And that this discipline coming from the Apostles, the dogmas concealed under it come also from them, and were deli- vered in all the Churches
Proofs establishing that the discipline of secrecy was observed in the first five centuries For the first, the testimonies of Tertullian, Origen, Eusebius, Tacitus, Pliny aud Celsus
For the second, of Athenagorus, Justin, Irenæus, the Christians at Lyons, Tertullian, &c.
For the third, of Minutius Felix, Origen, Zeno, bishop of
Verona For the fourth, of St. Ambrose, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, a Synod at Alexandria, St. Basil, St. Epiphanius, St. Chrysostom, Gaudentius, Cyril of Alexandria, St. Augustine For the fifth, of Theodoret and Pope Innocent I. .
Their apostolical antiquity established by the united testimonies of Pliny, Justin, St. Cyprian, Firmilian, Epiphanius, the author of the Apostolical Constitutions, St. Augustine, a work attributed to Proclus, Pope Celestine Reflections on the liturgies during the first ages They were not written then, for fear of discovering the secret of the mysteries. They were confided to the memory of the bishops and priests till the fifth age, when they began to be written This reserve is inexplicable on Calvinistic notions, and agrees only with the Catholic doctrine
How we are to distinguish in the liturgies what comes from the Apostles
That we must attribute to them the dogmas traced out in all the liturgies at the time when they first appeared, about the council of Ephesus
All of them uniformly trace out the real presence, the change of substance, the adoration, the altar, the sacrifice, prayer for the dead
Passages taken from the liturgy in the 8th Book of the Apos- tolical Constitutions, from the Roman, Spanish, Gallican and Greek liturgies, and from the liturgy of Jerusalem From the liturgies of the Apostles, of Alexandria, Constanti- nople, Ethiopia, the Jacobites, the Syrians, the Chaldean Nestorians, the Nestorians of Malabar, the Armenians, &c. 375 These dogmas were therefore believed in the 5th Age through all the Christian Churches
They are therefore of Apostolic origin, and admit no other supposition
And at this day all Christians ought to admit and profess them together with the primitive liturgies
Testimonies of the principal Churches on the apostolicity of their respective liturgies
Of Innocent 1. and of Gelasius for the Roman liturgy Of Innocent I. and Isidore of Seville for the Spanish liturgy Of Irenæus, and Hilduin, Abbé St. Denis, for the liturgy of the Gauls Of the General Council in Trullo, and of Firmilian, for the
liturgies of Syria and Jerusalem
Of Leontius for the liturgy of Constantinople Of Rufinus and the ancient Coptic authors for the liturgies of Ethiopia, Alexandria and Egypt
H. Tomlinson, Printer, Stone.
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