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§ II.-Reign of Edward VI.

. 339

16. The Duke of Somerset, as Guardian of Edward VI, governs the Kingdom.

17. He declares himself a Heretic, and gives leave to the Heretics to preach ;

invites Bucer, Vermigli, and Ochino to England, and abolishes the Roman

Catholic Religion. 18. He beheads his Brother, the Lord High-Admiral.

19. He is beheaded himself. 20. Death of Edward ; the Earl of Warwick

makes an attempt to get possession of the Kingdom, and is beheaded, but is

converted, and dies an edifying Death.

§ III.—Mary's Reign,

343

21. Mary refuses the title of Head of the Church ; repeals her Father's and

Brother's Laws; Cranmer is condemned to be burned, and dies a Heretic :

Mary sends off all Heretics from her Court. 22. Cardinal Pole reconciles

England with the Church ; her Marriage with Philip II., and Death.

$ IV.-The Reign of Elizabeth,

344

23. Elizabeth proclaimed Queen ; the Pope is dissatisfied, and she declares

herself a Protestant. 24. She gains over the Parliament through the Influence

of three of the Nobility, and is proclaimed Head of the Church, 25. She esta-

blishes the form of Church Government, and, though her Belief is Calvinistic,

she retains Episcopacy, &c. 26. Appropriates Church Property; abolishes the

Mass; the Oath of Allegiance ; Persecution of the Catholics. 27. Death of

Edmund Campion for the Faith. 28. The Pope's Bull against Elizabeth.

29. She dies out of Communion with the Church. 30. Her Successors on the

Throne of England ; Deplorable State of the English Church. 31. The English

Reforination refutes itself.

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ARTICLE II.-- The Anti-Trinitarians and Socinians,

. 350

$ 1.—Michael Servetus.

32. Character of Servetus ; his Studies, Travels, and False Doctrine.

32. He goes to Geneva ; disputes with Calvin, who has him burned to Death.

§ II.- Valentine Gentilis, George Blandrata, and Bernard Ochino, 351

34. Valentine Gentilis ; his impious Doctrine. 35. He is punished in

Geneva, and retracts. 36. Relapses, and is beheaded. 37. George Blandrata

perverts the Prince of Transylvania ; disputes with the Reformers; is mur-

dered. 38. Bernard Ochino; his Life while a Friar; his Perversion, and

Flight to Geneva. 39. He goes to Strasbourg, and afterwards to England,

with Bucer : his unfortunate Death in Poland.

§ III.— The Socinians,

356

40. Perverse Doctrine of Lelius Socinus. 41. Faustus Socinus; his Travels,

Writings, and Death. 42. Errors of the Socinians.

CHAPTER XIII.

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Heresies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,

359

ARTICLE I.—Isaac Perieres, Mark Anthony de Dominis, William

Postellus, and Benedict Spinosa.

1. Isaac Perieres, Chief of the Preadamites, abjures his Heresy. 2. Mark

Anthony de Dominis; his Errors and Death. 3. William Postellus; bis

Errors, and Conversion. 4. Benedict Spinosa, Author of a new Sort of Atheism.

5. Plan of his impious System; his unhappy Death.

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ARTICLE II.-The Errors of Michael Baius,

362

6. Michael Baius disseminates his unsound Doctrine, and is opposed.

7. St. Pius V. condemns seventy-nine Propositions of Baius, and he abjures

them. 8. Retractation written by Baius, and confirmed by Pope Urban VIII.

ARTICLE III.-The Errors of Cornelius Jansenius,

. 365

9. Cornelius, Bishop of Ghent, and Cornelius, Bishop of Ipres; his Studies

and Degrees. 10. Notice of the condemned Work of Jansenius. 11. Urban

VIII, condemns the Book of Jansenius in the Bull" In eminenti;" the Bishops

of France present the Five Propositions to Innocent X. 12. Innocent con-

demns them in the Bull “ Cum occasione ;" Notice of the Propositions.

13. Opposition of the Jansenists; but Alexander VIII. declares that the Five

Propositions are extracted from the Book, and condemned in the sense of

Jansenius; Two Propositions of Arnold condemned. 14. Form of Subscription

commanded by the Pope to be made. 15. The Religious Silence. 16. The

Case of Conscience condemned by Clement XI. in the Bull Vineam Domini.

17. The opinion, that the Pontificate of St. Paul was equal to that of St. Peter,

condemned.

66

18. Quesnel is dismissed from the Congregation of the Oratory. 19. He

publishes several unsound Works in Brussels. 20. Is imprisoned, escapes to

Amsterdam, and dies excommunicated. 21. The Book he wrote. 22. The

Bull “Unigenitus," condemning the Book. 23. The Bull is accepted by the

King, the Clergy, and the Sorbonne; the Followers of Quesnel appeal to a

future Council. 24. Several Bishops, also, and Cardinal de Noailles, appeal

to a future Council, likewise; but the Council of Embrun declares that the

Appeal should not be entertained. 25. The Consultation of the Advocates

rejected by the Assembly of the Bishops; Cardinal de Noailles retracts, and

accepts the Bull; the Bull is declared Dogmatical by the Sorbonne and the

Bishops. 26. Three Principles of the System of Quesnel.

ARTICLE V.-The Errors of Michael Molinos,

. 377

29. The unsound Book of Molinos called the “Spiritual Guide.” 30. His im-

pious Doctrine, and the Consequences deduced from it. 31. His affected Sanc-

tity; he is found out and imprisoned, with two of his Disciples. 32. He is

condemned himself, as well as his Works; he publicly abjures his Errors and

dies penitent. 33. Condemnation of the Book entitled “ The Maxims of the

Saints."

SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER.

Heresies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries,

. 379

1. Introductory Matter. 2. Rationalists. 3. Hernhutters, or Moravians.

4. Swedenborgians, or New Jerusalemites. 5. Methodism ; Wesley. 6, 7. Doc-

trines and Practices of the Methodists. 8. Johanna Southcott. 9. Mormonism.

10. German Catholics.

REFUTATION OF HERESIES.

REFUTATION I.

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The Heresy of Sabellius, who denied the Distinction of Persons in the

Trinity,

391

§ 1.—The real Distinction of the Three Divine Persons is proved, 391

§ II.-Objections answered,

. 396

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REFUTATION II.

The Heresy of Arius, who denied the Divinity of the Word,

. 400

§ I.-The Divinity of the Word proved from the Scriptures, . 400

§ II.—The Divinity of the Word proved by the authority of

Holy Fathers and Councils,

411

§ III.-Objections answered,

. 415

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Ghost,

REFUTATION III.

Of the Heresy of Macedonius, who denied the Divinity of the Holy

420

§ I.—The Divinity of the Holy Ghost proved from Scriptures,

from the Traditions of the Fathers, and from General Councils, 421

§ II.-Answer to Objections,

430

REFUTATION IV.

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The Heresy of the Greeks, who assert that the Holy Ghost proceeds

from the Father alone, and not from the Father and the Son, 433

§ I.-It is proved that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father

and the Son,

433

§ II.—Objections answered,

440

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§ III.—The Necessity and the Gratuity of Grace is proved by

Tradition; confirmed by the Decrees of Councils and Popes, 447

S IV.-Objections answered,

449

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REFUTATION VI.

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of the Semi-Pelagian Heresy,

. 451

§ I.—The Commencement of Faith and every good Desire is not

from ourselves, but from God,

451

§ II.-Objections answered,

453

REFUTATION VII.

Refutation of the Heresy of Nestorius, who taught that in Christ

there are two Persons, .

. 457

§ I.-In Jesus Christ there is but the one Person of the Word

alone, which terminates the two Natures, Divine and Human,

which both subsist in the same Person of the Word, and,

therefore, this one Person is, at the same time, true God and

true Man,

458

Objections answered,

464

§ II.-Mary is the real and true Mother of God,

466

The Objections of the Nestorians answered,

469

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REFUTATION VIII.

Refutation of the Heresy of Eutyches, who assorted that there was

only one Nature in Christ,

470

§ I.-In Christ there are two Natures—the Divine and the

Human Nature-distinct, unmixed, unconfused, and entire,

subsisting inseparably in the one Hypostasis, or Person of the

Word,

470

Objections answered,

477

REFUTATION IX.

Of the Monothelite Teresy, that there is but one Nature and one

Operation only in Christ, .

481

§ I.-It is proved that there are two distinct Wills in Christ,

Divine and Human, according to the two Natures, and two

Operations, according to the two Wills,

481

§ II -Objections answered,

484

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REFUTATION X.

The Heresy of Berengarius, and the pretended Reformers, concerning

the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist,

· 487

I.Of the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ

in the Eucharist,

489

Objections against the Real Presence answered,

496

§ II.-Of Transubstantiation—that is, the Conversion of the Sub-

stance of the Bread and of the Wine into the Substance of the

Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, .

498

Objections against Transubstantiation answered,

501

§ III.-Of the Manner in which Jesus Christ is in the Eucharist;

the philosophical Objections of the Sacramentarians answered, 503

§ IV.—The Matter and Form of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, 509

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REFUTATION XI.

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Errors of Luther and Calvin,

· 514

Summary of the principal Points, viz. :- 1. Free Will exists. 2. The Divine

Law is not impossible. 3. Works are necessary. 4. Faith alone does not

justify us. 5. Of the Uncertainty of Justification, Perseverance, and Eternal

Salvation. 6. God is not the Author of Şin. 7. God predestines no one to

Hell. 8. Infallibility of General Councils.

$ 1.-Of Free Will,

514

§ II.-That it is not impossible to observe the Divine Law, . 516

§ III.—That Good Works are necessary for Salvation, and that

Faith alone is not sufficient,

520

§ IV.—The Sinner is not justified by Faith alone,

527

S V.–Faith alone cannot render us secure of Justice, or Per-

severance, or Eternal Life,

531

§ VI.—God cannot be the Author of Sin,

537

S VII.—God never predestined any one to Eternal Damnation,

without regard to his Sins,

543

§ VIII.—The Authority of General Councils,

553

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