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Prescription against Heretics

Tertullian, ANF 3

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Introductory. Heresies Must Exist, and Even Abound; They are a Probation to Faith
Analogy Between Fevers and Heresies. Heresies Not to Be Wondered At: Their Strength…
Weak People Fall an Easy Prey to Heresy, Which Derives Strength from the General Frailty…
Warnings Against Heresy Given Us in the New Testament. Sundry Passages Adduced. These…
Heresy, as Well as Schism and Dissension, Disapproved by St. Paul, Who Speaks of the…
Heretics are Self-Condemned. Heresy is Self-Will, Whilst Faith is Submission of Our Will…
Pagan Philosophy the Parent of Heresies. The Connection Between Deflections from…
Christ’s Word, Seek, and Ye Shall Find, No Warrant for Heretical Deviations from the…
The Research After Definite Truth Enjoined on Us. When We Have Discovered This, We Should…
One Has Succeeded in Finding Definite Truth, When He Believes. Heretical Wits are Always…
After We Have Believed, Search Should Cease; Otherwise It Must End in a Denial of What We…
A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge, Which Will Never Be Out of Place or Excessive,…
Summary of the Creed, or Rule of Faith. No Questions Ever Raised About It by Believers.…
Curiosity Ought Not Range Beyond the Rule of Faith. Restless Curiosity, the Feature of…
Heretics Not to Be Allowed to Argue Out of the Scriptures. The Scriptures, in Fact, Do…
Apostolic Sanction to This Exclusion of Heretics from the Use of the Scriptures,…
Heretics, in Fact, Do Not Use, But Only Abuse, Scripture. No Common Ground Between Them…
Great Evil Ensues to the Weak in Faith, from Any Discussion Out of the Scriptures.…
Appeal, in Discussion of Heresy, Lies Not to the Scriptures. The Scriptures Belong Only…
Christ First Delivered the Faith. The Apostles Spread It; They Founded Churches as the…
All Doctrine True Which Comes Through the Church from the Apostles, Who Were Taught by…
Attempt to Invalidate This Rule of Faith Rebutted. The Apostles Safe Transmitters of the…
The Apostles Not Ignorant. The Heretical Pretence of St. Peter’s Imperfection Because He…
St. Peter’s Further Vindication. St. Paul Not Superior to St. Peter in Teaching. Nothing…
The Apostles Did Not Keep Back Any of the Deposit of Doctrine Which Christ Had Entrusted…
The Apostles Did in All Cases Teach the Whole Truth to the Whole Church. No Reservation,…
Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth, May Not the Churches…
The One Tradition of the Faith, Which is Substantially Alike in the Churches Everywhere,…
The Truth Not Indebted to the Care of the Heretics; It Had Free Course Before They…
Comparative Lateness of Heresies. Marcion’s Heresy. Some Personal Facts About Him. The…
Truth First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ’s Parable Puts the Sowing of…
None of the Heretics Claim Succession from the Apostles. New Churches Still Apostolic,…
Present Heresies (Seedlings of the Tares Noted by the Sacred Writers) Already Condemned…
No Early Controversy Respecting the Divine Creator; No Second God Introduced at First.…
Let Heretics Maintain Their Claims by a Definite and Intelligible Evidence. This the Only…
The Apostolic Churches the Voice of the Apostles. Let the Heretics Examine Their…
Heretics Not Being Christians, But Rather Perverters of Christ’s Teaching, May Not Claim…
Harmony of the Church and the Scriptures. Heretics Have Tampered with the Scriptures, and…
What St. Paul Calls Spiritual Wickednesses Displayed by Pagan Authors, and by Heretics,…
No Difference in the Spirit of Idolatry and of Heresy. In the Rites of Idolatry, Satan…
The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness, and Irregularity. The Notorious…
Heretics Work to Pull Down and to Destroy, Not to Edify and Elevate. Heretics Do Not…
Loose Company Preferred by Heretics. Ungodliness the Effect of Their Teaching the Very…
Heresy Lowers Respect for Christ, and Destroys All Fear of His Great Judgment. The…