becamm it hath something (mmnu? to bell', stoney, .in, by which it is expelled. But character depends on the will of Cod, who instituted it that it should be permanent in the mind, and has nothin? contrary by which it can be blotted out." "Q)ue?.3. WA?AercA?e,'cnnh, Mef?m?.? .dJu. 1. Xt canbe erased by God, when it was immimted by ]mira. ?. Especially in this life it cannot be erased, as is plain from what has been mLid. 3. Nor can it be erased after t_h,_'_m life, but it in to coatiaue to the glory of the good and the ignominy of the wicked.? 8. O?L, ?as?,r tb ,?,ctr5= ?c/mr?. 1. Roman Catholics cannot explain what char?ter in, nor why there are only three sacraments which produce that effect, nor whence the property of character arises which cannot be erased. 2. They argue in a circle; for they say that character is impresoed by some sacraments because these cannot be reiterated, and that they cannot be reiterated because they produce character. 3. The ancient doctors of the church did not understand by charac- ter the ?me which the Council of Trent calls by that name. Hence among the divines of the Church of Rome there is a great discrepance of opinion, and they are also at variance with the fathers. There are endleoaly jarring sentiments among their doctors respecting character itoe.if, and what pertains thereto, as we have already obsorved.? But u the Council of Trent made this point an article of faith, the opinion of the ancient doctors must be made to tally w?th this dogma, and the present race of divines must not teach any tiring different from the in- fallible decision of the council. Hence, says ]3ailly, after mentioning that the sentiment of Dursndus was unsound, "After the Council of Trent, it was not lawful to defend that sentiment."? iX. TAe cerM/?s and sacrammtals o.f' ? ?crame?. �We will present the reader with the views of the Ronmu Cadto- lic rite? connected with the sacraments, as furnished by Bailly, Dens, and Collet, their own acknowledged theologians, in their concluding chapters on the seven 8?craments. "By ceremonies here," say-s Bailly, "are to be understood the ex- ternal acts of religion, which were instituted by Christ, his apostles, or the church, for the honour of God, reverence of the sacraments, and to excite the piety of the people. If they are referred to the sacra- ments, they are called sacramental rites. If they are referred to the worship of C, od in general, and ordained to the sanctitication of man without a sacrament, a? prayer in consecrated churches, Messed bread, &c., they are called a?rammt?I?, because they have a kind of likeness to the sa?ramenls." Their theologians are accustomed to divide their sacramentals into six, comprehended in the following verse :? ,, Omna, tinctus, edens, confetus, dam, benedicenL" This barbarous verse may be translated as follows: Pray/?, + Bailly. $ Idem.
- ? See their vario?! ?entiments quote? by (?erhard, ?e CIM?actere, tom i,
33?, *ec. 96. ? Poet Ooncilium Tridentinure, non licet e?n ?ententhm defendere.?/)e tom. '?i, p. a?. 1
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