VI. But it is not permitted to me at the
present time to say to you anything upbraiding; and God forbid I ever
should. And even now perhaps I have reproached you more than in
due measure, the Sacred Flock, the praise-worthy nurselings of Christ,
the Divine inheritance; by which, O God, Thou art rich, even wert Thou
poor in all other respects. To Thee, I think, are fitting those
words, “The lot is fallen unto Thee in a fair ground: yea
Thou hast the goodliest heritage.” Ps. xvi. 6. Nor will I allow that the most
populous cities or the broadest flocks have any advantage over us, the
little ones of the smallest of all the tribes of Israel, of the least
of the thousands of Judah, 1 Sam. xxiii. 23. of the little
Bethlehem among cities, Mic. v. 2. where Christ was
born and is from the beginning well-known and worshipped; amongst those whom the Father is
exalted, and the Son is held to be equal to Him, and the Holy Ghost is
glorified with Them: we who are of one soul, who mind the same
thing, who in nothing injure the Trinity, neither by preferring One
Person above another, nor by cutting off any: as those bad
umpires and measurers of the Godhead do, who by magnifying One Person
more than is fit, diminish and insult the whole.