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 no God. She continued a Virgin ; but she is not proposed for our adoration ; she herself adoring him, who, having descended from heaven and the bosom of his Father, was horn of her flesh. Against this error the Gospel itself has guarded us, Christ saying (John ii. 4.) Woman, what is it to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come. He calls her woman, lest any one should imagine, that she was of some superior nature.—Though, therefore, she was a chosen vessel, and endowed with eminent sanctity, still she is a woman, partaking of our common nature, but deserving of the highest honours shewn to the Saints of God. She stands before them all, on account of the heavenly mystery accomplished in her.—But we adore no Saint :-and as this worship is not given to angels; much less can it be allowed to the daughter of Ann.-Let Mary therefore be honoured ; but the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost alone be adored : let no one adore Mary.” Adv. Collyridianos Hær. lix. sive lxxix. T.i. p. 1061, 1062, 1064.

St. John CHRYSOSTOM, G.C.-In his Sermons to the people of Antioch, on the Feasts of various Martyrs, he exhibits in glowing colours, the honours that were paid to their remains; the miracles wrought by their prayers; and the splendid examples of many virtues produced by the fervour of imitation. “We, on this day, celebrate their feast. -But, on all days, let us pray and beseech, that they become our patrons :(P) for not only when alive, but much more when dead, they can inspire confidence. Now they carry about them the marks of Christ; and when they shew these, nothing will be refused to them. Since they are become thus powerful, thus admitted into the friendship of God; if, by constant endeavours, we associate ourselves with