IN RELIGION. 147 the reputed violence of his catholicon ; andhewhodespised the soberpractitioner, swallows without scruple the most perni- cious drug ofthe advertising professor. Without the slightest desire to detract from the personal character of our new empirics in divinity, we may be allowed to suspect that their education, and early habits of life, had not altogether qualified them for the arduous under- taking of new modelling a church. It is true that " the erudition of a (com- mon) Christian man" is not required to be 'very profound, but surely that of a Christian reformer should be something more than moderate. The lapse of three centuries has added little clearness to the lucid exposition of Christian truth as exhibited in the writings of those reformers by whom the doctrines of the Church of England were modelled. Whatever defects might have escaped the notice of those eagle-eyed sifters and examiners of Christian truth, when they rescued it from the rubbish H
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