as Gods, knowing good and evil. And to those he saith: You can use at will the fruits of the earth; you are the sole owners of all the property that comes into your hands, whether by justice or injustice, consistently or inconsistently with the divine law; the Lord, God made man, has assumed no dominion upon earth; for he saith: His kingdom is not of this world. The Church, therefore, as the representative of Christ Jesus, hath no greater power than he had; hath no power directly or indirectly over the people's temporal property. Really these suggestions of the devil are imposing and seductive. They lead on worldlings from the laws of God, to think themselves independent, and at full liberty to use the good things of earth at pleasure, to detach their evil dealings and conversation from the spiritual law and authority, and to imagine that faith and the internal thoughts and acts of the mind only are amenable to the gospel. As the old Jews and Heathens mocked and crucified the Son of God, for no other crime than for calling himself the king of the Jews, so the modern would-be Christians mock, and would also murder him for calling himself Lord of lords and King of kings, and that he shall call them on the last day for a strict account for the talents which he had entrusted to them and for the profits. Since they discard the law and sovereignty of Christ in their social and temporal dealings with one another, do they recognize any other rules or principles ? Not any at all but those of the devil. The godless race have rescinded from their morality every Christian article, save only temperance.Temperance is good, but the other divine virtues should not be neglected. If they see a man excited from liquor, their very bowels are harrowed up with holy horror for the terrific sin and scandal ; but when the libertine, swindler, bankrupt, extortioner or usurer, is seen, their temper remains cool and unruffled; they even cloak his iniqui;y from the public indignation with the sweet and fascinating names-"Smart fellow ;" "a pretty clever

man."

During such manifest wreck of the Christian religion, when vice spreads under the name of virtue; when all the bounds between right and wrong, justice and injustice, are demolished, where can you find that lover of mammon who cares one straw for the law of God, in the pursuit of his worldly affairs?— However, as we are dispensers of the word, as God requires help, and we are helpers of God; and as man waters the tender plant and God gives the increase, we must cry and cease not, lift up our voice like a trumpet, and show the people their wicked doings, and the house of Israel their sins. Whether merciful Providence prepares them to receive the truth in a good heart and very good heart, whether persecution be my reward as it had been the reward of our divine Master, (the disciple is not above his master), I shall proclaim: That Christ Jesus, God made man, is the Omnipotent Lord and proprietor of all things, visible and invisible. My proofs here, as heretofore, are the Scriptures and Tradition the New and Old Testament, and the ancient Fathers, Popes and Councils.

Psal. II, 6. But I am appointed king by him over all Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment. The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Matt. XXVIII, 18. All power is given to me in heaven and on earth.

Luke X, 22. All things were delivered to me by my Father. John I, 3. All things were made by him; and without him was made nothing that was made. The world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own. (property) and his own (people) received him not. pria venit, et sui eum non receperunt.

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Coloss. II. 10. Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, and not according to Christ; for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead corporally, who is the head of all principality and power.

1 Tim. VI. 15. Keep the commandment without spot, blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the blessed and the only Mighty; the King of kings and Lord of lords.

Apoc. XVII, 14. These shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings.

Apoc. XIX, 16. And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: King of kings and Lord of lords.

Symbolum Apostolorum. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.

CON. NICÆNUM, A. D. 325.

In Symbolo. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Consubstantial with the Father; by whom were all things made. Who for us men, and for our salvation, descended from Heaven. And he was incarnated by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary: and he was made man.

ATHANASIUS, A. D. 340.

In Symbolo. The Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Ghost almighty; yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.

Also, the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Ghost is Lord.

Therefore, this is the right faith, that we believe and confess that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man, perfect God and perfect man, of a rational soul, and human flesh subsisting. For, as the rational soul and the flesh is one man; so God and man is one Christ.

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FAUSTINUS, A. D. 380.

Libro de fide contra Arium, Cap. 3. That the Son of God is omnipotent and unchangeable, and that the omnipotence of the Father and of the Son is one.

Let us also shatter another of their blasphemies, by which they say that the Son is not omnipotent, by whom, as they themselves also confess, all things were made. Let him, in order to prove that the Son is not omnipotent, show one work of the Father which the Son has not also made. Or, since there is no work extant, which is not the production of the Father and of the Son, the Son is without doubt also omnipotent, doing whatever things the omnipotent Father doeth.

RUFFINUS, A. D. 390.

In explicatione Symboli. "Hence the following sermon also pronounces the Lord omnipotent. But omnipotence is said, from the fact that he holds the dominion of all things. And the Father holds all things through the Son, as the Apostle also saith Coloss. I. 16. All things were created by him and in him. But if by him the Father hath ordained the ages, and by him were made all things, he is also heir of all things, and he holds, therefore, through him the dominion of all things.Because, as the light is from light, and the truth is from the truth, so the omnipotent is born from the omnipotent. Hence, it is written in the Apocalypse of John, IV. 8., of the Seraphim: And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God, almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. Consequently, he who is to come, is called almighty. And what other person is to come but Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Whereas all people, especially the learned, like to drink at the fountain head; to go back to the early ages and see with their own eyes the doctrine, that came down through the holy Apostles from Christ Jesus, in regard to the Unity and Trinity of God, and the omnipotence and

Lordship of God made man, over all things, visible and invisible, I would earnestly recommend that they consult the Justinian Code, Codicis, lib. 1. tit. 1. The edicts there recorded show that the same Catholic doctrine which we hold, was held and confessed in the year 380, through the length and breadth of the Roman empire; that it was at that early period the religion of the mighty emperors, Gratian, Valentinian, Teodosius, Justinian and Constantine. Said edicts are reluctantly omitted here by reason of the narrow limits of my epitome.

VINCENT LIRENINSIS, A. D. 430.

Comm. Cap. 21. "We must confess that in Christ Jesus man is united to God in the unity of person, for which reason, the properties of God are individually and generally attributed to man, and the attributes of the flesh are ascribed to God: It being written, John III. 13. The Son of man descended from And again: 1 Cor. II. 2. The Lord of majesty was crucified upon earth.

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Cap. 22. Blessed be the holy Catholic Church, that holds that there are in Christ, two true and perfect substances, and one only person; and that by reason of the unity of persons in the divine and ineffable mystery, the properties of God can be attributed to man, and the properties of man can be applied to God."

LEO MAGNUS, A. D. 450.

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Epist. decima ad Flavianum. "The properties of each nature are preserved and united in the person of Christ weakness is assumed by omnipotence, lowness by greatness, mortality by eternity. He assumed the form of a servant without the stain of sin, exalting human nature, not lessening the divine: for that emptying in which the invisible God, and the Creator and Lord of all, condescended to become one of mortals, had been a display of mercy, not a defect of power. Therefore he, continuing