The perception that this position is inconsistent, and, to him who discerns the inconsistency, dishonest, is every year driving Protestants to Rome.

And _in principle_ there are only two possible religions: the Personal and the Corporate; the Spiritual and the External.

I do not mean to say that in Romanism there is nothing but what is Corporate and External; for that is impossible to human nature: but that this is what the theory of their argument demands; and their doctrine of Implicit[4] (or Virtual) Faith entirely supersedes intellectual perception as well as intellectual conviction.

The theory of each church is the force which determines to what centre the whole shall gravitate.

However men may talk of spirituality, yet let them once enact that the freedom of individuals shall be absorbed in a corporate conscience, and you find that the narrowest heart and meanest intellect sets the rule of conduct for the whole body.
It has been often observed how the controversies of the Trinity and Incarnation depended on the niceties of the Greek tongue.