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The archdeacon therefore resolved to return to his post, although he could not induce the Committee to remove the sentence which still lay upon his brother. Henry Williams was thus marked out more distinctly than ever as the piacular victim or scapegoat of the mission. And, indeed, his deprivation seemed to have an expiatory effect. Once his dismissal had been made, an improvement began all round.
The father of Horatius, after making a piacular sacrifice, erected a beam across the street leading from the Vicus Cyprius to the Carinæ, with an altar on each side the one dedicated to Juno Sororia and the other to Janus Curiatius and under this yoke he made his son pass with his head veiled.
If live she must, through the five years of piacular sacrifice, why vitiate its efficacy by rebellious repining, that seemed an affront to the divine arbiter of human destinies? She could not escape the cross; and bitterness of heart might jeopardize the crown. Beggared by time, could she afford to risk the eternal heritage?
At a later time, when cereals were cultivated, they formed an important part of sacrificial offerings, and were held as, for example, among the Greeks and the Hebrews to have piacular efficacy. +264+. Among the discoveries of the early period was that of the intoxicating quality of certain plants a quality that came to play a prominent rôle in religious life.
We read of orders and companies of priests who offer daily and other sacrifices according to a rule in which the smallest details are carefully arranged, sacrifices in which little of the old cheerful common meal now lingers, but which are mostly of a purificatory or piacular character.
Still there is reason to believe that the piacular idea of sacrifice was never wholly lost, but that the Hindus, in common with all other races, found occasion especially when great calamities befell them to appease the gods with the blood of sacrifice. In the early days human sacrifices were offered, and occasionally at least down to a late period.
We often speak of a believer's longings after purity, after peace, after joy. There is an appetency for them. In like manner, there is in the illuminated and guilt-smitten conscience an appetency for the piacular work of Christ, as that which alone can give it pacification.
The fact that in nearly every case those who were rescued from the flood immediately offered piacular sacrifices suggests the recognition in all human history of still another fundamental doctrine of Christianity, the universal sense of sin.
All which, since they were once purged away from the church of Scotland and cast forth as things accursed into the jakes of eternal detestation, how vile and abominable may we now call the resuming of them? Or what a piacular prevarication is it to borrow from any other church which was less reformed, a pattern of policy for this church which was more reformed. But, 2.
But, I pray, what exorbitant evils are found in our modest and Christian-like denial of obedience to the law of the ceremonies? Yet for all that, upon such a petty and small occasion as the seeking of two runagate servants, he reckoned not to despise the king’s mercy and lenity, and to set at nought his most just commandment. What! Is nonconformity no less piacular?
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