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 ¬man, " when in the mouth of the church that pronounces it, as it can then only mean all things which the Church believes." — " And pray, Sir," said I, " what are they r" — He here looked at his watch, saying, that at another time he would converse with me farther, but that he was engaged to go out. — Suspecting, however, (though I am persuaded without foundation,) that he was rather puzzled and wished to evade the question, I said I waved it for the present as it might run into length, and that I wished only to revert to the absurdity of circulating the Scripture without comment, yet insisting upon their own interpretation. — " We have found that to be an error," he replied, " and are now beginning to correct it by notes and commentaries of our own."

"That you may undoubtedly do," I rejoined with warmth, " as learned commentators, leaving other men also to their own expositions ; but if you were to do this in England, upon the footing of authority, we should tax you with relapsing