TABLE OF CONTENTS. PREFACE V INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER OF PROTESTANTISM 5 SECTION I CONTROVERTED DOGMAS COMPARED. The Primitive Condition of Man and the Fall 7 The Redemption 13 The Church 17 The Means of Salvation 31 Baptism 34 Confirmation 35 The Eucharist 37 Penance — Indulgences 49 Extreme Unction 58 Holy Orders 62 Matrimony 66 Good Works 68 Purgatory 72 The Communion of Saints 76 SECTION II. CONSEQUENCES, 80 Ulterior Consequences 88 CHAPTER II THE PRINCIPLE OF PROTESTANTISM 104 SECTION I STRENGTH OF THE CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE, WHICH IS, THAT THE TEACHING OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS THE TRUE RULE OF FAITH 104 UNANSWERABLE PROOF, FOUNDED ON THE MARK OF APOSTOLICITY, THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST 106 THE OTHER MARKS OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST BELONG ONLY TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 122 Unity 124 Holiness 131 Universality 139 Indestructibility 143 CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AS THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST — HER INFALLIBILITY IS THR RULE OF FAITH 153 SECTION II THR WEAKNESS AND ABSURDITY OF THR PROTESTANT RULE OF FAITH 163 THE PRIVATE INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE HAS NONE OF THE REQUISITES OF A TRUE RULE OF FAITH 165 The Rule of Faith must be Clear 166 Complete 169 As old as the Faith itself 171 Universal 173 Accessible to every one, and Final 174 THE PROTESTANT RULE OF FAITH LACKS ALL THESE CHARACTERISTICS — THE CATHOLIC RULE OF FAITH POSSESSES THEM ALL 177 CHAPTER III. PROTESTANT PREJUDICES 181 SECTION I RELIGIOUS PREJUDICES 191 The Pope 191 The Clergy 194 Confession 198 Indulgences 203 The Bible 204 Saints 294 Mary 212 Celibacy 216 Holy Mass 220 Communion 221 Use of the Latin Language 221 Ceremonies 226 Abstinence 229 Exclusive Salvation 230 SECTION II Political Prejudices 234 Allegiance 244 The Inquisition 244 Despotism 249 Civilization 250 Morality 254 The Sabbath 256 The Sovereignty of the Pope and his Civil Government 257 Republicanism 261 Freedom of Discussion 265 CHAPTER IV. Infidelity the Ultimate Consequence of Protestantism 278 SECTION I Infidelity Refuted. Seven Conclusive Arguments against Infidelity 280 The Undeniable Existence of God 280 The Undeniable Immortality of the Soul 288 The Undeniable Necessity of Religion 287 The Undeniable Necessity of a Divinely Revealed Religion 288 The Undeniably Divine Mission of Christ 291 The Undeniable Superhuman Character of the Church of Christ 304 The Undeniable Axiom “Where Peter is, there is the Church" 306 SECTION II Objections Answered 309 The Incomprehensibility of Mysteries 309 Everlasting Punishment, 315 The Supposed Contradiction of Revelation with Geology and History, CONCLUSION, 388 Digitized by Google.

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