Nibil Obstat: THOMAS O'SULLIVAN, CEN. DEP. Imprimatur : E. MACCABE, ARCHIEPISCOPUS DUBLINENSIS, PRIMAS HIBERNIÆ. THE CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE; OB, AN HISTORICAL, DOGMATICAL, MORAL, LITURGICAL, APOLOGETICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND SOCIAL EXPOSITION OF RELIGION, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD DOWN TO OUR OWN DAYS. BY MONSIGNOR GAUME, APOSTOLIC PROTHONOTARY, DOCTOR IN THEOLOGY, VICAR-GENERAL OF MONTAUBAN Jesus Christ yesterday, and to-day; and the same for ever.-Heb. xiii. 8, Translated from the Tenth French Edition. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON, 50 UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET. CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE. Part Third. LESSON I. CHRISTIANITY ESTABLISHED. (FIRST CENTURY.) Life of the Church an Everlasting Warfare. Picture of the First Century. Day of Pentecost. Address of St. Peter: his Doctrine confirmed by Miracles. Peter and John cast into prison. Church of Jerusalem. Ananias and Saphira. Election of seven Deacons. Martyrdom of St. Stephen: Advantages of this Death and of Persecution. Preaching of the Gospel in Palestine. Simon the Magician. Conversion of St. Paul. THE history of the four thousand years that precede the coming of the Messias may be summed up in these three lines: ALL FOR CHRIST. CHRIST FOR MAN.' MAN FOR GOD. The history of the eighteen centuries that have rolled by since the birth of the Messias, and of all those which shall roll by till the end of time, may also be summed up in three lines: ALL FOR CHRIST. From this admirable philosophy, with which everything may be explained, and without which nothing can be explained, it follows that the salvation of the human race through Jesus Christ is the 'Christ for Man! This truth belongs to Faith. Lest we should ever forget it, the Catholic Church proclaims it Sunday after Sunday in every region of the globe: Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de cælis, &c. VOL. III. 2 |