In Catholic doctrine, divine revelation did not end with the scriptures, but continued from age to age through the medium of the Church Protestants, on the contrary, rejected the Church as a vehicle of revelation; truth was to be sought only in the Bible, which each man could interpret for himself. In practice, the State claimed the right that had formerly belonged to the Church, but this was a usurpation. In Protestant theory, there should be no earthly intermediary between the soul and God.p. xx.

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