[Picture: Public domain book cover] FACTS AND ASSERTIONS: OR A BRIEF AND PLAIN EXHIBITION OF THE INCONGRUITY OF THE PECULIAR DOCTRINES OF The Church of Rome WITH THOSE, BOTH OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, AND OF THE EARLY WRITERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH CATHOLIC. * * * * * BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B.D. RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON, AND PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY. * * * * * It is the part of mere triflers to propound and to speak the things which are not written. _Athanas. Epist. ad Scrap. Oper._ vol. ii. p. 29. * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, _Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge_, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. * * * * * 1831. [410] * * * * * GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John’s Square, London. * * * * * ADVERTISEMENT. IT has been suggested to me, that _A brief and plain Exhibition of the utter Incongruity of the peculiar doctrines of the Church of Rome with those both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the early writers of the Christian Church Catholic_ might be useful as a small Tract for general circulation. This suggestion has given rise to the present little manual. As for those, who either desire more copious information on the subject, or who may wish to see my authorities in the original Greek and Latin: I refer them to the second edition of my _Difficulties of Romanism_, printed for Messrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, London, 1830. If, from the Written Word of God and from the Fathers of the three first ages, any Latin Divine can make out an historical case, for _The alleged Apostolicity of the peculiarities of the Church of Rome_, better than the failures of Mr. Berington and Bishop Trevern of Strasbourg: let him by all means come forward, whether he be Bishop or Priest or Deacon. The Bible and the Fathers of the three first centuries, whence alone any historical substantiation of the assertions made by the Romish Clergy can be deduced, are open to them as well as to ourselves. Respecting _opinions in the abstract_, ingenious men may dispute for ever: but FACTS are of a more stubborn and intractable quality.