| Herbert Thorndike - Theology - 1845 - 448 pages
...crederem, saith he, nisi me Ecclesia Catholica commoveret auctoritas. "I would not believe," or "have believed, the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church moved me." For some men have employed a great deal of learning to shew that commoveret stands for commovisset",... | |
| Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1877 - 318 pages
...my eyes to look on the Catholic Church. The words of Augustine recur to me :—" I would not ;have believed the Gospel, had not the authority of the...with this thought I will ring the bell. \Rings the bell. Enter the WAITER. WAITER. Did you ring, my lord ? DR. B. Will you be so good as to tell me the... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...Protestants,' but to establish a society. ' I should not receive the Bible,' St. Augustine declared, ' unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do so.' The Bible is, in fact, the creation of the Catholic Church, from which other varieties of Christianity... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 pages
...Protestants,' but to establish a society. ' I should not receive the Bible,' St. Augustine declared, ' unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do so.' The Bible is, in fact, the creation of the Catholic Church, from which other varieties of Christianity... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - Agnosticism - 1892 - 428 pages
...establish a society. " I should not receive the sacred Scriptures," St. Augustine declared, "unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do so." The Bible is, in fact, the creation of the Catholic Church, from which other varieties of Christianity... | |
| Ethan H. Shagan - History - 2005 - 232 pages
...Church, 'spred abrode thorowe out the hole worlde'.'2 Augustine's obiter dictum, that he would not have believed the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church moved him to, was a particular favourite of More's, cited at least thirty times in his writings." For Augustine,... | |
| Peter Marshall - Religion - 2006 - 324 pages
...980-81, 993 ff. 11 More, Responsio, p. 201. 32 More, Confutation, pp. 975-6. that he would not have believed the Gospel, had not the authority of the Catholic Church moved him to, was a particular favourite of More's, cited at least thirty times in his writings.33 For Augustine,... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1104 pages
...Protestants,' but to establish a society. ' I should not receive the Bible,' St. Augustine declared, ' unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do so.' The Bible is, in fact, the creation of the Catholic Church, from which other varieties of Christianity... | |
| 1893 - 788 pages
...establish a society. "I should not receive the Sacred Scriptures," St. Augustine declared, " unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do so." The Bible is, in fact, the creation of the Catholic Church. . . . There is nothing to prevent a sincere... | |
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