The Path Which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church
The Path Which Led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church
Peter H Peter Hardeman Burnett
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Private interpretation in the last resort could not exist under the authority of an unerring interpreter. It was, of course, the duty of all to hear this " unerring inter- preter, " and to follow this unerring interpretation : otherwise, for what purpose was the power assumed ? If the unerring inter- pretation of this interpreter were to be subject to the fallible revision of each individual member, then it would make the cer- tain yield to the doubtful. This would be reversing all the rules 44...4 RESULTS OF THE PROTESTANT THEORY. of logic and right reason. On the other hand, to admit this a* thority, was admitting the infallibility of the visible Church. This once conceded, the only inquiry would be, in which Church can it be found ? And if conceded, it must be in virtue of the promises of Christ ; and must, therefore, have always existed in the Church. This would be at once giving up the fundamental principle upon which the whole alleged Reformation was itself based. Hence this assumed authority of unerring interpreta- tion could not be sustained, and, as the author says, " many now considered the proofs as worthless and of as little power as, be- fore, all had deemed the authority of the Church from which they had seceded.
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