Newman,  in  the  llth,  12th,  and  13th  of  his  Lectures
on  the  Prophetical  Office  of  the  Church.  One  question
only  shall  be  added.  Do  we  not  discern,  on  this  hypo
thesis,  a  very  beautiful  and  instructive  harmony  between
the  several  provinces  of  evangelical  teaching  ?  the  pre
liminary  principle,  the  sufficiency  of  the  written  Word,
being  taught  by  Tradition  and  confirmed  and  illustrated  by
the  Bible,  just  in  the  same  way  as  the  several  doctrines
are  afterwards.  And  is  not  this  analogy,  as  far  as  it  goes,
both  a  material  confirmation  of  the  general  statement,  and
also  an  indication  of  the  purpose  of  moral  probation,  which
we  may  believe  was  one  final  cause  of  the  whole  arrange-

1  Gal.  i.  8.
English  Canon  of  1571.  853

ment ;  just  as,  under  God's  natural  government,  our  pro
bation  is  the  more  entire  from  the  circumstance,  that  we
receive  our  first  impressions  from  Testimony,  but  must  use
Observation  to  confirm  or  correct  them,  and  cannot  long
depend  upon  either  quite  alone.
