Above all, there is something to my mind at once elevating and soothing in the idea of an order of learned men reading the many works of the wise and great, in many languages, for the purpose of making one book contain the life and virtue of all others, for their brethren's use who have but that one to read. What, then, if that one book be such, that the increase of learning is shown by more and more enabling the mind to find them all in it! But such, according to my experience--hard as I am on threescore--the Bible is, as far as all moral, spiritual, and prudential,--all private, domestic, yea, even political, truths arid interests are concerned. The astronomer, chemist, mineralogist, must go elsewhere; but the Bible is the book for the man. [Footnote 1: The LXXX Sermons, fol. 1640.--Ed.] [Footnote 2: "Mr. Coleridge's admiration of Bull and Waterland as high theologians was very great. Bull he used to read in the Latin 'Defensio Fidei Nicoenoe', using the Jesuit Zola's edition of 1784, which, I think, he bought at Rome. He told me once, that when he was reading a Protestant English Bishop's work on the Trinity, in a copy edited by an Italian Jesuit in Italy, he felt proud of the Church of England, and in good humour with the Church of Rome." 'Table Talk,' 2d edit. p. 41.--Ed.] [Footnote 3: Rom. vi. 3, 4, 5.--Ed.] [Footnote 4: John i 14. Gal. iv 4. Ed.] [Footnote 5: See the whole argument on the difference of the reason and the understanding, in the 'Aids to Reflection', 3d edit. pp. 206-227. Ed.] [Footnote 6: See the author's entire argument upon this subject in the 'Church and State'.--Ed.] [Footnote 7: Galat. ii 20.--Ed.] [Footnote 8: Compare 'Hamlet', Act V. sc. 1. This sermon was preached, March 8, 1628-9.--Ed.] [Footnote 9: C. iii. 13, &c.--Ed.] [Footnote 10: See, however, the author's expressions at, I believe, a rather later period. "I now think, after many doubts, that the passage; 'I know that my Redeemer liveth', &c. may fairly be taken as a burst of determination, a 'quasi' prophecy. I know not how this can be; but in spite of all my difficulties, this I do know, that I shall be recompensed!" 'Table Talk', 2d edit. p. 80.--Ed.] [Footnote 11: How so? Is it not admitted that Robert Stephens first divided the New Testament into verses in 1551? See the testimony to that effect of Henry Stephens, his son, in the Preface to his Concordance.--Ed. ] [Footnote 12: 'Rom'. viii. 3. Mr. C. afterwards expressed himself to the same effect: "Christ's body, as mere body, or rather carcase (for body is an associated word), was no more capable of sin or righteousness than mine or yours; that his humanity had a capacity of sin, follows from its own essence. He was of like passions as we, and was tempted. How could he be tempted, if he had no formal capacity of being seduced?" 'Table Talk', 2d edit. p. 261.--Ed.] [Footnote 13: See Hooker's admirable declaration of the doctrine:--