[65b] “Per Successiones Episcoporum pervenientem (h. e. Ecclesiam) usque ad nos, judicantes confundimus omnes eos qui quoquo modo . . . præter quam oportet colligunt.”—S. Irenæus, in lib. iii. adversus Hæreses, c. 3. In which may be seen the Evidence of the teaching of Polycarp, St. John’s disciple.
[66] “Quis enim fidelis servus et prudens quem constituit Dominus ejus super domum suam ut det cibos in tempore?”—Quod ad Apostolos ceterosque Episcopos et Doctores parabola ista pertineat manifestum est: maxime ex eo quod apud Lucam (cap. xii.) Petrus interrogat dicens, “Ad nos parabolam istam dicis? an ad omnes?”— . . . Ait Apostolus, (ad Cor. c. iv.) “Ita nos existimet homo, ut ministros Christi et Dispensatores Mysteriorum.”—Hîc jam quæritur inter dispensatores ut fidelis quis inveniatur, &c.—Origen. in Matth. Tractat. xxxi.
[67] See the next Lecture, towards the close.
[69] The second week in Advent.
[81a] See the Nicene Canons.
[81b] See Jewel’s Apology.
[82a] And again, virtually, by the Gallicans.
[82b] This is worthy of their consideration who are apt to be too disheartened at the divisions in the English Church. When the Popedom was a disputed matter for seventy years, what could the plain Catholic laity have thought? It was impossible to avoid the anathema of one Pope or the other, both pretending to infallibility. See Notes No. III.
[83] Such, for instance, as those glanced at in p. [47], [48], and referred to in Notes No. II. and III.
[88] Connected with this part of the subject few books are so important to be read as “Johnson’s Unbloody Sacrifice.”