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| The One Tradition of the Faith, Which is Substantially Alike in the Churches Everywhere, a Good Proof that the Transmission Has Been True and Honest in the Main.
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XXVIII.—The One Tradition of the Faith, Which is Substantially
Alike in the Churches Everywhere, a Good Proof that the Transmission
Has Been True and Honest in the Main.
Grant, then, that all have erred; that the apostle
was mistaken in giving his testimony; that the Holy Ghost had no such
respect to any one (church) as to lead it into truth, although sent
with this view by Christ,2146
and for this asked
of the Father that He might be the teacher of truth;2147
grant, also, that He, the Steward of God,
the Vicar of Christ,2148
| 2148 [Tertullian knows no
other Vicar of Christ than the Holy Spirit. They who attribute
infallibility to any mortal man become Montanists; they attribute the
Paraclete’s voice to their oracle.] | neglected His
office, permitting the churches for a time to understand differently,
(and) to believe differently, what He Himself was preaching by the
apostles,—is it likely that so many churches, and they so great,
should have gone astray into one and the same faith? No casualty
distributed among many men issues in one and the same result. Error of
doctrine in the churches must necessarily have produced various
issues. When, however, that which is deposited among many is
found to be one and the same, it is not the result of error, but of
tradition. Can any one, then, be reckless2149
enough to say that they were in error who handed on the
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