY. IV. Crown 8vo., 6d. Part I. THE COMMENTARY OF S. THOMAS AQUINAS UPON THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS. London: CHURCH PRESS COMPANY. PREFACE. It is not so much on account of their theological and doctrinal excellence that these sermons have been selected for translation, but rather for their charming simplicity of thought and expression, a simplicity that conveys the very highest truths in a manner that appeals to the least cultivated intellect. For many years Rossi was a most diligent student of Holy Scripture, and a public commentator upon the sacred text, hence we note in his sermons many striking allusions, not to the narratives alone, but also to the very words of the Old Testament writings. Hardly a lesson but what is enforced by a reference to those things which were written for our instruction: a spiritual application being made-as the HOLY GHOST intended that it should be-of the bare events of the inspired history. Sentences, sayings, and maxims from the Fathers too, will be found so interwoven with the scriptural quotations, that the sense of the one seems almost to supplement that of the other. There is not a single sermon which does not contain either some new reading of a passage of Holy Scripture, or some valuable saying of one of the accredited Fathers of the Church. |