The testimony of St. Patrick against the false pretensions of Rome to primitive antiquity in Ireland
Publisher: Dublin, W. Curry, Jun. and Co.
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK  1; title: CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND BEFORE A.D. 432 2; title: Asserted by St. Patrick  ib.; title: Admitted fry all historians  ib.; title: Proved by the Pope's commission to Palladins 3; title: By Letters of Celestins   ib.; title: Testimony of St. Chrysostom and Tertullian ib.; title: Domestic authorities referred to 4; title: PATRICK HAD NO CONNEXION WITH ROME 5; title: Difficulties at all times respecting St. Patrick  7; title: The name " Patricias" the great cause of error  11; title: Some proofs of his existence   14; title: Not commissioned by Rome, demonstrable according to the rules of evidence at law   16; title: Proved by the silence of his own writings  17; title: Proved by their internal evidence  18; title: Mistake in this respect of Dr. Lanigan; title: Error and misrepresentation of the epistle to Coroticus, by Dr. Rock 24; title: Two churches in Ireland in Patrick's time 25; title: He claims the Gallican as his own  ib.; title: Purity of St. Patrick's hymn 28; title: Proved by the science of Bede 29; title: The Irish not followers of St. Patrick's rule of Easter  31; title: Proved by the silence of Cummianus junior 33; title: Of Columbanus, Prosper, &c. 34; title: Conclusion from these reasonings  36; title: Evidence to the contrary, mere hearsay, uncertain, and contradictory  38; title: The most accredited popular account of Patrick 39; title: An occasion of contradictions among moderns 40; title: Dr. Phelan's summary conclusion  41; title: Corruption of authorities adduced to establish this Roman connexion  43; title: St. Patrick s use of the Latin tongue relied on 44; title: And accounted for  ib.; title: Evangelical use of the Irish tongue 47; title: IRELAND DID NOT RECEIVE THE GOSPEL THROUGH ANY OTHER EMISSARY FROM ROME 48; title: Conversion of King Lucius of Britain  ib.; title: Doubtful and inapplicable to the Irish Church 49; title: Palladius said to have been sent over as a bishop to the believing Irish Church  51; title: False reading of " credentes, ted non recti " 52; title: Erroneously applied to Pelagianism in Ireland by O'Conor and Moore  52; title: Palladius sent, either as the first bishop to Ireland 54; title: Or as primate over an existing Church 56; title: Story of the four pre-existing bishops, a fabrication   ib.; title: Rejected by Dr. Lanigan, Moore, &c, and refuted   57; title: St. Columbanus assumed to have asserted the Roman origin of the Irish Church 61; title: His words otherwise accounted for  62; title: The Irish Church peculiar in its head, litany, &c. 63; title: THE IRISH CHURCH IS OF EASTERN ORIGIN 64; title: Evidence of Bede  ib.; title: Detail of the synod of Whitby  ib.; title: It testifies to this Eastern origin  70; title: History of the Paschal controversy 71; title: Irish Church not represented at council of Nice, a.d. 325  75; title: Did not follow St. Patrick in its cycle 76; title: Corrects its rules of Paschal observance, &c. 77; title: Proved by St. Austin's offers of compromise 78; title: Also by the Liturgy of the Scots  79; title: By the ancient character of Irish episcopacy 81; title: By the system of Monachism  83; title: Monks of Iona, &c.  84; title: Their rule Egyptian, their choice of islands, &c.  86; title: Proved by Greek characters in the Book of Armagh   ib.; title: Proved by peculiar version of the New Testament in it 89; title: And of the Old Testament in ancient quotations  90; title: Practical view of the primitive Irish Church 91; title: Further testimonies of the existence of St. Patrick  95; title: ST. PATRICK WAS A MEMBER OF THE GALLICAN AND OF THE EASTERN CHURCH 97; title: His education and connexions Gallican  ib.; title: Introduction by him of Oriental Liturgy, &c. into. Ireland  100; title: His churches Oriental  101; title: Oriental Episcopacy established by him  ib.; title: The silence respecting him in the synod of Whitby accounted for  102; title: Proved by the Eastern character of his Book of Armagh  103; title: Patrick the spiritual father of St. Columba's Oriental Church 104; title: Evidence of the Book of Kells 106; title: Cause of the failure of Palladius  107; title: INDEPENDENCE OF THE IRISH CHURCH, AND ITS REJECTION OF THE SUPREMACY OF ROME 108; title: Three eras in this view of the Irish Church 110; title: Perfectly independent until after a.d. 600 111; title: Proved by a canon of the Council of Constantinople, a.d. 381   113; title: Proved by the ancient titles, &c. of St. Patrick 114; title: The reception of Palladius by the Irish 115; title: The conduct of the Irish Bishops on the question of the Three Chapters, ab. 553 116; title: The position of St, Columba in the Irish Church   117; title: The arguments, &c. at the synod of Whitby ib.; title: Arguments against it from ancient canons refuted 118; title: The Church of the Britons independent temp. Greg. I. ib.; title: Rejects St. Austin's mission and innovations 124; title: Agreement with it of the Irish Church 126; title: Supremacy not any where assumed by Borne, until after a.d. 600  127; title: Convictions of Ecclesiastical writers respecting Irish independence 128; title: Independence manifested in Columbanus's letters to Gregory I.  130; title: And to Boniface IV.  131; title: Proved by the epistle of Pope Honorius to the Irish clergy  135; title: Also by the letter of Cummianus, jun, to Segienus 136; title: Encroachments of Rome after a.d. 600 137; title: Degeneracy of the Irish Church in the seventh century  138; title: Evidenced by the ancient catalogue of saints ib.; title: Mediaeval instances of encroachment, &c. 141; title: Independence proved by the abuse of the Irish Church by some Romanists  143; title: Proved also by the occasional deference to it of others 145; title: Proved by the visit of Malachy to Borne, and the following synods 146; title: Origin and details of his journey  ib.; title: Great Discrepancy at the time between the Irish and papal Churches  147; title: Council at Holmpatrick, a.d. 1148, and second journey of Malachy 151; title: Synod of Kells, a.d. 1152  152; title: Synod of Cashel,A.D. 1172  153; title: Its vast importance, consisting in the establishing of dependence on Borne 154; title: Subsequent marks of lingering independence ib.; title: Even to the present day  156; title: THE DOCTRINES OF THE ANCIENT IRISH AT VARIANCE WITH THOSE OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT  ib.; title: Confined to a few instances at the present Encyclical letter of Gregory XVI. respecting the Holy Scriptures  157; title: Opposed to the opinions of Patrick, Columba, Columbanus, Finian, &c.  158; title: And to the practice of the ancient Irish 159; title: Also to those of Pope Gregory I. ib.; title: Justification by faith alone denounced by the Council of Trent  160; title: Maintained by St. Patrick and St. Paul 161; title: And the celebrated Irish divine, Sedulius 163; title: Celibacy of the clergy not holden by the father and grandfather of St. Patrick  164; title: The great grandfather of Gregory I. a Pope ib.; title: Celibacy not practised by the primates of Ireland ib.; title: CONCLUSION. — The false pretensions of Rome compared to the deception of the Gibeonites 165; title: APPENDIX I. — Address of 178 Irish teachers of schools, declaring " Romanism a novelty " 167; title: APPENDIX II Errors respecting the Culdees 168; title: Various notions of them  169; title: What they probably were  170; title: APPENDIX III — Opuscula or works of St. Patrick ib.; title: High authority of his "Confession," from external evidence  171; title: From internal evidence  172; title: St. Patrick's Hymn  173; title: Inferior authenticity of the Epistle to Coroticus, and the canons  ib.; title: APPENDIX IV. — Account of ancient Irish copies of; title: the New Testament, &c. in Latin  176; title: Their version peculiar to Ireland 179