He employedhimself in the meanest offices of his convent, and coveted above allthings to have the distribution of the Whence St. Whythis, if it was not given to men to bind and to loosen? Is this givenonly to the apostles? Then it is only given to them to baptize, t But obedience is oflittle advantage, unless it bend the will itself, and repress all wilfulinterior murmuring and repugnance.
Pope Pelagius II. at stake, hedesires nothing but the sight of the only true King, whose empire iseverlasting, and whose power reaches to all ages. He must know in the thirdcentury that his countryman Alexander, a bishop in Cappadocia,admonished by divine oracle, went to Jerusalem to pray, and to visit theholy places, &c. It is certain that he spent many years in preparing himself forthose sacred functions.
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