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404 ~ISTORY OF TEE NEW TESTAMENT.
ful were obedient to their bishops, so the bishops were
obedie~lt to the successor of St. Peter, that is, the I'ope of
Rome, who is thc chicf pastor of thc Church. In this mmner
therc was n, bond of urlion and unity between the faithful
and their priests, between the priests and their bishops, and
between all the bi~llops and the Pope.
b. Thus was estabIished the One, Holy, Catholic, and
Apostolic: Church, which, built by Christ upon the roclc of
i'ctcr, and guided by thc Holy Ghost, has now existed for
nearly nineteen centurieu, and crliall exist till thc cnd of
time, in spite of all that the infernal' powers can do against
it. 1111ppy aye they who belong to that Church, ~vho bolieve
aw shc bclicves, and n.110 do the ~vorlts which shc proscribes.
QUESTIONS.
I. What'did ?eter arid lhe other apoetles everywhere establish?
What had the bishops to do and to teach ? IVas the h'ew Testament
then nlrcndy writtcn? Hcncc what did the apostlcs preach?
What tllcir successoir? Wan the wt~ole doctrir~e of the y~osllas
written do\r.n 7 Ye tht unwritten teaching lost ? 2. \-\'hnt did all
tho apostles, with ono exseption, do P In what year did Paul re-
turn to Ro~r~e?
Untler what emperor (lid 110 atld Peter gloriously
suffer? l-Iorv did Pnul die 7 Ilom did Peter die ? Under whom did
Jumoa tho Greater snlrer? S. Who was the only one of the apostles
tliet died a natural death 7 Aboilt what year did he die ? What
had been done to him? What did most of tho successors of the
apostles do P 4. To wlloln were the kithh~l obedierrt, ant1 to whorn
the bi~hope? IVllat bond of unity upas there in the cllurcll? 6.
Wllat was thus erttablishcd 7 On what was the cllurch built? By
whom? By whom guided? How long has it existod? How long
shall it cxiwt P \'C'liu are happy?
l INFERSAL, hollieh, relating to the lower regio~ls,