e turbata Ecclesia, etc. Secs. 25,
26.

[362] Philostr. i. 2, 3. He professes that his account contains much
_news_. As to the sources, besides the journal of Damis, from which he
pretends to derive his information, he neither tells us how he met with
them, nor what they contained; nor does he refer to them in the course
of his history. On the other hand (as we have above noticed), much of
the detail of Apollonius's journey is derived from the writings of
Ctesias, etc.

IV.

PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.

(_From the_ BRITISH MAGAZINE, 1833-1836.)

PREFATORY NOTICE.

THE following Papers originally belonged to the "Church of the Fathers,"
as it appeared in the _British Magazine_, in the years 1833-1836, and as
it was published afterwards in one volume, with additions and omissions,
in 1840. They were removed from the subsequent Catholic editions, except
the chapter on Apollinaris, as containing polemical matter, which had no
interest for Catholic readers. Now they are republished under a separate
title.

The date of their composition is a sufficient indication of the
character of the theology which they contain. They are written under the
assumption that the Anglican Church has a place, as such, in Catholic
communion and Apostolic Christianity. This is a question of fact, which
the Author would now of course answer in the negative, retaining still,
and claiming as his own, the positive principles and doctrines which
that fact is, in these Papers, taken to involve.

PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.

CHAP. PAGE

1. WHAT DOES ST. AMBROSE SAY ABOUT IT? 339

2. WHAT SAYS VINCENT OF LERINS? 375

3. WHAT SAYS THE HISTORY OF APOLLINARIS? 391

4. WHAT SAY JOVINIAN AND HIS COMPANIONS? 401

5. WHAT SAY THE APOSTOLICAL CANONS? 417

PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.

CHAPTER I.

WHAT DOES ST. AMBROSE SAY ABOUT IT?

Sec. 1. _Ambrose and Justina._

No considerate person will deny that there is much in the spirit of the
times, and in the actual changes which the British Constitution has
lately undergone, which makes it probable, or not improbable, that a
material alteration will soon take place in the relations of the Church
towards the State, to which it has been hitherto united. I do not say
that it is out of the question that things may return to their former
quiet and pleasant course, as in the good old t