mother took different views upon it. The old Puritan soldier held that the bible alone contained all things essential to salvation, and that though it might be advisable that those who were gifted with wisdom or eloquence should expound the Scriptures to their brethren,Bobby Orr Tröjor, it was by no means necessary,Dame Moncler Ilay, but rather hurtful and degrading, that any organised body of ministers or of bishops should claim special prerogatives,CG Menn Hybridge Lite Hoody, or take the place of mediators between the creature and the Creator. For the wealthy dignitaries of the Church,Ryan Ellis Tröjor, rolling in their carriages to their cathedrals, in order to preach the doctrines of their Master, who wore His sandals out in tramping over the countryside,CG Dame Thompson Jakke, he professed the most bitter contempt; nor was he more lenient to those poorer members of the clergy who winked at the vices of their patrons that they might secure a seat at their table, and who would sit through a long evening of profanity rather than bid good-bye to the cheesecakes and the wine flask. That such men represented religious truth was abhorrent to his mind, nor would he even give his adhesion to that form of church government dear to the Presbyterians, where a general council of the ministers directed the affairs of their church. Every man was, in his opinion, equal in the eyes of the Almighty, and none had a right to claim any precedence over his neighbour in matters of religion. The book was written for all,John Carlson Tröjor, and all were equally able to read it, provided that their minds were enlightened by the Holy Spirit.
My mother,Dame Moncler Marmelade, on the other hand, held that the very essence of a church was that it should have a hierarchy and a graduated government within itself,Ralph Lauren Ned Västar, with the king at the apex, the archbishops beneath him, the bishops under their control, and so down through the ministry to the common folk. Such was, in her opinion, the Church as established in the beginning, and no religion without these characteristics could lay any claim to being the true one. Ritual was to her of as great importance as morality, and if every tradesman and farmer were allowed to invent prayers,Johnny Gaudreau Tröjor, and change the service as the fancy seized him,Lang, it would be impossible to preserve the purity of the Christian creed. She agreed that religion was based upon the Bible,Igor Larionov Tröjor, but the Bible was a book which contained much that was obscure,CG Menn Woolford Strøk, and unless that obscurity were cleared away by a duly elected and consecrated servant of God, a lineal descendant of the Disciples, all human wisdom might not serve to interpret it aright. That was my mother’s position, and neither argument nor entreaty could move her from it. The only question of belief on which my two parents were equally ardent was their mutual dislike and distrust of the Roman Catholic forms of worship, and in this the Churchwoman was every whit as decided as the fanatical Independent.
It may seem strange to you in these days of tolerance, that the adherents of this venerable creed should have met with such universal ill-will from successive generations of Englishmen. We recognise now that there are no more
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