[645:3] In proof of this see Cyprian, Epist. lvi. p. 200, and lxiii. p. 231. In the former place Cyprian says—"Mindful of the Eucharist, the hand which has received the Lord's body may embrace the Lord himself."
[645:4] Heb. v. 4; Acts xx. 28, xxvi. 16.
[646:1] Cyprian, Epist. xlvi. p. 136.
[646:2] Epist. lxix. p. 262. See also Epist. lv. p. 177. "If any amount of difference of opinion as to the truth or untruth of the teaching of a geographical priesthood, will justify separation under another Christian ministry, then it at once ceases to be true that there can be but one bishop, or one priest, over any given area in which such differences exist; there then may obviously be as many bishops, or as many priests, as there may be different bodies of men differing from each other's teaching in what they deem sufficiently essential points to justify separation."—Letter from the Duke of Argyll to the Bishop of Oxford, p. 8.
[647:1] Epist. lxix. p. 264.
[647:2] Acts x. 48.
[648:1] Jerome, "Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers."
[648:2] Some of those called heretics had many martyrs. Euseb. v. 16.
[648:3] "De Unit. Ecc." Opera, p. 399.
[648:4] "De Unit. Ecc." p. 401.