a divine establishment, which all are bound to embrace ; that little need be said. An invisible Church are words void of meaning.
SCRIPTURE.
Isaiah [1] ii. 2. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.”
Daniel[2] ii. 35. “And the stone that smote the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
Michah[3] iv. 1, 2. “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow unto it.-And many nations shall come and say: come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
Mat. v. 14. “You are the light of the world—a city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.”
FATHERS.
CENT. II.
St. IRENÆUS, L. C.-" The heretics, of whom I have been speaking, came long after those Bishops, to whom the
- ↑ The prophet Isaiah flourished more than half a century, during the reigns of Ozias, Joatham, Achaz, and Ezekiah, kings of Judah; and died about 681 years before the coming of Christ.
- ↑ The prophet Daniel began to prophecy while the Jews were captives in Babylon, 606 years before the Christian æra, and flourished for almost 70 years.
- ↑ The Prophet Michah, or Micheas, was cotemporary with Isaiah, under Joatham, Achaz, and Ezekiah.
