departest not, nothing can ever shake thee. She shall not be moved ;(k) for the Church is foretold to be the pillar and ground of truth.” Ibid. Serm. i. In Psal. ciii. p. 1141-1142. . -“ This is the Holy Church, the One Church, the True Church, the Catholic Church, which, contending against all heresies, may herself be assailed, but cannot be overcome. All heresies have gone out from her, like useless branches cut off from the vine; she herself remaining fixed to the root, fixed to the stock, fixed in charity, and against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.” Lib. 1. de Symb. ad Catech. c. 6. T. vi. p. 554.
St. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, G. C. “The Church is a fortified and safe city. For the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, as our Saviour promised. (Matt. xvi. 18.) The Church is surrounded as with a double wall, by the guardianship of angels, and the supreme defence of God.” Comment. in Esaiam, Lib. iii. Tomo i. T. ii. p. 358. .
ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, L. C. “ But in this Catholic Church,” &c. See the Extracts, p. 24, and seqq.
ST. LEO, L. C. “ Think not that the divine protection is or can be wanting to his Church.(m) When the filth of error is removed, the purity of faith shines forth.” Ep. xlv. Al. xxii. ad Constantinopolitanos, p. 517.
SUCCESSION FROM THE APOSTLES.
SCRIPTURE.
Matt. xxviii. 19, 20. “Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations: baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."
