Lectures On Certain High Church Principles Commonly Designated By the Term Pusey
Lectures On Certain High Church Principles Commonly Designated By the Term Pusey
Thomas Madge
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" By ' always, ' however, we are to understand the period extending from the second to the end of the fourth century ; * everywhere ' means among those only who are termed orthodox ; and ' by all' is signified a large majority of a certain class of writers denominated the Fathers. " What is meant, " says Mr. Newman, " by being ' taught always ? ' Does it mean in every century, or every year, or every month ? Does ' everywhere' mean in every country, or in every diocese ? And does ' the consent ...of Fathers ' require us to produce LECTURE IV. 159 the direct testimony of every one of them ? How many Fathers, how many places, liow many in- stances constitute a fulfillment of the test proposed ? It is, then, from the nature of the case, a condition which never can be satisfied as fully as it might have been. " " If the age of true Catholicism be extended as far as the end of the fourth century, little would be gained by the addition of the fifth or sixth. If the voluminous remains of that era will not afford a standard of Catholic doctrine, there seems little profit to be gained from antiquity at all*.
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