Rom. xv. 5, 6. “The God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind one towards another, according to Jesus Christ : that with one mind, and with one mouth, you may glorify God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—Ibid. xvi. 17. “Now, I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who cause dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and to avoid them.”
1 Cor. i. 10. “Now, I beseech you, brethren,--that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment."
Ephes. iv. 3, 4, 5, 6. “ Careful to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, one body, and one spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.”
Phil. iii. 15, 16. “Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded. Nevertheless, whereunto we are already arrived, that we be of the same mind; let us also continue in the same rule.”
Titus iii. 10. A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid : knowing, that he that is such an one is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.
FATHERS.
CENT. I.
St. IGNATIUS,[1] G.C. Having recommended, as he does in all his epistles, concord among themselves, and submission to superiors, he says to the people of Magnesia :
- ↑ He was Bishop of Antioch, the second from St. Peter; and having governed that Church about forty years, suffered martyrdom at Rome, by the command of the emperor Trajan, in the beginning of the second century, leaving behind him seven Epistles, addressed to different Churches, and acknowledged to be genuine. He had been the disciple of St. John; and his letters breathe the whole spirit of that Apostle.
