On this subject I need hardly refer the
reader to the valuable work of Mr. Bagehot, entitled "The English
Constitution," or to the Constitutional History of Sir T. Erskine
May.--W. E. G., December, 1878.]
[19] Ego cum audio quenquam bono ingenio praeditum, doctrinisque
liberalibus eruditum, quamquam non ibi salus animae constituta sit, tamen
in _quaestione facillima_ sentire aliud quam veritas postulat, quo magis
miror, eo magis exardesco nosse hominem et cum eo colloqui; vel si id
non possim, saltem litteris quae longissime volant [to the nineteenth
century?] attingere mentem ejus atque ab eo vicissim attingi desidero.
Sicut te esse audio talem virum, et ab Ecclesia Catholica, quae sicut
Sancto Spiritu pronunciata est, toto orbe diffunditur, discerptum doleo
atque seclusum.--Ep. 87. _vid._ ep. 61.
[20] This is an exaggeration; I have reconsidered the whole subject in
my essay on "Development of Doctrine," in 1845; and in my letter to Dr.
Pusey in 1866.
[21] This passage proves, on the one hand, that such worship as St. John
offered is wrong; on the other, that it does not unchurch, unless we can
fancy St.
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