Christian saints -- India -- Romances; Gautama Buddha -- Legends -- Adaptations; Princes -- India -- Romances
"Believe thou that the Son of God, who, of his tender mercy was made
man, took upon him all the affections that are natural to man, and are
blameless (he hungered and thirsted and slept and was weary and endured
agony in his human nature, and for our transgressions was led to death,
was crucified and was buried, and tasted of death, his Godhead
continuing without suffering and without change; for we attach no
sufferings whatsoever to that nature which is free from suffering, but
we recognize him as suffering and buried in that nature which he
assumed, and in his heavenly glory rising again from the dead, and in
immortality ascending into heaven); and believe that he shall come
again, with glory, to judge quick and dead, and by the words which
himself knoweth, of that diviner body, and to reward every man by his
own just standards. For the dead shall rise again, and they that are
in their graves shall awake: and they that have kept the commandments
of Christ, and have departed this life in the true faith shall inherit
eternal life, and they, that have died in their sins, and have turned
aside from the right faith, shall go away into eternal punishment.
Believe not that there is any true being or kingdom of evil, nor
suppose that it is without beginning, or self-originate, or born of
God: out on such an absurdity! but believe rather that it is 'the work
of us and the devil, come upon us through our heedlessness, because we
were endowed with free-will, and we make our choice, of deliberate
purpose, whether it be good or evil. Beside this, acknowledge one
Baptism, by water and the Spirit, for the remission of sins.
"Receive also the Communion of the spotless Mysteries of Christ,
believing in truth that they are the Body and Blood of Christ our God,
which he hath given unto the faithful for the remission of sins. For
in the same night in which he was betrayed he ordained a new testament
with his holy disciples and Apostles, and through them for all that
should believe on him, saying, 'Take, eat: this is my Body, which is
broken for you, for the remission of sins.' After the same manner also
he took the cup, and gave unto them saying, 'Drink ye all of this: this
is my Blood, of the new testament, which is shed for you for the
remission of sins: this do in remembrance of me.' He then, the Word of
God, being quick and powerful, and, working all things by his might,
maketh and transformeth, through his divine operation, the bread and
wine of the oblation into his own Body and Blood, by the visitation of
the Holy Ghost, for the sanctification and enlightenment of them that
with desire partake thereof.
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