Title: The Two Main Questions in Controversy Between the Churches of England and Rome, Stated and Discussed With Reference to Dr. Doyle’s Assertion of the Practicability of a Re-Union Subtitle: And in Reply to the Most Important Parts of Dr. Milner’s ‘end of Religious Controversy’, and J.k.l’s Seventh Letter on the State of Ireland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART I. CHAP. III. Romish Proof from Scripture of the Divine Authority of Tradition. The Scriptural proof of Tradition, as a Rule of Faith, is thus ushered in by J. K. L. in his seventh Letter on the State of Ireland: –
For our part, we find no truth of Religion more expressly recorded in the Scriptures themselves, more frequently insisted on by the primitive fathers of the church, nothing more consonant to right reason, than the existence of Tradition. pp. 184, 185. The existence of Tradition, is again and again proposed in the same letter, as the matter which it is his object to prove. Now, with whom does this Polemic suppose that he is contending? No man ever denied the
existence of Tradition. It is the authority of Romish Tradition, as a part of the Rule of Faith, which is alone called in question. The existence of Tradition is a matter of fact, and is neither more nor less
consonant to right reason, than the existence of the Pope of Rome, or of J. K. L. himself, or of any other fact whatever. So much for his enuntiation!! Let us now proceed to examine his warrant for thus confidently asserting of the divine authority of Tradition, (for this is what he means to assert, or there is no question to be discussed),
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