THE

CREED OF CHRISTENDOM;

ITS

FOUNDATIONS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE.

LONDON:

GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,

ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.

THE

CREED OF CHRISTENDOM;

ITS

FOUNDATIONS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE.

BY

WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG.

"THE PRAYER OF AJAX WAS FOR LIGHT."

LONDON:

JOHN CHAPMAN, 142, STRAND.

MDCCCLI.

"I should, perhaps, be a happier, at all events a more useful, man, if my mind were otherwise constituted. But so it is: and even with regard to Christianity itself, like certain plants, I creep towards the light, even though it draw me away from the more nourishing warmth. Yea, I should do so, even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLERIDGE.

"Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds,

At last he beat his music out;

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

"He fought his doubts and gathered strength;
He would not make his judgment blind;

He faced the spectres of the mind,
And laid them: thus he came at length

"To find a stronger faith his own;

And Power was with him in the night,

Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,

"But in the darkness and the cloud. '

TENNYSON.

"No inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gaze towards Truth, who is casting side glances all the while on the prospects of his Soul."-MARTINEAU.

"What hope of answer or redress?
Behind the veil, behind the veil."

TENNYSON.

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