History of the Papacy (By universal consent, pronounced to be the first work of its class.)

All four books in one volume with a linked Table of Contents.

The Papacy, next to Christianity, is the great FACT of the modern world. Of the two, the former, unhappily, has proved in some respects the more powerful spring in human affairs, and has acted the more public part on the stage of the world. Fully to trace the rise and development of this stupendous system were to write a history of Western Europe. The decay of empires,--the extinction of religious systems,--the dissolution and renewal of society,--the rise of new States,--the change of manners, customs, and laws,--the policy of courts,--the wars of kings,--the decay and revival of letters, of philosophy and of arts,--all connect themselves with the history of the Papacy, to whose growth they ministered, and whose destiny they helped to unfold. On so wide a field of investigation, neither our time, nor our limits permit us to enter. Let it suffice that we indicate, in general terms, the main causes that contributed to the rise of this tremendous power, and the successive stages that marked the course of its portentous development.

Table of Contents

BOOK ONE - HISTORY OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER I -ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER II - RISE AND PROGRESS OF ECCLESIASTICAL SUPREMACY.

CHAPTER III - RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY.

CHAPTER IV - RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE TEMPORAL SUPREMACY.

CHAPTER V - FOUNDATION AND EXTENT OF THE SUPREMACY, THE CARDINAL'S OATH.

CHAPTER VI - THE CANON LAW

CHAPTER VII - THAT THE CHURCH OF ROME NEITHER HAS NOR CAN CHANGE HER PRINCIPLES ON THE HEAD OF THE SUPREMACY.

BOOK TWO - DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER I - THE POPISH THEOLOGY

CHAPTER II - SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION. DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER III - OF READING THE SCRIPTURES.

CHAPTER IV - UNITY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME

CHAPTER V - CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME

CHAPTER VI - APOSTOLICITY, OR PETER'S PRIMACY.

CHAPTER VII - INFALLIBILITY

CHAPTER VIII - NO SALVATION OUT OF THE CHURCH OF ROME

CHAPTER IX - OF ORIGINAL SIN.

CHAPTER X - OF JUSTIFICATION

CHAPTER XI - THE SACRAMENTS

CHAPTER XII - BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION

CHAPTER XIII - THE EUCHARIST--TRANSUBSTANTIATION--THE MASS, DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER XIV - OF PENANCE AND CONFESSION.

CHAPTER XV -OF INDULGENCES

CHAPTER XVI - OF PURGATORY

CHAPTER XVII - OF THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES

CHAPTER XVIII - OF THE WORSHIPPING OF SAINTS

CHAPTER XIX - THE WORSHIP OF THE VIRGIN MARY

CHAPTER XX - FAITH NOT TO BE KEPT WITH HERETICS

BOOK THREE - GENIUS AND INFLUENCE OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER I - GENIUS OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER II - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE INDIVIDUAL MAN

CHAPTER III - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER IV - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE MORALS AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF NATIONS

CHAPTER V - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION OF NATIONS.

BOOK FOUR - PRESENT POLICY AND PROSPECTS OF THE PAPACY

CHAPTER I - SHAM REFORM AND REAL RE-ACTION.

CHAPTER II - NEW CATHOLIC LEAGUE, AND THREATENED CRUSADE AGAINST PROTESTANTISM

CHAPTER III - GENERAL PROPAGANDISM

CHAPTER IV - PROSPECTS OF THE PAPACY