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