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Chap. I. Divinity Of The Christian Lawgiver And Law

1. Let J. J. Rousseau himself, that most inveterate enemy to revelation, prove its divine truth in a manner worthy of his literary reputation.

3. " The holiness of the gospel," says he in his Emile, " The holiness of the Gospel strikes me to the very heart. — — Behold the books of philosophers : with all their shew ? how insignificant do they appear compared with this !"

4. "Is it possible for a book at once so sublime and so simple to be the work of a man ? Is it possible for the person whose history it relates to be a mere man ? Is there anything in it of an enthusiast or of a sectary ? What meekness! what purity of morals! what graceful interest in his instructions ! what elevation in his maxims! what deep wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what wit, wliat exactness in his answers ! what an empire over his own passions I"

5. " Where is the man, where is even the sage, who can act, suffer, and die without weakness or ostentation ?"

6. " When Plato portrays his imaginary sage loaded with all the shame of crime, yet worthy of all the rewards of virtue, he gives the true picture of Jesus-Christ. The likeness is so perfectly striking, that all the Fathers did acknowledge it, and that there can be no mistake about it."

7. " Socrates dying without either pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the end ; and if this easy death had not crowned his life, it might be questioned whether Socrates, with all his wit, was any thing more than a sophist. He invented, they say, moral philosophy : but others had previously practised it ; he only said what they had done, he only lectured on the examples of others. Aristides had been just before Socrates came to say what justice

8—14 is. Leonidas had laid down his life for his country, before Socrates taught it a duty to love one's native land. Sparta had been sober, before Socrates praised sobriety. Before he had defined virtue, virtuous men had filled Greece. But where among his countrymen could Jesus learn that sublime and pure morality, of which he stood alone both the pattern and teacher ?"

8. " The death of Socrates, who moralizes quietly with his friends, is the happiest which can be wished for : that of •Jesus expiring in tortures, mocked and cursed by a whole nation, is the most horrid which can be dreaded."

9. " Socrates taking the poisoned cup from the hand of a man in tears, blessed him ; Jesus, in the midst of the most frightful of executions, offered up prayers for his own executioners. . . . Yes : if the life and death of Socrates be those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus-Christ must be those of a God "

10. " Shall we say now that the Gospel is a mere invention ? No, nothing in it has. the likeness of invention : and the deeds of Socrates, which no one doubts, are much less certified than the deeds of Jesus-Christ. In fact, it is only removing, but, by no means, answering the difficulty. For it would be much more impossible to conceive how several persons could have agreed in making this book, than how one should have been its subject."

11. "■Never could Jewish writers find either such an harmony or morality. In fine, the Gospel carries with it such marks of truth, so very great, so very striking, and

y so perfectly out of the power of imitation, that its inventor would be much more astonishing than its hero.*'

12.. But if no Jewish writers could find the harmony of the gospel, who could find the more striking harmony of the Old and New Testament ?

13. Of the Old Testament, admitted not only by the -Christians of every denomination as ever held divinely inspired, but even by the Jews, although it openly contra- ■ diet their pertinacious disbelief of the spiritual kingdom of Christ being as yet established.

14. Of the New Testament, ev er admitted as the authenti- ,cal word of God, not only by all the churches of the Catholic universe, but by their adversaries, the Protestants for instance, in spite of .its opposition to their fundamental supposition, that a few centuries after the propagation of the gospe 1 *' All Christendom were at once drowned in abominab'

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Idolatry," (Homily on the Peril of Idolatry, approved by the 35th Of the 39 articles, part iii.) ; a system contradicted in almost every page of the Protestant Bible itself, as we are going to see.

Chap. II. Scripture

Heaven and earth shall pass azvay, but my words shall not pass away. Matt. xxiv. 35.

A» Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall bean everlasting covenant with them„ and I will place them and multiply them, and will set my

SANCTUARY IN THE MIDST OF THEM FOR EVERMORE.

Ezek. xxxvii. 26. (14.)

B. The Redeemer shall come to Zion— — As for me, this is my covenant with them, A, saith the Lord, my spirit which is upon thee, and t)t£ (Hllor&# which I have put in thy mouth, gijall not il£pclCt OUt of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. Isa. lix. 20, 21,

C. To the law and to the testimony: if they speaknot according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isa. viii. 20.

D. An high-way shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the way-faring men,

THOUGH FOOLS, SHALL NOT ERR THEREIN. Isa. XXXV. 8.

E. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death. Prov.xvi. 25. — Thy testimonies are very sure, holiness beeome'th thine house, O Lord, forever. Ps. xciii. 5. — There must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved, may be made manifest. 1 Cor. xL \9. — Jesus-Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Heb. xiii. 8. — The Lord added to tl)C C!)ttCC!) daily such as should be saved. Acts xi. 47. (14.)

F. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. ~Eph. iv, 5. — Without faith it is impossible to please God. Heb. xi. G. — Faith is the evidence ot things not seen. Heb. xi. . ( «4.)

G. The Church of the living Cod, the pillar

.AND GROUND OF THE TRUTH. (E.) 1 Tim, UJ. O. — 'i he lift-

H-Q tion arid kingdom that will not serve thee (her), A, shall perish, yes those nations shall be utterly wasted. Isa. lx. 12. on the Church. (14.)

H. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. C. 2 Tim. iii. 16. However,

I. In St. Paul's Epistles There are some things hard to bje understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Pet. iii. 16.

J. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 2 Pet. i. 20.

K. Remove not the ancient land -mark which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28.

L. Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition ? Mat. xv. 3.

M. Brethren stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught by word, or our epistle. 2 Thess. ii. 15.

N. Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal. i. 8.

O. Ye are our epistle written in our heart, knowm and read of all men, for as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not zvith ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart. 2 Cor. iii. 3. and

P. He (God) gave some, apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, pastors and teachers ; for the perfectin g of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ : till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of Man ; £, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Eph. iv. 11 — 14. — How r shall they preach unless they be sent? Rom. x. 15. — Let them alone, they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the 'blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matt. xv. 14. (14.)

Q. Then said Jesus to them, (the apostles) as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye it die Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, thej are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. Johnxx. £L 33.

R. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature : he that believtth and is baptized sliaii be saved, but he that believeth not, shall be damned. Mark xvi. 15, If).

S. All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, Q, therefore, and teach all nations, . . . teaching them to observe all things -whatsoever I have commanded you : andlo! lam with you alway,B. even unto the end of the world. Matt, xxviii. 18— 20. — Ye are the light of the world, R. A city that is set on a hill cannot" be hid. Matt. v. 14. (14.)

T. He that heareth you, heareth me ; and he that de spiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. Q. Luke x. 16. — I will pray the Father, and he will give} T ou another comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth. John xiv. 16. — When he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truths. John xvi. 13. — Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed f§Z Cljurcl) of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. Acts xx. <28. (14.)

U. "We are of God, Q—T: he that knoweth God, heareth us ; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error. lJohn iv. 6\ — Being assembled with one accord ... it seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us. Acts xv. 25—28. (14 )

V. If he neglect to hear t|}C CijUCtlj, G, T, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Mat. xviii. 17-

W. Other sheep I have, which are not of tlj(0 tOlD, V, them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, T. . . . and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. John x. 16. (14.)

X. Simon . . . feed my lambs . . feed my lambs . . feed my sheep, V¥. Johnxxi. 15 — 17. — Behold the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord. 2 Qhroii. xix. 1 1.

Y. Behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, -strengthen thy brethren. Luke xxli. 31, S L 2. (14.)

Z. I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Y. Mat. xvi. 19. (14.)

a. Thou shalt be called Cephas, (or Peter), which is by interpretation a stone. Johni. 42. — Thou art Pet ke, and upon this rock will I build Xtl$ <Z\)UVt\), G, V, W. and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it I). Mat. xvi.

is.— it fell not; £0? it toas fotmtitD upon a rock. Matt.

b. Of the twelve apostles . . . the first Simon, who is called Peter, Matt. x. 2. — when there had been much disputing, rose up and said : Men and brethren, you know how that God made choice among us; that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe. S. Acts xv. 7. (14.)

c. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written everyone, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that should be written. John xxi. 25.

Chap. III. Tradition

Nozo we command you, brethren, in the Name of Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not of ter the Tradition which he received oj vs. E gThess. iii. 6.

15. For the accuracy of the previous scriptural quotations, (chap.ii. A, B, C, &c. to which we are going constantly to refer the reader) we appeal even to a Protestant Bible, that of Cambridge edition of 1802,

16. Likewise for the conformity of the following inferences from those scriptural quotations (15) with Universal Tradition and Catholic Faith, we appeal to any of the holy Fathers, to the three Creeds equally admitted by the Catholic and Protestant communions, (namely, the Apostolic, INicene, and Athanasian Creeds) and to the doctrine spread in any of the innumerable Catholic Catechisms ever published and approved in any of the numerous districts of the Catholic Universe, or to the. belief of any well instructed Catholic youth even twelve years old, in any spot of the earth.

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17. From this unvarying uniformity and manifest unanimity (16) every logical mind must conclude ;

18. That universal Tradition is the true spirit of scripture, the unwritten word of God.

19- That Catholic Faith is the universal notoriety of Universal Tradition, and consequently of the spirit of scripture. (18.)

20. That universal Tradition and Catholic Faith are the evidence and standard of the Revelation. (18, 19-)

21. Not only (20) on account of the divine promises made to the S^Ottjei* CJtirct) for ever, A, B, S, T, a. but because as, besides the dead letter of the British constitution, for instance, its living spirit, and the publicity of this spirit, remains in the unanimous consent of the British jurisconsults and nation ; much more certainly, besides the letter of the Bible, its spirit, and the universal notoriety of this spirit, must remain in the uniformity of Universal Tradition and Catholic Faith in all ages and places.

22. I said much more certainly ; for if it should be a folly to question facts authenticated by the concurrent testimony of a whole nation, what greater folly must it be to doubt the unanimous testimony of all the nations composing the Universal Church, respecting the facts of such and such tenets having ever been held as of Apostolical Tradition, and consequently as revealed ?

23. This necessary, although long preamble, once well understood, no consistent man will object to reiy on the following inferences from the Bible, not only as upon its obvious, but as upon its authentical meaning ; thus as upon truths both scriptural and traditional : truths consequently warranted by the testimony of God and men. . . Nothing, therefore, can be more credible than the Catholic Faith, let its tenets be as mysterious, and consequently as much above human comprehension as needs to be the heavenly subject of a meritorious belief. So far the Catholic " Faith is the evidence of things not seen !" F. Evidence on account of its notoriety in all times and places, of tilings not seen, be cause they are incomprehensible and supernatural.

24. The New Testament, as the everlasting Covenant of God, A, must be absolute and immutable in its meaning, or spirit. B.

2,3. Of all laws, however, Scripture would be the most changeable and uncertain, were not. its sense fixed by universal testimony, C, and this tradition authenticated by competent and undeniable authority. G, T, M.

<26\ Scripture alone, therefore, cannot be the standing ru'e of faith for man ki nd. Because, 1st, a very small proponton of the words of Jesus Christ were ever written, c, and ndt a syllable thereof before his disciples had propagated his entirely oral doctrine u to the end of the earth.* il.lt is not every body that can read. D. III. Without tradition it is impossible for any one to know what part of Scripture be canonical. C. iV. Men unlearned and unstable Wrest even canonical scripture to their own destruction. I.

Scripture, therefore, to have just authority, must rest on undispn table tradition. C.

28. It must not rest on particular tradition therefore, which is not less excluded by holy writ, L, than private interpretation of the Scripture. J.

£9. But it must rest on universal, apostolical, unchangeable tradition, to which we are commanded in the Bible to adhere as much, as to Scripture itself. M, N, O, B.

30. On Tradition, I say, supported by the writings of the holy Fathers, K, and whenever doubted any where, au-' thenticated bv the General Councils of the teaching Church. G,.S,V.

31. By General Councils, not only morally infallible respecting the fact of the actual tradition, or faith professed in every district of the Univeral Church, but the reputed oracles of the Holy Ghost thereon, since this apostolical decree : "It seemed good unto the Holy Ghost and to us," and these articles of the apostles creed : " 1 believe in the Holy Ghost. ; the Holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints."' S — Y.

52. Behold the divinely appointed teaching Church, or Peter's and the apostolical succession, set even to the end of the world, S, as a wan to a high-way, J), along the universal tradition to keep it straight in parallel and leading to holiness! and as "watchmen, which shall never hold their peace day nor night 1" Isa. lxii. 6.

53. So far true Christianity must be the written and unwritten word of God which never departed from the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the

34, The original - Christian Church, therefore, must be perpetual, A. universal, A. S. visible, II — T. and orthodox, B, in a word. Catholic. S.

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35. Perpetual and orthodox, as the unalienable supporter of the everlasting truth of God ; universal and visible, because " God willeth all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth," F. and consequently to the knowledge of the pillar and ground of the truth. G, V.

36. But what Christian church can prove her perpetuity, universality, visibility, and orthodoxy, by reason, (35) scripture, and by the facts of her duration, propagation, pontificates, and the variations of her deserters forfeiting, not reforming her perpetual, universal, authentical, and thus unchangeable faith I None but the Mother-Church — which is the Roman Catholic. A— D, Q— Z. a.

Chap. IV. Facts

They have Moses and the prophets, (32) let them hear them. Luke xvi. 29.

37- The Roman Catholic Church is really the Mother- Church, because she parted from no other, and from her parted every other persuasion. Hence Simon the Sorcerer, baptized by St. Peter, first Bishop of Rome, was once a convert, Arius a Priest, Luther a Monk, Calvin a Canon, Zuinglius an Arch-priest, Henry the VIIL a Defender of the Roman-Catholic Church ! ! ! The Roman-Catholic Church, therefore, is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Jesus-Christ.

38. One, by the unity of her faith, and communion all over the world with the one head pastor, appointed by Jesus-Christ to feed his one fold. F, W, X.

39. Holy, by the holiness of her author Jesus-Christ, of his doctrine, and of her members, either sanctified or actually possessing every means of sanctification, in the Sanctuary of Godfor evermore. A, B, E, U.

40. Catholic, or eminently universal, by a three-fold universality, of time, of place, and of doctrine: professing the belief and practice of all and every point of it always and every where essential. S.

41. Apostolic, for having received her scripture, tradition, ordination, and mission M-kX. from the apostolical

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42—47 succession ever in communion with the Roman Apostolic See, intrusted in the person of Peter by Christ himself, not only with the keys of his eternal kingdom, but with the propagation of his di\ine Religion, to this day thro' the whole world. Z — b.

42. For his divine and consequently infallible promises to bis perpetual, universal, visible, and orthodox Mother- Church, A, B, S, a. to his apostles in general, Q — U. and more particularly to the first of them, Peter, her visible rock, W — b, and their support were intended " from henceforth and for ever" B. and " even to the end of the world," and consequently to their succession for ever. S. (32.)

43. To the end of the world therefore hearing Peter's and the apostolical succession will be hearing Jesus-Christ himself, T, or, in other words, the Roman-Catholic doctrine will ever be the infallible test, M — S, a. of the irreformable doctrine of Jesus-Christ.

44. Infallible test on account, I. of the physical impossibility of changing universal tradition. M— P. 11. of the moral impossibility of ever persuading the universal body of Catholics spread in every part of the globe, and unanimous in reprobating dogmatical innovation, N, that they do, or must profess, what they never did. HI. Of the metaphysical impossibility of foisting error into the " sanctuary of God for ever more," A, into his Mother-Church, warranted by him proof against the power of darkness, D. a. and for ever unalienable from his spirit and words, B, and from his daily assistance. S.

45. Hence if any one point of the Roman-Catholic doctrine had not ever been, at least implicitly, an integral part of the whole Christian, or Catholic Belief, ever since its apostolical propagation, it would have been even more impossible to foist it therein, than now to persuade all the Protestants, for instance, that they ever did reverence the seven sacraments, practised both in the Greek and Latin Church, as so many institutions of God, handed down by, and from, his very apostles. (S3.)

4b'. The truth of the Roman Catholic faith, therefore, rests on the greatest possible certainty; (44) N. nothing therefore could be more groundless than its Reformation. In fine, Reformation is a solecism.

4?. This accounts for the inconsistency of the reformers, who received from the Mother-Church the Bible, hitherto intrusted in the hands of her Clergy alone, yet distrusted her

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Tradition, warranted by the unanimous testimony and belief of the whole Christian aera and world. Before we consider in the Second Part the system of the reformers, let us contemplate the work of God they wanted to reform, or rather to deform.

48. Let us understand the annexed plate of the Concatenation and Autopsy of Christianity, intended to shew :

49. How the endless chain of truth makes the Bible, Tradition, and Facts, inseparable from genuine Christianity, " from henceforth and for ever." B.

50. How tje CturcJ of tfje libUxs d£o& W tje pillar anD gcounD of tfce tnttij* G.

51. pillar Of %X\\fy, or maintainer of the written and unwritten word of God, namely, of the Bible and Tradition, supported by the writings of the holy Fathers and the general consent of the Apostolical Succession. The Ground of Truth, as grounded visibly upon Peter as upon a rock, and invisibly on Jesus Christ, the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets.

52. Peter is the rock of the Mother Church, because, as every part of a column must rest on its basis, so every true Christian must rest on the permanent Faith, Succession, and Ministry, in a word, Communion of Peter, and thro' him, on Jesus Christ himself, the divine Founder of the original Christian Church, a. (42 — 45.)

53. Jesus Christ, "alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending of every thing," (Rev* i. 8.) is the invisible or divine Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, because he ultimately unites both the New and the Old Testament, as a corner-stone consolidates two walls.

54. The Nezv Testament, represented by allegorical figures of " Peter and the eleven" who are equal to him, respecting ordination, but inferior to him in jurisdiction, W — a.

55. The Old Testament, represented by symbolical figures of the four great prophets, and of the twelve lesser prophets, so called on account of thtfir having written more or less, although they were equally the organs of the Holy Ghost.

56. How, in fine, Truth, Faith, Hope, and Charity, resting on Jesus Christ himself, are eager to point out in the great Book of Facts, the concatenation of Christian Ages, Converts, Pontificates, and Sects, in proof of the perpetuity, universality, visibility, and ortho-

B doxy of the only revealed or original Christianity : Truth trying ecclesiastical history in her own looking-glass : Catholic Faith enlightening successively the whole world : Hope trusting in the wonderful succession of the first Vicar of Christ on earth, throughout the whole Christian sera : Charity mourning over so many heterodoxies, perceivable even by her youngest child ! ! ! *

57. After duly comparing together the scriptural Harmonies inscribed over and on the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, with the Traditional Harmonies related under this monument, and the Evidences of Facts contained in their great book (56), reason must either foolishly resist the united testimony of God, of men and of facts, and believe nothing, or most consistently submit to this three-fold evidence, in admitting as infallible truths the Catholic axioms which follow.

* As a child of the Editor, then not five years old, was once occasionally brought to a Protestant chapel, perceiving, I suppose, the lion and the unicorn in the room of the crucifix, or representation of our Lord crucified, he enquired

of his nurse what place this was? "A church," answered she, — — " A

ehurch then of the King,*' said hej " not of Qo&»"

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Catholic Axioms.

BY AN EVERLASTING COVENANT,

I- Cbe Spirit unto toortig of (Eton tutor taparteH i'rom tfje C&tircij of tlj* Iftmg; <BoH, tje pillar anU gxounfc of tie tnttfu

II. The law and the testimony, the Bible and Tradition of the Holy Fathers and General Councils, written . .. not in tables of stone "only," but in the fleshy tables of the heart.

III. HIS (II.) SANCTUARY FOR EVER MORE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE COM- M UNION OF SAINTS . . . THE WAY OF HOLI- NESS . . . FOOLS SHALL NOT ERR THEREIN.

IV. Because built (III.) upon the foundation of the Apostles, {principally SIJWOM told by God,

« Thou art PETER, {CEPHAS, or a stone) « And upon THIS ROCK will I build " HI? CJttrd), and the gates of hell " shall not prevail against it") and prophets, Jesus-Christ himselfbeingthe chief corner-stone* it fell not for it was founded upon a rock.

V. The Rock of the ^otfjer CljUtCl), (IV.)

the word and Ficegerency of God left on the Roman See by his constituted Vicar Peter.

VI. Hence (V.) the name of Roman to Peter's faith never departed from Christ's perpetual, universal, visible, and orthodox, in a word, Catholic Church. B. Y. (32 36.)

VII. The Roman Catholic Religion, therefore, as lasting and as extended as Christianity, as known as Rome, and as manifest as the apostasies of innovators, all forfeiting, none reforming itsuniversal Tradition. {Plate l Q - S»« 4<?.)

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Chap. V. Recapitulation

/ zeould not believe even the Gospel, were I not outweighed by the Authority of t\)Z Cfjtircfj, (22.) St. Augustin.

Scripture.

58. " Go and teach all nations all things whatsoever I commanded : and lo ! I am with you always, even to the end of the world." — " Ye are the light of the world, a city which is set upon the top of a hill cannot be hid."— " Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature : he that believeih and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not, shall be damned." S. R. — " If he neglect to hear t$Z CfjUtCf), let him be like an heathen man." I. V.

59. " There must be also heresies among you, (37.) that they which are approved may be made manifest." E.

60. " One Lord, one faith." — Without faith it is impossible to please God." F.

Tradition.

I. Of the Apostles.

61. " I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic

Church ; the communion of saints."

II. Of the Apostolical Succession at Nicea.

62. u I believe in one holy, Catholic, and Apostolical Church." ^

III. Of the Holy Father Athanasius.

63. " Whoever will be saved, before all things (58.) it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith : which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly."

Facts.

64. What is universally called the British Nation and Constitution is authentically and exclusively so. What, therefore, is universally calied the Catholic Church and Faith, is authentically and exclusively so. „