But has he not publicly declared on his death-bed that that Church was an apostate and idolatrous Church from the day that she proclaimed the dogma of the Infallibility of the Pope?
Her perpetuity andinfallibility are a perpetual miracle.
The gates of hell can not prevail against her; but the assurance of her perpetuity and infallibility does not rest on any human foundation.
My most cherished illusions about the immutability and the infallibility of my church were crumbling down, in my intelligence, in spite of my efforts to keep them up.
Thus the Scriptures bear witness to the infallibilityof the church--and the church, in return, testifies the truth of the Scriptures.
Is it true, sir, that the object of the council is to declare the infallibility of the pope?
She knew all and had weighed every thing, and flattered herself that their frequent and unreserved conversations had not confirmed his belief in the infallibility of the Church of Rome, and perhaps of some other things.
The standard of infallibility is not in man's consciousness, but in the Scriptures.
Lyman Abbott: "The new Reformation denies the infallibility of the Bible, as the Protestant Reformation denied the infallibility of the Church.
To give the right answer to a problem is to put him on the side of infallibility so far as that answer is concerned, but it is to do him an ineffable wrong touching his real education.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the Pope.
An uneasy sense of the weakness of the dogma of Biblical infallibility seems to be at the bottom of a prevailing tendency once more to substitute the authority of the "Church" for that of the Bible.
The infallibility of a finite creature is an inhuman, even an inorganic conception.
Infallibility is an out-of-date conception altogether.
Infallibility is a tyrant born of ecclesiasticism, and bred on human laziness and fear.
There can be no mechanical infallibilityabout Economics; it is not accurate enough to be mathematically true.
This caused a few members to reject the infallibility of the Pope, and a division in the Church was the consequence.
The Greek Christians rejected the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope, but still held to the divinity of the Virgin Mary, and all the other senseless dogmas of the Church.
It taught the infallibility of the Pope, and the divinity of the Virgin Mary.
His infallibility in the first no one will presume to question, except his wife; and with her he will dispute as long as disputing is good.
He who attempted to scale these hallowed mounds was deemed guilty of sacrilege; he who questioned the catholic infallibility was an atheist; and whosoever doubted the divine mission of a priest--an infidel.
The proclamation by the Vatican of the dogma of infallibility drove many pious and earnest Catholics out of the Romish communion.
But his battle against the council and infallibility made the rent incurable, and his angry archbishop hurled against him the great excommunication.
Texts For The Same In Point Of Manners For the Infallibility of his Judgment concerning Manners, hee bringeth one Text, which is that of John 16.
These are all the Texts hee bringeth for the Infallibility of the Judgement of the Pope, in point of Faith.
For how shall a man know the Infallibility of the Church, but by knowing first the Infallibility of the Scripture?
And thence while one side ground their Knowledge upon the Infallibility of the Church, and the other side, on the Testimony of the Private Spirit, neither side concludeth what it pretends.
Texts For The Infallibility Of The Popes Judgement In Points Of Faith For the Infallibility of his Judgments, he alledgeth the Scriptures: and first, that of Luke 22.
Infallibility To this head, I referre also all those Doctrines, that serve them to keep the possession of this spirituall Soveraignty after it is gotten.
At one time she thought that nothing could possibly supersede the infallibility of the Church; at another she saw the complete impossibility of anything being able to stand for a moment against the infallibility of God.
He thought that Gallicanism was dead, and that Catholics everywhere believed in the infallibility of the Holy See.
Archbishop Spalding had always believed in the infallibility of the Pope.
These considerations led him to think that the most proper way of proclaiming the dogma of Papal infallibility would be to condemn all errors opposed to it; and this was his opinion when he went to the council.
One of these he designates as 'The Infallibility of the Sovereign Pontiff teaching ex cathedra.
I pretend not to any exactness or infallibility in this account, foreseeing many scruples that must be removed to make it perfect.
He believed, too, that much time would be consumed in conciliary debate, in case the question of fixing the precise limits of Papal infallibility should be submitted to the fathers.
The prerogative of infallibility is clearly deduced from the attributes of the Church already mentioned.
But you will tell me that infallibility is too great a prerogative to be conferred on man.
Second—Infallibility does not mean that the Pope is impeccable or specially exempt from liability to sin.
The course pursued by the Church, regarding the infallibility of the Pope was practiced by her in reference to the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
Hence the claims to exercise the They deny that such a Apostles spoke with prerogative of gift is possessed by unerring authority, and infallibility in her any teachers of their words were teaching.
If you are infallibly certain, then you assert for yourself, and of course for every reader of the Scripture, a personal infallibility which you deny to the Pope, and which we claim only for him.
But did not the Vatican Council in promulgating the definition of Papal Infallibility in 1870, create a new doctrine of revelation?
If you are not infallibly certain that you understand the true meaning of the whole Bible—and this is a privilege you do not claim—then, I ask, of what use to you is the objective infallibility of the Bible without an infallible interpreter?
If your church is not infallible it is liable to err, for there is no medium between infallibility and liability to error.
Here we find the Popes in various ages condemning heresies and proclaiming doctrines of faith; and they could not in a stronger manner assert their infallibility than by so defining doctrines of faith and condemning errors.
When he arrived at his place of destination, he took a walk along shore, meditating on the power, grandeur, and infallibility of the mother of saints, and what was the first object that caught his eye?
She said the infallibility was the legitimate development of the Roman system.
Perhaps they saw that supremacy is one thing, and infallibility another thing quite different.
I never in my life was more astonished than upon being told the sum this had cost; I think it was in hundreds of pounds, where I should have expected tens.
Sumner was invited to attend, and he read long letters from Cobden and Bright.
The next year it fell to a hundred and twenty-five, and in 1862 it fell by another million owing to the withdrawal, by reason of the American war, of the material of our greatest manufacture.
As the infallibility of the priest, so the infallibility of the ruler came to be questioned.
When an infallibility clashes with a pontification-- They explain.
It is written from a Christian standpoint, and the writer is a firm defender of the infallibility of the Hebrew Scriptures, and can never be suspected of having any sympathy with modern rationalism.
And, perhaps, the same may be justly said of every sect, church, and society of men, when they assume to themselves that infallibility which they deny to the pope and councils.
That believers should quarrel about infallibility is what I know, for I see it; but that statesmen should quarrel in the same way about this great privilege, is what I shall never be able to conceive.
From this point of view we shall see that the distinction between supremacy and infallibility was not worth recognising.
Practically, he says, 'infallibility is only a consequence of supremacy, or rather it is absolutely the same thing under two different names.
The pope, from this point of view, asks for no other infallibility than that which is attributed to all sovereigns.
