Monday, June 7, 2010

interpretation of heretics

"...the heretic is not stirred but of his own particular spirit, hath not any tradition but of his own proper making, taketh the Scripture in a sense by himself invented, handling the same as if himself were the authour, making himself a prophet to himself, and the judge of God, and sometimes letteth himself above that which is God, in so much that he doth judge by his own private sense, the eternal word of God...a heretic maketh a new paradox, and putteth a new sense...not of the Holy Ghost, but invented of Satan..."

from The Firme Foundation of the Catholic Religion by Jean de Caumont