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 table, or in the streets; they seldom utter any thing from themselves, that is not carefully disguised in Scripture language.—But the more artfully they conceal themselves in the shade of the divine writings, the more carefully are they to be avoided and dreaded."") For well they know, were their errors plainly announced, they would give satisfaction to very few: they sprinkle them, therefore, with the odour of celestial eloquence, that he, who would reject a human error, may be allured by the divine oracles.” Ibid. n. xxv. p. 356. -“Should any one enquire,—while they advance their errors,—what proof have you? Whence do you learn that it is my duty, as you say, to depart from the Universal and Ancient Faith of the Catholic Church ?(6)— Without hesitation they reply: So it is written. (Mat. iv. 6.) And at once they have ready a thousand testimonies, a thousand examples, and a thousand authorities from the Law, the Psalms, the Prophets, the Apostles; which, interpreted after a new and evil fashion, may cast the unhappy soul from the Catholic rock, into the abyss of heresy.”(!) Ibid. n. xxvi. p. 359.

By Apostolical Traditions are understood such points of Catholic belief and practice, as, not committed to writing in the Holy Scriptures, have come down in an unbroken series of oral delivery, from the Apostolic ages. Among many of these traditions, which will be seen, may be placed, in the first place, and by way of illustration, the authentic Canon