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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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"Ly carried about with every wind of dofrine, and inftead /
i of fpeaking the truth in love, are led into the paths of
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Thos we fee innumerable texts of {cripture give evi-
dence in favor of the Old. Religion, and bear teftimony
; againft the New. All thefe paflages and many others,
Sa, which it is too long to tranfcribe, fpeak of a church
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one communion from them; a chorch fubfiftingin all”
ages, from its firit cftablifhment till the end of the
world; always One, always Holy, always Orthodox,
“always vifible, Now ’tis as evident that ours alone fis
the Old religion, and that the pretended reformation,
which gave birth to proteitancy, only began about two
hundred yearsago. ; ce:
mae Le Src TION ‘the Sixth.
Mr. R's exception againf? our proving the Infallibility of
the Church from Scripture, by reafon of the vicious cir-
cle «hich be pretends to-difcover in this way of arguing.
- Mr. R. Pp. 41, 42, objeéts againft the proving of the
Infallibility of the church from fcripture, that this way
of arguing flings us into a circle: ‘inafmuchas we prove
the infallibility of the church from’ the authority of
fcripture, and the infallibility of {cripture from the au-
thority of the church. But he is very much miftaken,
if he thinks there is any vicious circle in this, or, if he
imagines that we fhall abandon fo many plain texts of ©
{cripture which bear witnefs to the church’s authority,
for fear of being conjured into a circle,
A wicious circle, accordiog to logicians, isa ridiculous
way of arguing, by which a man, in order to prove the
point which he advances, alledges for argument fome
other propofition, which he can no otherwife make out
- to be true, than by fuppofing the truth of the point
which he was to prove ; which is in effect proving the
fame thing byitfelf; it is true, becaufe itis true. Now
let us fee whether-this be our cafe.
The point that we undertake to prove, is the infalli-
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