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For his religion, it was fitBy Apostolic blows and knocks.

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?—Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

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He was the word that spake it,I do believe and take it.

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'Twas God the word that spake it,That I believe and take it.

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O how far remov'd,Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

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And after hearing what our Church can say,But common quiet is mankind's concern.

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Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

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Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.

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Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!

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Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,—"orthodoxy is my doxy,—heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

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Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.

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The Avon to the Severn runs, Wide as the waters be.

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As thou these ashes, little brook! will bearBy truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.

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The old and received law for above a century is not to be broken in upon by any new doctrine.

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The law of England is wisely reluctant to admit any doctrine which is repugnant to the settled principles and policy of its own institution.

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That doctrine cannot be law which injures the rights of individuals, and will be productive of evil to the Church and to the community.

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I can never assent to a doctrine so discreditable to our Courts of law as that, because it is equitable and just, that it is therefore not strictly legal.

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A most unjust doctrine and I shall not extend it.

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Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine."

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Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

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Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

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Religion, as embodied in the character and conduct of its disciples, cannot survive without doctrinal purity. In the absence of this element, religious feeling inevitably decays; while even religious necessity becomes a thing of naught.

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We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust, — to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right, — to keep close to Him, — and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

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