Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

362 THE FORMATION OF C'll K1STENJ)OMfound it both hard to discover, and when discoveredimpossible to declare to all.e must endeavour to realise this order of oralteaching by discourse and by catechising as establishedthrough the whole Church and in perpetualoperation. It was quite new to the actual heathenworld. The freedom, the richness, the accuracy thusimparted to religious teaching had nothing similar toit in all the nations forming part of the empire,outside of the Jews. Its connection with the Jewishforeshadowing ^ ' of it I have treated elsewhere.1 Fromit we proceed to consider the second great work ofthe Church. The first has been addressed to the intellect,the next will be addressed to the will; butthe two are not divided in their application. Simultaneouslywith her instruction of the intellect, theChurch unfolded the manifold treasure of her sacramentallife.2. When the philosopher had addressed the reasonof his hearers, he had exhausted all his strength.Now the whole action of the Church exercised uponthe intellect by the imparting of truth in its twodivisions, as described above, was accompanied by aparallel action on the will. Revelation and gracewent hand in hand. In the case of those who werewithout the fold, the oral instruction of the proselytewas terminated by the baptismal rite, one name forwhich was Illumination. Moreover, it was likewise anew birth of the soul, investing it with divine virtuesof faith, hope, and chanty. In the case of those whowere within the fold, the oral instruction of theyoung was accompanied by the grace which belongedto them as baptized, and their appropriation of the1 See above, Lecture xv.