The writer of the following pages is more and more convinced that the whole question between the Roman Church and ourselves, as well as the Eastern Church, turns upon the Papal Supremacy, as at present claimed, being of divine right or not. If it be , then have we nothing else to do, on peril of salvation, but submit ourselves to the authority of Rome: and better it were to do so before we meet the attack, which is close at hand, of an enemy who bears equal hatred to ourselves and to Rome; the p

[1] Bellarmin. de Rom. Pont. Lib. iv. 25; iv. 24; i. 9. [2] De Maistre, du Pape. Liv. i. ch. i. [3] S. Cyprian de Unit. Ecc. 12. [4] "Development," &c. p. 22. [5] Thomassin, Part i. lib. i. ch. 4. De l'ancienne discipline de l'Eglise. [6] St. Cypr. de Unit. 4. Oxford Tr. [7] Quoted by Thomassin, ut sup. [8] Ibid. [9] S. Aug. Tom. v. 706, B. [10] S. Chrys. Tom. ii. 594, B. [11] St. Jerome, tom. ii. 279, Vallarsi. [12] Development, p. 279. [13] The words in italics are left out by Mr. N. [