my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope1 and the books of the sophists. I look now and then to see what they have done, or learn from them the history and thought of their time, but I do not study them, or feel myself bound to conform to them. I do not treat the Fathers and the Councils very differently. In this I follow the example of St. Augustine, who is one of the first, and almost the
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