4. These things I say to you because of the
following context of the
Creed, and because we say, We Believe in One God, the
Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible
and Invisible; in order that we may remember that the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ is the same as He that made the heaven and the
earth Compare Cat. iv.
4. Irenæus (I. x. 1): “The Church, though
dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth,
yet received from the Apostles and their disciples the Faith in One God
the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea and all
that therein is.” Tertullian (de Præscriptione
Hæret. cap. xiii.) “The rule of faith is that
whereby we believe that there is One God only, and none other than the
Creator of the world, who brought forth all things out of nothing
through His own Word first of all sent forth.”, and that we may make ourselves safe against
the wrong paths of the godless heretics, who have dared to speak evil
of the All wise Artificer of all this world Compare Cat. vi. 13,
27.,
men who see with eyes of flesh, but have the eyes of their
understanding blinded.