[638:3] Rev. iii. 1.
[639:1] Thus, Melito of Sardis is said to have written a work "On the Church." Euseb. iv. 26.
[639:2] Apostles' Creed. For another form see Bunsen's "Hippolytus," iii. 25, 27.
[640:1] 3 John 9, 10.
[640:2] He appears, for certain reasons now unknown, to have been dissatisfied with some disciples who had been engaged in missionary work; and he had influence sufficient to procure the excommunication of the brethren who entertained them.
[640:3] He would be a bold man who would assert that all the pious members of the Society of Friends are in a hopeless condition.
[641:1] Heb. xii. 23.
[641:2] See Rothe's "Anfange der Christlichen Kirche," p. 575.
[641:3] Cyprian, Epist. lxxvi. p. 316.
[641:4] Epist. lxix. p. 265.