and these from their predecessors, in the same manner as the Church continues, to the present day, to maintain that true and genuine faith which came to her from her Fathers.” Hær. lv. sive lxxv. T. 1, p. 910.-—“These heretics dwell in a small region of Phrygia, Cilicia and Pamphylia. Then, is the Church, which extends to the ends of the earth, utterly destroyed; and the sound of the Apostles no longer gone forth into all the world ?”—Hær. xli. sive lxi. T. 1, p. 507.
St. JEROM, L. C.—“And where are those men, falsely religious, who assert that there are more synagogues than Churches?-If Christ has not a Church every where diffused, or has one in the island of Sardinia only, truly his poverty is great.” Adv. Lucif. T. iv. Pars ii. p. 298.
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ST. AUGUSTIN, L. C. “The Church fructifies and increases through the world. For this there is yet room, until that be fulfilled which, under the figure of Solomon was foretold of Christ; (Ps. 71.) He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. (Ps. 85.) All nations which thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord. The Prophet (Sophonias ii. 11.) moreover saith: And they shall adore him, every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles. All the islands, he says, as if he should say, even all the islands; shewing by this that there shall be no quarter of the world where the Church shall not be." Ep. cxcix. T. ii. p. 758.
“ If therefore, as prophecy cannot fail, it be necessary, that all nations worship him: how can this be unless they invoke his name? In what nations then there is now no
