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| 2. | The heretics follow neither Scripture nor tradition, | 259 | |
| 3. | A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various churches, a perpetual succession of bishops was kept up, | 260 | |
| 4. | The truth is to be found nowhere else but in the catholic church, the sole depository of apostolical doctrine. Heresies are of recent formation, and cannot trace their origin up to the apostles, | 264 | |
| 5. | Christ and His apostles, without any fraud, deception, or hypocrisy, preached that one God, the Father, was the Founder of all things. They did not accommodate their doctrine to the prepossessions of their hearers, | 266 | |
| 6. | The Holy Ghost, throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, made mention of no other God or Lord, save Him who is the true God, | 268 | |
| 7. | Reply to an objection founded on the words of St. Paul (2 Cor. iv. 5). St. Paul occasionally uses words not in their grammatical sequence, | 273 | |
| 8. | Answer to an objection, arising from the words of Christ (Matt. vi. 24). God alone is to be really called God and Lord, for He is without beginning and end, | 275 | |
| 9. | One and the same God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is He whom the prophets foretold, and who was declared by the gospel. Proof of this, at the outset, from St. Matthew's Gospel, | 277 | |
| 10. | Proofs of the foregoing, drawn from the Gospels of Mark and Luke, | 281 | |
| 11. | Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this, | 287 | |
| 12. | The doctrine of the rest of the apostles, | 296 | |
| 13. | Refutation of the opinion, that Paul was the only apostle who had knowledge of the truth, | 314 | |
| 14. | If Paul had known any mysteries unrevealed to the other apostles, Luke, his constant companion and fellow-traveller, could not have been ignorant of them; neither could the truth have possibly lain hid from him, through whom alone we learn many and most important particulars of the gospel history, | 316 | |
| 15. | Refutation of the Ebionites, who disparaged the authority of St. Paul, from the writings of St. Luke, which must be received as a whole. Exposure of the hypocrisy deceit, and pride of the Gnostics. The apostles and their disciples knew and preached one God, the Creator of the world, | 320 | |
