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infer from these words simply TINS tnst neretics are
the other articles Of the creed there can DO very great
heretics the examples have given sunicenty prove
and vet Protestsnts themselves will acknowledge that
any one were to rise up in this assembly aud deny
the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, that such
would be hereto though there Is no menot
he Is hereto who obstinately adheres to an error
against faith, and that OF God Luther, condemns
error In vain saws he :" do the Recommendations
boast of their belief in the Father Son aud Holy Ghost
whilst with basphemoas mouth they deny inns M ths
Acts of the Apostles read these words " you shan
be witnesses OF me in jerusalem in Judea, In samsra
and even to the uttermost parts OF the eaIth hs.e
you that Christ his Apostles substantial wit
Of himself Think you then that having CHOSEN
them such he will hold them gutless who refuse to
believe them ! No, my brethren; and accordingly we
the Gospel st Luke 10th chapter awful
and ST. nihcant words e that heareth you heareth me-
he that despseth you despiseth me-" But they VINO say
that each be saved In his sec do not hear
Chrsts wtnesses-the rulers of the catholic church
The inference they despse Christ and him who sent
him. The rulers Of the church Of Christ not alone his
witnesses they also spiritual governors II our
governors we are bound to obey them st Paul In III.
they who adhere to their respective ecs do not observe
this command ofthe apostle The conclusion leave to
yourselves When we consider the weakness of the hui
man understanding will, in dispassionate mo-
ments acknowledge the necessity Of guide those
matters that far above natural comprshens sion
Reason tells that such as is guide such will be-
faith If our guide ba blind by adherng to him,
will fall into the pit with him If our guide be steady
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in the right path Christ in bis mercy and good
has given this guide in the church =" the pill
lar and the ground of truth 1.-THE church instructed
In all truth by the Holy Ghost-ths church. with
which he will be teaching all nations, to the end
of the world" You evidently see the claims which your
Redeemer has to your gratitude and obedience. That
great light Of the Christian church. St. Augustine, de-
cares that would believe in the GOSPEL he
not led this belief by the authority of the Catholic
church Not but this great had every veneraon
for gospel but he knew well that that alone the
tru gospel for which the church would vouch We
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inspiration of the sacred volume but that of of the
church. Take this away and the fabric umbles to the
ground. But protestants reject the authority of the
church. How, therefore, can they have faith and
without faith how they expect to be saved seeing
please God" presume you will all acknowledge that
the Az speaks Of true faith only But faith
lctng scots; and, if not how such be pleas
ing to God? But cannot the protestant have divine
faith No, my brethren The protestant leans on his
own judgment for the formation of his faith Or he
leans on the judgment of his preachers Or he leans
the authority Of the private spirit speaking nwardy to
saw that they lean on the word Of God But the ques
about the meaning of the word of God The prOtes
tant says it is for him say it is for me The protes
tant rejects the authority the church Who is to
decide between You therefore, that he must fall
back on the helps have already enumerated Let us
now examine if those helps will enable him to make
act of divine faith which is positive and nfalbe
surance If the truth Of what he believes Common
will tell him that his own Judgment is not infa-
BILE How then he be infably certain Of the truth
of those things which not in themselves immediate
ly evdent Again. the Protestant Gays that he believes
the Scriptures, but the Scriptures say Omnts homo
mendau Eve man is liar and in view of this how
can he place implicit reliance on his own Judgment
His preachers-they are not infalble We say they
have erred and do err. Professionals acknowledge the
same. Luther said that the sacramentarians erred,
and the assert that Luther himself
erred not alone on the EaSnars' put on many other
make an ct Of divine faith The private spirt-this
has led numbers into the widest errors and extrava
gancies We cannot caution you against 1t too en-
phaticay Indeed the holy Apostle, St Johu, cautions
us against dearly Beloved says he try every spirit
for many false teachers gone forth into the word
How are they to be tried? By comparing their
doctrine with tho public teaching of the churc
which is guided by the Holy Ghost II they accord wit
her teachings, then they right. If they do not,
then they spirits of sent by the enemy your
salvation to destroy you But are not the consequences
of this doctrine ghtfu in the extreme! This doctrine
evidently stnts the Almighty in the exercise of his at
tributes Of mercy and goodness
"Why should this weak and erring hand
Presume thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land,
On each jAdge thy foe :"
II we be Christians we bound to follow the teach
ing Of our Lord and Master, and Of his holy apostles
iieve will be dsmnedn And St Paul says, that. He
resies and scots exclude from the kingdom of Godn
Were dest to make this observation we would reply
that he himself has to encounter the same difficulty
Reason tells him that there Is but one God tells
him that is monstrous deordnation to transfer the
worship which due to the only trus and living Gsd to
and and creeping things and his will
hold doaors accountable to God for this perversiou
being The generality Of deists admit that man Is an
accountable being. There some few who do not and
among those we place Marmontel, the author of Bell
sarius for in this book find that he places notorious
idolators in heaven. Let now bring those remarks
TO the OF sound philosophy and theology Philoso
ply tells that they are without soliciting -philoso
ply teaches that the author Of being has absolute
dominion over all the faculties Of my SOUL and that he
can no more diyest himself Of this dominion, than
to my belief and that refuse to believe guilty OF
an act of rebellion, tor which my reason tells me must
tI.t Als. l..
posed to my belief 81 an article Of faith that thing
must have revealed by God. Should then refuse
to believe that article which Is proposed to me by the
refuse believe God himself Or say by my
conduct, that God is not always to bs believed
Now this is blasphemy, and this is the bias
phemy Of which heretics guilty. Say, are they
excusable We may classify those who out of the
church in the following order dolators lndels, Here
tics ana Schismatcs Reason tells us that cannot
Justify idostors lnfdes-by infdes, mean those who
have never heard of Christ or OF his churchnow such
that negative infdety is not sinful Such infdels,
therefore, will BIZ condemned for their n6dety but
they will be condemned for their murders and other
denominations, which we cannot justify st Thomas
says that persons adhere the dictates of the
natural law, that God will even by miracle put them
IN the way Of salvation we are BY mo mo- mssns to lima
olusiveiy GOD does extend sufficient grace to all men
seeing that st John calls Christ the light which en-
gustns his book called the City Of God says that
at all times there were many among the genties who
belonged the city OF 0OO - LID 10 % Wv Del -
In THIS book we find the Greek aorostic Of the
sybn Of Erythrs, which gives the following words
Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Savior, Cross The
SPILLS were prophetesses among the Gentiles Ac-
cording vsrro, they were ten in number The word
syb according to Lsetantus signifies interpreter Of
Gods counsels This Arythreau sybi lived according
her account GOO years after the flood and at the
time of the Troj4n war; which happened about 1000
years before Christ. The Emperor Constantine the
Great his famous Discourse touching the authenticity
of the Sy bine prophecies does hesitate to call this
virgin holy seeing that Christ revealed to her from
ven his future designs in favor OF the human The
Gospel tells that the prayers and aims OF the
rion assembled to Almighty God and that God sent an
angel direct him to St Peter Now the centurion did
not belong the Jewish church, to the Christian
church-he was GENTLE These examples show that
God never entirely abandons man. 30 as not to give
him sufficient grace to work out his salvation Here
tics and schismatics This name is derived from the
Greek word "airemai. NJ choose There are heretcs
who are we'll informed, and who obstinatey adhere to
their from pride, human respect and other un
worthy motives No Christian can excuse such auda-
cious rebellion There others who know nothing OF
the church OF Christ beyond their own sect
know it except from their preachers, and all know
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