An edition of The testimony of St. Patrick against the false pretensions of Rome to primitive antiquity in Ireland
(1846)
The testimony of St. Patrick against the false pretensions of Rome to primitive antiquity in Ireland
by Henry Joseph Monck Mason
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CONTENTS.
THE OBJECT OF THIS WORK 1
CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND BEFORE A.D. 432 2
Asserted by St. Patrick ib.
Admitted fry all historians ib.
Proved by the Pope's commission to Palladins 3
By Letters of Celestins ib.
Testimony of St. Chrysostom and Tertullian ib.
Domestic authorities referred to 4
PATRICK HAD NO CONNEXION WITH ROME 5
Difficulties at all times respecting St. Patrick 7
The name " Patricias" the great cause of error 11
Some proofs of his existence 14
Not commissioned by Rome, demonstrable according to the rules of evidence at law 16
Proved by the silence of his own writings 17
Proved by their internal evidence 18
Mistake in this respect of Dr. Lanigan
Error and misrepresentation of the epistle to Coroticus, by Dr. Rock 24
Two churches in Ireland in Patrick's time 25
He claims the Gallican as his own ib.
Purity of St. Patrick's hymn 28
Proved by the science of Bede 29
The Irish not followers of St. Patrick's rule of Easter 31
Proved by the silence of Cummianus junior 33
Of Columbanus, Prosper, &c. 34
Conclusion from these reasonings 36
Evidence to the contrary, mere hearsay, uncertain, and contradictory 38
The most accredited popular account of Patrick 39
An occasion of contradictions among moderns 40
Dr. Phelan's summary conclusion 41
Corruption of authorities adduced to establish this Roman connexion 43
St. Patrick s use of the Latin tongue relied on 44
And accounted for ib.
Evangelical use of the Irish tongue 47
IRELAND DID NOT RECEIVE THE GOSPEL THROUGH ANY OTHER EMISSARY FROM ROME 48
Conversion of King Lucius of Britain ib.
Doubtful and inapplicable to the Irish Church 49
Palladius said to have been sent over as a bishop to the believing Irish Church 51
False reading of " credentes, ted non recti " 52
Erroneously applied to Pelagianism in Ireland by O'Conor and Moore 52
Palladius sent, either as the first bishop to Ireland 54
Or as primate over an existing Church 56
Story of the four pre-existing bishops, a fabrication ib.
Rejected by Dr. Lanigan, Moore, &c, and refuted 57
St. Columbanus assumed to have asserted the Roman origin of the Irish Church 61
His words otherwise accounted for 62
The Irish Church peculiar in its head, litany, &c. 63
THE IRISH CHURCH IS OF EASTERN ORIGIN 64
Evidence of Bede ib.
Detail of the synod of Whitby ib.
It testifies to this Eastern origin 70
History of the Paschal controversy 71
Irish Church not represented at council of Nice, a.d. 325 75
Did not follow St. Patrick in its cycle 76
Corrects its rules of Paschal observance, &c. 77
Proved by St. Austin's offers of compromise 78
Also by the Liturgy of the Scots 79
By the ancient character of Irish episcopacy 81
By the system of Monachism 83
Monks of Iona, &c. 84
Their rule Egyptian, their choice of islands, &c. 86
Proved by Greek characters in the Book of Armagh ib.
Proved by peculiar version of the New Testament in it 89
And of the Old Testament in ancient quotations 90
Practical view of the primitive Irish Church 91
Further testimonies of the existence of St. Patrick 95
ST. PATRICK WAS A MEMBER OF THE GALLICAN AND OF THE EASTERN CHURCH 97
His education and connexions Gallican ib.
Introduction by him of Oriental Liturgy, &c. into. Ireland 100
His churches Oriental 101
Oriental Episcopacy established by him ib.
The silence respecting him in the synod of Whitby accounted for 102
Proved by the Eastern character of his Book of Armagh 103
Patrick the spiritual father of St. Columba's Oriental Church 104
Evidence of the Book of Kells 106
Cause of the failure of Palladius 107
INDEPENDENCE OF THE IRISH CHURCH, AND ITS REJECTION OF THE SUPREMACY OF ROME 108
Three eras in this view of the Irish Church 110
Perfectly independent until after a.d. 600 111
Proved by a canon of the Council of Constantinople, a.d. 381 113
Proved by the ancient titles, &c. of St. Patrick 114
The reception of Palladius by the Irish 115
The conduct of the Irish Bishops on the question of the Three Chapters, ab. 553 116
The position of St, Columba in the Irish Church 117
The arguments, &c. at the synod of Whitby ib.
Arguments against it from ancient canons refuted 118
The Church of the Britons independent temp. Greg. I. ib.
Rejects St. Austin's mission and innovations 124
Agreement with it of the Irish Church 126
Supremacy not any where assumed by Borne, until after a.d. 600 127
Convictions of Ecclesiastical writers respecting Irish independence 128
Independence manifested in Columbanus's letters to Gregory I. 130
And to Boniface IV. 131
Proved by the epistle of Pope Honorius to the Irish clergy 135
Also by the letter of Cummianus, jun, to Segienus 136
Encroachments of Rome after a.d. 600 137
Degeneracy of the Irish Church in the seventh century 138
Evidenced by the ancient catalogue of saints ib.
Mediaeval instances of encroachment, &c. 141
Independence proved by the abuse of the Irish Church by some Romanists 143
Proved also by the occasional deference to it of others 145
Proved by the visit of Malachy to Borne, and the following synods 146
Origin and details of his journey ib.
Great Discrepancy at the time between the Irish and papal Churches 147
Council at Holmpatrick, a.d. 1148, and second journey of Malachy 151
Synod of Kells, a.d. 1152 152
Synod of Cashel,A.D. 1172 153
Its vast importance, consisting in the establishing of dependence on Borne 154
Subsequent marks of lingering independence ib.
Even to the present day 156
THE DOCTRINES OF THE ANCIENT IRISH AT VARIANCE WITH THOSE OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT ib.
Confined to a few instances at the present Encyclical letter of Gregory XVI. respecting the Holy Scriptures 157
Opposed to the opinions of Patrick, Columba, Columbanus, Finian, &c. 158
And to the practice of the ancient Irish 159
Also to those of Pope Gregory I. ib.
Justification by faith alone denounced by the Council of Trent 160
Maintained by St. Patrick and St. Paul 161
And the celebrated Irish divine, Sedulius 163
Celibacy of the clergy not holden by the father and grandfather of St. Patrick 164
The great grandfather of Gregory I. a Pope ib.
Celibacy not practised by the primates of Ireland ib.
CONCLUSION. — The false pretensions of Rome compared to the deception of the Gibeonites 165
APPENDIX I. — Address of 178 Irish teachers of schools, declaring " Romanism a novelty " 167
APPENDIX II Errors respecting the Culdees 168
Various notions of them 169
What they probably were 170
APPENDIX III — Opuscula or works of St. Patrick ib.
High authority of his "Confession," from external evidence 171
From internal evidence 172
St. Patrick's Hymn 173
Inferior authenticity of the Epistle to Coroticus, and the canons ib.
APPENDIX IV. — Account of ancient Irish copies of
the New Testament, &c. in Latin 176
Their version peculiar to Ireland 179
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