Excerpt: ...in heavenly sacraments," was it not this to which St. Augustine appealed in combating a heresy in the errors of which he had long been himself ensnared?-an appeal couched in words the force of which is vastly greater when they can be applied with equal truth in the nineteenth as in the fourth century. "I am held in the bosom of the Catholic Church by the agreement of peoples and nations; by the authority which took its rise in miracles, was nurtured in hope, reached its growth in charity, is confirmed by ...
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Excerpt: ...in heavenly sacraments," was it not this to which St. Augustine appealed in combating a heresy in the errors of which he had long been himself ensnared?-an appeal couched in words the force of which is vastly greater when they can be applied with equal truth in the nineteenth as in the fourth century. "I am held in the bosom of the Catholic Church by the agreement of peoples and nations; by the authority which took its rise in miracles, was nurtured in hope, reached its growth in charity, is confirmed by antiquity. I am held by the succession of bishops, down to the actual episcopate, from the very See of the Apostle Peter, to whom after His resurrection the Lord intrusted His sheep to be fed. Lastly, I am held by the very name of Catholic, which, not without reason, among so many heresies that Church alone has possessed; so that though all heretics would like to be called Catholics, yet if a stranger ask where the Catholic Pg 230 Church is, no heretic would venture to show him his own church or house." 78 These words were written before the end of the fourth century, and exhibit the aspect in which the Church of Christ presented itself to St. Augustine. That which he has summed up in a few sentences was drawn out at somewhat, greater length by St. Chrysostom about ten years before, when the worn-out religion of paganism was falling to the ground, and the judgment of Theodosius in levelling heathen temples only expressed the victory of the Christian society. His words 79 portray so graphically the several features of that "divine and invincible power" to which he attributed the growth and expansion of the Church as he beheld it 350 years after the Day of Pentecost, that I will quote them here notwithstanding their length. 80 He begins with saying: "If a heathen says to me, How can I know that Christ is God? for this is the first thing to be established; the rest all follows from it; I will not make my proof from heaven, or such things....
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