Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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angel from heaven, should teach otherwise, _Let him be accursed_."'
Well and nobly said, thou rare black swan! This, this is the Church. Where this is found, there is the Church of Christ, though but twenty in the whole of the congregation; and were twenty such in two hundred different places, the Church would be entire in each. Without this no Church. Ib. p. 248. "And he sent for one of his chiefest privy councillors, named Lord John _Von Minkwitz_, and said unto him; 'You have heard my father say, (running with him at tilt) that to sit upright on horseback maketh a good tilter. If therefore it be good and laudable in temporal tilting to sit upright; how much more is it now praiseworthy in God's cause to sit, to stand, and to go uprightly and just!'" Princely. So Shakspeare would have made a Prince Elector talk. The metaphor is so grandly in character. Chap. XVII. p. 249. "_Signa sunt subinde facta, minora; res autem et facta subinde creverunt_." A valuable remark. As the substance waxed, that is, became more evident, the ceremonial sign waned, till at length in the Eucharist the 'signum' united itself with the 'significatum', and became consubstantial. The |
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