A religious service is paid to the saints JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH Cyprian on post-baptismal sins The Roman Catholic system of justification Bossuet 394 The proof of the Protestant doctrine 395 Decrees of the Council of Trent on justification 399 The Romish doctrine of indulgences, from "The Christian doctrine," and from C. Butler's Book of the Roman Catholic Church 401 Appendix de Indulgentiis Delahogue 401 Pallavicini 403 At the Council of Trent the Romish divines differed in their views of justification. Prayer to the Virgin to appease the wrath of Christ TRANSUBSTANTIATION. Scriptural passages where the same figure is used, as "This is my body" Resumption of the argument 405 406 407 412 The decrees of the Council of Trent on transubstantiation The Council of Trent admits a difference of patristic interpretation of the 6th chapter of St. John's Gospel 413 Some Romish doctors gave the Protestant interpretation of this chapter Bellarmine 413 The intention of the Romish ministers is necessary for a valid sacrament Council of Trent 414 The body of Christ may naturally be present in heaven, and sacramentally on earth The Catechism of the Council of Trent says that the bones and nerves of Christ's body are present in the eucharist Certain Romish doctors held that the words of the Scripture do not alone prove transubstantiation The Fathers of the Iconoclast Council of Canstantinople Johannes Erigena wrote against transubstantiation Bertram; Berengarius; Council of Lat. IV. 415 415 PAGE. THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. It is a propitiatory sacrifice Argument against the Mass Conc. Trid. 419 420 421 425 Dupin 425 The XXXIst Article of the Church of England On the liturgies falsely attributed to the Apostles Subjection to the Roman Pontiff essential to salvation Elizabeth Emperors and kings are to hold the Pope's bridle, &c. 436 436 Book of Sacred Ceremonies 437 Extraordinary penance and absolution of the Emperor of Germany Greg. VII. 438 The Emperor of Germany kisses the Pope's feet Baronius 439 The Kings of France and England hold the Pope's bridle, &c. The King of Germany does the same Baronius Pope Celestine kicks off the Emperor of Germany's crown 439 439 Baronius 439 The necks of kings and princes are put under the knees of priests Decretum Gratiani 440 The same difference exists between the Popes and kings as between the sun and the moon. Decret. Greg. IX. 441 The Pope is God's vicegerent upon earth Decret. Greg. IX. The Pope's titles are the same as those of Christ 442 Bellarmine 442 Divine titles given to Popes Julian and Leo X by certain of the preachers to the fifth Lateran Council Pope Alexander VI. hailed as a god Labbæus et Coss. The Pope said to have been called God by Constantine 443 Priest Eustace's remarks on the Pope's adoration after his election. The adoration of Pope Pius II. The Papal Supremacy-continued. The Right Rev. Dr. Doyle's (a Roman Catholic bishop) account of Pope Gregory VIIth's immeasurable ambition, and of the gross perversion of Scripture by the Popes of the Middle Ages The false decretals PAGE. 446 The forged donation of Constantine Extract from Pius IVth's Creed on reading the Scrip PURGATORY, the doctrine and its refutation Decree of the Council of Trent Catechism of the Council of Trent Fleury 449 458 459 459 Bellarmine on the pains and locality of purgatory Bellarmine on the duration of purgatory Bellarmine affirms that many of the Fathers held that all, except Christ, passed through purgatory Different interpretations given by the Fathers of the passage, "Agree with thine adversary quickly," &c. 459 Different interpretations given by the Fathers of the passage, "What shall they do, who are baptized for Indulgences for thousands of years, from the "Horæ THE RULE OF FAITH Romish differences All things necessary were written All the traditions are now written The Scriptures prove the abolition of the Jewish Sab bath, and infant baptism tures 460 480 The Right Rev. Dr. Doyle's evidence 480 The Council of Toulouse prohibits the use of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue 481 The bull Unigenitus declares that the use of the Scrip The Rule of the Fathers appointed by the Council of Pope Adrian admitted the fallibility of a Pope 483 484 485 Bellarmine 486 РАСБ. The Rule of Faith-continued. Peter Lombard, and other Romish doctors, declare that The decrees of the Council of Trent on absolution Dr. Delahogue shews that the form of absolution has The encyclical letter of Gregory XVIth The Creed the only foundation of the Church No Pauline Epistle from Laodicea 488 489 490 492-3,-4 495 497 498 Dupin 498 No decision respecting the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary Augustine enumerates eighty-eight heresies The list of General Councils UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA PREFACE. IN reading the works of the Fathers it is essential to recollect, 1. That the greater part of the works of the Fathers of the first three centuries after the birth of Christ are lost. 2. That we have the works only of the dominant party of the Fathers of the Nicene age, unless Eusebius be considered as an exception. 3. That almost all of the most celebrated of the Nicene Fathers, Jerome, Chrysostom, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, Athanasius, who wrote the life of St. Anthony, and even Augustine, were more or less ascetics, and partook of the fanaticism of their age. 4. That they were all confessedly fallible men, and that their interpretations of the Scriptures are not unanimous. 5. That they not only contradict each other, but themselves. 6. That in reading the writings of fallible men it is necessary to know at what period of their lives, under what circumstances, and with what views, their several works were composed; and also to ascertain their characters, judgment, scriptural knowledge, and Christian experience. 7. That very many works have been ascribed to the Fathers and for ages generally received and quoted as theirs, which the learned have since ascertained that they never wrote; and that great doubts exist in the minds of learned Roman Catholics respecting the genuineness of many of the works which are now generally assigned to them. 8. That as all the Greek Fathers, and many of the Latin Fathers, used very figurative language, many passages can be quoted from them which seem to favour transubstantiation and the mass. 9. That there is not a Romish error, with the exception, perhaps, of the worship of the Virgin Mary, and of the use and veneration of images, which cannot be supported by extracts from the genuine works of one or more of the Ni |