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  1   1     |       expresses the~idea of the man's service of God as the source
  2   2     |              The Creed and the Lord's Prayer as Guides to the
  3   2     |          the Symbol~11 and the Lord's Prayer. What is shorter
  4   2     |        preaching of the time~of God's grace, said, "And it shall
  5   2     |             all who invoke the Lord's name will be saved."~12 ~
  6   2(11) |      Apostles' Creed. Cf. Augustine's early essay On Faith and
  7   2     |              Thus, we have the Lord's Prayer. Later, the apostle,
  8   2     |            he sitteth at the~Father's right hand; this is present.
  9   2(15) |           of this quotation is Dido's lament over Aeneas' prospective
 10   2(15) |          able to bear it. Augustine's criticism here is a literalistic
 11   2(17) |        favorite phrase of Augustine's for the Bible.~
 12   3(21) |             everywhere in Augustine's thought as the very foundation
 13   4     |           to finding fault with God's work,~because man is an
 14   4     |             man is an entity of God's creation. It also means
 15   4(25) |            This refers to Aristotle's well-known principle of "
 16   4     |           that this denies our~Lord's judgment: "A good tree cannot
 17   5     |             when that verse of Maro's gives us pleasure, ~~"Happy
 18   5(31) |             of the passage is Damon's complaint over his faithless
 19   6(34) |            English translation by M.S. Muldowney in Deferrari,
 20   6     |             to lie, as far as a man's intentions are concerned.
 21   7(38) |   Academicos. The gist of Augustine's refutation of skepticism
 22   8     |            to be imminent, the soul's motion in ~flight from them
 23   8     |         fear. Moreover, as the soul's appetites are satisfied
 24   8     |           secretly. Yet the Creator's goodness does not cease
 25   8     |         wholesome discipline of God's law~- would it not have
 26   9     |           therefore a matter of man's willing, or of his running,
 27   9     |             his running, but of God's~showing mercy."~57 Still,
 28   9     |       willing or running but of God's showing mercy," unless it
 29   9     |       willing or running but of~God's showing mercy," means that
 30   9     |       willing or~running but of God's showing mercy," as if it
 31   9     |       willing or running but of God's showing mercy," because
 32   9     |           It is not a matter of God's showing mercy but of a~man'
 33   9     |          showing mercy but of a~man's willing," since the mercy
 34   9     |           It is not a matter of God's showing mercy but of man'
 35   9     |            showing mercy but of man's willing," lest he~explicitly
 36   9     |          that this saying: "Not man's~willing or running but God'
 37   9     |          willing or running but God's showing mercy," is to be
 38   9     |         thus prepared.~59~For a man's good will comes before many
 39   9(59) |       mystery of the primacy of God's grace and the reality of
 40   9(59) |    confusion. The first is that God's grace is not only primary
 41   9(59) |            his theonomism, that man's will counts for little or
 42   9(59) |             as passive agent of God's will. He insists on responsibility
 43   9(59) |            on responsibility on man's part in responding to the
 44   9     |            act of willing, lest one's will be frustrated. ~Otherwise,
 45  10     |            years seem like a spider's web."~64 Likewise Job spoke
 46  10     |             conceived~by His mother's faith and not her fleshly
 47  10     |           than he. Since he was God's only Son - not by grace
 48  10     |           and ~at the same time God's Son. These are not two sons
 49  10(75) |      figures of speech in Augustine's Christological thought.
 50  11     |        Example of the Action of God's Grace~~
 51  11     |           be nothing other than God's Son, the only Son, and this~
 52  11     |          clear manifestation of God's great and sole grace, and
 53  11     |              was Truth himself, God's only begotten Son - and,
 54  11     |         This same Jesus Christ, God's one and only Son our Lord,
 55  11     |    obviously the Holy Spirit is God's gift, a gift that is itself
 56  11     |         does this mean, that Christ's birth in respect to his
 57  12     |             is the Father of Christ's human nature, so that as~
 58  12     |             itself that no believer's ear~can bear to hear it.
 59  12     |          that he is also called God's Gift. Still,~to speak adequately
 60  13     |           apostle said,~"For Christ's sake, we beseech you to
 61  13     | righteousness - not our own but God's, not in~ourselves but in
 62  13     |         Gospel, it is said of Herod's death, "For they are dead
 63  13     |           dead who sought the child's ~life"~86; it does not say, "
 64  13     |             grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge."~90~
 65  13     |           matter of the sins of one's other parents, those who
 66  13     |              those who stand as one's forebears~from Adam down
 67  13     |     forebears~from Adam down to one's own parents, a question
 68  14     |             The Mysteries of Christ's Mediatorial Work (48-49)
 69  14     |           who were baptized by John's baptism, by which~Christ
 70  14     |           with water alone, as John's was, but with the Holy Spirit
 71  14     |          being seated at the Father's right hand - all these~things
 72  14     |          they that are Jesus Christ's have crucified their own
 73  14     |           and session at the Father's right hand:~"But if you
 74  14     |           believe concerning Christ's future actions, since we
 75  15(113)|              the saints." Augustine's Scriptural backing for such
 76  16     |        another, but all who are God's should cast their hopes
 77  16     |            man by his death for man's redemption and his deliverance~
 78  16     |           who always see the Father's face. For no matter how~
 79  16     |           have become "equal to God's angels,"~130 then, even
 80  16     |       should be excepted. ~Only God's understanding is excepted;
 81  17     |            beginning point of a man's renewal, in~which all guilt,
 82  17(135)|            poenitentiae; cf. Luther's similar conception of poenitentiam
 83  17     |            forth ~from their mother's womb till the day of their
 84  18(141)|             side light on Augustine's inclination to re-use "good
 85  18     |           persevere in them to life's last day - even these will
 86  18     |                  in which, with God's help, I~have shown as best
 87  18     |            fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is.
 88  18     |         what sort it is. If any man's work ~abides which he has
 89  18     |        receive a reward. If any man's work burns up, he~shall
 90  18     |            furnace tries the potter's vessels and the trial of
 91  19     |             can. Thus one heeds God's command: "Love your enemies,
 92  20     |    themselves in vain with the Lord's words, "Give alms; and,
 93  20     |             of thanksgiving for~God's great love), "But God commendeth
 94  20     |           alms we give of the earth's bounty, he~adds, "These
 95  20     |            alms done with the earth's bounty.~
 96  20     |           loving it after the world's way he hates it according
 97  20     |           hates it according to~God's way of judging. Therefore,
 98  20     |            his soul after the world's way and love it according
 99  20     |            love it according to~God's way. No one, however, gives
100  21     |             drag them through~Satan's tempting. Therefore one
101  21     |          contemptible in the Church's eyes. I say this to shame
102  21     |          this evil from the apostle's~fear, in saying to such
103  21     |         usage in the~prophet Isaiah's reference to the evil vineyard: "
104  22(191)|            is included in Augustine's Sermons (LXXI, PL, 38, col.
105  23     |         after the fashion~of Christ's own body - I have not found
106  23     |         indeed "born" in the mother's womb, but are never so that
107  23     |          apt and fitting which time's~passage would have brought,
108  23     |      becomes a corpse upon the soul's departure will not, at the~
109  23     |           if this is in the Creator's plan, that~each shall retain
110  24     |          infants is taken up by~God's mercy and the other abandoned
111  24     |         other abandoned through God's judgment - and when the
112  24(201)|        textual variant in Augustine's text affects a basic issue
113  24(201)|            402-403; J.G. Krabinger, S. Aurelii Augustini Enchiridion (
114  24(201)|            p. 116; Faure-Passaglia, S. Aurelii Augustini Enchiridion (
115  24     |            do something because man's will prevented~him, the
116  24(202)|   interesting instance of Augustine's sense of liberty with the
117  24     |            due to an embargo on God's will by the human will.~
118  24     |            their will. But the Lord's language is clearer when,
119  24     |               This sounds as if God's will had~been overcome by
120  25     |            twin children in Rebecca's womb: "Before they had yet
121  25     |             him who runs but of~God's showing mercy."~210~Thus,
122  25     |            him who runs, but of God's showing mercy."~212 And,
123  25(213)|              intention of Augustine's emphasis upon divine sovereignty
124  25     |           apostle had commended God's mercy in saying, "So then,
125  25     |            him who runs, but of God's showing mercy," next in
126  25     |          one could rail against God's ~justice. And he also sees
127  25     |        deserved and to what end God's merited judgment~would have
128  26     |           XXVI - The Triumph of God's Sovereign Good Will~~
129  26     |             contrary to the Creator's will had been~done. As the
130  26     |          they do, but as far as~God's omnipotence is concerned,
131  26     |           not will, even~though God's will is much more, and much
132  26     |           example, it is a good son's will that his father live,
133  26     |             live, whereas it is God's~good will that he should
134  26     |            die and~this is also God's will. Of course, the former
135  26     |             more consonant with God's will than is the impiety
136  27     |       CHAPTER XXVII - Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation~~
137  28     |            good to man, even in man's doing evil, and so~that
138  28     |           the ordered course of God's plan was not to be ~passed
139  28(229)|        Another example of Augustine's wordplay. Man's original
140  28(229)|           Augustine's wordplay. Man's original capacities included
141  28(229)|             posse peccare). In Adam's original sin, man lost the
142  28     |             he wills it is in a man's own hands -~since there
143  28     |            But, after the Fall, God's mercy was even more abundant,~
144  28     |        itself, but only through God's grace, which is~made effectual
145  28     |            understand that even man's merited goods are gifts
146  28     |             two man had chosen, God's will would be done, either
147  28     |             own will instead of God's, God's will~_concerning_
148  28     |          will instead of God's, God's will~_concerning_ him was
149  28     |          all this in order that man's pride might be exposed and
150  28     |      exposed and healed~through God's humility. Thus it might
151  29     |         that intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection,
152  29     |           is acquired whereby a man's condition in the life hereafter
153  29     |          own merits but through God's mercy. Even so, if they
154  29     |           were all there is [in man's damnation], and even if
155  29     |          the great~abundance of God's blessings which he has hidden
156  30     |           are contained in the Lord's ~Prayer. For "cursed is
157  30     |        Evangelist Matthew, the Lord's Prayer may be seen to contain
158  30     |           be - the hallowing of God's name, his Kingdom, and his~
159  30     |             his version of the Lord's Prayer, has brought together,~
160  30     |           understood. Actually, God's name is even now~hallowed
161  31(248)|           resemblance here to Freud's description of the Id, the
162  31     |             he then believes in God's help in fulfilling His~commands,
163  31(252)|         guilt feelings, as in Freud's notion of "superego."~
164  31     |            also, the history of~God's people has been ordered