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 No other Congregation can say so, neither the Synagogue, which does not keep the new commandments according to the letter, nor the old according to the spirit: nor can the Manichæan heresy, which rejects the Prophets, make use of the expression. With reason is she clothed in white, who shines with the grace of both Testaments.”—Serm. xxii. in Psal. cxvii. T. 1. p. 1255.-" The Church also has her walls, and being now grown to a more perfect state, she says, I am a fortified City. This is the wall which has the twelve Apostolic gates, by which the entrance into the Church is thrown open to the Gentiles. As Christ is a door, and says, whosoever shall enter by me, shall be saved ; (John x.) so the Church also is styled a door, because by her, the approach to salvation is thrown open to the world; and, lest she should be corrupted by the moths or worms of heretics, the daughters of Jerusalem, that is, the angels or souls of the just, say; let us join it together with boards of cedar, (Cant. viii. 9.) viz. the good odour of sublime Faith ; for such is its sweetness, that neither moth nor worm can hurt it.-Error had led away one sheep, but the grace of the Lord gathered together a multitude of people. Man erred, but the Church is now become a wall, and a strong wall.”—16.—“ The water knew how to assemble, and to fear, and to fly, when God commanded. Let us imitate this water, and recognise one congregation of the Lord, one Church. The water was gathered of old from every valley, and marsh and lake. The valley is heresy and the errors of the Gentiles, for God is the God of the mountains, and not of the valleys. In fine, in the Church, is joy ; in heresy, and among the Gentiles, mourning and grief. The Catholic people, therefore, is gathered from every valley. There are not now many Congregations, but one Congregation, one