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 162 ?H raTHnS. ooE I. obtained by such means as the expurgatory indices require, is of small use, in promoting true Christian unity. And if' such a standard, thus tbrmed, be the one by which the Church of Rome interprets Scripture, what can the world expect from her but error, confMion, and every evil thing ? 4. Many of the artdent fathers taugAt false &u:trin and M Ctemen8 Alexandrinus taught that Christ felt no hunger or thirst, but ate only to make demonstration of the verity of his human nature.*' I'l taught, that Christ, in his sufferings, had no sorrow. Origen taught that the p,,ios of hell would be only temporary. Cyprian taught rebaptization. Athenagora8 condemned second marriages. John Da- mascene said that Christ prayed, not in reality', but in appearance. Justin Martyr, Papias, Appolinaris,.Victorinus, Tertullian, Ireninny, Lactantius, and others, in the second and third centuries, defended the doctrine of the Chiliaste, or Millinarians, who 8aid that Christ, after the general judgnnent, should dwell a thousand years on the earth. Justin Martyr was so firm in this opinion that he aaserted that all true Christians believed this doctrine, and that those who denied it rejected the resurrection. Ireneus held that man, at his creation, was iraper. fect. Clemens Alexandrinus and Justin held that the ange18 fell and offended God because they desired the company of women. Clemens Alexandrinus, Anaatasiu8 Sinaita, Athanasius, Jerome, Ambrose, and others taught that "Christ descended into hell, and there preached to the detained, that they who would confess might be avad." Augustine affirmed that Christ did save some; but whether this ex- tended to all the damned he does not inform Euodius, who aska the question. Hilary, Jerome, Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Theophylact believed that it was not lawful for Christians, on any account whatever, to take an oath, and that it was "crimen gehennt dighum," a cr/m arm'rAy of petal/t/on, or a dar,able -/n. Whether this was the doctrine of the Church of Rome at this time, we say* not; but she certainly toache8 a derent doctrine at the present day.t 5. The Count//of Trent hath decre many things contranj to tin, d- of the fatlm's. It is now generally believed in the Church of ttome that the Virgin Mary was born without original sin. Yet the fathers denied this, or, rather, they taught a contrary doctrine. The fathera did not believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation: yet this is- held as an article of faith in the Church of Rome. Augustine and two Irontired and seventeen bishops, and all their successors for a whole age, denied and resisted appeals to the see of Rome; and yet the authority of as many fathers is now of no force at Rome, since she has adopted the doctrine of the supremacy of the pope. The Councils of Florence and Trent teach the doctrine of purgatory, vat many of the fathers dogmatically teach the contrary of this doctrine. Aresag the Greek fathers we reckon Justin Martyr, Irenmus,�i- gan, i Chryaostom,�eodoret,** and Aretires Cmmtriensis. That fGreek fathers did not teach the doctrine of Imrgatory is very plain, the gr?t difficulty the Latins had of bringing the Greeks to sub..  Taylm', vol. ii, pp. 81, $. 39, in Cor. �b. v. II Horn. 7, in Lev. �  In e.S. Apoc.

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