where it is done, there is a departure from their rule. On the other hand, we declare, that truth will be found with those, who are known by the name of Christ alone.” Serm. xxiv. Adv. Hæres. p. 493. T. v. Edit. Quirini.
St. PACIANUS,[1] L. C. “ The Church is the body of Christ; (Col. i. 24.) the body, not a member. The body from many parts and many members, formed into one, as the Apostle says, (1 Cor. 12, 14.) for the body is not one member, but many. The Church, therefore, is the complete body, the entire body now diffused through the whole world. As a city, I say, whose parts are united into one; not as you Novatians are,a small but insolent portion, a collection of mushrooms, disjoined from the body. The Church is without spot or wrinkle, that is, not deformed by heresies. It is the heretic that cuts, and disfigures, and rumples the garment of Christ, that is, his Church.”(S) Ep. iii. ad. Sympron. Bibl. Max. Patrum, T. iv. p. 310. Lugduni, 1677.
COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, G. C. In this century, in the year 381, was celebrated at Constantinople, the second General Council, the object of which meeting was to confirm what had previously been done at Nice in 325, and to condemn the error of Macedonius, who had denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost. To the Creed of Nice they added some clauses, among which is that: “And one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.” This was the declared faith of the 150 Bishops there assembled; and though they were all of the Greek Church, yet was their creed received in the west, and it continues to this day, to be recited in all Churches under the name of the Nicene Creed. The Fathers, in giving an
- ↑ He was Bishop of Barcelona in Spain, and died about the year 380, leaving some tracts, principally against the Novatian heretics, who denied to the Church the power of forgiving sins, and of receiving sinners, who had fallen during persecution, however penitent they might be. St. Jerom says of him, that he was famous for the purity of his manners, and the eloquence of his discourses.
