Note 333 — IX. THE CHURCH.

The Dean of S. Paul's on The Christian Church. Oxford House Papers, No. xvii. where this truth is excellently worked out and applied to the Church.

[334] Browning, Paracelsus, ii. p. 30, ed. 1888.

[335] Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxvi.

[336] Ps. lxxviii. 3, 4.

[337] De Inc. 12.

[338] Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi: M. Arnold, The Youth of Nature: Shelley, The Skylark.

[339] Ep. ad Diogn. vi.

[340] Bruce, The Chief End of Revelation, p. 116.

[341] Eccl. Pol. v. 54. Cf. Iren. adv. Haer. iii. 20: 'Gloria enim hominis Deus; operationis vero Dei et omnis sapientiae Ejus et virtutis receptaculum homo.'

[342] Ign. ad Eph. viii. ἃ δὲ καὶ κατὰ σάρκα πράσσετε, ταῡτα πνευματικά ἐστιν ἐν Ἰησοῦ γὰρ Χριστῷ πάντα πράσσετε.

[343] Aurora Leigh, vii. p. 302.

[344] Cp. H. S. Holland, Creed and Character, Sermons III-VIII.

[345] Πάντων τοίνυν ἀνθρώπων κεκληένων, οἱ ὑπακοῦσαι βουληθέντες, κλητοὶ ὠνομάσθησαν, Clem. Alex. Strom. I. xviii. 89.

[346] Cp. 1 Tim. ii. 1-6.

[347] For the whole of this last paragraph cf. H. S. Holland, On behalf of Belief, Sermons VI and VII.

[348] S. Ignatius, ad Eph. vii. εἷς ἰατρός ἐστι, σαρκικὸς καὶ πνευματικὸς, as compared with ad Magn. xiii. ἵνα ἕνωσις ᾐ σαρκική τε καὶ πνευματική.

[349] Pseudo-Clem. Rom. Ep. ii. 14; Clem. Alex. Str. vi. 14; iv. 8. For these and other illustrations cf. Seeberg, Der Begriff der christlichen Kirche (Erlangen, 1885), cap. i; and Gore, Church and the Ministry, ed. i. pp. 19, 28, 136.

[350] 1 Cor. xii. 28.

[351] Cp. Acts ix. 31 ἡ ἐκκλησία καθ᾽ ὅλης τῆς Ἰουδαίας καὶ Γαλιλαίας καὶ Σαμαρείας.

[352] 1 Cor. xii. 28, xv. 9; Gal. i. 13; Phil. iii. 6; Eph. i. 22, iii. 10, 21; Col. i. 18, 24; 1 Tim. iii. 15.

[353] Hibbert Lectures, 1883, p. 311.

[354] Bp. Forbes, Explanation of the Nicene Creed, p. 290.

[355] ad Eph. ii. iii. vi. xx; ad Trall. vii. xiii; ad Phil. iv. vii; ad Smyrn. viii. ix.

[356] Irenaeus, adv. Haer., cp. esp. I. 10, II. 9, III. 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 24.

[357] Praescript. adv. Haereticos; cp. esp. 3, 6, 15-21.

[358] Tertullian. Praescr. 9: 'Quaerendum est donec invenias, et credendum ubi inveneris.'

[359] Hawkins' Sermons on the Church, p. 77.

[360] Rev. C. Gore, Roman Catholic Claims, p. 51.

[361] Commonitorium ix. and xxiii.

[362] Bacon, Essay on Truth.

[363] S. John ii. 19-21.

[364] From a striking and bold article by Prof. Milligan, in the Expositor, March, 1889.

[365] 1 S. Peter ii. 9; Rev. i. 6; Heb. x. 19. Justin Martyr, Dialog. c. Tryph. 116; Irenaeus iv. 8; Origen, Hom. vi. in Lev. 5. For other instances, cp. Seeberg, ubi sopra, or Gore, Church and the Ministry, pp. 87-90.

[366] Eph. iii. 21 (R.V.); Rev. iv. 11, v. 11-14; 1 Cor. xi. 26.

[367] Cf. the striking account of the true Christian sacrifice in S. Aug. De Civ. Dei, x. 6: 'Profecto efficitur ut tota ipsa redempta civitas, hoc est congregatio societasque sanctorum universale sacrificium offeratur Deo per sacerdotem magnum, qui etiam se ipsum obtulit in passione pro nobis, ut tanti capitis corpus essemus.... Hoc est sacrificium Christianorum, multi unum corpus in Christo. Quod etiam sacramento altaris fidelibus noto frequentat ecclesia, ut ei demonstretur, quod in ea re, quam offert, ipsa offeratur.'

[368] Acts xiii. 1.

[369] 1 Cor. xi-xiv.; cp. 1 Tim. ii.

[370] Clem, ad Cor. 1. esp. 40-45.

[371] Contra Adv. Leg. et Proph. xx. 39.

[372] Παῤῥησιαστὴς διὰ τὴν εὐγένειαν, Plutarch. Vitae x Orat. 7.

[373] The Dean of S. Paul's, Advent Sermons, p. 73.

[374] Wordsworth, The Recluse.

[375] Cp. Socrates iii. 16 Τὸ γὰρ καλὸν, ἔνθα ἂν ᾖ, ἴδιον τῆς ἀληθείας ἐστίν. S. Aug. de doctr. Chr. ii. 18: 'quisquis bonus verusque Christianus est, Domini sui esse intellegat ubique invenerit veritatem.'

[376] Butler's Analogy, Pt. ii. ch. 1.