II. Reason and Faith have each their own proper province. p. 505. 1. The office of Reason. p. 505. 2. The office of Faith. p. 505. III. To a test of this description the peculiarities of Romanism have been subjected; and, how lamentably deficient the answer of the Latins is to the requisition that the FACT alleged by the Council of Trent should be substantiated by historical testimony, we have now seen both negatively and positively. p. 506. 1. Negatively, there is a total defect of competent evidence in favour of the apostolicity of Roman Peculiarities. p. 507. 2. Positively, there is direct and decisive evidence against the apostolicity of those Peculiarities. p. 507. IV. The apparent process of the human mind, through which the Peculiarities of the Latin Faith have become the subject of devout and implicit belief. p. 507. V. The final and general result of the whole investigation is that, In admitting the Peculiarities of the Roman Church as articles of the Christian Revelation, the members of that Church believe, not only without evidence, but even against evidence. p. 513. BOOK I. THE TESTIMONY OF HISTORY IN FAVOUR OF THE PECULIARITIES OF ROMANISM. Πατρίους παραδοχάς, ας θ' ὁμήλικας χρόνῳ Eurip. Bacch. ver. 201—203. Β |