pecially of the weaker sort. Of these power doth ev« arrogate to itself such as are most operative, by their force sustaining and extending itself. So divers prev- alent factions did assume to themselves the name of Catholic, and the Roman Church particularly hath appropriated that word to itself, even so as to comnut a bull, implying Rome and the universe to be the same place ; and the perpetual canting of this term hath been one of the most effectual charms to weak people. * I am a Catholic, that is, a universal ; therefore sJl I hold is true :' this is their great argument" (Barrow, On the Pope's Supremacy; Worh, N. Y. ed. iii, 201). The Church of which Rome was so long the centre is not Catholic, but Latin ; Just as the Church of which Constantinople was the centre is not Catholic, but Greek. ** There is, indeed, a Catholic or Universal Church, and therefore a universal Christianity. But to assert that the unity implied in the conjunction of these terms is, and must be, a visible unity, is, in a word, to give the lie to all Church history, both Greek and Latin, from a date almost immediately sequent on the apostolic age. And neither Greek, nor Latin, nor Teutonic Christianity, nor all of them together, can be CathoUc Christianity, any more than a part of any- thing can be equal to the whole" (Lond. Quarterly Re- view, April, 1855, p. 150).
Bishop Bilson, in his True Difference between Chris- tian Subjection and UwAristian Rebellion (1585), sums up the reasons for denying catholicity as a note of the Ro- man Church as follows (in dialogue form) : ^^ Philander (Romanist) : What one point of our religion is not cath- olic ? Theophilus (Anglican) : No one point of that which this realm hath refused is truly catholic. Your having and adoring of images in the church ; your public service in a tongue not understood of the peo- ple; your gazing on the priest while he alone eateth and drinketh at the Lord's table; your barring the people from the Ldrd*s cup ; your sacrificing the Son of God to his Father for the sins of the world ; your adoring the elements of bread and wine with Divine honor instead of Christ ; your seven sacraments ; your shrift ; your releasmg souls out of purgatory by pray- ers and pardons ; your compelling priests to live sin- gle ; your meritorious vowing and performing pilgrim- ages ; your invocation of saints departed ; your rules of perfection for monks and friars ; your relying on the Pope as head of the Church, and vicar-general unto Christ— these, with infinite other superstitions in ac- tion and errors in doctrine, we deny to have any foundation in the Scriptures, or confirmation in the general consent or use of the Catholic Church."
In fact, for Protestants to concede to Romanists the titie '* Catholics" is equivalent to acknowledging them- selves heretics. ^"Iliis concession may be harmless and innocent enough as far as Protestants are concern- ed, but it is most pernicious to those to whom the titie is conceded. Men at all times have an inclination to trust in names and privileges, and nothing has proved, or will prove, a greater obstacle to progress in Chris- tian truth than this feeling of being possessed of ex- clusive privileges — of being exclusively Catholics, i. e. members of the Catholic Church — of that holy commu* nity that must secure a special share of divine favor to every member of it." — Bingham, Orig. Ecdes, bk. i, ch. i, § 7; Snicer, Thesaurus Eccles. s. v. KaBoXtKdc, Eden, Churchman's Dictumary, s. v. ; Elliott, Delinea- tions of Romanism, bk. iii, ch. ii, § vii ; Bellarmine's Notes of the Church confuted (Lond. 1687, 4to, pp. 29- 84) ; Litton, The Church of Christ, bk. ii, pt ii, Intro- duction ; Palmer, On the Church, pt. i, ch. xi, § 8. See Roman Catholic Church.
CATHOLIC, titie of a prelate. See Cathoucos.
Catholio Apostolic Xniuroh, the name of a body of Christians which has had a separate organiza- tion for somewhat more than thirty years. The fol- lowing article is fh)m a member of the body.
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