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 TERTULLIAN, L. C.-" We are not allowed to indulge our own humour, nor to choose what another has invented. We have the Apostles of our Lord for founders, who were not themselves the inventors nor authors of what they have left us; but they have faithfully taught the world the doctrine, which they received from Christ.”—De Præscriptione, c. vi. p. 331. Edit. Pamelii, Rothomagi, 1662.

“Now to know, what the Apostles taught, that is, what Christ revealed to them, recourse must be had to the Churches, (S) which they founded, and which they instructed by word of mouth, and by their epistles. For it is plain, that all doctrine, which is conformable to the faith of these Mother Churches, is true, being that which they received from the Apostles; the Apostles from Christ; Christ from God; and that all other opinions must be novel and false.” 1b c. xxi. p. 334.

ORIGEN, G. C.-“ As there are many who think they believe what Christ taught, and some of these differ from others, it becomes necessary that all should profess that doctrine which came down from the Apostles, and now continues