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—CONTENTS.VII.CHAPTER VII.CHURCH OF ROME NEITHER HAS NOR CAN RENOUNCE HER PRINCIPLESON THE SUPREMACY.Supremacy claimed and exercised in former Ages.—Has not beenrenounced.—Cannot, because Roman Church is Infallible.—Cannot,without violating her Fundamental Principles.—The Papacyunchanged in fact.—Growing worse.—Recent Illustrations.—Popesstill claim to be Christ's Vicars.— Pius IX.—Scheme of popularizingthe Papacy.—Re-union of Hierarchical and DynasticalPowers.—Papacy and Democracy.—Critical position of Europe14GBOOK n.DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY.CHAPTER I.THE POPISH THEOLOGY.Professedly based on theTruths of Revelation.—Policy of this.Doctrines all perverted.—Order and Plan stated.—Depth and Ingenuityof Popery.—Importance of the Study1G4CHAPTER II.SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION.Popish Rule of Faith.—Tradition.—Decree of Council of Trent.Tradition equally authoritative with the Scriptures.—Church anInfallible Interpreter.—Apocrypha.—Arguments of Papists ; fromScripture ; from Transmission of Scriptures by the Church j fromalleged Insufficiency of Private Judgment 170CHAPTER III.OF READING THE SCRIPTURES.Bible translated at the Reformation.—Its Reading Interdicted jwholly in some countries ;partially in others.—A mortal Sin toread the Scriptures without a Licence.—Bulls of Popes.—Bibleand Irish Priests.—Bible in Italy.—Rome afraid of the BibleISO