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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 CatholicFaber, George Stanley

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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

Name: 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
Author: Faber, George Stanley

Faber, George Stanley

Catholic Church -- Controversial literature

_Assertions_ of the apostolicity and perpetuity and immutability and
primeval universality of Romish Peculiarities are cheaply made: but FACTS
and ASSERTIONS are matters widely different from each other.

To the satisfactory test of BARE FACTS I have brought the peculiar
doctrines and practices of Romanism.

Let the Latin Clergy, if it be in their power, set aside _my_ FACTS, and
historically substantiate _their own_ ASSERTIONS.

_Long-Newton Rectory_,
      _August_ 3, 1830.




CONTENTS.

                                                                  PAGE
                              CHAPTER I.
Introductory Statement                                               7
                             CHAPTER II.
Transubstantiation                                                   9
                             CHAPTER III.
Purgatory                                                           24
                             CHAPTER IV.
Unwritten Tradition and Insufficiency of the Written Word           29
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                              CHAPTER V.
Meritorious Satisfaction                                            39
                             CHAPTER VI.
Saint-worship, Image-worship, Relic-worship, Cross-worship          44
                             CHAPTER VII.
Papal Supremacy                                                     55
                            CHAPTER VIII.
Remarkable acknowledgements made by the Romish Clergy               59
                             CHAPTER IX.
Extraordinary theological practices of the Romish Clergy            62
                              CHAPTER X.
Conclusion                                                          72




CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT.


THE great and constant boast of the Latin Clergy is: that _The Catholic
or Universal Church of Christ from the very beginning_, _has_ ALWAYS
_taught the doctrines which are now taught by the Church of Rome_; that
_These doctrines are revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures_, and that
_They have_ ALWAYS _been set forth and maintained by those early
ecclesiastical writers who are commonly styled the Fathers_.

I.  On these points lest we should labour under any mistake, let us hear
the positive declarations of the Council of Trent, which sat in the
sixteenth century, and which by the Romanists is considered as having
finally set at rest all disputes respecting the points of doctrine
litigated between themselves and the Reformed. {7}

The declarations of that last reputed infallible General Council run in
manner following.

1.  This faith was ALWAYS in THE CHURCH OF GOD. {8a}

2.  THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH thus ALWAYS understood. {8b}

3.  This matter was ALWAYS held for certain in THE CHURCH OF GOD. {8c}

4.  THE SACRED SCRIPTURES declare, and the tradition of THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH has ALWAYS taught. {8d}

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