ativan age, out the very points that they choose as the most trivial are sometimes very important indeed. Either we must submit entirely to the authority of our ecclesiastical government, or we must dispense with it altogether. It is not for us to settle what degree of obedience we owe it. And I can say this, moreover, from my own experience, since I formerly exercised this liberty of discrimination and personal choice, dismissing as negligible certain points in our Church ceremonial which had the appearance of being either too mean- too strange. But when I came to discuss them with learned men, I found that these things have a substantial and very solid foundation, and that it is only stupidity and ance that make us accept them with reverence than the rest Why do we not remember how many contradictions we find Cicero, Tusculans, xxi. go