2. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy imitate the Gnostics: who, when they were confuted from Scripture, were accustomed to reply; that, _by those who are ignorant of Unwritten Tradition_, _truth cannot be discovered from the Written Word_. 3. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy copy the example of Cyril of Jerusalem: who declared, that, _respecting the faith_, NOT A TITTLE _ought to be delivered without the authority of the Holy Scriptures_; and who exhorted his Catechumens to _repose not_ THE SLIGHTEST CONFIDENCE _in his assertions_, _unless they should receive from the Holy Scriptures full demonstration of the matters propounded_? 4. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy teach, with Athanasius: that, _the Scriptures_ ALONE _are sufficient for the declaration of the truth_; and that, _in the canonical Scriptures_ ALONE, _to the exclusion of the Apocrypha_, _is the evangelical school of piety_? 5. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy declare, with the same illustrious Father: that _they will never be persuaded either to hear or to speak_ A SINGLE SYLLABLE _beyond God’s written word_? 6. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy pronounce, still with the great Athanasius: that _it is the part of mere triflers to propound and to speak the things which are not written_? 7. Do, or do not, the doctors of the Council of Trent, and after them our present Romish Clergy, take up, and make their own, the ancient pithy distinction of Jerome: _The things which are written we acknowledge_; _the things which are not written we reject_? 8. Do, or do not, the Romish Clergy, make a point, with Tertullian, of _always requiring the production of proof from the Written Word_: and do they, or do they not, allow and maintain, with the same Father; that _he_, _who is unable to produce the Written Word in substantiation of his tenets_, _but who for that purpose resorts to Unwritten Tradition_, _may well dread the awful Woe so justly denounced against those who either add to it or detract from it_? 9. Finally, in their several estimates of Unwritten Tradition and the Written Word, and in their several modes of conducting those theological controversies which respect the authoritative rule of faith and practice, do the Romish Clergy or the Reformed Clergy approximate most closely to Holy Scripture and to the ancient orthodox Fathers? CHAPTER V. MERITORIOUS SATISFACTION. FROM the perfect equality of Unwritten Tradition and the Written Word of God, we may next proceed to the doctrine of Meritorious Satisfaction. I. The Church of Rome lays down her decision, respecting what she calls _Works of Satisfaction_, in manner following.