Summary of the preceding Lecture.-Influence of Philosophy on False Au-
thority in the Church.-The province of human reason in religion imper-
fectly apprehended by the Fathers.-The disposition of men to render an
undue submission to authority.-This course of things favours the
assumptions of Ecclesiastical Councils.-The authority of the Fathers not
superseded by that of Church Councils-But the Scholastic Philosophy
becomes established through their united influence.-Difference between
the influence of Plato and Aristotle on Christianity.-Peculiar character
of the Aristotelian Philosophy.-Its evil effects.-Influence of Philosophy
on the Sacraments of the Church.-The science of Magic-How viewed by
the Fathers. These views derived from the Alexandrian Platonists. - Its
connexion with the science of Theurgia.—This science approved by Origen
and others.-Effect of these theories on the Sacraments of Baptism and
the Eucharist. Doctrine of Tertullian and Cyprian on these points.-
Effect of these errors with regard to Baptism.-The doctrine and adminis-
tration of the Eucharist corrupted from the same source.-Other services