Part 317

It would thus appear that every theory of baptism, whether Romanist or Protestant, High Church or Low Church, Evangelical or Ritual, can find support in this treatise. If the clear-headed Bishop Ellicott has a clew through this labyrinth, he would do well to im- part it to the public. The great characteristic of a large and representative class of the learned theologians of the Church of England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was that they derived their theology from the Bible through the medium of the Fathers. Whereas the theologians of the Continent drew their doctrines immediately from the Bible; and this makes the difference between biblical and patristical Christianity; the difference, to common eyes, between twilight and noon.