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The Prescription Against Heretics

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

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Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.

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  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 1 — Chapter II.—Analogy Between Fevers and Heresies. Heresies Not to Be Wondered At: Their Strength Derived from Weakness of Men’s Faith. They Have Not the Truth. Simile of Pugilists and Gladiators in Illustration.…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 2 — Chapter III.—Weak People Fall an Easy Prey to Heresy, Which Derives Strength from the General Frailty of Mankind. Eminent Men Have Fallen from Faith; Saul, David, Solomon. The Constancy of Christ. It is usual,…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 3 — Warnings Against Heresy Given Us in the New Testament. Sundry Passages Adduced. These Imply the Possibility of Falling into Heresy. Chapter IV.—Warnings Against Heresy Given Us in the New Testament. Sundry Passages…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 4 — Chapter V.—Heresy, as Well as Schism and Dissension, Disapproved by St. Paul, Who Speaks of the Necessity of Heresies, Not as a Good, But, by the Will of God, Salutary Trials for Training and Approving the Faith of…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 5 — Heretics are Self-Condemned. Heresy is Self-Will, Whilst Faith is Submission of Our Will to the Divine Authority. The Heresy of Apelles. Chapter VI.—Heretics are Self-Condemned. Heresy is Self-Will, Whilst Faith is…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 6 — Pagan Philosophy the Parent of Heresies. The Connection Between Deflections from Christian Faith and the Old Systems of Pagan Philosophy. Chapter VII.—Pagan Philosophy the Parent of Heresies. The Connection Between…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 7 — Chapter VIII.—Christ’s Word, Seek, and Ye Shall Find, No Warrant for Heretical Deviations from the Faith. All Christ’s Words to the Jews are for Us, Not Indeed as Specific Commands, But as Principles to Be Applied. I…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 8 — The Research After Definite Truth Enjoined on Us. When We Have Discovered This, We Should Be Content. Chapter IX.—The Research After Definite Truth Enjoined on Us. When We Have Discovered This, We Should Be Content.…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 9 — Chapter X.—One Has Succeeded in Finding Definite Truth, When He Believes. Heretical Wits are Always Offering Many Things for Vain Discussion, But We are Not to Be Always Seeking. Now the reason of this saying is…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 10 — Chapter XI.—After We Have Believed, Search Should Cease; Otherwise It Must End in a Denial of What We Have Believed. No Other Object Proposed for Our Faith. There is impunity in erring, if there is no delinquency;…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 11 — A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge, Which Will Never Be Out of Place or Excessive, is Always Within the Rule of Faith. Chapter XII.—A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge, Which Will Never Be Out of Place or…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 12 — Chapter XIII.—Summary of the Creed, or Rule of Faith. No Questions Ever Raised About It by Believers. Heretics Encourage and Perpetuate Thought Independent of Christ’s Teaching. Now, with regard to this rule of…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 13 — Curiosity Ought Not Range Beyond the Rule of Faith. Restless Curiosity, the Feature of Heresy. Chapter XIV.—Curiosity Ought Not Range Beyond the Rule of Faith. Restless Curiosity, the Feature of Heresy. So long,…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 14 — Heretics Not to Be Allowed to Argue Out of the Scriptures. The Scriptures, in Fact, Do Not Belong to Them. Chapter XV.—Heretics Not to Be Allowed to Argue Out of the Scriptures. The Scriptures, in Fact, Do Not Belong…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 15 — Chapter XVI.—Apostolic Sanction to This Exclusion of Heretics from the Use of the Scriptures. Heretics, According to the Apostle, are Not to Be Disputed With, But to Be Admonished. I might be thought to have laid…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 16 — Heretics, in Fact, Do Not Use, But Only Abuse, Scripture. No Common Ground Between Them and You. Chapter XVII.—Heretics, in Fact, Do Not Use, But Only Abuse, Scripture. No Common Ground Between Them and You. Now this…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 17 — Chapter XVIII.—Great Evil Ensues to the Weak in Faith, from Any Discussion Out of the Scriptures. Conviction Never Comes to the Heretic from Such a Process. But with respect to the man for whose sake you enter on the…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 18 — Appeal, in Discussion of Heresy, Lies Not to the Scriptures. The Scriptures Belong Only to Those Who Have the Rule of Faith. Chapter XIX.—Appeal, in Discussion of Heresy, Lies Not to the Scriptures. The Scriptures…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 19 — Chapter XX.—Christ First Delivered the Faith. The Apostles Spread It; They Founded Churches as the Depositories Thereof. That Faith, Therefore, is Apostolic, Which Descended from the Apostles, Through Apostolic…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 20 — Chapter XXI.—All Doctrine True Which Comes Through the Church from the Apostles, Who Were Taught by God Through Christ. All Opinion Which Has No Such Divine Origin and Apostolic Tradition to Show, is Ipso Facto…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 21 — Chapter XXII.—Attempt to Invalidate This Rule of Faith Rebutted. The Apostles Safe Transmitters of the Truth. Sufficiently Taught at First, and Faithful in the Transmission. But inasmuch as the proof is so near at…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 22 — Chapter XXIII.—The Apostles Not Ignorant. The Heretical Pretence of St. Peter’s Imperfection Because He Was Rebuked by St. Paul. St. Peter Not Rebuked for Error in Teaching. Now, with the view of branding the…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 23 — Chapter XXIV.—St. Peter’s Further Vindication. St. Paul Not Superior to St. Peter in Teaching. Nothing Imparted to the Former in the Third Heaven Enabled Him to Add to the Faith. Heretics Boast as If Favoured with…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 24 — Chapter XXV.—The Apostles Did Not Keep Back Any of the Deposit of Doctrine Which Christ Had Entrusted to Them. St. Paul Openly Committed His Whole Doctrine to Timothy. But here is, as we have said, the same madness,…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 25 — The Apostles Did in All Cases Teach the Whole Truth to the Whole Church. No Reservation, Nor Partial Communication to Favourite Friends. Chapter XXVI.—The Apostles Did in All Cases Teach the Whole Truth to the Whole…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 26 — Chapter XXVII.—Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth, May Not the Churches Have Been Unfaithful in Handing It On? Inconceivable that This Can Have Been the Case. Since, therefore, it is…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 27 — Chapter XXVIII.—The One Tradition of the Faith, Which is Substantially Alike in the Churches Everywhere, a Good Proof that the Transmission Has Been True and Honest in the Main. Grant, then, that all have erred; that…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 28 — Chapter XXIX.—The Truth Not Indebted to the Care of the Heretics; It Had Free Course Before They Appeared. Priority of the Church’s Doctrine a Mark of Its Truth. In whatever manner error came, it reigned of course…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 29 — Truth First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ's Parable Puts the Sowing of the Good Seed Before the Useless Tares. Chapter XXXI.—Truth First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ’s Parable…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 30 — Chapter XXXII.—None of the Heretics Claim Succession from the Apostles. New Churches Still Apostolic, Because Their Faith is that Which the Apostles Taught and Handed Down. The Heretics Challenged to Show Any…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 31 — Chapter XXXIII.—Present Heresies (Seedlings of the Tares Noted by the Sacred Writers) Already Condemned in Scripture. This Descent of Later Heresy from the Earlier Traced in Several Instances. Besides all this, I add…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 32 — Chapter XXXIV.—No Early Controversy Respecting the Divine Creator; No Second God Introduced at First. Heresies Condemned Alike by the Sentence and the Silence of Holy Scripture. These are, as I suppose, the different…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 33 — Chapter XXXV.—Let Heretics Maintain Their Claims by a Definite and Intelligible Evidence. This the Only Method of Solving Their Questions. Catholics Appeal Always to Evidence Traceable to Apostolic Sources.…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 34 — Chapter XXXVI.—The Apostolic Churches the Voice of the Apostles. Let the Heretics Examine Their Apostolic Claims, in Each Case, Indisputable. The Church of Rome Doubly Apostolic; Its Early Eminence and Excellence.…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 35 — Chapter XXXVII.—Heretics Not Being Christians, But Rather Perverters of Christ’s Teaching, May Not Claim the Christian Scriptures. These are a Deposit, Committed to and Carefully Kept by the Church. Since this is the…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 36 — Chapter XXXVIII.—Harmony of the Church and the Scriptures. Heretics Have Tampered with the Scriptures, and Mutilated, and Altered Them. Catholics Never Change the Scriptures, Which Always Testify for Them. Where…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 37 — Chapter XXXIX.—What St. Paul Calls Spiritual Wickednesses Displayed by Pagan Authors, and by Heretics, in No Dissimilar Manner. Holy Scripture Especially Liable to Heretical Manipulation. Affords Material for…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 38 — Chapter XL.—No Difference in the Spirit of Idolatry and of Heresy. In the Rites of Idolatry, Satan Imitated and Distorted the Divine Institutions of the Older Scriptures. The Christian Scriptures Corrupted by Him in…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 39 — The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness, and Irregularity. The Notorious Wantonness of Their Women. Chapter XLI.—The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness, and Irregularity. The Notorious…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 40 — Chapter XLII.—Heretics Work to Pull Down and to Destroy, Not to Edify and Elevate. Heretics Do Not Adhere Even to Their Own Traditions, But Harbour Dissent Even from Their Own Founders. But what shall I say…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 41 — Chapter XLIII.—Loose Company Preferred by Heretics. Ungodliness the Effect of Their Teaching the Very Opposite of Catholic Truth, Which Promotes the Fear of God, Both in Religious Ordinances and Practical Life. It…vatican.va
  • The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 42 — Chapter XLIV.—Heresy Lowers Respect for Christ, and Destroys All Fear of His Great Judgment. The Tendency of Heretical Teaching on This Solemn Article of the Faith. The Present Treatise an Introduction to Certain…vatican.va

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