...efforts after freedom, more vigorous and hopeful as its years increase. Its beginnings are no measure of its capabilities, nor of its scope. At first, no...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I conclude with an example: No one but will allow that Wesleyanism represents an idea, a doctrine,...

...knows what it is, or what it is worth. It remains perhaps for a time quiescent : it tries, as it wef e, its limbs, and proves the ground under it, and feels...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I conclude with an example : No one but wilt allow that Wesleyanism represents an idea, a doctrine,...

...which way to go ; it wavers, and at length strikes out in one definite XH THE DISPUTE NOT ABOUT TERMS. direction. In time it enters upon strange territory;...it changes with them in order to remain the same." — (pp. 38, 39.) The changes in Wesleyanism, from its commencement in Wesley's Oxford asceticism,...

...variations to which "a philosophy or sect" is subject in its progress, Mr. Newman thus concludes : — " In a higher world, it is otherwise; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."— Pp. 38, 39. If these remarks were meant to apply merely to any system of philosophy or human polity,...

...upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing ; 'parlies rise and fall about ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations, and old...it changes with them in order to remain the same." The extracts given, I think, present more accurately and clearly the outlines of Mr. Newman's theory...

...determines to stop, sooner or later becomes a sect.' Compare with this the noted and notable passage, ' In a higher world it is otherwise ; but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'* Pass we on to his opinion concerning the Church of Rome up to the sixteenth century, and at that era....

...beginnings are no measure of its " capabilities, nor of its scope. At first, no one knows what i( '•' is, or what it is worth. [! !] It remains, perhaps,...change, and " to be perfect is to have changed often." (pp. 38, 39.) Such is Mr. Newman's account of the development of Christian doctrine in the successive...

...employed in efforts after freedom, more vigorous and hopeful as its years increase. Its beginnings are nc measures of its capabilities, nor of its scope. At...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." * In answer to the objection, " that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...

...suspense which way to go; it wavers, and, at length, strikes out in one definite direction. In tune it enters upon strange territory; points of controversy...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 1 In answer to the objection, " that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...

...of the soil." " From time to time it makes essays which fail, and are, in consequence, abandoned." "In time it enters upon strange territory; points...it changes with them, in order to remain the same." (Newman's Essay, p. 27-38.) TVe quote at length from both, for although there is much irrelevant to...