The Genius of Christianity; or, The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
Translated by Charles Ignatius White
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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
DOGMAS AND TENETS.
MYSTERIES AND SACRAMENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
EVER since Christianity was first published to the world, it has been continually assailed by three kinds of enemies — heretics, sophists, and those apparently frivolous characters who destroy every thing with the shafts of ridicule. Numerous apologists have given victorious answers to subtleties and falsehoods, but they have not been so successful against derision. St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Tertullian, in his Prescriptions? which Bossuet calls divine, combated the innovators of their time, whose extravagant expositions corrupted the simplicity of the faith.
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