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"of zeal against “ popery” or the catholic ounreh, ne epi-
> ’ ple, that the union of ail the Protestant sectaries, has no title |
_ Stch-heresiarch Luther, tojgetber with the motley crew that
406.
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
VOL. IX.
_ could tarnish specimens enough to show that the charge of|
cathelies must be the GREAT Boy of Christians in ail ages,
, , : 7 .
na, St. Pacianus, writing in the, 4th centuary to Sympronia-
a Nov:
ee eer
STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY,
CHARLESTON, JUNE 19, 1830.
To the Editors of the United States Caruotic Miscellany,
“Tur Lapizs Vexoiearon” ONCE MORE. . ~
cut off. How then, I would ask Vindex, can anew raised
ty,scarce three hundred years old, be catholics ? Vin-|
dex is too clever a grocian in Tanguage | not to know t the ‘de.
tivation of the term, catliolic—
ation, uses these words—* In.'a popalous city
where-there ore Marcioniete, Novations,, and others of the
like stamp, calling themselves christians, should I not want -
ano me, by w hich to know my” eongregation, if, they wero
M
that he read the groek testament. -
just Ini “Ho
name is
christian ; my sirname is cainolio That belongs to me:
“ Were you only foolish, £
were you only maliciour I might be Satisfied to ‘rpg yous
sociely Ly claim | to be catholie, the great Ten TULLIAN wrote hia
were you only ¢ ignerant of good, it might content me lo svoid
you; t folly
k sublie heart id: b
out, ‘By th t Iam signified ; by this Tam
pr oved
‘St. Agata ia ‘hie book (do vera religione, cap. 3d.)
ook of prescriptions, to frome that herotics are convicted
by | .this—H hat. they nok of p:
must hold the chrisftan religion and the
the te and that lash ‘Ewill never spare to such as you for
besid
7
was
fame, ba ‘ie to-rob. me of my ancient family name.”
initio. As
rous ‘of originale Tohall here quote the language: -of the
utho cap. 32) “ Edant ergo origines ecclesis|
“
fthat t church which is catholic, and is not only
called 80 by her own children but BY ALL HER ENEMIES. For
hétetics and Scbiamatics whether they’ will or no, when they.
Gent
speak, not to their own people, but to strangers, call catho-
The objec! of this communication i is to charge the ladies
biblical volantest with a misdemeanor—an attempt to,
P ‘ » Anat tp 1us °
‘“‘copus, aliquem ex postols, vel sportetics viris, qui ‘te
“ men cuin apostolis. perseveraverit, habuerit auctorom, et
Pant $ tala olinnia E 05.99 Paeend
lice, caTHOLICS onuy. For they.cannot be understood if :
they. give them not that name which ‘all the world give them,
rob catholics of a name Wear to them as
imi in this unwarrantale offort with shies of anciont
nd fe
“lian goes on [cap. 37.] “ Si hecitase habent, constat ratio
Again i in his book written Seainet | the Manichees, on tho
h, St. ts Augustin uses these ro-
markable words suppose we were now first inquiring.
cht i
y
Prop .
A 4 . “ ‘.
- of the same -latrociny. The records of our courts of |
exhibit tou us acts of ' criminality, 0 at which our naturo, | tho’
frail
m fomale parent, to attain certain onde, unblushingly pre
z
g her
-ful Lohild, who, by some covert act had Shesred hor slap. - Ivis matt
“ turie, proba ad seripturas non periner—Ad quos me-
et undo veniatie?
“ Quid in meo agitis, n Men: neat posseesio--Olim |
‘* possideo, Prior poceide.”*
r of noteriety that. thos who pretended to re-
fn the civil has it nee in th
gious world. We find certain, ‘haiidaals s-in a, paroxysism
thets the most base, the most shameful, and unjust.—
Such as the scarlet lady, w~ of Babylon, popish, romish,
&c. &c. not reflecting that in so doing, they brand them-
selves, who left hér bosom, or rathor were cast out from her,
the church, and her faith from the apostles’ to the pre-
time, [for every h preten ders] |
have also pretended to the name of catholic: yet itis a mai-
ter of fact that, in ordinary discourse, it has never been a oP
pellated to a new raised society, but invariably to. the chur
of allnations, which every new reformist baptised by 4 new
name, as Th int ntend to Proves 3. ond ‘why not Vindex baptise |
achutch, as al) grant, in
© respect of the whole world; more numerous; and as those
% who know it declares which teaches: truth. more sincerely,
% than ALL OTHER 8 is Ido not now examine: But
“ that: which is sufficient to determine our choice, there is
* ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH, to which different heresies give:
* w aiforent money whereas each of them have thoir own
“ peculiar names; which they dare not deny; by which it
“ appears, the case being impartially decided, to whom the
* namé of catuozic is due, to which all pretend. % :
I like dearly, gentlemen, to ‘quote from this holy fathor,
fo: t, he wrote in an
tios’of the faith ackitowlege the church to have been inher
purity, [thank thein forit,] and, second—the holy bishop of
favorit st 7:
with the odium they would fain attach to theit mother; or
if thoy do reflect, set at nought tho disgrace, in the hope of
ignoring the bill which had beon: filed against them by the
nore heir to just: claims and ‘itles, _ The parity will hold
ordination: But i in thie, no doubt, he holds to the tradition
With him law. and equity ore equally set at Acfiunce,¢ when
PP 6 P
his having said-Mass from the period of his ordination to his
death, and offering up that unbloody sacrifice thirty times:
specially for the ‘repose’ of the soul of his beloved mother,
Monica. .I might add a third: Ihave m
him to cat
reversing the plaintiff and itndni-The following ie. |
gant entree so far as they go, will exhib’
of m: mplaint. ‘ Werel todo it,” writes Vindex “1
uth and. purity and sim-
for their baptism; neither is he more rerepuleu in “the fora
“words, and forms at
will, Indeed, from a slight review 7 of the conduct. of all ae-
paratists, it would seem they were willing that the church,
from which thoy separated, should be called any thing but
catHoLic, The Montanists, called the catholics by the
devotion to thes. These reasons wy I trust, plead my
apology, for still continuing my quotat
| champion, and advocate of. gathiclic doctrines, in 1 deciding .
the question at issue—W. ne e the real catholic
In his epistle against the “Ma anichees, in whic h ‘noresy he
wasinvolved for nino pears called the foundation, 4th chap.
polite name of boxnas, seniual beasts ; and: why?
which you
do not believe i is in the catholic church, there are many other
0
at cause | the ey
Id me in her commu
Plicity of the everlasting gospel. A writer under the signa- The N hett-ane-unte of. tole. a:A nion. nnn the ‘hesity
ture of t, th t ror ° . ‘t ant as b—suthority
it ithe te talk nt Bomish Badin tion, tatics, for adm ing jose to penance who had sacrificed in begun with rniraaten nourished with hope, encreased. with
h de th j es 2 in rp n the capitol.” The Arians’ baptised thom by a variety of| charity, confirmed by anti uity, holds me, Tump—A.suc-
* en hon Is q no! a a t ot! Catholic i of t names, such as Consubstantialets, Homoousiane, end Sa-|cesston oF pnisHors, pscene DING FROM THE sEe oF ST.
rovant sesumpiton to which the » Because - il a an S bellians. The Donatists gave thom Mensu-| Petzn, [hear, Vindex,] ‘to whom Christ, after his resurrec-
Ng pli ey aro not entitlod.”” Sol 1s, Cacilians and infidel- scripture: givers. ‘St Jerome in his} tion committ ited his flock, to the present episcopacy holds
have said the whole armies fof ancient and modern heretics, ’ .
53 epis. to R the very name of a caruo of
upon whom tho one OLY, CATHOLIC, and aPosToLic cHurcH|
. has put tho extinguisher in hor general councils, from her
* “firet i in Jenusaugs to her last r Trent, in which she cut off
from hér communion the grand’ father of Vindex,—the
Cinorarians- and idolaters, for not abandoning the doctrine
ot tho veneration of the rolics of the maityrs who laid down};
their lives for the faith of Christ L
, egory of Tours, who 3 t
ters in the 6th century, assures us that the heretics of: his
time called catholics, out of contempt, by the name of. Ro-
mans. -The holy Bishop's words: aro the following, Ro-
which this, church alone-has not without reason, ao kent ‘he
Boswossions that although ‘all harotis desire to be called ca-
ess. yet i ife stranger ask t hom where catholics meet,
+ ; SLA NL, he,
to ‘take place,’ but: UNCONTESTATLE EVIDENtE.
ara these—
His words
pos. si ”
not now stop to prove the absurdity of the curious
“name, protestant catholic, 28 assumed by those who attempt |
to prove their claim exclusively to the term, nor upon princi-.
to it, being together but a miserable: minority of christen-
ist:
[Lib. cap,.25] And. according to Dupin, tha greck
| achiomation who troubled christianity in the east about thre
hundred years after St. Grogory’s timo, called thom by the|®
|samenamo.. Of. kin to this was the tame of papists with
|which Vindex’s grand: father christenet catholics, when in
tho sixtoonth century he.was cut off fr
althoug
m their communion
anks, hese matters have been fally discussed, and satis:
factory proved i in the firet letter tof B. Cort 0 the
the Sen
“ beon, fully decided i in that correspondence, that the * good
women” and others haye been prohibited to peruse the work
as Valroady stated. It ishowevor gratify: ing to the friends of | ™
truth to bo informed that, in many inst ances, the ecclesiasti-
cal interdict of an avowedly fallible junta has not been com-
: plied with; 3 that the. producti ion of B. Je hus grown and|’
atrengthened in rity, gz
Vindex, that it has tu med born o; ‘prin
. -Itia not passing strange, to be aure, e, that a.quack at! scrip
to matu
ture; will also become ompirick in midwifery it is just so “® Lot. tl
, With the ladies field officer,—Nunc a
~The true. church
rem. .
of Christ is acknowledged i in the X arti-
0 the
certain
among
hI ho held to the doctring of the real presence and
e Mass, for the
of fifteon. yeats ‘after his having been lopt off, and
rotten branch. The Brand ‘Son will
was
oved to abandon the Mass—the belief of the real, prosencé,|”
and the possibiily for man or woman to live chastely, out. |:
sido the marriel state,
; Tho © great boly of christians, although it lost many ‘bran:
so far wasit from
]
over 2
g
tiem ‘produce the origin. of. their eharcoett
them give us tke life of thoi Bishops, coming down
cession from the beginning, so’ that tier first bishop ‘had
citheir an a poste, oran aposto olical ‘m: atinuin, ing tot the
in the comnunion of the apostles, fo for thie Asa —
vet horetice counterfeit any thing like this. f the: ey ca If] w.
show
Hence the learned bishop of Barcolo- th
-One word or two more, and I an
close this article. I will put it to the conscience of Vindex;
| o| conscience he has, were he to fill the situation of my friend
r. Bacot, and that a letter addressed to the Caruoric Bi-
sHor* ov Cuanneston ware to come through the Post Office,
ask, i ‘in Bish
;|thet of Bishop England? .Vindex—farewell, but one word
at pari ting—Our aver is before the publics it has also 50:
been examined, by that nal,
Thave adduced on my side the testimony of varitable
witnesses to prove thei iteina of my firet chargé, against your
bibl and 3]. and these witnesses
were perfoctly disinterested—they wero those from your own
artys, but under the circumstances in which they wrote
the ey were compelled to toll tho truth.» Icould have brought
@ gre’ any more charges of ‘interpolations: against the
protestant bibles, and cited good. _ witnesses in proof; but I
orin
Xi
what’ you had _Ploug' hed up, and if inreturning the rooted
80 many. different societios of christians, who are catholics ?
For. surely, a question. of auch. moment involves more re-
| shouid not be alowed to appeal to the: sorptores-~To ‘owh
| {an may justly tay, w @ yo When did you co
_ aearch than, I say, and you
_ Fiat then, jf the catholic, church be the. universal chiureh,
2:
A from whence ¢ Wh do lo yo sate er upon my posi
h T hold of old. My tenuro is Prior to your existence,
|fedoe translation, J
proper place, some clods had coma in con-
tact with you, and the: ladies, you und they must putit ta
2) the: account of your imprudence, to use a mild expression.
Iwas once as ignorant of catholic tencts as you now se
to be, but Inever abused Protestants nor eatholice; pj neither