Sunday, February 07, 2016
Picking and Choosing
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), "Andrew Marvel and Bishop Parker," Imaginary Conversations:
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Parker. We must lay gentle constructions and liberal interpretations on the Scriptures.
Marvel. Then let us never open them. If they are true, we should receive them as they are; if they are false, we should reject them totally. We cannot pick and choose: we cannot say to the Omniscient, "We think you right here; we think you wrong there; however, we will meet you halfway, and talk it over with you."