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Phases of Faith

CHAPTER IX
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82 [1st ed.] "You shall be permitted to say (what I will not contradict), that though _Mr.Newman may be inspired_ for aught I know ...

inspired as much as (say) _the inventor of Lucifer matches_--yet that his book is not divine,--that it is purely human." Again: p.

126 [1st ed.] "Mr.Newman says to those who say they are unconscious of these facts of spiritual pathology, that _the consciousness of the spiritual man is not the less true, that_ [though ?] _the unspiritual man is not privy to it_; and this most devout gentleman quotes with unction the words: _For the spiritual man judgeth all things, but himself is judged of no man_." P.41, [1st ed.], "I have rejected creeds, and I have found what the Scripture calls, _that peace which passeth all understanding_." "I am sure it passes mine, (says Harrington) if you have really found it, and I should be much obliged to you, if you would let me participate in the discovery." "Yes, says Fellowes:...

'_I have escaped from the bondage of the letter and have been introduced into the liberty of the Spirit....

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.


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