13. That we are not Atheists, therefore, what moderate wbom
Christians proved hy their worship not to he Atheists. by ignorance, I have determined, in order to persuade those Apol. who love truth, to add a little more, knowing that it is not ^' '^' impossible, by the production of truth, to dissipate ignorance.
13. That we are not Atheists, therefore, what moderate wbom person will not confess, from our worship of the Creator ^^^'"''^" of this universe. Whom we assert, as we have been taught, worship, to have no need of sacrifices of blood, and libations, and incense, but Whom we praise to the best of our power with the reasonable service of prayer, and thanksgiving, in all our oblations, 'having been instructed, that the only i Mede, service that is worthy of Him is, not to consume by fire I'
^^^' what He has given us for our sustenance, but to apply it to our own benefit, and to that of those who are in need, and, shewing ourselves grateful to Him, in speech to offer Him solemn acts of ^worships and hymns, for our creation, 27r<j^^as for all our means of health, for the qualities of things, and*^"^
''^" for the changes of seasons, and putting up prayers that we may have a resurrection to incorruptibility, through our faith in Him.
Our Teacher of these things is Jesus Christ, Who was even born for that purpose, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judaea in the reign of Tiberius Caesar; Whom, having learned Him to be the Son of the Very God, and holding Him to be in the second place, and the Spirit of Prophecy in the third, I will prove that we worship with reason.
From this however people accuse us of madness, affirming that we assign the second place after the Immutable and Eternal God and S Trd/jL-rras Ka\ vjjlvovs.
The Benedicthe hippodromes, the huntings in the tine says on these words, "It is sufficircus, and other vanities of the like ciently plain that hymns and psalms kind?"
And, he continues, " Because are here meant, as well the Psalms these things were done by them in of David as the hymns composed by honourof their gods ; but the Christians, the Christians which used to be sung who eschewed such superstitions, apin Churches.
The pomps are nothing peared to retain no such worship; theremore thau those rites, and ceremonies, fore S. Justin teaches that they have which were practised in the celebration their ponipce, but that they celebrate of the Sacraments, especially Baptism them with reason and truth."
Grabe, and the Eucharist; but they are not however,obscrves,that"ponipa;" means, commonly taken for the Sacraments not as the Benedictine understands it themselves (mysteria)."
He proceeds " rites and ceremonies," but the solemn to cite the words of St. Cyril of Jeruprayers which were uttered with great salem; " What arethe pompse" [of the vehemence, and were chiefly used in heathen] "but the insanities of the the celebration of tlie Sacraments, theatres, the courses of the horses in