Facts and Assertions: or a Brief and Plain Exhibition of the Incongruity of the Peculiar Doctrines of the Church of Rome / With Those Both of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Early Writers of the Christian Church Catholic

by George Stanley Faber

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FOOTNOTES.

[7] Such, avowedly, has been the language of Dr. Norris, of Stonyhurst; such also, unless my memory altogether fail me, has been the language of Dr. Doyle. Roma locuta est: causa finita est. Which, being interpreted, Is: Rome hath spoken: the cause, therefore, is determined.

These two divines seem, either themselves to have forgotten, or to have expected their opponents to forget; that the theologians of Trent, not only define DOCTRINES, but assert FACTS; not only assert FACTS, but assert them as THE AVOWED BASIS OF DOCTRINES.

The defined DOCTRINES being thus professedly made to rest upon the asserted FACTS, we should feel ourselves greatly obliged to Dr. Norris, and Dr. Doyle, if they would distinctly teach us; What becomes of the defined DOCTRINES, when the asserted FACTS themselves turn out to be mere shadowy non-entities?

Will a house continue to stand, when its foundations are removed? Can doctrines remain secure, when their professed basis of facts proves to be nothing better than the fabric of a vision?

[8a] Concil. Trident. sess. xiii. a 3. p. 124.

[8b] Ibid. sess. xiv. c. 5. p. 148.

[8c] Ibid. sess. xiv. c. 7. p. 153.