TREATISE

ON THE

CHURCH OF CHRIST:

DESIGNED CHIEFLY

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN THEOLOGY.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM PALMER, M.A.

OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

CHAPTER III. On the Doctrinal Tradition of the Church

CHAPTER IV. On Traditions of Rites and Discipline

SECT. I.

The Mode in which all things lawful are contained in

Scripture.

. ibid.

SECT. II.

On the Means of discriminating variable from invari-

able Rites

OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER V. On the Office of the Church in relation to Faith 76

CHAPTER VI. On the alleged Necessity of Examination as a

PART IV.

ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH IN MATTERS OF FAITH AND

DISCIPLINE.

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

95

102

CHAPTER I. The Church is a Judge in Religious Controversies . 96

CHAPTER II. On the Modes of Ecclesiastical Judgments

CHAPTER III. On the Conditions of Ecclesiastical Judgments . 106

CHAPTER IV. On the Authority of Judgments of the Universal

Church

OBJECTIONS

109

CHAPTER V. On the Notion of a perpetual Tribunal in the Church 133

CHAPTER VI. On the Distinction between Ecclesiastical Judg-

ments and Traditions, and mere common Opinions

OBJECTIONS

136

147

CHAPTER VII. On the Nature and Authority of Ecumenical

Synods

SECT. I. The infallibility of a general Synod, lawfully celebrated,

and confirmed by the Roman pontiff alone, is only a matter

of opinion in the Roman Churches

SECT. II. A general Synod confirmed by the Roman Pontiff, has

not, without the consent of the universal Church, any irre-

fragable Authority.

OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER VIII. General Remarks on the Decrees of Synods.

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The Latrocinium of Ephesus

. 199

SECT. III.

SECT. IV. The Synods of Constantinople and Nice in the question

of Images .

200

SECT. V.

The Synods of Constantinople in the cause of Photius 214

CHAPTER XI. Councils of the Western Church after A. D. 1054,

improperly termed œcumenical .

SECT. I. The first, second, and third Lateran Synods

SECT. II.

The fourth Lateran Synod .

.

. 216

.ibid.

237

CHAPTER XII. The Synod of Trent

CHAPTER XIII. On the authority of particular Synods, and of

the Roman Pontiffs in Controversies .

250

SECT. I.

Of particular Synods.

.ibid.

SECT. II.

CHAPTER XIV. On the Articles of the Synod of London, 1562 . 258

On the right of the Church to demand adhesion to the

264

SECT. III.

On the Interpretation of the Articles

281

SECT. IV. On Subscription to the Articles

285

CHAPTER XV. On the Authority of the Church concerning Dis-

cipline and Rites

290

CHAPTER XVI. On the Exercise and Sanctions of Ecclesiastical