THE

OPINION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

FOR THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES,

ON THE

NECESSITY OF BELIEVING THAT OUR

LORD JESUS CHRIST

IS TRULY GOD.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF BISHOP BULL.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE.

BY THE REV. T. RANKIN.

Quant a l'Ouvrage du Docteur Bullus.-Il est admirable, et la matiere qu'il
traite ne pouvoit estre expliquée plus savamment et plus à fond.............Bossuet.

LONDON:

SOLD BY

C. & J. RIVINGTON, BALDWIN & Co., J. HATCHARD & SON, L. B. SEELEY,
W. BAYNES & SON; H. BAYNES & Co., EDINBURGH; M. TIMS

DUBLIN ; AND A. BARCLAY, YORK.

1825.

TO THE

VENERABLE AND REV. F. WRANGHAM, M. A. F. R. S.,

ARCHDEACON OF THE ARCHDEACONRY of CLEVELAND;

WHOSE SPLENDID ABILITIES,

URBANITY OF MANNERS, LITERARY ACQUIREMENTS,

AND PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY, HAVE,

NEITHER IN A COMMON NOR IN A ROYAL WAY,

ELEVATED HIM HIGH IN THE SCALE OF

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT;

THE MEMOIR OF A MEMORABLE PRELATE,

AND

A TRANSLATION OF AN IMPERISHABLE WORK,

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY HIS OBLIGED

AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THOMAS RANKIN.