Treatise Roman Catechism With Reply
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-treatise-roman-catechism-with-reply-044 |
| Words | 194 |
I might have further considered their notes
of a Church, and, showed how many of them are not true,
or, however, do not belong to the Church of Rome; but
that would be too large a subject to enter upon: And what
has been said will be sufficient to show how far that
Church hath erred from truth and reason. For if we set
their Councils, Missals, Breviaries, Rituals, and Catechisms
on one side, and Scripture and antiquity on the other, we
shall find their doctrines and practices as well opposite to
those as they are opposite to ours; and may be assured
that persons may sooner lose their eyes, than find there
such a primacy of St. Peter as they contend for, or their
Vicarship of the Pope, the invocation of saints, the worship
of images, service in an unknown tongue, transubstantiation,
purgatory, and the rest that we contend against. Scripture
and indubitable antiquity are the authority we appeal to ;
thither we refer our cause; and can heartily conclude with that
of Vincentius Lyrin, “That is to be held, which hath been
believed everywhere, always, and by all.” (Contr. Haer., c. 3.)