Chapter IV.—The same continued.
Wherefore it is fitting that ye should run together in accordance with the will of your
bishop, which thing also ye do. For your justly renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted
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as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Therefore in your concord and har-
monious love, Jesus Christ is sung. And do ye, man by man, become a choir, that being
harmonious in love, and taking up the song of God in unison, ye may with one voice sing
to the Father through Jesus Christ, so that He may both hear you, and perceive by your
works that ye are indeed the members of His Son. It is profitable, therefore, that you should
live in an unblameable unity, that thus ye may always enjoy communion with God.
Wherefore it is fitting that ye also should run together in accordance with the will of
the bishop who by God’s appointment35 rules over you. Which thing ye indeed of yourselves
do, being instructed by the Spirit. For your justly-renowned presbytery, being worthy of
God, is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp. Thus, being joined to-
gether in concord and harmonious love, of which Jesus Christ is the Captain and Guardian,
do ye, man by man, become but one choir; so that, agreeing together in concord, and obtain-
ing36 a perfect unity with God, ye may indeed be one in harmonious feeling with God the
Father, and His beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord. For, says He, “Grant unto them, Holy
Father, that as I and Thou are one, they also may be one in us.”37 It is therefore profitable
that you, being joined together with God in an unblameable unity, should be the followers
of the example of Christ, of whom also ye are members.
35 Literally, “according to God.”
36 Literally, “receiving a union to God in oneness.”
37 John xvii. 11, 12.
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Chapter IV.—The same continued.