8. These are not our own conjectures which we
offer, nor do we falsely put together any of these things in order to
deceive the ears of our hearers by perverting the meaning of words; but
holding fast the form of sound teaching we know and preach the things
which are true. For the Apostle shews that this unity of the
faithful arises from the nature of the sacraments when he writes to the
Galatians, For as many of
you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. iii. 27, 28.. That these are one amid so great
diversities of race, condition, sex,—is it from an agreement of
will or from the unity of the sacrament, since these have one baptism
and have all put on one Christ? What, therefore, will a concord
of minds avail here when they are one in that they have put on one
Christ through the nature of one baptism?