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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.165What we have here applied in the case <strong>of</strong> theforgiveness <strong>of</strong> sins, the Real Presence, episcopacy,and the primacy <strong>of</strong> the Church, might be carried outin the case <strong>of</strong> many more doctrines forming a part<strong>of</strong> the great deposit. But it may be well, to citeone instance <strong>of</strong> a truth not contained in the writtenword at all, which through the unwrittenteaching <strong>of</strong> the Church has passed into universalpractice. This is not the abolition only <strong>of</strong> theJewish Sabbath, constituted as it was by the mostexpress divine command, for to that abolitionthere is a passing reference in an epistle <strong>of</strong> S.Paul, but the further substitution <strong>of</strong> the day <strong>of</strong>the resurrection, the first day <strong>of</strong> the week for theseventh, with a modified observance. This restssolely upon the deposit <strong>of</strong> the Church's unwrittenteaching, corroborated by universal practice fromthe apostolic times.Viewing, then, the transmission <strong>of</strong> the Truas a whole, and the creation <strong>of</strong> the mystical Body<strong>of</strong> Christ as its home, and the Holy Spirit as theperpetual Indweller who fills that treasure-house <strong>of</strong>Truth and Grace, we may consider its maintenanceas secured by the triple succession or tradition <strong>of</strong>men, <strong>of</strong> doctrine, and <strong>of</strong> institutions which are inseparablyjoined together in that its home. Butthere are some words <strong>of</strong> our Lord so distinctlyand translucently expressing all this statementrespecting the mode in which His Truth was firstand is ever to be transmitted, and the conditions

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