Book of Enoch Henok

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INTRODUCTION.
librarians " should be students of theology—the
queen of sciences,—among whom Dr. Pusey held
a position in the first rank ; " and yet that he was
a zealous supporter of " a movement which embodied
truths included ages ago in the formularies of the
Church." But how can theology be enrolled among
the sciences if its professors reason in ecclesiastical
fetters ? As well might a modern astronomer
demand the assent of his pupils to the mediaeval
theory of the earth's
immobility, before proceeding
to investigate the laws of the solar system : and
thus, doubtless, most theologians seek Divine truth,
weighted with a heritage of foregone conclusions,
adverse to the admission of unorthodox facts.
We all can sympathize with the desire of his
disciples to do honour to the memory of the
Tractarian apostle, of many virtues, in whom they
see a " great man, raised up by God Almighty to
live and labour for His Church " ; but men who take
this transcendental view of a movement, in which
others simply see progress on the road to Kome,
can scarcely consider the prescriptive rights of
primitive or mediaeval dogmas, in that impartial
•mood to which theologians must attain before
theology becomes the " Queen of Sciences."
Archbishop Laurence was an industrious
worker
in the scientific laboratory of theology, when he
translated the Bodleian manuscript of the Book