Cyprian's One Episcopate illustrated by St. Leo the Great, 223 What the One Episcopate adds to the universal establishment of Bishops, 224 The special character of the miracle which St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine proclaimed, 227 St. Augustine's criterion in the fourth century applied to the nineteenth, 229 St. Chrysostom's epitome of the Church's course preceding his time, 230 Christ's special miracle is that He founds the race of Christians, 231 Contrast of the race with that out of which it was formed, 232 The incessant conflict amid which it was done, 233 A reflection upon this picture of the Church, 236 CHAPTER V. THE ONE EPISCOPATE RESTING UPON THE ONE SACRIFICE. St. Clement's assertion of the care with which our Lord instituted the government of His Church, 238 Christ's High-priesthood consisting in two acts, 239 1. The assumption of a created nature, 240 2. The offering that nature in sacrifice, 241 His union of these two acts in instituting the Priesthood of His Church, 242 The institution of bloody sacrifice in the world before Christ, 243 Lasaulx's statement how it enters into all the acts of human life, 245 What the ceremonial of Gentile sacrifice was, 250 Union and correspondence of prayer and sacrifice, 253 The sense of guilt in bloody sacrifice, 254 Bloody sacrifice a positive divine enactment, 254 Statement of St. Augustine to this effect, 255 St. Thomas on sacrifice as offered to God alone, 256 Bloody sacrifice the most characteristic fact of the pre-Christian world, 257 The practice of human sacrifices running through the history of ancient nations, 259 Conclusion as to the divine appointment of sacrifice, 261 The Christian Sacrifice the counterpart of the original institution, 263 And the compendium of the whole dispensation, 265 Containing in itself all the original force of sacrifice, 267 But besides it is guardian of the Divine Unity, 268 And of the Divine Trinity, 268