And of the Incarnation, 269 And of the Redemption, 270 And of the adoption to Sonship, 271 It contains also the fountain of spiritual life, 272 And the source of sanctification, 273 And the medicine of immortality, 274 The presence of Christ's physical body, St. Chrysostom, 275 The unity of the Christian people its result, St. Augustine, 276 How our Lord impressed His High-priesthood on the world, 276 Jurisdiction necessary to constitute a kingdom, 278 Jurisdiction in the diocese and in the whole Church, 279 The fulfilment of the parable, "I am the true vine," 280 The Eucharistic Sacrifice the centre of life in the Church during eighteen hundred years, 283 CHAPTER VI. INDEPENDENCE OF THE ANTE-NICENE CHURCH SHOWN IN HER ORGANIC GROWTH. The Church's triple independence in government, teaching, and worship as actually carried out, 287 Occasion of the Nicene Council's convocation, 289 The Emperor thereby recognised the Church as a divine kingdom, 290 This kingdom, as it appeared in A.D. 29 and in A.D. 325, 291 The Emperor also acknowledged the solidarity of the Episcopate, 292 The Christian Council and the Roman Senate, 293 Force of the Council as to the relation between Church and State, 294 A. Independence of the Church's government shown in five points, 295 1. The ordered gradation of the hierarchy in mother and daughter churches, 296 Recognised as original in the 6th canon of the Council, 297 This principle carried through the whole structure of the Church, 298 Symbolised in the building of the great medieval cathedrals, 301 2. Development of Provincial Councils, 302 3. Action of the Church in hearing and deciding causes, 303 Her proper jurisdiction in the exterior and interior forum, 304 The episcopal magistracy exercised in a fourfold gradation, 306 4. Election of Bishops and the inferior ministers, 307 St. Cyprian's testimony, 308 Outcome of the three centuries in this respect, 309 The principle upon which all this practice was built, 310 5. Administration of temporal goods, 311 Three states as to these goods in the early Church, 312