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IVCONTENTS." PAGE2. The unstable barbarism beyond . . . .3123. The sects which fought around the Church . .315istians drawn from every tribe and religion in 1m . 316Testim Diognetus . 318Martvr319Of Origen, who distinguishes the work of Christ in thindividual, in the local Churches, and in the wholhurch which is His Body .... 320me of peace in which Origen wrote succeeded bygreat stoi323stimony of S. Cyprian on occasion of the first Anti-H delo rm mdea of organic unity foundedbv Christ to Peter . 3Origen and Cyprian give us the mind of the third century. """"""""" 3Causes of this belief : 1. The catechetical instruction of325every convert in the article, " the Holy CatholicChurch" . 3352. The moral change which accompanied conver-felOU . 3353. The persecution which marked them out asone Body ...... 3384. The historic origin of the Church on the dayof Pentecost ...... 339The Christian society in its moral character, in its priesthood,and in its government, expresses that connectionwith its Founder to which Cyprian and Origen obear witness . 341Historical sequence of this fact. 346In the first generation, A.D. 29 to G7 . . . . 346S. Paul's testimony, about 66 347That of S. Ignatius, about 110 ... . . . 348That of S. Irenseus, about 180 " » * * * Q~Ti7Crowned by that of S. Cyprian in 251 . . . 340Chief events of the third century which bring out theunity of the Church, and the Primacy as its instru-' ment351The doctrine and practice of penance . . .351The question of rebaptising heretics . . . 353The time of keeping Easter .... 354II. The empire's treatment of the Church, A.D. 235-313 . 355Persecution of Decius356