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 "What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak,
 They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,
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 "What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak,
 They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek,
  From Christian folds, the one selected race,
   Of all professions, and in every place." 
 It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast 
themselves most of their being near to read more 
 It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast 
themselves most of their being near to the Church. 
 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, 
and beat upon that house; and it read more 
 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, 
and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded 
upon a rock. 
 God never had a church but there, men say,
 The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
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 God never had a church but there, men say,
 The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
  I doubted of this saw, till on a day
   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles. 
 In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities 
of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, read more 
 In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities 
of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has 
during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose 
minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the 
Great Hall. 
 Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
 Will never mark the marble with his Name.  
 Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
 Will never mark the marble with his Name. 
 No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a 
Chappell hard by.
 [No sooner read more 
 No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a 
Chappell hard by.
 [No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel 
hard by.] 
 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat 
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot read more 
 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat 
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred 
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and 
stars. 
 Well has the name of Pontifex been given
 Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
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 Well has the name of Pontifex been given
 Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
  And architect of the invisible bridge
   That leads from earth to heaven.