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 of man, sometimes, from self-love, depart from the right road, and from true belief, yet almost always does it feel oppression, fearing to charge its thoughts with absurdity. But to form itself is easy, if it will but carefully examine what the Fathers have written, whom all esteem for the truth and rectitude of their opinions: and thus will be discovered what true faith is. For men, whose hearts are upright, wish to follow them. They, having stored their minds with the doctrines delivered by the Apostles, and treated the points of belief in a manner void of all blame, became the lights of the world.”- Apol. adv. Oriental. anathem. viii. T. vi. p. 177. Edit. Paris, 1638.

CAPREOLUS OF CARTHAGE, L. C.-“ Though the authority of the Universal Church be amply sufficient, yet that I may not seem to refuse an answer to your request, I will say: we profess that to be the one and true doctrine, which Evangelical Antiquity holds and delivers.”—Ep. ad Vitalem et Constant. Labbe Conc. Gen. T.ü. p. 1691. Ed. Paris. 1671.

VINCENT OF LERINS, L. C.-But, in this Catholic Church, we must be particularly careful to hold fast that doctrine, which has been believed in all places, at all times, and by all." For as the word itself plainly denotes, there