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The History of Heresies, and Their Refutation, or the Triumph of the Church, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alphonsus M. Liguori

 
9781451003222: The History of Heresies, and Their Refutation, or the Triumph of the Church, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Faithful for an ac quaintance with the valuable writings of ST. LIGUOBI, induced me to undertake the Translation of his History of Heresies, one of his greatest works. The Holy Author was induced to write this Work, to meet the numbers of infidel publications, with which Europe was deluged in the latter half of the last century. Men sminds were then totally unsettled; dazzled by the glare of a false philosophy, they turned away from the light of the Gospel. The heart of the Saint was filled with sorrow, and he laboured to avert the scourge he saw impending over the unfaithful people. He implored the Ministers of his Sovereign to put the laws in force, preventing the introduction of irreligious publications into the Kingdom of Naples and he published this Work, among others, to prove, as he says, that the Holy Catholic Church is the only true one the Mistress of Truth the Church, founded by Jesus Christ himself, which would last to the end of time, notwithstanding the persecutions of the infidel, and the rebellion of her own heretical children. He dedicates VOL. i.
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