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 As the subject will be continued in the ensuing article, and the reader will have seen what was stated under the heads, Authority of the Church, Indefectibility, and Apostolical Succession, more authorities cannot here be necessary.

I Cor. xii. 28, 29. “ And God indeed hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly Teachers. Are all Apostles? are all Prophets? are all Teachers?” Ephes. iv. 11, 12, 14. “And he gave some Apostles, and some Prophets, and other some Evangelists, and other some Pastors and Doctors, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: that henceforth we be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive.” 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16, 17. “ As also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, hath written to you; as also, in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness."

St. IRENÆUS, L.C. “And not only from the Evangelical and Apostolical Writings, which they perversely interpret