Excerpt from The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D, Vol. 8 of 12: Lord Bishop of Gloucester
A Sovereign Contempt for the authority of the Fathers, and no great reverence for any other, is what now-a-days constitutes a Protestant in fashion. But, as I imagine Religion loseth somewhat, and Learning a great deal more, by the neglect in which the Fathers lye at present, I should have been tempted to say a word or two in their behalf, even though the subject of the following sheets did not require that they, whose testimony I make some use of, should have their pretensions fairly stated, and their character examined. But what is here insinuated to the discredit of the present mode in theology with regard to the Fathers is by no means said in favour of the past, but of that which good sense seems disposed to place between them.
Their authority had now, for many ages, been held sacred. Although by taking the Greek philosophy, in which they had been nurtured, for their guide in explaining the nature and genius of the Gospel, they had unhappily turned religion into an art; which their successors, the Schoolmen, soon after turned into a trade.
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