THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. WITH A Reply to the Work of the Bishop of Lincoln ON THE MILLENNIUM. BY THE REV. BOURCHIER WREY SAVILE, M.A. Rector of Shillingford, Exeter, AUTHOR OF 'THE PRIMITIVE AND CATHOLIC FAITH,' 'TURKEY,' ETC. ‘The Bride, the Lamb's wife.'-St. JohnCA 'And so shall we ever be with the LordSt. Paul. 'Let us be expecting hour by hour the kingdom of God in love and LONDON: HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY. 1877. 141. m. 570. The Bride of Christ. Ir is universally acknowledged by nations professing Christianity, that the highest pinnacle of earthly joy is attained by the union of husband and wife, when founded on the purest principle of human affection. It is this strong principle of heartfelt love that Christ condescends to assimilate to the mystical union which will hereafter take place between Him and that spotless, faultless, and glorious Church, which He will one day present to Himself as His Bride, 'THe Lamb's wife.' Nothing is more surprising in the present day, when so much additional light has been shed upon the teaching of Scripture, and we hear so much of the claims of what is commonly termed 'the Primitive and Catholic Church,' than the extraordinary forgetfulness of what the Primitive Christians believed respecting the doctrine of the Second Advent. Much as we prize the vital truths pertaining to Christ's first coming as a man of sorrows B |