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402 four Evangelists testify, either ye hold that He died in reality, (and he who really dies has no power whatever to revivify others or himself, but must remain in death for ever,) and thus ye declare false the saying that He rose again: Or, ye hold that He died in appearance only, and in the same way rose again, (in which case He could not have arisen in reality, seeing that He did not die in reality;) then the hope of the resurrection is vain, since hereby the saying that "He hath raised us up with " is made void.

Thirdly: If Mary is the "Mother of ," and Peter testifieth of Him whom she brought forth, saying: "Thou art the, the of the Living ;" then, according to you, she is not the Mother of , but the mother of His , and  is her grandson, not her Son, and she is the mother of His. Where, then, is the mother of ?

First. If by our confession of Two Persons in there result four Persons in the Trinity; then, by your confession of two natures in  there must equally result two natures in the Deity.

Secondly. If the, as is admitted by all, is eternal and uncompounded, and the human person temporal and compound, how can this, in any way, be considered as a fourth person to That?

Thirdly. If we maintained two Sons in, this charge might justly be brought against us; because the and the , with these two Sons, would make four persons. But seeing that we confess but one, one , one Parsopa, we have no fear of being guilty of blasphemy.

The term "Church" imports a congregation, and an assembly met together to unite in acts of celebration. It is a model of