the remark of W. G. in regard to the 38th verse of the 10th chapter of the Acts to the Apostles,-" For God was with him," I reply to it as follows-God was with him in this sense, that he was united to him in the unity of person. This explanation was given because Nestorius abused this text and others with it, in order to shew that there were two persons in Christ— viz., the person of God which was Jesus Christ, and the person of Jesus Christ with whom God was. It is true that the personal union is not expressed in this text, but, take notice, it is not contradicted, and that suffices for the other texts which express it, and, consequently, preserve their full force. This dogma of Catholic Faith is the conseqence of many united texts, all declaring this great dogma; he who separates them has but a part of the truth; and if he denies the surplus, he is totally in error. NOTE XXII. I have demonstratively proved in this work, that the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour was taught from the time of our Saviour's Ascension, to the year 67, by St. Paul and by St. John, as I have shewn when I have quoted the various proofs of the Divinity of Christ from their writings; the latter Apostle (St. John) continued to teach it after the death of St. Paul till the year 100; from the year 67 to 107, by St. Ignatius of Antioch; from 80 to 166, by St. Polycarp of Smyrna; at Rome, by Justin Martyr, from 140 to 166; from the time of St. Polycarp till the year 202, by St. Irenæus at Lyons; and about the year 200, Pope Victor excommunicated Theodotus the Tanner for denying the Divinity of Christ. From 190 to 202, by St. Clement of Alexandria, and by Tertullian; from 203 till 254, by Origen; from 248 to 258 by St. Cyprian of Carthage in Africa; in 260 it was declared to be the Faith of the Church by Sapricius, who at first boldly professed it, but to save his life apostatized on the scaffold when he was just going to receive the crown of martyrdom; from 240 to 265 by St. Gregory of Neocesarea; from 250 to 265, by St. Dionysius of Alexandria; and in 270, by the Fathers of the first and second Councils of Antioch, in the latter of which, Paul of Samosata, alias Paul of Antioch, was deposed for denying the Divinity of Christ; in or about the year 297, by Arnobius; in the year 303, it was professed by St. Victor at Marseilles; by St. Afra at Augsburgh in 304; and in 306, by St. Phileas of Thmuis; in the year 319, by St. Alexander of Alexandria, who opposed Arius; and in 325, by the Fathers in the General Council of Nice. By this it appears that these Doctrines were taught constantly and uninterruptedly from the beginning of Christianity till the Council of Nice, in which the same Doctrine was maintained, and the Son declared to be consubstantial with the Father. FOLLOWING the holy example of a most learned Catholic Divine, I most respectfully submit, and with all the simplicity of a true child of the Church, every syllable I have written in this publication, to the supreme judgment of the Apostolic See. Whatever that first Mistress of all Churches approves, I approve; whatever it rejects, I reject; and whatever it condemns, I condemn. For I am not so ignorant of my own nature, as not to be fully conscious of my being but a weak man, liable to error and to mistake. Homo `sum, nil humani a me alienum esse puto. With heart and soul I adhere to the solemn declaration of St. Jerome, in his epistle to St. Damasus Pope, "It is with thy Holiness I hold it; that is to say, I live in communion with the Chair of Peter. Upon that rock I know the Church has been built.”— (Epist. xiv. ad Damasum.) VERAX, A CATHOLIC LAYMAN. FINIS. Printed by Wm. Davy, 8, Gilbert-street, Oxford-street. 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