The last citation is from " Notes on Luther's Table Talk ;'*
and in this connectioni may be added a passage from Jeremjr
Taylor, touching the Liturgy, which it seems was inspired. The
emendation of the Scripture cited above, How that Christ died
through our sins, is omimms. But the plaia and pious Christian
will siill believe that Christ died Jor our sins ; made a propitia*
tion for sin. As for the Algebraic statement, that power added
to idea equals an angel, and power subtracted from idea equals
man, or the pagan Prometheus, it is a problem which the reader
must solve for himself — ^if he can. We untranscendentalists are
incompetent to meddle with so high a branch of spiritual mathe-
matics : nor can we pray the 16th verse of Psalm Ixxi. in the
Coleridgian spirit. But we have not so great fears of what Mr,
Coleridge so often in his works calls " bibliolatry," or as we should
say bible-idolatry, nor are we prepared to admit that even the
fio^rds of Scripture are the words of " pious, but fallible and im-
perfect men." Mr. Coleridge lived to utter quite enough of such
** meditations on this most concerning point." But to the Liturgy,
compiled under Edward VL, of which he speaks as follows :

The argument therefore, (i. e. of Taylor) should be inverted ; — not
that the Church (A, B, C, D, F, L, (fee.) compiled it; ergo, it is unobjec-
tionable, but (and truly we may say it) it is so unobjectionable, so far
transcending all we were entitled to expect from a few men in that state
of information, and such difficulties that we are justified in concluding
that the compilers were under the guidance of the Holy Spirit But the
aaBM order holds good even with regard to the Scriptures. We cannot



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rightly affirm they were inspired, and therefore they mutt be believed ;
but they are worthy of belief, beeause excellent in so universal a sense,
&o. Lit. Remains, Vol, IIL p. 230.
