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262 THE SECOND AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.gifts of grace and miraculous power, and that helikewise afterwards encountered him at Eome. Tothis the first manifestation of Gnosticism succeedheretical doctrines concerning the Person of ourLord, which sprung out of Judaism; but no soonerare these overcome than Gnosticism in its later"*forms spreads from Syria and Alexandria over the empire, everywhere confronting the Church,seducing her members, and tempting especiallyspeculative minds within her. A mixture itselfof Platonic, Philonic, Pythagorean, and Parsic philosophy,affecting to gather the best out of allphilosophies and religions, in which it exactly representedthe eclectic spirit of its age, arrayingitself in the most fantastic garb of imagination,but at the bottom no dubious product of the oldheathen pantheism, it set itself to the work, whileit assumed Christian names, of confusing and distractingChristian truth. From the beginning ofthe second century it was the great enemy whichbeset the Church. It may, then, well represent tous the principle of heresy itself, and as such letus consider on what principles it was met by theChurch's teachers."Now to form a correct notion of the danger towhich the Christian people at this time was exposed,we must have before us that it was containedin several hundred communities, each ofthem forming a complete spiritual society and government.These had arisen under the pressure
THE SECOND AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.263of such hostility on the part of the empire thatit is only in the time of the last emperor duringthis period, Alexander Severus, that churches areknown to have publicly existed at Borne.24 For avery long time all meetings of Christians and allcelebration of their worship was secret. It is obviouswhat an absolute freedom of choice on thepart of all those who became Christians this factinvolved. Nor did that freedom cease when theyhad been initiated into the new religion. Theirfidelity to the Christian faith was all through theirsubsequent life solicited by the danger in which asChristians they stood. Only a continuous freedomof choice on their part could maintain it. Andnot only did every temporal interest turn againstit, but in the case at least of the more intellectuaconverts the activity of thought implied in theirvoluntary acceptance of a new belief served as amaterial on which the seductions of false teachersmight afterwards act, unless it was controlled byan everliving faith, and penetrated by an activecharity. The more these Christian communitiesmultiplied, the more it was to be expected thsome of them would yield to the assaults of falteachers. It is in just such a state of thingsthat a great dogmatic treatise was written againstnosticism by one who stood at only a single re-from the Apostle John, being the discipl>nt, Hist, des Emp. iii.Matt. torn. iii. p. 857 c.m
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