Supplement to the Somatopsychonoologia or body life and mind of Philostratus.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Supplement to the Somatopsychonoologia or body life and mind of Philostratus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    may be the real marks of that religion; both which, the Creator has ordered for the physical regulation of the material world and the moral control of its inhabitants. 4. Because, he finds it admitted on all hands, that Unity, Catholicity, Apostolicity, and Sanctity, are the marks of the true faith, and that the catholic religion is the only one apparently designated by those marks, and thereby contradistinguished from all spurious branches of Christianity. 5. Because a particular examination of catholic doc- trines and practices, contrasted with those of protestants, confirms the above statement. That is :— 6. Because the catholics have evinced a unity of doc- trine and practice, from the earliest period to the present day; and because local situation and circumstances have never, in any way, changed the character of their religion : while protestants are divided into numberless societies, which mutually contradict each other, and accuse each other of heresy and blasphemy to such a degree, that, even among the members of any one protestant schism, there are hardly two intelligent members quite agreed on all points. 7. Because, from the first moment the trumpet of disunion was sounded at the pretended reformation, the minute subdivision of heretical Christianity has been pro- ceeding rapidly ; while the opportunity offered by schism, of confronting the mutual contradictions of protestants, has armed infidels with their most powerful arguments against the truth of Christianity in general. 8. Because Catholicity so exclusively belongs to that religion whose character it announces, that, to pro-