[5a] Cardinal Cajetan in 2 Thess. 2. speaks of the “Sacrificum altaris” as a matter merely of traditionary authority, while, your Bourdeaux New Testament wishes to make it Scriptural also, as appears by its horrid falsification of Acts xiii. 2. by rendering it—“as they offered to the Lord the Sacrifice of the Mass.” le Sacrifice de la Messe. What will not Popery do, to gain a point? Your Catechism of the Council of Trent says—“Our Lord himself, at his last Supper, offered to his Eternal Father his precious body and blood, under the appearances of bread and wine, at the same time declaring himself ‘a Priest for ever according to the Order of Melchisedec.’” Was a greater falsehood every uttered?
[5b] “The Ministers whom we call Deacons, distribute to each one present, a portion of the blessed bread and the wine and water.” Justin Martyr, Apol. 1.
[5c] “Cum ea geminæ interpretationis opulentia de S. Johannes testimonio Ecclesia frueratur, quarum utraque probationem ab hœreticis inde deductum impugnabat, ad unius tantummodo paupertatem non esse redigendam.”
[5d] St. Augustine’s Commentary on this is well worth your reading.
[7] Dr. Milner tells us Letter 12—that “the English Testament puts the word ‘Ordinances’ in 1 Cor. xi. 2. instead of ‘Traditions,’ contrary to the original Greek,” &c. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding this, in the edition of the Rhemish Testament printed by Coyne in Dublin in 1825, “Ordinances” is found, and not “Traditions.” So much for the authority of our titulars.
[8a] Second Book of Homilies.
[8b] Reply to the Appendix of the Bishop of Fern’s Charge—p. 7.
[9] The Achilli trial is fresh in the recollection of all. View this matter as you may,—whether Dr. Newman was a libeller, or Dr. Achilli a debauchee,—it proves your system to be what your own celebrated Espenseus long ago called it—“A Custom House of sin.” Ubi sup.
[10a] Is not this at variance with the Blessed Virgin Mary’s own confession? St. Luke i. 46, 47.
[10b] Warden Neale’s Lectures. Lond. Cleaver. 1852.