But, Sir, she has other securities: she has the security of her own doctrines; she has the security of the piety, the sanctity, of her own professors,--their learning is a bulwark to defend her; she has the security of the two universities, not shook in any single battlement, in any single pinnacle.
Burke emphasizes that the Church's security comes from its doctrines and the integrity of its professors and universities.
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