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Excerpt from Notes on the Episcopal Polity of the Holy Catholic Church: With Some Account of the Development of the Modern Religious Systems
Christians to regard the Written word of God as an exception to the other modes of revelation by which He had vouchsafed to manifest to His crea tures the treasures of His goodness, wisdom, and power. They perceived that it expressly required for its due comprehension certain conditions in those to whom it was addressed, and that these were such as would be fulfilled only in few 1 that its own pages contained a-warning lest men should wrest it to their destruction; and that it re ferred, consistently with this warning, to a witness external to itself.3 They were forbidden, therefore, to suppose that it would always, or even com monly, supply the interpretation of its own sacred mysteries - that it would contain at once a doc trine and the interpretation of the doctrine. There were evidently no antecedent grounds for such a supposition. The Church was more ancient than the Bible;4 and when that new and priceless gift, complete and sealed in the fulness of perfection, was added to her already richly endowed children.
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