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St. Vincent of Lérins wrote his famous The Commonitory, or Commonitorium, in AD 434, under the pseudonym Peregrinus. A classic text affirming the authority of Scripture and the teachings of the Church Fathers, The Commonitory was written as a “reminder,” in an effort to preserve the authority of the Christian tradition. Citing Deuteronomy 32:7 (“ask thy father and he will show thee; thy elders...

§ 28. BUT perhaps some will say, Is there then to be no progress of religion in the Church of CHRIST? There is certainly, and very great. For who is he that is so envious toward men, so hostile toward GOD, as to endeavor to hinder it? But it must be such as may be truly a progress of the faith, not a change; for when each several thing is improved in itself, that is progress; but when a thing is turned out of one thing into
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