Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

348 THE THIRD AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.to martyrdom, Paul was at Rome with Peter, andhe describes in imperishable words the work whichhad been already accomplished. Again it is notonly dogma but history, not only that which wasalways to be but that which already was, whichhe set forth as it were with his dying voice: theone Body, and the one Spirit, the one Lord, oneFaith, and one Baptism, as there is one God. Thatody in which Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists,Pastors*and Teachers were fixed, that the visiblestructure might grow up to its final stature, inwhose accordant unity was the perpetual safe-O guard against O error. When Paul so wrote,25 7 theBody was formed, and its headship was incontest-ably with Peter. He had 110 need to remind themof the man with whom he was labouring, of whosework the whole Church from Rome to Antioch andAlexandria was the fruit. But he places the maintenanceof truth, and the perpetual fountain ofgrace, in the unity of the Church, which was beforethose to whom he wrote an i accomplished fact.Two generations pass and the aged S. Ignatius,on his way to martyrdom, attests the same fact.uWhere is Jesus Christ," he says, "there is theCatholic Church." The King is in His Kingdom; the Master in His House; the Lord in HisTemple. The bishops throughout the world inseparablylinked together are His mind: and thepresidency of charity, which is the inner life of25 Ephes. iv., written during S. Paul's imprisonment at Borne.