Shall we judge of matters of the Christian faith by the fathers or primitive writers for three or four hundred years after Christ? But they often contradicted one another, and themselves too; and what is worse, they sometimes contradicted Scripture itself.
Isaac Watts, Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth, pg.217
Which is a fundamental weakness of Roman Catholics appealing to the Church Fathers as a means of establishing doctrine.
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