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were delighted with Him and wondered
If it we're possible that this was the car
penter's son, their townsman, whom they
knew SO Intimately, but when he stood
up to declare that he was the Messiah re-
ferred to by the prophets, they refused
to believe him and asked by what au-
thority He made the claim. Hence His
miracles.
Luther should have made the distinc-.
ton between reformation Of morals and
reformation of doctrine. Can there be q
reformation of morals in the Church?
Yes. A reformation of faith? No. Our
Lord came to save sinners, and there will
be sinners in the Church, sins to be for
given till the end of time. The teachers
of truth may fall away, but truth remains.
Judas taught the kingdom of God, but
Judas betrayed the Master. He shove
many the road to heaven, but he strsyed
from il himself. Those whom he taught
we're not lost because it was Christ who
had taught them through him. Judas
was only the instrument So the Lord
has placed deposit of truth in His
Church. If the Church had taught error
but once, it forever lost it's power to
teach. There can be no error in the
teaching of the spouse of Christ. The
accusation against the Church has been
that We Catholics do not do our own
thinking. What thinking does anyone
do in regard to Trinity? How much
thinking does one do about baptism?
Only the mind Of God can see the mye.
terry Of the Trinity.
Now, as the Bible is q teacher, We must
ask for it's authority. The authenticity
of the, Bible must be investigated.
What is the Bible? It is book made
up of many books, a book that grew.
Few have thought how it grew. Adam
had no Bible, but he had the truth direct
from God. For many years there was no
Bible, and SO it Is absured to say the
Bible is the rule of faith. Who wrote the
Bible? God with his own hand wrote
the commandment, aud that is all, Did
one man write all the books? No. How
do we know that the men who wrote it
were right? Because God inspired them,
and therefore God is the author. What
is meant by inspiration? When the.
Church speaks Of inspiration it means
the voice of God. Then did the Lord
inspire the authors of this book? He did
not dictate every word to them, for we
know that the same incidents are related
in different words by different authors.
He moved the Wills, and so they wrote
for you and me, and the unity of the book
is preserved, for He is the author.
How did the New Testament grow?
How did the epistles grow? The epistles
were letters letters from Paul to Ro-
mans, to the Corinthians, to Timothy.
Were these letters inspired? Who says
must do what they say? The Church.
Listen to what the Protestant Scherer
says: "Unsupernatural, invaluable au
thority to the Church, we are compelled
to acknowledge that she may have been
deceived in the formation Of the Canon
of the Bible; may have introduced into
it books which did not merit that honor,
and excluded others which would have.
deserved it more" Ola Cr.tique. ct la
Script.)
And what does the great St. Augustine
say?. 81 would not accept the Gospel
unless the authority of the Catholic
Church compelled me-"
Luther rejected from the canon Of the
Scriptures Job, Ecc]esiastes, the Eptstle
to the Hebrews, the second Epistle, of
St: Peter, the second and third of st.
John. that Of st. Jude, and the Apoca-
lypse Calvin removed also from it the
books of Esther, Tobias. Judith. Wisdom
Ecclesiasticus and the two books Of
Maccabees. 'Spinosa and other critics
cast doubt on the authenticity Of the
Pentateuch, the Judges, Kings, the two
books of Paraipomenon, Isaias, Jere-
mias, Ezechial, Daniel and the twelve
lesser prophets; Hobbies, that Of Ruth.
Grotius asserts that the Canticle Of Cam
ticles, the book of Wisdom, and the two
last Epistles Of st. John are not inspired.
The Anabaptists denied the divinity Of
the Psalms and the books Of Esdras, and
SO on. So that Protestant publisher
who wished to publish Bible contain
ing only books whose authority would be