A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West Volume 3

Download or read book A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West Volume 3 written by Cyprian and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...and falsely interpret the Gospel, A lay down what follows, but omit what goes before; giving heed to part, while part they deceitfully suppress; as them-" selves are sundered from the Church, so they divide the purport of what is one passage. For when the Lord was impressing agreement and peace upon His Disciples, He said, I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth, y1at. 8, touching any thing that he shall ask, it shall be given you by19-20My Father which is in heaven. For wheresoever two or three shall be gathered together in My Name, I am with them. Shewing that most is given, not to the many in number when they pray, but to oneness of heart. If, He saith-iteoo/" you shall agree together on earth; He places agreement first;-/ hearts at peace are the first condition; He teaches that we must agree together faithfully and firmly. Yet how can he be said to be at agreement with other, who is at disagreement with the body of the Church itself, and with the universal brotherhood? How can two or three be gathered together in Christ's name, who are manifestly separate from Christ and from His Gospel? We did not go out from them, but they 140 The prayer of many avails not, if they differ. Treat, went out from us. And whereas heresies and schisms--have a later rise, from men's setting up separate meetings for worship, they have left the fountain head and origin of truth. But it is of His Church, that the Lord is speaking; and in respect of those who are in His Church, He says, that if they are of one mind, if according to what He bade and admonished, two or three though they be, they gather together with agreement of the heart; then (though but two or three) they will be able to obtain from the majesty of God the thing...