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1 70 SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION.CHAPTER 11.SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION.Papists concur with Protestants inadmitting that God isthe source of all obligation and duty, and that the Biblecontains a revelation of his will. But while the Papist admitsthat the Bible is a revelation of the will of God, he is farfrom admitting, with the Protestant, that it is the only revelation.He holds, on the contrary, that it is neither asufficient rule of faith, nor the only rule; but that tradition,which he terms the ummntten word, is equally inspired andequally authoritative with the Bible. To tradition, then,the Papist assigns an equal rank with the Scriptures as adivine revelation. The Council of Trent, in its fourth session,decreed, " that all should receive with equal reverencethe books of the Old and New Testament, and the traditionsconcerning faith and manners, as proceeding from themouth of Christ, or inspired by the Holy Spirit, and preservedin the Catholic Church ; and that whosoever knowingly,and of deliberate purpose, despisedbe anathema."*traditions, shouldIn the creed of the Council of Trent is thefollowing article:— "I do most firmly receive and embracethe apostolical and ecclesiastical traditions, and otherusages, of the Roman Church." " The Catholics," says Dr* Can. et Dec. Concilii Tiidcutini, p. 16 ; Lij^sia) (1S46.)