Lettre de Demission a la Faculte de l'Ecole de Theologia de Geneve [pp. 367-416]

THE
PRINCETON REVIEW.
JULY, 1851.
No. III.
ART. I.-Lettre de Dlmission aI la Facultg de l'~cole de 1/o logie de Gentve. Par Ed. Scherer, Professeur de l'Exeg~se, &c.
Gen~ve, 1849.
"AN old error often disguises itself under a new name."*
There is something so attractive in the sheen of novelty, something so flattering to human pride in the idea of progress, that,
"ye shall be as gods knowing" is still the gilding of the bait,
whether it be addressed to sense or reason. The pithy observation we have quoted above, may be supported by examples
from every century of Church history, and from none more
copiously than our own. Certain "old errors" which have
worn out not a few suits of phraseology in the course of the
last eighteen centuries, have of late appeared in new attire
complete, cut after the latest fashion; and with the help of
rouge and patches, and other rejuvenating appliances, are seeking to palm themselves off as the youngest-born of truth. A
searching glance, however, quickly detects through all their
finery and affectations the wrinkles of age, and the deep scars
of repeated refutations, received at the hands of those who in
old time were "valiant for truth."
Dr. Livingston.
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