And thus we see that our blessed Saviour's gifts to men have been preserved all through these long centuries, and are still amongst us in greater or less degree; and we can well understand that having given us these channels, by which His vineyard is to be watered, by which the living waters are to flow forth, it is not His will that every man should be his own evangelist or pastor, feeding himself at will, drinking, perhaps to surfeit, of the precious waters which should be conveyed to him through the appointed channel, but that he should be under dutiful obedience and submission, and that thus and thus only may unity and peace be preserved, and the body grow together into its perfect stature and fullness." "I see all that exactly," cried Bertram, "and I will strive to keep it in mind.

I mislike the very name of Lollard, and I well know that they be a mischievous and pernicious brood, whom it were well to see exterminated root and branch.

Yet no man can fail to see that they love the Scriptures, and I felt they were in the right there.

Now I well see that they may love the Word as much as they will, but that they must still seek to be taught and fed by those who are over them in the Church, and not seek to eat and drink (in the spiritual sense of the word) at their own will and pleasure.
That is truly what the Church has ever taught, but I never heard it so clearly explained before.
"Come, Julian; the sun is losing much of its power now.

Let us stroll along the margin of the stream, and see where best we may fish upon the morrow.
"Edred, wilt thou come?
No; I thought not.