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Chapter 5.—Brief Answers to These
Questions.
Moreover, when the mind has been
imbued with the first elements of that faith which worketh by
love,1094
it
endeavors by purity of life to attain unto sight, where the pure
and perfect in heart know that unspeakable beauty, the full vision
of which is supreme happiness. Here surely is an answer to your
question as to what is the starting-point, and what the goal: we
begin in faith, and are made perfect by sight. This also is the sum
of the whole body of doctrine. But the sure and proper foundation
of the catholic faith is Christ. “For other foundation,” says
the apostle, “can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.”1095
Nor are we
to deny that this is the proper foundation of the catholic faith,
because it may be supposed that some heretics hold this in common
with us. For if we carefully consider the things that pertain to
Christ, we shall find that, among those heretics who call
themselves Christians, Christ is present in name only: in deed and
in truth He is not among them. But to show this would occupy us too
long, for we should require to go over all the heresies which have
existed, which do exist, or which could exist, under the Christian
name, and to show that this is true in the case of each,—a
discussion which would occupy so many volumes as to be all but
interminable.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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