GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B.D. MASTER OF SHERBURN HOSPITAL, DURHAM, AND PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY. Opto, cum Melancthone et Ecclesia Anglicana, per canalem Antiquitatis deduci ad nos TO THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM VAN MILDERT, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. MY LORD, You will perhaps agree with me in thinking, that one of the most satisfactory and least objectionable modes of ascertaining and establishing theological truth is by the careful adduction of concurrent historical testimony. However clear in themselves may be the declarations of Holy Scripture respecting all the great leading articles of our faith: yet it cannot be dissembled, that, as very widely different interpretations have been put upon various passages in the Bible, so likewise we have sometimes been even required to admit sundry doctrines or opinions not a vestige of which can be discovered in the inspired word of God. |