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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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To the people of Evæsæ.varied at Seleucia, at Constantinople, at Zela, 3109 at Lampsacus, <strong>and</strong> at Rome. My presentcreed is not different from the former; it has remained ever one <strong>and</strong> the same. As we receivedfrom the Lord, so are we baptized; as we are baptized, so we make profession of our faith;as we make profession of our faith, so do we offer our doxology, not separating the <strong>Holy</strong>Ghost from Father <strong>and</strong> Son, nor preferring Him in honour to the Father, or asserting Himto be prior to the Son, as blasphemers’ tongues invent. 3110 Who could be so rash as to rejectthe Lord’s comm<strong>and</strong>ment, <strong>and</strong> boldly devise an order of his own for the Names? But I donot call the Spirit, Who is ranked with Father <strong>and</strong> Son, a creature. I do not dare to callslavish that which is royal. 3111 And I beseech you to remember the threat uttered by theLord in the words, “All manner of sin <strong>and</strong> blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but theblasphemy against the <strong>Holy</strong> Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men, neither in this world,neither in the world to come.” 3112 Keep yourselves from dangerous teaching against theSpirit. “St<strong>and</strong> fast in the faith.” 3113 Look over all the world, <strong>and</strong> see how small the part iswhich is unsound. All the rest of the Church which has received the Gospel. from one endof the world to the other, abides in this sound <strong>and</strong> unperverted doctrine. From their communionI pray that I may never fall, <strong>and</strong> I pray that I may have part <strong>and</strong> lot with you in therighteous day of our Lord Jesus Christ, when He shall come to give to every one accordingto his conduct.3109 cf. Letter ccxxvi. p. 268.3110 cf. De Sp. S. chap. xii. p. 18.3111 cf. Ps. li. 12, LXX.3112 Matt. xii. 31, 32.3113 1 Cor. xvi. 13.802

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