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until it is found that man , or any body of men , are infallible , the deductions from Scripture will be far inferior in authority to scriptural declarations ; in other words , inference will be inferior to revelation . But the writer calls to his aid another weapon ; a weapon which we had thought the Catholic claimed as his exclusive property—tradition . The doctrines of orthodoxy are , it seems , corroborated by the universal , uninterrupted tradition of the apostolic church . The apostolic church ! what church is that ? Surely not the English . Long and thorny would be the
road through which our Lord Bishops would have to travel to reach and connect themselves with the apostles . Their derivation they surely would hardly like to trace through so foul a source as the Roman Church . And even if so , they acknowledge the legitimacy of the descent of the successor of St . Peter ; and he would quickly adduce pregnant arguments to shew that on the head of tradition Transubstantiation was € qual at least to the doctrine of the two natures and that of original sin . And should these Kight
Reverend Fathers in God endeavour to descry in the early ages a connecting liuk between the English branch of the church and the apostles , we are not without fears that the mist which overhangs the history of this country in the first century of our era would remain impenetrable to stronger vision than even a bishop in pursuit of his lineage would be found to possess . And certain are we , notwithstanding the fearless assertion of the Reviewer ,
that no little trouble would have to be encountered by any one who should enter on the task of tracing up to the times of the apostles , in " a universal , uninterrupted tradition , ' * the doctrines now dignified with the imposing title of orthodoxy . Of all mutable things orthodoxy is amongst the most
mutable ; and we will venture to assert , that in no two centuries of the Christian church has it in reality been precisely the same . Its outward form , as seen in creeds and articles , may , after the eighth century of our era down to the Reformation , have remained without material alteration . At that period it underwent a thorough change in many important particulars ; and , as far as creeds and confessions could hold so fleeting a thing , it has to the present day remained not unlike itself . But as entertained by the mind , in all that constitutes its reality , it has been , is , and will be , ever changing , ever new . So then we grudge not the Critic any corroboration in favour of the Trinity , &c , which he may derive from the " universal , uninterrupted tradition of the church . ' *
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Jesus' Entity into Jerusalem . 395
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Niet op glimtcrende widen . Bilderdyk , Not upborne on glittering wheels , Not in gold , triumphal car , Purple-clad as monarchs are ; Not on plume-deck'd steed of war , Snorting fiery sparks afar , Prancing on his tutored heels—Foaming , while the curb restrains Wayward will and boiling veins .
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JESUS * ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/27/
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