[318:2] Tillemont, t. 15, p. 784.
[319:1] Tillemont, Mem. t. 15, pp. 790-811.
[320:1] Gibbon, Hist. ch. 36, fin.
[321:1] Gibbon, Hist. ch. 36, fin.
[321:2] Gibbon, Hist. ch. 47.
[322:1] [The above sketch has run to great length, yet it is only part of what might be set down in evidence of the wonderful identity of type which characterizes the Catholic Church from first to last. I have confined myself for the most part to her political aspect; but a parallel illustration might be drawn simply from her doctrinal, or from her devotional. As to her devotional aspect, Cardinal Wiseman has shown its identity in the fifth compared with the nineteenth century, in an article of the Dublin Review, quoted in part in Via Media, vol. ii. p. 378. Indeed it is confessed on all hands, as by Middleton, Gibbon, &c., that from the time of Constantine to their own, the system and the phenomena of worship in Christendom, from Moscow to Spain, and from Ireland to Chili, is one and the same. I have myself paralleled Medieval Europe with modern Belgium or Italy, in point of ethical character in "Difficulties of Anglicans," vol. i. Lecture ix., referring the identity to the operation of a principle, insisted on presently, the Supremacy of Faith. And so again, as to the system of Catholic doctrine, the type of the Religion remains the same, because it has developed according to the "analogy of faith," as is observed in Apol., p. 196, "The idea of the Blessed Virgin was, as it were, magnified in the Church of Rome, as time went on, but so were all the Christian ideas, as that of the Blessed Eucharist," &c.]