Doctrine

"Nothing can be progressive without being doctrinal."

"For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By Apostolic blows and knocks."

"Carried about with every wind of doctrine."

"And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankinds concern."

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

"The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea, And Wickliffs dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be."

"Still more do men pretend in this time of ours, wherein the habitual use of the human intelligence has sunk to its lowest, that doctrine is but a private, individual affair, creating a mere opinion. Upon the contrary, it is doctrine that drives the State; and every State is stronger in the degree in which the doctrine of its citizens is united. Nor have I met any man in my life, arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle."

"Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself."

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

"What makes all doctrines plain and clear?— About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was provd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more."

"Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it."

"O how far removd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all our good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and Gods will and ours are one."