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TO EDWARD IRVING

But you, honored IRVING, are as little disposed as myself to favor such doctrine! [as that of Mant and D'Oyly on Infant Baptism].

Friend pure of heart and fervent! we have learnt A different lore! We may not thus profane The Idea and Name of Him whose Absolute Will Is Reason--Truth Supreme!--Essential Order!

1824. First published in Aids to Reflection, 1825, p. 373. First collected 1893.