Gairney Bridge

Who said the following?

For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace; but the Spirit is truth. Those, therefore, who do not partake of Him, are neither nourished into life from the mother’s breasts, nor do they enjoy that most limpid fountain which issues from the body of Christ; but they dig for themselves broken cisterns out of earthly trenches, and drink putrid water out of the mire, fleeing from the faith of the Church, lest they be convicted; and rejecting the Spirit, that they may not be instructed.

Here’s a hint: it wasn’t someone at the PCUSA GA this year.

Here’s another quote from the same guy:

Such, then, is their system, which neither the prophets announced, nor the Lord taught, nor the apostles delivered, but of which they boast that beyond all others they have a perfect knowledge. They gather their views from other sources than the Scriptures; and, to use a common proverb, they strive to weave ropes of sand, while they endeavor to adapt with an air of probability to their own peculiar assertions the parables of the Lord, the sayings of the prophets, and the words of the apostles, in order that their scheme may not be seem altogether without support.

He almost sounds like he’s talking about the Jesus Seminar there, but he’s not (wrong century, but closer than you might think!).

Any guesses? No fair Googling!