I would thus class the pentad of operative Christianity: —

Prothesis

Christ the Word
Thesis

The Scriptures		Mesothesis

The Holy Spirit		Antithesis

The Church
Synthesis

The Preacher

The Papacy elevated the Church to the virtual exclusion or suppression of the Scriptures: the modern Church of England, since Chillingworth, has so raised up the Scriptures as to annul the Church; both alike have quenched the Holy Spirit, as the

mesothesis

of the two, and substituted an alien compound for the genuine Preacher, who should be the

synthesis

of the Scriptures and the Church, and the sensible voice of the Holy Spirit.

Serm. I. Coloss. i. 19, 20. p. 1.

Ib.

E.