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problem would be of comparatively easy solution; as, that one class should be involved in the consequences of behaviour not their own, since otherwise no system of general laws could be established, or if established, could not be continued without the frequent intervention of miracle.W. B. Clulow.

419.

What framer of an utopia could dream of more, than, in a state of things requiring the hard toil of the many as a condition of existence, yet still a devotion of one whole day in seven to the sole culture of mental philosophy, from a text-book which contains the purest and loftiest principles of ethics, set forth imaginatively, metaphysically, practically, affectionately-in poetry, maxims, philosophical reasoning-illustrated in parables, anecdotes, biographies-in the history of the oldest nations, and, finally, in the example of a pure and perfect life, and besides all this, that the Word itself, rightly, and under certain conditions, which all may fulfil, should be the means of giving the power of acting up to this knowledge, and thus producing a nation of working men with pure, unselfish, unsensual hearts and refined minds, bent on approaching a glorious ideal standard?—

420.

It is the design of the Gospel to reduce men to the obedience of those eternal laws of righteousness under which we were made.-Dr. Whichcote.

421.

It is necessary to know what God hath revealed concerning the way of pardon by Christ: it is impossible to know more than He has revealed. If men would forbear to explicate further, there would be more Christianity and less controversy.-Dr. Whichcote.

422.

All reasoning on divine subjects will be found to fall short of its mark, if it is not founded on the authority of the Scriptures.-W. Danby.

423.

If we attend to the expression of opinions that are at variance with the Scriptures, we shall generally find that they are asserted without any reference to, or comparison with, the latter—a proof that the comparison is shrunk from-W. Danby.

424.

It is a part of the perfection of the Gospel that it is attractive to all those who love truth and goodness, as soon as it is known in its true nature, whilst it tends to clear away those erroneous views and evil passions with which philanthropy and philosophy, so long as they stand aloof from it, are ever in some degree corrupted.-Dr. Arnold.

425.

There is no solid satisfaction but in a mental reconciliation with the nature of God and the law of righteousness.-Dr. Whichcote.

426.

In doctrines of supernatural revelation, we shall do well to direct our apprehensions and to regulate our expressions by words of Scripture.Dr. Whichcote.

427.

It does not follow, that because God doth not enforce, therefore He doth not enable. That God. should force agrees neither with the nature of God nor with the nature of man; but that God should enable agrees with both, as He is the Creator and we creatures.-Dr. Whichcote.

428.

The true and grand idea of a Church is

a society for the purpose of making men like Christ, earth like heaven, the kingdoms of the world the Kingdoms of Christ.-Dr. Arnold.

429.

That common metaphor about our "Mother the Church" is unscriptural and mischievous, because the feelings of entire filial reverence and love which we owe to a parent we do not owe to our fellow Christians; we owe them brotherly love, meekness, readiness to bear, &c.; but not filial reverence, 66 to them I gave place by subjection, no not for an hour."-Dr. Arnold.

430.

The sense of the Church is not a rule, but a thing ruled. The Church is bound unto reason and Scripture, and governed by them as much as any particular person.-Dr. Whichcote.

431.

When human institutions enjoin anything as a necessary and essential part of religion, which God has not made so; or when they impose such rites, as through their number, or nature of them, cherish superstition, obscure the gospel, weaken its force, or prove burdensome to us, they are to be rejected and not complied with.-Dr. T. Fuller.

432.

Religious ceremonies should be pure glass, not dyed in the gorgeous crimsons and purple, blues and greens, of the drapery of saints and saintesses. -S. T. Coleridge.

433.

No man is to make religion for himself, but to receive it from God; and the teachers of the Church are not to make religion for their hearers, but to shew it only as received from God.-Dr. Whichcote.

434.

I am very deeply persuaded that the main cause of the prevalent departures from sound doctrine is, that men take their sentiments from each other, instead of deriving them from the Bible. -Bp. Shirley.

435.

Some are so possest with their own fancies that they take them for oracles, and think they see visions, and are arrived to some extraordinary revelations of truth; when indeed they do but dream dreams, and amuse themselves with the fantastic ideas of a busy imagination.

436.

If there were in one steeple two bells in unison, would not the striking of the one move the other more than if it were of another note?—

437.

Whatever is not against the Word of God is for it, thought the founders of the Church of England. Whatever is not in the Word of God is a word of man, a will-worship, presumptuous and usurping, thought the founders of the Church of Scotland and Geneva. The one proposed to themselves to be reformers of the Latin Church, that is, to bring it back to the form which it had during the first four centuries; the latter, to be the renovators of the Christian religion as it was preached and instituted by the Apostles and immediate followers of Christ thereunto specially inspired. Where the premises are so different, who can wonder at the difference in the conclusions.-S. T. Coleridge.

438.

Knowledge of the Scriptures seems to consist in two things, so essentially united however, that I scarcely like to separate them even in thought;

the one I will call the knowledge of the contents of the Scriptures in themselves; the other the knowledge of their application to us, and our own times and circumstances.-Dr. Arnold.

439.

A clergyman's profession is the knowledge and practice of Christianity, with no more particular profession to distract his attention from it. While all men, therefore, should study the Scriptures, he should study them thoroughly; because from them only is the knowledge of Christianity to be obtained.-Dr. Arnold.

440.

One mistake in principles of action is of worse consequence than several false opinions which end in speculation.-Dr. Whichcote.

441.

To interpret the literal parts of Scripture allegorically, and the prophetic or figurative parts literally, betrays the same qualities of mind, namely, dissatisfaction with simple truth, and a predilection for the marvellous or imaginary.W. B Clul w.

442.

The written Word of God is not the first or only discovery of the duty of man (Rom. ii. 15, 29). It doth gather together, and repeat, and reinforce, and charge upon us, the scattered and neglected principles of God's creation, that have suffered prejudice and diminution, by the defection and apostacy of man, who has abused his nature and has passed into a contrary spirit.-Dr. Whichcote.

443.

It is not scriptural, but fanatical, to oppose faith to reason. Faith is properly opposed to sense, and is the listening to the dictates of the higher part of our mind, to which alone God