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CATECHISM ON THE ARTICLES.

What was that heresy?

That in Jesus Christ the human nature is swallowed up in the divine nature.

In what respect has "the Church of Antioch erred?"

In the person of Paul of Samosata, its bishop, who taught that Jesus Christ was a mere man.

In what respect has "the Church of Rome erred" in "faith?"

Not to mention any points in which she differs from the Church of England or the Church in the United States, her bishop Eleutherius countenanced Montanus, Liberius countenanced Arius, Zosimus" favoured Pelagius, and Honorius was condemned by the sixth general council as a Monothelite.

What was the heresy of Montanus?

He professed that God had intrusted to him and to his associates a new dispensation of the Holy Spirit.

What was the heresy of Pelagius 1

See the ninth Article.

What is a Monothelite?

One who teaches that Jesus Christ had no distinct will as man, His human will being swallowed up in the divine.

Article XX.

What is the subject of the twentieth Article?

"The Authority of the Church."