The Search After Infallibilty, Remarks on the Testimony of the Fathers to the Roman Dogma of Infallibility - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1848 Excerpt: ... such a subject, sufficiently refute yourselves,--I think I might say this, without in any degree committing myself to either of the propositions in defence of which Dr. O'Connell has cited this passage of Irenaeus. And that Irenaeus had no such meaning as this gentleman would force upon him, is evident from the words which immediately follow the clause just quoted, in which he has clearly stated the doctrine put forth by the Archbishop of Dublin, and by all our best divines. "We (he says) on the contrary, following the one and only true God as our teacher, and having His words as our rule of truth, always speak the same things concerning those very things," on which the heretics so greatly differ, "knowing one God, the Creator of this world, who sent the prophets, who led forth His people from the land of Egypt, who in these last times hath set forth His Son, to confound the unbelieving and to seek out the fruit of righteousness." Is it possible to express more clearly our doctrine? or can any one imagine words more at variance with the Roman hypothesis of an infallible and authoritative judge? We follow (says Irenaeus) the one and only true God as our teacher, and His words as our rule of truth. Is not this exactly the Archbishop's doctrine? Here is no mention of an infallible guide, an authoritative interpreter, a supreme judge of controversies; and yet this was assuredly the very place to notice the existence of such a judge, when he was contrasting the difficulties and discrepancies of heresy with the certainty and unity of the Catholic faith. The conclusion is inevitable, that the present doctrine of the Anglican Church was the doctrine of St. Irenseus: that the idea of an infallible guide was then unknown, and formed no part of the faith of the Church...

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