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"that the clergy were infinitely superior to their neigh"bours; and that, if they had not possessed the power

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they did, it would have been in far worse hands." Those who knew Henry Mackenzie will recognize these last few words as altogether characteristic of his mind: they well convey his hatred of all special pleading, most of all in defence of the Faith which was so dear to him, along with that trust in history as a guide to truth, which is happily taking possession of the more thoughtful men of England, France, and Germany. Indeed the pervading spirit of this his only literary legacy cannot be better expressed than in the words of St. Augustine, whose Confessions were his favourite companion, along with his Greek Testament, during the latter months of his illness : "Narratione autem historica quum præterita "etiam hominum instituta narrantur, non inter humana “instituta ipsa historia numeranda est; quia jam quæ "transierunt, nec infecta fieri possunt, in ordine temporum habenda sunt, quorum est conditor et admi"nistrator Deus."

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FENTON J. A. HORT.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

October, 1855.

Minute supervision enjoined by St Paul on Titus carried
out at first, afterwards relaxed;

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Peculiar strictness of discipline over the clergy.
Their righteous controul over the temporal con-
cerns of their people.

The progress of the Church due less to its teaching than
its organization,

which was then building up for the use of later ages.

Regarded in this light, the early germs of future abuses

not to be condemned.

Influence of the clergy legitimately strengthened by the
consent of the people in episcopal appointments.

though the first victims of persecution;

but they are not therefore to be blamed:

the fact partly due to the discipline which forbad them to
hold civil offices.

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