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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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APPENDIX If, | 191
‘¢ ing repugnant to the firft (the bible) though an angel
“¢ from heaven fhould teach it; which were certainly
‘> €© as great a miracle as any that was ever wrought in at-
“‘ teftation of any part of the do&trine of the church of
** Rome.’”? Here, I prefume, he alludes to Galat. 1, v.
8. Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gofpel unto you, than that which we have preached unto
Jou, let bin be accurfed. Where he is guilty of a mani-
“ teft mifapplicasion of the text: 1, Inzfmuch as he ap-
plies to the written word of the bible, what St. Paul
plainly fpeaks of the gofpel which he had_ preached to
the Galatians, that is, of the unwritten chriftian doc-
trine; for S:.. Paul wrote no gofpel, nor had he writ-
ten any thing at all to the Galatians, that we know of,
before this fame epiftle, in the beginning of which he
anathematizes all thofe, that teach any other gofpel
than that which he before had preached to them. 2d,
Mr. Chillingworth‘is guilty of another mifapplication
of this text cf the apoftle ; inafmuch.as he thereby ar-
-rogates to himielf, to reject, that,which feems to his un-
derftanding repugnant with the bible, though attefted
by evident miracles, and taught by the wholechurch of
Chrifl; not: confidering, that it is more than infolent
madnefs, on fuch an occafion, not to fufpeé&t one’s own
underftanding, rather than the doétrine of the whole
Church attelted by evident miracles: and as for the a»
pottle, he vifibly {peaks in that place, not of a doctrine
which feemed only to fome private underftanding, cone -
trary to the word of God; but which he knew by divine
revelation to be falfe; and which the Gala ians, towhom
. he was then writing, knew alfo to be contrary to the gof-
o pel, i. e. to the chriftian doGtrine, which they had recei-
- ved from the apoltle, poe
Mr. Chillingworth goes on, ‘But that true doétrine
-** fhould in all ages have the teftimony of miracles, that
“* Tam no-where taught: So’that I have more reafon to
“* fufpect and be afraid of pretended miracles, as figns
<* of falfe dogtrine, than much to regard them as certain
“‘ arguments of truth.’? Pretended miracles, Sir, are no
“certain arguments of truth, if by pretended miracles, you
‘mean fuch as are not true miracles; but if you would
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