CHAP. VI. The State of these Diocesses in the Sixth Century.
WE do not find so many Authors of these Diocesses in the Sixth Century, as we have had in the foregoing: but however, those we have of them, are sufficient to inform us what their State was. I begin with St. Caesarius Bishop of Arles, who assisted at the Council of Agde in the year 502, and died in 542; so that he reach'd almost the middle of this Cen∣tury.
This great Man fully represents the Notion that he had of the Eucharist, when he shews, that in Baptism there is the same Change, and the same Presence of the Blood of Jesus Christ which he owns in the Eucharist;* 1.1 as appears in his 4th and 5th Homily. But in his 7th Homily, he speaks in such a manner as needs no Commentary:
And therefore since he was now about to withdraw his assumed Body from our Eyes, and carry it up to Heaven, it was needful that the same day he should consecrate for us the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, that he might continually be remembred by the Mystery which was once offer'd up for our Redemption:that so seeing his Intercession for the Salvation of Man was daily and continual, the offering up of our Redemption might be perpetual also, that this everlasting Sacrifice might live in our Memory, and be always present by Grace.