reproved, who wander from the road, and run into uncertain and devious tracks; for the way of salvation holds out certain marks, by which you may learn, that this is the path, which the messengers of peace trod; which the wise, whom the Holy Spirit instructed, passed over; and the Prophets and Apostles pointed out to us. My brethren, let us walk in this way, by which the Father sent his divine Son: this royal road, which will lead us all to happiness.” Serm. xxv. adv. Hær. T. v. p. 495. Ed. Quirini, Romæ, 1740.
St. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM,[1] G.C.-“ Learn sedulously from the Church, which are the books of the Old and New Testaments.” Cat. iv. n. 33. p. 67. Edit. Parisiis, 1720.“ The Church is called Catholic, because it teaches catholicly, and without any omission, all points that men should know, concerning things visible, and invisible, heavenly and earthly." Ib. Cat. xviii. n. 23. p. 296.—“ Guard the Faith, and that Faith alone, which is now delivered to thee by the Church,(9) confirmed as it is by all the Scriptures.”Cat. v. n. 12, p. 77.
ST. GREGORY OF NAZIANZUM,[2] G.C.—“To one indeed, is given the word of wisdom ; to another, the word of knowledge. i Cor. xii. 8. My brethren, let us respect, and guard, and maintain this order. Let some hear, others speak, and others act.” Orat. xxvi. T. 1. p. 450. Edit. Coloniæ, 1690. “ If these heretics may freely teach and promulgate their
- ↑ He was Patriarch of Jerusalem, and died about the year 386. The works, which he has left, in twenty-three Catechetical Discourses, form a full and very accurate abridgment of Christian doctrine.
- ↑ He was the friend of St. Basil, with whom he studied at Athens, and became Bishop of Constantinople; which See he afterwards relinquished, retiring to Nazianzum in Cappadocia, near which city he was born, and where he died about the year 389. He was much celebrated for his eloquence, in which he is said to have excelled the greatest orators of the age; and of that eloquence many samples are yet extant in the various discourses or sermons, which form the principal body of his works.
