THE PRESCRIPTION AGAINST HERETICS
- CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTORY. HERESIES MUST EXIST, AND
EVEN ABOUND; THEY ARE A PROBATION TO FAITH.
- CHAP. III.—WEAK PEOPLE FALL AN EASY PREY TO
HERESY, WHICH DERIVES STRENGTH FROM THE GENERAL FRAILTY OF MANKIND.
EMINENT MEN HAVE FALLEN FROM FAITH; SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON.THE CONSTANCY
OF CHRIST.
- CHAP. IV.—WARNINGS AGAINST HERESY GIVEN US IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT. SUNDRY PASSAGES ADDUCED. THESE IMPLY THE
POSSIBILITY OF FALLING INTO HERESY.
- CHAP. V.—HERESY, AS WELL AS SCHISM AND
DISSENSION, DISAPPROVED BY ST. PAUL, WHO SPEAKS OF THE NECESSITY OF
HERESIES, NOT AS A GOOD, BUT, BY THE WILL OF GOD, SALUTARY TRIALS FOR
TRAINING AND APPROVING THE FAITH OF CHRISTIANS.
- CHAP. VI.—HERETICS ARE SELF-CONDEMNED. HERESY.
IS SELF-WILL, WHILST FAITH IS SUBMISSION OF OUR WILL TO THE DIVINE
AUTHORITY. THE HERESY OF APELLES.
- CHAP. VII.—PAGAN PHILOSOPHY THE PARENT OF
HERESIES. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DEFLECTIONS FROM CHRISTIAN FAITH AND
THE OLD SYSTEMS OF PAGAN PHILOSOPHY,
- CHAP. VIII.—CHRIST'S WORD, SEEK, AND YE SHALL
FIND, NO WARRANT FOR HERETICAL DEVIATIONS FROM THE FAITH. ALL CHRIST'S
WORDS TO THE JEWS ARE FOR US, NOT INDEED AS SPECIFIC COMMANDS, BUT AS
PRINCIPLES TO BE APPLIED.
- CHAP. IX.—THE RESEARCH AFTER DEFINITE TRUTH
ENJOINED ON US. WHEN WE HAVE DISCOVERED THIS, WE SHOULD BE CONTENT.
- CHAP. X.—ONE HAS SUCCEEDED IN FINDING DEFINITE
TRUTH, WHEN HE BELIEVES. HERETICAL WITS ARE ALWAYS OFFERING MANY THINGS
FOR VAIN DISCUSSION, BUT WE ARE NOT TO BE ALWAYS SEEKING.
- CHAP. XI.—AFTER WE HAVE BELIEVED, SEARCH SHOULD
CEASE; OTHERWISE IT MUST END IN A DENIAL OF WHAT WE HAVE BELIEVED. NO
OTHER OBJECT PROPOSED FOR OUR FAITH.
- CHAP. XII.—A PROPER SEEKING AFTER DIVINE
KNOWLEDGE, WHICH WILL NEVER BE OUT OF PLACE OR EXCESSIVE, IS ALWAYS
WITHIN THE RULE OF FAITH.
- CHAP. XIII.—SUMMARY OF THE CREED, OR RULE OF
FAITH. NO QUESTIONS EVER RAISED ABOUT IT BY BELIEVERS. HERETICS
ENCOURAGE AND pERPETUATE THOUGHT INDEPENDENT OF CHRIST'S TEACHING.
- CHAP. XIV.—CURIOSITY OUGHT NOT RANGE BEYOND THE
RULE OF FAITH. RESTLESS CURIOSITY, THE FEATURE OF HERESY.
- CHAP. XV.—HERETICS NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO ARGUE
OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES. THE SCRIPTURES, IN FACT, DO NOT BELONG TO
THEM.(24)
- CHAP. XVI.—APOSTOLIC SANCTION TO THIS EXCLUSION
OF HERETICS FROM THE USE OF THE SCRIPTURES, HERETICS, ACCORDING TO THE
APOSTLE, ARE NOT TO BE DISPUTED WITH, BUT TO BE ADMONISHED.
- CHAP. XVII.—HERETICS, IN FACT, DO NOT USE BUT
ONLY ABUSE, SCRIPTURE. NO COMMON GROUND BETWEEN THEM AND YOU.
- CHAP. XVIII.—GREAT EVIL ENSUES TO THE WEAK IN
FAITH, FROM ANY DISCUSSION OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES. CONVICTION NEVER
COMES TO THE HERETIC FROM SUCH A PROCESS.
- CHAP. XIX. APPEAL, IN DISCUSSION OF HERESY, LIES
NOT TO THE SCRIPTURES. THE SCRIPTURES BELONG ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE THE
RULE OF FAITH
- CHAP. XX.—CHRIST FIRST DELIVERED THE FAITH. THE
APOSTLES SPREAD IT; THEY FOUNDED CHURCHES AS THE DEPOSITORIES THEREOF.
THAT FAITH, THEREFORE, IS APOSTOLIC, WHICH DESCENDED FROM THE APOSTLES,
THROUGH APOSTOLIC CHURCHES.
- CHAP. XXI.—ALL DOCTRINE TRUE WHICH COMES
THROUGH THE CHURCH FROM THE APOSTLES, WHO WERE TAUGHT BY GOD THROUGH
CHRIST. ALL OPINION WHICH HAS NO SUCH DIVINE ORIGIN AND APOSTOLIC
TRADITION TO SHOW, IS IPSO FACTO FALSE.
- CHAP. XXII.—ATTEMPT TO INVALIDATE THIS RULE OF
FAITH REBUTTED. THE APOSTLES SAFE TRANSMITTERS OF THE TRUTH.
SUFFICIENTLY TAUGHT AT FIRST, AND FAITHFUL IN THE TRANSMISSION.
- CHAP. XXIII.—THE APOSTLES NOT IGNORANT. THE
HERETICAL PRETENCE OF ST. PETER'S IMPERFECTION BECAUSE HE WAS REBUKED
BY ST. PAUL. ST. PETER NOT REBUKED FOR ERROR IN TEACHING.
- CHAP. XXIV.—ST. PETER'S FURTHER VINDICATION.
ST. PAUL NOT SUPERIOR TO ST. PETER IN TEACHING. NOTHING IMPARTED TO THE
FORMER IN THE THIRD HEAVEN ENABLED HIM TO ADD TO THE FAITH. HERETICS
BOAST AS IF FAVOURED WITH SOME OF THE SECRETS IMPARTED TO HIM.
- CHAP. XXV.—THE APOSTLES DID NOT KEEP BACK ANY
OF THE DEPOSIT OF DOCTRINE WHICH CHRIST HAD ENTRUSTED TO THEM. ST. PAUL
OPENLY COMMITTED HIS WHOLEDOCTRINE TO TIMOTHY.
- CHAP. XXVI.—THE APOSTLES DID IN ALL CASES TEACH
THE WHOLE TRUTH TO THE WHOLE CHURCH. NO RESERVATION, NOR PARTIAL
COMMUNICATION TO FAVOURITE FRIENDS.
- CHAP. XXVII.—GRANTED THAT THE APOSTLES
TRANSMITTED THE WHOLE DOCTRINE OF TRUTH, MAY NOT THE CHURCHES HAVE
BEEN UNFAITHFUL IN HANDING IT ON? INCONCEIVABLE THAT THIS CAN HAVE BEEN
THE CASE.
- CHAP. XXVIII.—THE ONE TRADITION OF THE FAITH,
WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY ALIKE IN THE CHURCHES EVERYWHERE, A GOOD PROOF
THAT THE TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN TRUE AND HONEST IN THE MAIN.
- CHAP. XXIX.—THE TRUTH NOT INDEBTED TO THE CARE
OF THE HERETICS; IT HAD FREE COURSE BEFORE THEY APPEARED. PRIORITY OF
THE CHURCH'S DOCTRINE A MARK OF ITS TRUTH.
- CHAP. XXX.—COMPARATIVE LATENESS OF HERESIES.
MARClON'S HERESY. SOME PERSONAL FACTS ABOUT HIM. THE HERESY OF APELLES.
CHARACTER OF THIS MAN; PHILUMENE; VALENTINUS; NIGIDIUS, AND HERMOGENES.
- CHAP. XXXI.—TRUTH FIRST, FALSEHOOD AFTER
WARDS, AS ITS PERVERSION. CHRIST'S PARABLE PUTS THE SOWING OF THE GOOD
SEED BEFORE THE USELESS TARES.
- CHAP.XXXII.—NONE OF THE HERETICS CLAIM
SUCCESSION FROM THE APOSTLES. NEW CHURCHES STILL APOSTOLIC, BECAUSE
THEIR FAITH IS THAT WHICH THE APOSTLES TAUGHT AND HANDED DOWN. THE
HERETICS CHALLENGED TO SHOW ANY APOSTOLIC CREDENTIALS.
- CHAP. XXXIII.—PRESENT HERESIES (SEEDLINGS OF
THE TARES NOTED BY THE SACRED WRITERS) ALREADY CONDEMNED IN SCRIPTURE.
THIS DESCENT OF LATER HERESY FROM THE EARLIER TRACED IN SEVERAL
INSTANCES.
- CHAP. XXXIV.—NO EARLY CONTROVERSY RESPECTING
THE DIVINE CREATOR; NO SECOND GOD INTRODUCED AT FIRST. HERESIES
CONDEMNED ALIKE BY THE SENTENCE AND THE SILENCE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. XXXV.—LET HERETICS MAINTAIN THEIR CLAIMS
BY A DEFINITE AND INTELLIGIBLE EVIDENCE.THIS THE ONLY METHOD OF
SOLVING THEIR QUESTIONS. CATHOLICS APPEAL ALWAYS TO EVIDENCE TRACEABLE
TO APOSTOLIC SOURCES.
- CHAP. XXXVI.—THE APOSTOLIC CHURCHES THE VOICE
OF THE APOSTLES, LET THE HERETICS EXAMINE THEIR APOSTOLIC CLAIMS, IN
EACH CASE, INDISPUTABLE. THE CHURCH OF ROME DOUBLY APOSTOLIC; ITS EARLY
EMINENCE AND EXCELLENCE. HERESY, AS PERVERTING THE TRUTH, IS CONNECTED
THEREWITH.
- CHAP. XXXVII.—HERETICS NOT BEING CHRISTIANS,
BUT RATHER PERVERTERS OF CHRIST'S TEACHING, MAY NOT CLAIM THE CHRISTIAN
SCRIPTURES. THESE ARE A DEPOSIT, COMMITTED TO AND CAREFULLY KEPT BY THE
CHURCH.
- CHAP.XXXVIII.—HARMONY OF THE CHURCH AND THE
SCRIPTURES.HERETICS HAVE TAMPERED WITH THE SCRIPTURES, AND MUTILATED,
AND ALTERED THEM. CATHOLICS NEVER CHANGE THE SCRIPTURES, WHICH ALWAYS
TESTIFY FOR THEM.
- CHAP. XXXIX.—WHAT ST. PAUL CALLS SPIRITUAL
WICKEDNESSES DISPLAYED BY PAGAN AUTHORS, AND BY HERETICS, IN NO
DISSIMILAR MANNER. HOLY SCRIPTURE ESPECIALLY LIABLE TO HERETICAL
MANIPULATION. AFFORDS MATERIAL FOR HERESIES, JUST AS VIRGIL HAS BEEN
THE GROUNDWORK OF LITERARY PLAGIARISMS, DIFFERENT IN PURPORT FROM THE
ORIGINAL.
- CHAP. XL.—NO DIFFERENCE IN THE SPIRIT OF
IDOLATRY AND OF HERESY. IN THE RITES OF IDOLATRY, SATAN IMITATED AND
DISTORTED THE DIVINE INSTITUTIONS OF THE OLDER SCRIPTURES. THE
CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES CORRUPTED BY HIM IN THE PERVERSIONS OF THE VARIOUS
HERETICS.
- CHAP. XLI.—THE CONDUCT OF HERETICS: ITS
FRIVOLITY, WORLDLINESS, AND IRREGULARITY. THE NOTORIOUS WANTONNESS OF
THEIR WOMEN.
- CHAP. XLII.—HERETICS WORK TO PULL DOWN AND TO
DESTROY, NOT TO EDIFY AND ELEVATE. HERETICS DO NOT ADHERE EVEN TO THEIR
OWN TRADITIONS, BUT HARBOUR DISSENT EVEN FROM THEIR OWN FOUNDERS.
- CHAP. XLIII.—LOOSE COMPANY PREFERRED BY
HERETICS. UNGODLINESS THE EFFECT OF THEIR TEACHING THE VERY OPPOSITE OF
CATHOLIC TRUTH, WHICH PROMOTES THE FEAR OF GOD, BOTH IN RELIGIOUS
ORDINANCES AND PRACTICAL LIFE.
- CHAP. XLIV.—HERESY LOWERS RESPECT FOR CHRIST,
AND DESTROYS ALL FEAR OF HIS GREAT JUDGMENT. THE TENDENCY OF HERETICAL
TEACHING ON THIS SOLEMN ARTICLE OF THE FAITH. THE PRESENT TREATISE AN
INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN OTHER ANTI-HERETICAL WORKS OF OUR AUTHOR.
- ELUCIDATIONS.
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