PREFACE.

The Bishop of Meaux, the very able and acute Bossuet, has constructed an ingenious argument from the Prophetic Promises of Christ. This argument is meant to establish the Roman Church, and those in communion with her, as the sole visible Catholic Church, while simultaneously excluding the Protestant Churches from any share or participation in that venerable title.

His argument cannot be stated with more fairness and propriety than in his own words:

The doctrine of the Catholic Church consists of four points, the connection of which is inviolable.
The first point is: that The Church is visible.
The second point is: that It always exists.
The third point is: that The truth of the Gospel is there always professed by the whole Society.