ON THE

RIGHT USE OF THE FATHERS.

PRINTED BY P. A. NUTTALL AND C. F. HODGSON, GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET.

A TREATISE

ON THE

RIGHT USE OF THE FATHERS

IN THE

DECISION OF CONTROVERSIES EXISTING AT THIS
DAY IN RELIGION.

BY JOHN DAILLÉ,

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN THE REFORMED CHURCH OF PARIS.

Translated from the French,

AND REVISED BY THE REV. T. SMITH, M.A.,

OF CHRIST COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Now re-edited and amended;

WITH A PREFACE BY THE REV. G. JEKYLL, LL.B.

RECTOR OF WEST COKER AND OF HAWKRIDGE AND WYTHYPOOL, CO. SOMERSET.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

M.DCCC.XLIII.

FROOL LISA 5-JUM 1010 OXFORD

On the Difficulty of ascertaining the Opinions of the Fathers in

reference to the present Controversies in Religion, deduced

from the fact that there is very little of their Writings extant

of the three first Centuries

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CHAPTER II.

That those Writings which we have of the Fathers of the first

Centuries, treat of matters very far different from the present

Controversies in Religion

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CHAPTER III.

That those Writings which bear the names of the ancient Fathers,

are not all really such; but a great portion of them suppo-

sititious and forged, either long since or at later periods... 12