In spite of all the talk about the Writings being a Divine Revelation, the distinctiveness of the New Church is being more and more lost sight of, even as the President of the Convention has lost sight of it in the sermon on the Unity of the Church which he preached to the Illinois Association (published, like the address, in the Messenger for Add to Book Bag Remove from Book Bag. Saved in: A discourse on the supremacy of the Roman pontiffs delivered in the church of Gesu E Maria, in the Corso, Rome, on Sunday, Feb. 7th, 1836, with an appendix : Baggs, Charles Michael, 1806-1845. xlii + 418 pages. Some (coloured) pencil marking and underlining, mainly to M'Crie's Introductory Essay and Barrow's Introduction. Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) was a professor of Greek and of Geometry. In later life he devoted himself to Divinity and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy was published posthumously. A premise in enforcing rules against heresy rests on the origins of Christianity and on the insistence that followers believe completely and with full faith, or suffer the consequences. The enforcement of the rules begins with the pope, but there is also an expectation that the entire hierarchy of the Church enforce the pope