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84 and the dead. I have read in the Twelve Prophets of the, Who uttered mysterious things; but my twelve inward and outward motions have not been joined in concord. I have read in Jeremiah, who was sanctified from the womb; but I have not become a whit holy either in body or in soul. I have read the mysteries and visions of Ezekiel; but I have not humbled my soul under the chariot of the law of the of Sabaoth. I have read the account of Daniel, and his interpretation of dreams; but I have not ceased from my brutishness, and have hated confidence and peace. I have read of Ananias, Azarias, and Misael; but the vile and hidden fire of lust in my members has not been cooled. I have read in Judith and Ezra the scribe, in Mordecai and Esther; but I have not received the least reproof from their excellent narratives. I have read in the Chronicles, and in the Building of the House, and in the Maccabees; but I have not turned back from those evils into which the Wicked one has cast me." From a hymn in the Warda adapted to the season of Lent.

See also Appendix A. Part I. and II.

I have not been able to find a passage of similar import with the opening clause of our sixth Article; nevertheless, theoretically at least, the doctrine is maintained by the Nestorians, that "whatsoever is not read in holy Scripture, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed in as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation." Moreover, their reverence for the supreme authority of the Bible is not confined to the support which the ancient writers among them adduce from its declarations in their expositions of Christian truth; but by a Canon quoted under Article XXIV. it is made incumbent upon all pastors, and