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lic, and that it would come before the reader in a more persuasive form, if he read it as the author wrote it.

It is scarcely necessary to add that he now submits every part of the book to the judgment of the Church, with whose doctrine, on the subjects of which it treats, he wishes all his thoughts to be coincident.

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS.

SEC. I. On the Process of Development in Ideas

II. On the Kinds of Development in Ideas
III.-On the Corruption of an Idea

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§ 1.-Distinctive Tests between Development and

Corruption

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SEC. I.-On the Probability of Developments in Christianity.
II. On the Probability of a Developing Authority in

Christianity.

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CHAPTER III.

ON THE NATURE OF THE ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF THE EXISTING

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DEVELOPMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY.

SEC. I.-Application of the First Test of Fidelity in Develop-
ment. The Church of the First Centuries
II.-Application continued.-The Church of the Fourth
Century

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CHAPTER V.

ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED.

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ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED.

SEC. I.-Application of the Second Test of Fidelity in Deve-

lopment

§ 1. Scripture and its Mystical Sense

§ 2. The Supremacy of Faith

II.-Application of the Second and Third Tests.-The

Dogmatic and Sacramental Principles, and the For-
mation of a Theology by means of them.

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CHAPTER VII.

ILLUSTRATIONS CONTINUED.

Application of the Fourth Test of Fidelity in Development

§ 1. Resurrection and Relics

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§ 2.-Cultus of Saints and Angels

§ 3.-Merit of Virginity.

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§ 4.-Office of St. Mary .

CHAPTER VIII.

ILLUSTRATIONS CONCLUDED.

SEC. I.-Application of the Fifth Test of Fidelity in Develop-

ment

§ 1.-Developments growing out of the Question of
our Lord's Divinity

§ 2. Developments following upon the Doctrine of

Baptism .

II.-Application of the Sixth Test of Fidelity in Develop-

ment

III.-Application of the Seventh Test of Fidelity in De-
velopment

CORRIGENDA.

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