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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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THE SECOND AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH. 273that church as the means <strong>of</strong> securing the wholeChurch's organic unity; and this prerogative isthat it is among churches what S. Peter anPaul were among Apostles ;36 as the first genetern council expressed it, "in it the Apostlt daily, and their blood without intermission bwitness to the glory <strong>of</strong> God."37as the conception expressed by Irenaeus,with the greatest emphasis and continual repetition,in order to refute heresy, is that all truthand grace are stored up in the one body <strong>of</strong> theChurch ; to which his doctrine <strong>of</strong> the Roman Primacyis as the keystone to the arch. For everythingin his view depends on the unity, the intrinsicharmony, <strong>of</strong> the truth which he is describing aslodged in the episcopate : the means therefore<strong>of</strong> securing that unity are part <strong>of</strong> its conception.Accordingly, to see in its due force his statementthat every church must agree with the RomanChurch, it must not be severed from the contextand taken by itself, but viewed in connexion withthe argument as part <strong>of</strong> which it stands. If theChurch is to speak one truth with one mouth,which is his main idea she must have an oranicprovision for such a result, which he places in thenecessary agreement <strong>of</strong> all churches with one"36 Hagemann, p. 622.37 Letter <strong>of</strong> the Synod <strong>of</strong> Aries to Pope Sylvester: « Quoniam re-cedere a partibus istis minime potuisti, in quibus et Apostoli quotidiesedent, et cruor ipsorum sine intermissione Dei gloriain testatur." Mansi,Concilia, ii. 469.II.T

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