THE CHURCH ONE IN FAITH. 383 bearing them witness with signs andwonders, and with divers mira- cles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will," Heb. ii. 3, 4. They are bound to "mind," or think, "one and the same thing; to " stand fast in one spirit with one mind," Phil. ii. 2, 2 Cor. xiii. 11, Phil. i. 27; to "walk by the same rule," Phil. iii. 16; to "be joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment," 1 Cor. i. 10; " with one mind and mouth to glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," Rom. xv. 6. They are obliged todisclaim consortship with the gainsayers of this doctrine; "to stand off from those who do srspoSo;shi," or who "do not consent to the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness," 1 Tim. vi. 3, 5, 2 Thess. iii. 6; to " mark those who make divisions and scandals be- side the doctrine which Christians have learned, and to decline from them," Rom. xvi. 17; to " reject heretics," Tit. iii. 10; to " beware of false prophets," of "seducers," Matt. vii. 15, xxiv. 11; of those who "speak perverse things todraw disciples after them,"Acts xx. 29, 30, 2 Pet. ii. 1, Eph. iv. 14; to "pronounce anathema upon whoever shall preach any other doctrine," Gal. i. 8. Thus are all Christians "one in Christ Jesus," Gal. iii. 28, 26; thus are they, as Tertullian speaks, "confederated in the society of a sac- rament,, or of one profession. " This preaching and this faith the church having received, though dispersed over the world, carefully holds, as inhabiting one house; and alike believes these things, as if it had one soul and the same heart; and consonantly preaches, and teaches, and delivers these things, as if it had but one mouth. "` "As for kings, though their kingdoms be divided, yet He equally expects from every one of them one dispensation, and one and the same sacrifice of a true confession and praise: so that, though there may seem to be a diversity of temporal ordinances, yet an unityand agreement in the right faith may be held and maintained among them."' In regard to this union in faith peculiarly the body of Christians adhering to it was called "Thecatholic church; " from which all those ' Tó áv sai aúmó Qpovsrv. a'ApiomaaAar. 3 De societate sacramenti confcederantur.Tertull. in Marc., iv. 5. 4 Tor,mo mó xñpuytca orapsrJ.nQuïa, xai maúmnv mi7v aiamr W izxT.noia sai asp b aaT.ry mru xóo,uu órsaaappcévn óar,asT.wç q,uxáoosr wç [va araos oixovoa xai ót40%.4 aromsisr maúmbrç ó,ç pciav 't,1.uxìv xa) mñv aúmñv ïxouoa xap8far xai or,p(provmç mar,ma xnpúcasr xai aróáoxsy xa) aapaóSamoy ¿a 2v amópea xaxmnpcivn.Iren. i. 3, apud Epipk. Har. xxxi. 6 Reges . . . . quorum etsi divisa sunt regna, æqualiter tarnen de singulis dispensa- tionem exigit, unamque de eis veres de se confessionis hostiam laudis exspectatut etsi dispositionum temporalium videatur esse diversitas, circa ejus fidei rectitudinem uni- tatis consonantia teneatur.P. Leo II., Ep. v. ad Ervigium R. Hisp.
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