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, B.D.
RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON, AND PREBENDARY OFSALISBURY.

It is the part of mere triflers to propound and tospeak the things which are not written. Athanas. Epist.ad Scrap. Oper. vol. ii. p. 29.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR C. J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,
Booksellers to the Society for Promoting ChristianKnowledge,
ST. PAUL’SCHURCH-YARD,
AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

1831.

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p. 2Gilbert & Rivington, Printers, St. John’s Square,London.

p.3ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been suggested to me, thatA brief and plain Exhibition of the utter Incongruity of thepeculiar doctrines of the Church of Rome with those both of theSacred Scriptures and of the early writers of the ChristianChurch Catholic might be useful as a small Tract for generalcirculation.

This suggestion has given rise to the present littlemanual. As for those, who either desire more copiousinformation on the subject, or who may wish to see my authoritiesin the original Greek and Latin: I refer them to the secondedition of my Difficulties of Romanism, printed forMessrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, andWaterloo-Place, London, 1830.

If, from the Written Word of God and from the Fathers of thethree first ages, any Latin Divine can make out an historicalcase, for The alleged Apostolicity of the peculiarities of theChurch of Rome, better than the failures of Mr. Berington andBishop Trevern of Strasbourg: let him by all means come forward,whether he be Bishop or Priest or Deacon. The Bible and theFathers of the three first centuries, whence alone any historicalsubstantiation of the assertions made by the Romish Clergy can bededuced, are open to them as well as to ourselves.

p.4Respecting opinions in the abstract, ingenious menmay dispute for ever: but FACTS areof a more stubborn and intractable quality.

Assertions of the apostolicity and perpetuity andimmutability and primeval universality of Romish Peculiaritiesare cheaply made: but FACTS andASSERTIONS are matters widelydifferent from each other.

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