X. PROLEGOMENA. 



antient usage of the church, who, while the 

 generality of mankind, under the sanction of 

 marriage,fulfil the penalty of Adam, and in sorrow 

 bring forth children to people the earth ; is glorified 

 and edified by religious persons, set apart as guides 

 to salvation, and bound by vow to live in a state 

 of greater purity and sanctity, of which the most 

 instructive examples will be found in the lives of 

 the Saints. 2d. The Holiness of the Church is 

 proved by a succession of miracles wrought in her 

 support ; as it were in Attestation of her Sanctity : 

 and lastly, the holiness of the Catholic doctrine 

 is proved in the converse, by the constant tendency 

 of all heresy, sooner or later, to produce discord, 

 vice, and misery, and to go on from the first 

 doubt through a series of perplexities, to dis- 

 belief in God and in every thing that is dear to 

 human nature, comprehended in the consolations 

 of Christianity. 



III. The Catholicity of the Church is 

 proved by its universal appearance. It is not the 

 church of any one country ; not the Kirk of 

 Scotland ; the Church of England ; the Lutheran 

 Church of Germany, and so on : but it is the 

 Catholic Chuch, bearing such name and attributes 

 everywhere. Emanating from Rome, it flourishes 

 in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Austria, 

 more or less in England, Germany, all over the 

 East, in America, and indeed all over the world. 



