1_40 ON NOVEL OPrNIONS are likely, I say, to be secured from the introduction of new dogmas, as well as to be preserved in our long adopted prin- ciples. The pale which encircles our church, and the formularies which belong tort, do not leave it open to the experi- ments of newprojectors, to the incursions of fresh innovators. Above all, it is enriched by a great mass of the Divine treasures of Scripture; the spirit ofwhich is also expanded in our collects and prayers, so that, as we have observed in another place, if the pulpit should in any instance unhappily degenerate in doctrine, the desk will still furnish a per- petual antidote. It may indeed deserve the name of the establishment, not only as being the national religion, but as being built on the foundation of the everlasting Gospel, on the doctrines taught by pro- phets and evangelists, Jesus Christ him- self being the chief corner-stone. In another of the quarters alluded to, the more novel system, we hear much of opinions but little of practice.; much .o
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