Quotations concerning the Church Fathers

No Authority without patristic support

“...we assign to the fathers their proper and, indeed, honorable place which is due them...We disagree with those who invent opinions which have no testimony from any period in the church, as Servetus, Campanus, the Anabaptists, and others have done in our time.  We also hold that no dogmas that is new in the churches and in conflict with all antiquity should be accepted.”.

·       Martin Chemnitz, An Examination of the Council of Trent.  Vol. 1.  pp. 256-258.