The difficulties of Romanism in respect to evidence, or, The peculiarities of the Latin church evinced to be untenable on the principles of legitimate historical testimony Volume 1-2 ; in two books

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...Works of the Fathers whose names have been enumerated. When Mr. Husenbeth and Cardinal Perron before him complain of the great loss which their cause is gratuitously said to have sustained by the destruction of certain Writings of the three first centuries, we are naturally and reasonably led to ask: why they and their friends, such as Dr. Trevern and Mr. Berington, have not made a better and more ample use of the Writings which have survived? Doubtless, many of them have perished: yet still, from the amply sufficient remainder, we can easily establish the aboriginally acknowledged apostolicity and the consequently primitive reception of every really Catholic Doctrine. Why, then, cannot the same be done, from the same materials, with the Peculiarities of Romanism? Why, for the substantiation of those Peculiarities, has not more use been 1 Clearly, Pope Pius IV. thought Constantinopolitan Symbol in the the ancient creeds lamentably defec-latter end of the sixteenth century, tive: for he tacked a dozen new-This high authority, Mr. Husen fangled Articles to the old Niceno-both, no doubt, may plead. made of the treasures which we still possess? Why, under each point of doctrine or of practice, are so many of the early Writers left altogether uncited? Why, in the hands of Dr. Trevern and Mr. Berington, are the pretended proofs from them at once so miserably inconclusive and so deplorably penurious? It would have been but seemly, on the part of Mr. Husenbeth, to produce Clear Evidence from the numerous Early Writings which we still possess, ere he idly and gratuitously babbled of his imaginary loss of testimony through the destruction of those which have perished. What! Can no clear evidence, for the Apostolicity of Latin Peculiarities, be produced from any one o...