schisms among you? Have we not one God and one Christ? and one spirit, and one calling in Christ? Why do we divide and sever the members of Christ, and raise sedition against the body? Your schism perverts many: it has cast many into dejection; many it has caused to doubt, and afflicted us all. Notwithstanding this, you desist not." Ep. 1. ad Cor. c. 46. Inter. PP. Apost. T. 1. p. 174. Edit. Amstelædami, 1724.
CENT. II.
HEGESIPPUS,[1] G.C. Eusebius says of him: “In the books which have come down to us, he relates of himself, that, as he went to Rome, he visited many bishops, and heard from all one and the same doctrine. They called the Church (he says) a virgin, because as yet she had not been corrupted by vain opinions. From the heretics who then rose came false Christs, false Prophets, and false Apostles ; and these, introducing counterfeit doctrine against God and against his Christ, severed the unity of the Church." Apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. L. iv. c. xxii. p. 181. Edit. Cantabrigiæ, 1720.
- ↑ He was a native of Palestine, and belonged to the Church of Jerusalem; though he resided near twenty years at Rome. St. Jerom says, that he lived near to the Apostolic times, and compiled a history, in five books, of all that had passed from the death of our Saviour to bis own days. A few fragments are preserved by Eusebius. He died about the year 180.
