Excerpt from A Memoir of the Late Timothy Dwight: With the Sermon Delivered on the Occasion of His Death Mark of an enthusiastic German writer, that one might well consent to be branded and broken on the wheel, merely for the idea of such a character as Christ's. But while, on the one hand, the Evangelists could never have concei ved of such a character, had they not seen it exhibited in life, -for how could such illiterate men have originated a characts r, of which Plato and Xenophon, with Socrates, the purest of heathen moralists, before their eyes, had never conceived -se on the other hand, the bare idea of Christ's perfect moral excellence, would have done little to incite us to attain to that excellence, in comparison with the em. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.