Page:The Nestorians and their rituals, volume 2.djvu/149



§ 1. term 'Church' imports a congregation, and an assembly met together to unite in acts of celebration. … The name 'Church,' as we have said, has this signification, for does not call material foundations and stones a 'Church,' but the congregation which believe on Him." See Appendix B., Part III., c. 8.

§ 2. "Blessed art thou, O Church, for behold the commemoration of thy sanctification has been celebrated: for the has had pleasure in thy sons and daughters, and the  has renewed thy foundations, and the  the Comforter has descended and sanctified thee by His grace, and set up within thee priests to preach the true faith, and has delivered unto thee His sacraments as a pledge of the forgiveness of thy children. Therefore confess and worship the, the King, who has magnified thee." From the service for the first Sunday of the Sanctification of the Church; from the Khudhra.

§ 3. "Thy Church possesses a heavenly treasure and great wealth, O our, in those sacraments and ordinances which Thou hast given us. She keeps these, and preaches the great Book of Thy Gospel, and the adorable wood of Thy cross, the emblem of Thy humanity. Great are the sacraments of her