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A COMMONITORY[1] FOR THE ANTIQUITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH AGAINST THE PROFANE NOVELTIES OF ALL HERESIES

By Vincent of Lerins

Translated by C. A. Heurtley

New York, 1894

Table of Contents

Chapters 1 - 5

CHAPTER 1: The Object of the Following Treatise

CHAPTER 2: A General Rule for Distinguishing the Truth of the Catholic Faith from the Falsehood of Heretical Pravity

CHAPTER 3: What is to be Done if one or More Dissent from the Rest

CHAPTER 4: The Evil Resulting from the Bringing in of Novel Doctrine Shown in the Instances of the Donatists and Arians

CHAPTER 5: The Example set us by the Martyrs, Whom No Force Could Hinder from Defending the Faith of Their Predecessors

Chapters 6 - 11

CHAPTER 6: The Example of Pope Stephen in Resisting the Iteration of Baptism

CHAPTER 7: How Heretics, Craftily Cite Obscure Passages in Ancient Writers in Support of Their own Novelties

CHAPTER 8: Exposition of St. Paul's Words: Gal. 1:8

CHAPTER 9: His Warning to the Galatians a Warning to All

CHAPTER 10: Why Eminent Men are Permitted by God to Become Authors of Novelties in the Church

CHAPTER 11: Examples from Church History, confirming the words of Moses: Nestorius, Photinus, Apollinaris

Chapters 12 - 15

CHAPTER 12: A Fuller Account of the Errors of Photinus, Apollinaris and Nestorius

CHAPTER 13: The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and the Incarnation Explained

CHAPTER 14: Jesus Christ Man in Truth, Not in Semblance

CHAPTER 15: The Union of the Divine with the Human Nature Took Place in the very Conception of the Virgin. The Appellation "The Mother of God"

Chapters 16 - 20

CHAPTER 16: Recapitulation of What was said of the Catholic Faith and of Divers Heresies, Chapters 11 - 15

CHAPTER 17: The Error of Origen a Great Trial to the Church

CHAPTER 18: Tertullian a Great Trial to the Church

CHAPTER 19: What we Ought to Learn from These Examples

CHAPTER 20: The Notes of a True Catholic

Chapters 21 - 25

CHAPTER 21: Exposition of St. Paul's Words: 1 Tim. 6:20

CHAPTER 22: A More Particular Exposition of 1 Tim. 6:20

CHAPTER 23: On Development in Religious Knowledge

CHAPTER 24: Continuation of the Exposition of 1 Tim. 6:20

CHAPTER 25: Heretics Appeal to Scripture That They May More Easily Succeed in Deceiving

Chapters 26 - 33

CHAPTER 26: Heretics, in quoting Scripture, Follow the Example of the Devil

CHAPTER 27: What Rule is to be Observed in the Interpretation of Scripture

CHAPTER 28: In What Way, on Collating the Consentient Opinions of the Ancient Masters, the Novelties of Heretics may be Detected and Condemned

CHAPTER 29: Recapitulation

CHAPTER 30: The Council of Ephesus

CHAPTER 31: The Constancy of the Ephesine Fathers in Driving Away Novelty and Maintaining Antiquity

CHAPTER 32: The Zeal of Celestine and Sixtus, Bishops of Rome, in Opposing Novelty

CHAPTER 33: The Children of the Catholic Church Ought to Adhere to the Faith of their Fathers and Die for it

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