There is one more question at which ye will
tremble when ye ask it in the recesses of your souls; I do tremble
at it, yet must utter it. Whether we do not more warmly and erectly
stand up for God's word because it came from our mouths, than
because it came from his? Learned and ingenious men may indeed find
a solution and excuse for all these propositions; but the wise unto
salvation will cry, "Forgive me, O my God, if, called by thee to
walk in thy way, I have not swept this dust from the sanctuary!"'"
SIR THOMAS.
"All this, methinks, is for the behoof of clerks and ministers."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"He taught them what they who teach others should learn and
practise. Then did he look toward the young gentlemen of large
fortune; and lastly his glances fell upon us poorer folk, whom he
instructed in the duty we owe to our superiors."
SIR THOMAS.
"Ay, there he had a host."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"In one part of his admonition he said, -
"'Young gentlemen! let not the highest of you who hear me this
evening be led into the delusion, for such it is, that the founder
of his family was ORIGINALLY a greater or a better man than the
lowest here. He willed it, and became it.
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