Analogy between the Two Powers, 96
Complete philosophical basis on which the Spiritual Power rests, 98
How the inward life which it imparts is united with the Person of Christ, 99
From whom, in worship, belief, and conduct, the Christian people derives, 101
The King and the Kingdom not of this world but in it, fulfilled in thirteen particulars, 103
1. A kingdom ruling all the relations of man Godward, 103
2. Having an end outside this life, 103
3. Deriving all authority from Christ as Apostle and High Priest, 103
4. Producing its people from its King, 103
5. Imparting grace from the King in its sacraments, 104
6. Transmitting the King's truth by the order of its regimen, 104
7. Having a complete analogy with civil government, 104
8. Fulfilling man's need of supernatural society, 105
9. Generating an universal law for all relations of public and private life, 105
10. Possessing independence of the Temporal Power, 106
11. Not limited in space, 106
12. Not limited in time, 107
13. A kingdom of charity through union with its King, 107
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Principles which ruled the relation between the Two Powers before Christ, 108
A new basis given to the Spiritual Power by Christ, from which every relation to the Temporal Power springs, 110
1. All Christians subject to the Spiritual Power, 112
2. And likewise to the Temporal Power as God's Vicegerent, 112
3. The relation between the Two Powers intended by God is amity, 114
4. A separate action of the Two Powers, without regard to each other, not intended, 115
5. Persecution of the Spiritual by the Temporal not intended, 119
6. Contrast between human kingdoms and the divine kingdom, 120
The end the ground of the subordination of the one to the other, 122
Doctrine of St. Thomas to that effect, 123
The indirect power over temporal things, 124
Sum of the foregoing chapter; Orders of Nature and Grace, 125
Co-operation of the Two Powers as stated by St. Gregory VII., 126
The image of marriage, as describing the ideal relation and the various deflections from it, 128
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CHAPTER III.
Transmission of Spiritual Authority from the Person of our Lord to Peter and the Apostles, as set forth in the New Testament. The Church a kingdom subsisting from age to age by its own force, but its original records to be considered, 131
Institution of the Priesthood; St. Paul's and St. Luke's testimony, 132
St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. John, 133
Transmission of Spiritual Power as recorded by St. Matthew, 136
The same according to St. Mark, 138
The same according to St. Luke in his Gospel, 139
And in the Acts, 139
His record of a peculiar promise made to Peter, 141
Conversation which forms his main addition to the narrative, 141
Contrast between Gentile and Christian rule, 143
The kingdom disposed to the Apostles, 144[Pg x] The confirmation of the brethren, 145
The time of the confirming marked out, 146
St. Luke distinguishes Peter as markedly as St. Matthew and St. John, 148
Testimony of St. John as to the promises made to the Apostles, 149
And as to the universal pastorship bestowed on St. Peter, 152
Two classes of passages, 153
Comparison of the two, 154
And of the testimony of the four Evangelists, 156
Caution that what is recorded is not all that passed, 157
Perfect instruction of the Apostles in the forty days, 158
The powers comprising the Apostolate, 159
The powers bestowed on Peter, 160
Testimony of St. Paul; conception of the Church as the Body of Christ, 161
Of the one ministry by which the Body is compacted together, 162
Of mission from this Body as necessary to every herald of the gospel, 164
Of the grace given by ordination, 165
Mow the unity set forth by St. Paul bears witness to the Primacy of St. Peter, 166
Of the inseparable bond of unity, truth, and government in St. Paul's mind, 167
Six names by which he designates the principle of his own authority, 168
The great vision of our Lord and His Church in the Apocalypse in accordance with St. Paul and the Evangelists, 171
Four qualities of Spiritual Power in this Scriptural testimony, 175
1. The coming from above, 175
2. Its completeness, 176
3. Its unity, 179
4. Its independence, 181
How the idea of perpetuity pervades all these qualities, 182
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Transmission of Spiritual Authority, as Witnessed in the History of the Church from A.D. 29 to A.D. 325. The letter of St. Clement of Rome, 184
Description of this letter by St. Irenaeus, 185
St. Clement urges the Roman military discipline as an example for Christian obedience, 186
Minute regulations given by Christ as to religious ordinances, 187
The descent of all spiritual order from above, 188
Example of Moses in establishing the Jewish Pontificate, 189
How the Apostles appointed everywhere Bishops with a rule of succession, 190
St. Clement fills up details omitted in the Gospel record, 190
How he attests the continuation of the Mosaic hierarchy of high priest, priest, and levite in the Christian Church, 191
How he says that Christian ordinances are to be observed more accurately than Mosaic, 193
How the Apostles carried out the descent of power from above, 194
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Why St. Clement instances the origin of the Jewish hierarchy, 195
How St. Clement exercises the Primacy, 197
St. Ignatius of Antioch supplements St. Clement of Rome, 200
His statement as to Bishops throughout the world, combined with his statement as to the authority of the local Bishop, 201
The complete testimony of St. Clement and St. Ignatius, 203
The historian Eusebius notes three periods in the first ninety years, 205
Sum of his testimony as to the great Sees and the Episcopate, 206
How Tertullian describes the first propagation of the Church, 211
And how Irenaeus, 213
Concordance with the Gospels of these statements of St. Clement, St. Ignatius, Eusebius, St. Irenaeus, and Tertullian, 215