'De Pont. Roman'. IV. 5.--Ed.] [Footnote 11: The ordinary Greek text is: [Greek: ho deúteros anthropos, ho Kyrios ex ouranou]. The Vulgate is: 'primus homo de terra, terrenus; secundus homo de coelis, coelestis.'--Ed.] NOTES ON DONNE. [1] There have been many, and those illustrious, divines in our Church from Elizabeth to the present day, who, overvaluing the accident of antiquity, and arbitrarily determining the appropriation of the words 'ancient,' 'primitive,' and the like to a certain date, as for example, to all before the fourth, fifth, or sixth century, were resolute protesters against the corruptions and tyranny of the Romish hierarch, and yet lagged behind Luther and the Reformers of the first generation. Hence I have long seen the necessity or expedience of a threefold division of divines. There are many, whom God forbid that I should call Papistic, or, like Laud, Montague, Heylyn, and others, longing for a Pope at Lambeth, whom yet I dare not name Apostolic. Therefore I divide our theologians into, 1. Apostolic or Pauline: 2. Patristic: 3. Papal. Even in Donne, and still more in Bishops Andrews and Hackett, there is a strong Patristic leaven. In Jeremy Taylor this taste for the Fathers and all the Saints and Schoolmen before the Reformation amounted to a dislike of the divines of the continental Protestant Churches, Lutheran or Calvinistic. But this must, in part at least, be attributed to Taylor's keen feelings as a Carlist, and a sufferer by the Puritan anti-prelatic party. I would thus class the pentad of operative Christianity:-- 'Prothesis' Christ, the Word 'Thesis' 'Mesothesis' 'Antithesis' The Scriptures The Holy Spirit The Church 'Synthesis' The Preacher The Papacy elevated the Church to the virtual exclusion or suppression of the Scriptures: the modern Church of England, since Chillingworth, has so raised up the Scriptures as to annul the Church; both alike have quenched the Holy Spirit, as the 'mesothesis' of the two, and substituted an alien compound for the genuine Preacher, who should be the 'synthesis' of the Scriptures and the Church, and the sensible voice of the Holy Spirit. Serm. I. Coloss. i. 19, 20. p. 1. Ib. E. What could God pay for me? What could God suffer? God himself could not; and therefore God hath taken a body that could.