Excerpt from The Faith of Catholics on Certain Points of Controversy: Confirmed by Scripture, and Attested by the Fathers of the Five First Centuries of the Church The minister of religion, if he heard this reasoning, could not, for a moment, hesitate. He would assure him, that the question stood precisely as he viewed it; and for the satisfaction which he wished, he would refer him to many books written on the subject, and particularly to the works of those venerable men, to whom he had alluded, the Fathers of the Church; acknowledged to have been the fruitful witnesses of the doctrines, which they had received, and themselves delivered. But the works of these Fathers were chiefly written in Greek or Latin, the language of the countries in which they lived; languages not accessible to all readers; and of those works few have been translated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.