"As far as the principle on which Archbishop Laud andhis followers acted went to re-actuate the idea of the church, as aco-ordinate and living power by right of Christ's institution andexpress promise, I go along with them; but I soon discover that bythe church they meant the clergy, the hierarchy exclusively, andthen I fly off from them in a tangent.
"For it is this very interpretation of the church, that, accordingto my conviction, constituted the first and fundamental apostasy;and I hold it for one of the greatest mistakes of our polemicaldivines, in their controversies with the Romanists, that they traceall the corruptions of the gospel faith to thePapacy."--COLERIDGE,
Literary Remains, vol. iii. p. 386.
GEN. iii. 22.--And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is becomeas one of us, to know good and evil.
1 COR. xiii. 11.--When I was a child I spake as a child, Iunderstood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became aman, I put away childish things.
1 COR. xiii. 11.--When I was a child I spake as a child, Iunderstood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became aman, I put away childish things.
COL. i. 9.--We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire thatye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom andspiritual understanding.
COL. i. 9.--We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire thatye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom andspiritual understanding.
COL. iii. 3.--Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ inGod.
1 COR. iii. 21--23.--All things are yours; whether Paul, orApollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or thingspresent, or things to come; all are yours, and ye are Christ's; andChrist is God's.
GAL. v. 16, 17.--Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil thelusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, andthe Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to theother, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
LUKE xiv. 33.--Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not allthat he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
1 TIM. i. 9.--The law is not made for a righteous man, but forthe lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, forthe unholy and profane.
LUKE xxi. 36.--Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye maybe accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come topass, and to s