dogma of Christian belief follow the same laws of increase; be expanded by age, be consolidated by years; itself ever remaining unchanged and untouched; full and perfect in all its parts and members, without any admixture, any loss of substance, any variation of meaning.”—Ibid. n. xxiii. p. 350, 351, 352.
“Should the license of change be ever allowed, I shudder to think to what danger of utter ruin Religion must be exposed. For, one point of belief being surrendered, another, and a third, will follow, and then more, as by an acquired privilege.) Thus the whole must fall into ruins.”—Ibid. p. 353.
Under the following heads, and particularly under Prop. viii. and ix. will be found many other extracts from the Fathers, attesting the truth of the proposition ; that is, attesting that the Catholic Church is the guide to truth, the expounder of the Scriptures, and the Judge of controversy.
MARKS OF THE CHURCH.
ITS UNITY.
SCRIPTURE.
John x. 16. “And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear ear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd.”—Ibid. xvii. 20, 21. “And not for them only do I pray, but for them also, who through their word shall believe in me: that they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee: that they also may be one in us."
