THE following Papers originally belonged to the “Church of the
Fathers,” as it appeared in the British Magazine, in the years
1833-1836, and as it was published afterwards in one volume, with
additions and omissions, in 1840. They were removed from the subsequent
Catholic editions, except the chapter on Apollinaris, as containing
polemical matter, which had no interest for Catholic readers. Now they
are republished under a separate title.
The date of their composition is a sufficient indication of the
character of the theology which they contain. They are written under
the assumption that the Anglican Church has a place, as such, in
Catholic communion and Apostolic Christianity. This is a question of
fact, which the Author would now of course answer in the negative,
retaining still, and claiming as his own, the positive principles and
doctrines which that fact is, in these Papers, taken to involve.
PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.
CHAP. PAGE
1. WHAT DOES ST. AMBROSE SAY ABOUT IT? 339
2. WHAT SAYS VINCENT OF LERINS? 375
3. WHAT SAYS THE HISTORY OF APOLLINARIS? 391
4. WHAT SAY JOVINIAN AND HIS COMPANIONS? 401
5. WHAT SAY THE APOSTOLICAL CANONS? 417