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The unerring authority of the Catholic Church in matters of faith, maintained against the exceptions of a late author in his answer to a letter on the subject of infallibility, or, A theological dissertation, in which the infallibility of the church of Christ is demonstrated from innumerable texts of Scripture, from the creed, from the fathers, and perpetual tradition : to which is prefixed, eight preliminaries by way of introduction to the true church of Christ.
Author
Challoner, Richard, 1691-1781.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Publish Date
1789
Publisher
London: printed; Philadelphia: re-printed for T. Lloyd
Source
ACHS Historic Papers Lloyd Family.
Topic
Catholic Church > Infallibility > Early works to 1800. Authority > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > Early works to 1800. Church > Authority > Early works to 1800.
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Or THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, Se. 34
i gin to the {chifm) and the controverfy about confecrat- -
ps ing in unleavened bread (from which Michael Cervla-
' - Fius took occafion to renew the breach) thefaith of both
. churches would to this day have been the fame. | For AR
i as to the article of the Pope’s fupreinacy, it neitherwas | : ae
: -any occafion of the breach at firft, nor ever obftruded a ae
i any of the negotiations that have fo often fince been © po
2 made for the re-union of the churches, fince we do not ey
find in hiltory,-that the fchifmatics ever bopgled much
at this. So that their difowning the Pope’s fuprema-
cy was but the natural confequence of their {chifm : for
what rebel, in church or ftate, would ever yet acknow-,
ledge that authority by which he was condemned?
What has been here faid of the tenets of the Greeks,
is to be extended alfo tothe Melchites in Syria, the
Georgian , and all thofe people which are of the Greek
faith and communion in Afia;-as alfo to the Ruffians,
or Mufcovites in Europe, who are of the fame religion: |
of whofe doctrine and ceremonies, fee Alexander Rofs,
. ° p. 486, 487, 488.
The mot numerous feet in the eaft, next to ‘that of
the Greeks, are the Armenians, who are very much
{pread through Perfia, Mefopotamia, both the Arme-
nias, &c. hefe alfo are found to agree with us in al-
} oo mot all thofe controverfies which divide us from prote f-
tants, as will appear from the following abftract of their
tenets, taken out of-proteflant writers - whoare always
_ willing to prefent the opinions of theoriental chriflians
me as favorable as they can to their own doétrine, and re-
ae move them to as great a diftance as poflible from Rome.
yoo _ 1. They hold Tranfubftantiation, fo the Atlas Geo-
graphus out of Sir Paul Rycaut, Vol. 3. p. 248.
though he is pleafed to tell us, they have received it
Srom the Papifts of late. Which indeed is but a ground-
Jefs fiction deftitute of all appearance of probability,
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t _-and eafily to. be confuted from their ancient liturgies. hog
Mr. Tavernier, a ftri€t proteftant, towhom the Atlas : 3 oad
fe in the following page refers his reader for a further. ois post
i, account of the religion of the Armenians, tells us in Bop ok
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