CHAPTER V.

THE ONE EPISCOPATE RESTING UPON THE ONE SACRIFICE.

St. Clement's assertion of the care with which our Lord instituted the government of His Church, 238 Christ's High-priesthood consisting in two acts, 239 1. The assumption of a created nature, 240 2. The offering that nature in sacrifice, 241 His union of these two acts in instituting the Priesthood of His Church, 242 The institution of bloody sacrifice in the world before Christ, 243 Lasaulx's statement how it enters into all the acts of human life, 245 What the ceremonial of Gentile sacrifice was, 250 Union and correspondence of prayer and sacrifice, 253 The sense of guilt in bloody sacrifice, 254 Bloody sacrifice a positive divine enactment, 254 Statement of St. Augustine to this effect, 255 St. Thomas on sacrifice as offered to God alone, 256 Bloody sacrifice the most characteristic fact of the pre-Christian world, 257 The practice of human sacrifices running through the history of ancient nations, 259 Conclusion as to the divine appointment of sacrifice, 261 The Christian Sacrifice the counterpart of the original institution, 263 And the compendium of the whole dispensation, 265 Containing in itself all the original force of sacrifice, 267 But besides it is guardian of the Divine Unity, 268 And of the Divine Trinity, 268 And of the Incarnation, 269 And of the Redemption, 270 And of the adoption to Sonship, 271 It contains also the fountain of spiritual life, 272 And the source of sanctification, 273 And the medicine of immortality, 274 The presence of Christ's physical body, St. Chrysostom, 275 The unity of the Christian people its result, St. Augustine, 276 How our Lord impressed His High-priesthood on the world, 276 Jurisdiction necessary to constitute a kingdom, 278 Jurisdiction in the diocese and in the whole Church, 279 The fulfilment of the parable, "I am the true vine," 280 The Eucharistic Sacrifice the centre of life in the Church during eighteen hundred years, 283