by Paul, he warns this Church of the coming of the Man of Sin.
(2 Thess. ii. 3.) It appears from the text that thus early it was
identified with the system which resulted in the establishment of the
Papacy. It is equally remarkable that the bishop of Thessalonica was the
first _Papal Vicar_ ever appointed. See Bower's "History of the Popes,"
Damasus, thirty-sixth bishop; and Gieseler, i. 264.

[565:3] "De Praescrip." xxi., xxxvi.

[565:4] The tendency of "Church principles" to terminate in the
recognition of a universal bishop has appeared in modern as well as in
ancient times. "What other step," says a noble author, "remains to stand
between those who held those principles and Rome? _Only one:_ that the
priesthood so constituted, invested with such powers, is organized under
one head--a Pope....The space to be traversed in arriving at it is so
narrow, and so unimpeded by any positive barrier, _either of logic or of
feeling_, that the slightest influence of sentiment or imagination, of
weakness or of superstition, is sufficient to draw men across."--_Letter
from the Duke of Argyll to the Bishop of Oxford_, p. 23. London, Moxon,
1851.

[566:1] Tertullian says that John, as well as Peter and Paul, had been
in Rome. "De Praescrip." xxxvi.

[567:1] "Contra Haeres." iii. c. iii. Sec. 2.

[567:2] "Maximae et antiquissimae et omnibus cognitae, a gloriosissimis
duobus apostolis Petro et Paulo Romae fundatae et constitutae
ecclesiae."--_Irenaeus_, iii. c. iii. Sec. 2.

[567:3] We find this designation in some of the early canons. See
Bunsen's "Hippolytus," iii. 50.

[567:4] Euseb. v. 24.

[568:1] See the statement of Cyprian in the Council of Carthage,
"Opera," p. 597; and Jerome, in his Epistle to Evangelus, "Opera," iv.
secund. pars. p. 803.

[568:2] "Pontifex scilicet Maximus, quod est episcopus episcoporum,
edicit: Ego et moechiae et fornicationis delicta poenitentia functis
dimitto."--_Tertullian, De Pudicitia_, c. 1. "Neque enim quisquam
nostrum episcopum se esse episcoporum constituit."--_Cyprian, Con. Car.,
Opera_, 597.

[569:1] "Ecclesiae catholicae radicem et matricem."--_Epist_. xlv. p.
133.

[569:2] "Navigare audent et ad Petri cathedram atque ad ecclesiam
principalem unde unitas sacerdotalis exorta est."--_Epist_. lv. p. 183.
"Nam Petro primum Dominus, super quem aedificavit ecclesiam, et unde
unitatis originem instituit et ostendit, potestatem istam
dedit."--_Epist_. lxxiii. p. 280. See also _Epist_