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Every reader of the Bible must have met, in the writings of the Apostles, with sundry wholesome warnings against heretics, and for example, in the Apocalypse or Revelations of St. John, with fearful predictions of torments reserved for them. Of course we do not style those heretics who have entered the Church by baptism, and have never heard the truth of Catho licity sufficiently proposed for them to be able to embrace it; such as these may well be saved, and belong, as Father Perrone says, to the soul of the Church. But still we hold that there is no salvation for those who belong neither to the body nor to the soul of the Church, and we believe there is but one true Church of Christ. Hence we cannot admit the comfortable doctrines of the present batch of errors.

In the fifteenth condemnation therefore, the Pontiff simply inculcates the principle laid down by St. Paul in the beginning of his Epistle to the Romans, namely, that faith is obedience. There is but one true religion, and every man is bound to embrace it, and in so doing he obeys a Divine command. "He that believeth not, shall be condemned."—Mark xvi. 16.

The sixteenth denies that any synagogue of falsehood can be heir to the promises of Christ, and be our guide to life everlasting, according to the privilege of His Church.

The seventeenth censure is directed against the anti-Christian doctrine that communion with the Church is in nowise wanted for salvation.

The force of the eighteenth of the Papal censures