For if I in this brief space of time, have enjoyed such fellowship with your bishop — I mean not of a mere human, but of a spiritual nature — how much more do I reckon you happy who are so joined to him as the Church '<^ is to Jesus Christ, and as Jesus Christ is to the Father, that so all things may agree in unity ! Let no man deceive hhiiself : if any one be not within the y^tar, he is deprived of the bread of ■^ God. For if the prayer of one or two possesses "* such power, how much more that of the bishop and the whole Church ! He, therefore, that does not assemble with the Church, has even 5 by this manifested his pride, and condemned himself. For it is written, "God resisteth the proud." ^ Let us be careful, then, not to set ourselves in opposition to the bishop, in order that we may be subject to God.