The Prescription Against Heretics — Chapter 29

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Utique, ironical.

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Perperam.

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Virtutes, “potestatem edendi miracula” (Oehler).

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Charismata.

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Ministeria. Another reading has mysteria, “mysteries” or “sacraments.”

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Gal. i. 8. [In this chapter (xxix.) the principle of Prescription is condensed and brought to the needle-point—Quod semper. If you can’t show that your doctrine was always taught, it is false: and this is “Prescription.”]

Chapter 29

Chapter XXIX.—The Truth Not Indebted to the Care of the Heretics; It Had Free Course Before They Appeared. Priority of the Church’s Doctrine a Mark of Its Truth.

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