56. Rom. V. 5.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 239 iquity, as the apostle adds in the succeeding verse,
"after his hardness and impenitent heart, treasures up unto himself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God," ^2 he shall not receive forgiveness, neither in this world, neither in that which is to come. But those with whom we are arguing, or about whom we are arguing, are not to be despaired of, for they are yet in the body; but they cannot seek the Holy Spirit, except in the body of Christ, of which they possess the outward sign outside the
Church, but they do not possess the actual reality itself within the Church of which that is the outward sign, and therefore they eat and drink damnation to themselves. ^^ For there is but one bread which is the sacrament of unity, seeing that, as the apostle says, "We, being many, are one bread, and one body."^* Furthermore, the Catholic Church alone is the body of Christ, of which He is the Head and Saviour of His body.^^ Outside this body the Holy Spirit giveth life to no one, seeing that, as the apostle says himself, "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us;" ^^ but he is not a partaker of the divine love who is the enemy of unity. Therefore they have not the Holy Ghost who are outside the Church; for it is written of them, "They separate themselves, being sensual, having not the Spirit." ^^ But neither does he receive it who is insincerely in the Church, since this is also the intent of what is written: "For the Holy
52. Rom. ii. 4, 5. 53. I Cor. xi. 29. 54. Ibid., X. 17. 55. Eph. V. 23. 56. Rom. V. 5. 57. Jude 19.