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Excerpt from The Living Temple, or Scriptural Views of the Church
The fact, that Mr. Newman's Essay on the development of Christian Doctrine was written after he became, though before he avowed himself, a Romanist, destroys not its force as a true exponent of the tendency of the Tractarian doctrine on the subject of Tradition. The starting point of that doctrine cannot be distinctly and intelligent ly assumed, and the line of that doctrine honestly and logically follow ed, without reaching an elevation of authority and of value not only with but above the Word of God. Whether or not the advocates of that doctrine ever go, with Mr. Newman, to the length of receiving the peculiar doctrines of the Church of Rome, while admitting that those doctrines find no support, or none but the most dreamy, in the Bible; and that many of the peculiarities of that Church have been developed in a way, of Which the Ancient Hannsms were but the premature, and therefore abortive, anticipations - whether or not they ever reach tins extreme of bold but desperate honesty, - they, at least, cannot logically stop, till, like the Pharisees of old, they have, however unintentionally, yet virtually, made the Word of God of none effect by their Tradi tion.
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