The divine authority of Scripture is ignored. They speak of the "Spirit of Christ," but only as a principle within their own minds; and that principle as the "Church." They, too, adopt the development theory-- "She finds in her foundation and in her history the clue that conducts her through the labyrinth of human error, and the _rule of the development of her doctrine_. Christianity renews itself in the human heart, and follows the development of the human mind, and invests itself with new forms of thought and language, and adopts new systems of church-organisation, to which it gives expression and life. The _Scriptures_ and the creeds are the witnesses of _ancient_ Christendom. Being, however, the _works_ of _men_, they express the faith of _men_; and their form bears the impress of the time in which they were made. It is not in _them_ that absolute truth resides, but it is in the _spirit_ of truth, holiness, and love, which animates mankind. He who revealed Himself to the world by the authors of the Scriptures, is _in us_, and _by us_. He interprets the same Scriptures, and judges of their truth." Thus, according to this really atheistical disgusting verbiage, Christianity is a myth, "within us" and "by us." And we ask if Protestantism--the Protestantism of the Reformation, or the Protestantism after the Reformation, as it now exists in the Church of England or Scotland, or in sects of any Christian denomination--would not shrink with horror from a proposal to substitute this blasphemous farrago for the creeds, liturgies, and services in established use? We have ventured upon this, it may be thought, delicate ground, because we think it intimately connected with this Papal aggression, and with modes of dealing with it. The Rationalistic aggression would be the most intolerant. It has a mortal hatred to creeds. It is of the Philosophy which, in the French Revolution, massacred priests and demolished churches. It claims its own infallibility, and would make it subservient to a tyranny. It would be as dominant as the Papacy, and denounce its heretics. If there be any that have a confidence in present times and present _liberality_, and believe that none of these things can come to pass in our country, we would only refer them to a few lines in the page of our recent history, wherein may be read that a furious mob centred itself from all parts in one of the most important cities of the kingdom, attempted to burn down the cathedral, did burn and tear and trample on the Bible, and burnt to the ground the bishop's palace, and eagerly sought the bishop's life. "The _holiness_," and even the "_love_," "within us," that is not of the Christianity of the Scriptures, is an absolute deceit and falsehood; and will ever be, in operation, the most selfish cruelty.