Book, Chapter

2001   4,  21 |         drank, not water, but wine, and thus showed forth our Lord'
2002   4,  21 |         Scriptures, where it says: 'And Melchizedek king of Salem
2003   4,  21 |           Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest
2004   4,  21 |       brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the
2005   4,  21 |        priest of the most high God. And he blessed Abraham.' Now,
2006   4,  21 |     Melchizedek.'" In this passage, and in all of the letter that
2007   4,  21 |         Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, employs the subdued
2008   4,  21 |          stir of emotion, but facts and proofs. Accordingly, in
2009   4,  21 |           forth a kid of the goats, and by direction of the angel
2010   4,  21 |       unleavened cakes upon a rock, and poured the broth over it;
2011   4,  21 |           poured the broth over it; and as soon as the angel of
2012   4,  21 |             up fire out of the rock and consumed the offering. Now
2013   4,  21 |            rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ;' this,
2014   4,  21 |            of His thirsting people. And so it was at that time declared
2015   4,  21 |            sins of the whole world, and not their guilty acts merely,
2016   4,  21 |          within, as it is written, 'And the mixed multitude that
2017   4,  21 |          among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also
2018   4,  21 |           of Israel also wept again and said, Who shall give us
2019   4,  21 |             stretched out his staff and touched the rock, and fire
2020   4,  21 |         staff and touched the rock, and fire rose out of it, this
2021   4,  21 |           send fire on the earth.'" And in the same style he pursues
2022   4,  21 |          himself chiefly to proving and enforcing his point. ~
2023   4,  21 |            of the Church, the glory and ornament of spiritual grace,
2024   4,  21 |            grace, the joy of honour and praise, a work unbroken
2025   4,  21 |             praise, a work unbroken and unblemished, the image of
2026   4,  21 |            Church rejoices in them, and in them flourishes more
2027   4,  21 |         flourishes more abundantly; and in proportion as bright
2028   4,  21 |             mother's joy increase." And at another place in the
2029   4,  21 |        integrity bears it, holiness and truth bear it; they bear
2030   4,  21 |           Lord, who obscene justice and piety, who are strong in
2031   4,  21 |          ready to pity, of one mind and of one heart in brotherly
2032   4,  21 |           heart in brotherly peace. And every one of these things
2033   4,  21 |             to obscene, to cherish, and fulfill, who having hearts
2034   4,  21 |           hearts at leisure for God and for Christ, and having chosen
2035   4,  21 |             for God and for Christ, and having chosen the greater
2036   4,  21 |           having chosen the greater and better part, lead and point
2037   4,  21 |       greater and better part, lead and point the way to the Lord,
2038   4,  21 |      younger, wait upon the elders, and encourage your equals; stir
2039   4,  21 |             also uses the temperate and ornamented style when he
2040   4,  21 |          model for their imitation, and says: "She was a virgin
2041   4,  21 |            is an image of her mind, and a picture of purity. For
2042   4,  21 |         such at the very threshold, and show at the very entrance
2043   4,  21 |        doubles the days by fasting; and when the desire for refreshment
2044   4,  21 |             a step of such a nature and of so great importance,
2045   4,  21 |          the mind should be excited and set on fire by the majestic
2046   4,  21 |      virginity, but about the dress and deportment of virgins. Yet
2047   4,  21 |             their faces with paint. And the first, in dealing with
2048   4,  21 |         rival nature's the features and form and completion of some
2049   4,  21 |             s the features and form and completion of some man,
2050   4,  21 |             completion of some man, and that, when the portrait
2051   4,  21 |         would feel deeply insulted, and his indignation would be
2052   4,  21 |          thy behaviour towards men, and that thou art not polluted
2053   4,  21 |         deceits, yet, in corrupting and violating what is God's,
2054   4,  21 |         considerest thyself adorned and beautified by such arts
2055   4,  21 |     impeachment of God's handiwork, and a violation of truth. Listen
2056   4,  21 |           with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
2057   4,  21 |       unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.' Now can sincerity
2058   4,  21 |           truth.' Now can sincerity and truth continue to exist
2059   4,  21 |             is sincere is polluted, and what is true is changed
2060   4,  21 |           by meretricious colouring and the deceptions of quackery
2061   4,  21 |           one hair white or black;' and dost thou wish to have greater
2062   4,  21 |        words of thy Lord? With rash and sacrilegious hand thou wouldst
2063   4,  21 |           carefully-chosen colours, and then from stains on their
2064   4,  21 |           into those of a painting, and from fear of incurring their
2065   4,  21 |            condemnation on herself; and her eager endeavours to
2066   4,  21 |             displeasing to herself. And what testimony to thine
2067   4,  21 |      desires to please another man; and thou art angry if he love
2068   4,  21 |           acting the pander's part, and though she be vile, it is
2069   4,  21 |            herself she sins against and not another. The crime of
2070   4,  21 |       appearance by deceitful arts, and to cultivate modesty and
2071   4,  21 |            and to cultivate modesty and fear. Accordingly, we notice
2072   4,  21 |           as specimens of the rest, and in other ecclesiastical
2073   4,  21 |            who both speak the truth and speak it well, speak it,
2074   4,  21 |             judiciously, pointedly, and with beauty and power of
2075   4,  21 |          pointedly, and with beauty and power of expression, many
2076   4,  21 |      through their various writings and discourses; and the diligent
2077   4,  21 |            writings and discourses; and the diligent student may
2078   4,  22 |        maintained the shorter time. And therefore we must be on
2079   4,  22 |            tide of eloquence to ebb and flow like the sea. It follows
2080   4,  23 |         alternated with what other, and the places where it is necessary
2081   4,  23 |   introduction should be temperate. And the speaker has it in his
2082   4,  23 |         more majestic by comparison and may as it were shine out
2083   4,  23 |            distinction is required, and this naturally demands the
2084   4,  23 |          demands the subdued style. And accordingly this style must
2085   4,  23 |           the majestic style, then, and in the quiet likewise, both
2086   4,  23 |         ornament are left unadorned and expressed in the quiet style,
2087   4,  24 |                         If frequent and vehement applause follows
2088   4,  24 |    distinctions of the quiet style, and by the beauties of the temperate.
2089   4,  24 |       neighbours, brothers, fathers and sons even, who, divided
2090   4,  24 |           divided into two factions and armed with stones, fought
2091   4,  24 |           could command to root out and drive from their hearts
2092   4,  24 |             drive from their hearts and lives an evil so cruel and
2093   4,  24 |          and lives an evil so cruel and inveterate; it was not,
2094   4,  24 |           that they were instructed and delighted, but the tears
2095   4,  24 |             that they were subdued. And when I saw their tears I
2096   4,  24 |       proved it, that this horrible and barbarous custom (which
2097   4,  24 |             them from their fathers and their ancestors of generations
2098   4,  24 |            generations long gone by and which like an enemy was
2099   4,  24 |            of them) was overthrown; and immediately that my sermon
2100   4,  24 |         called upon them with heart and voice to give praise and
2101   4,  24 |            and voice to give praise and thanks to God. And, lo,
2102   4,  24 |           praise and thanks to God. And, lo, with the blessing of
2103   4,  24 |        needs to be vehement. Praise and censure, too, when they
2104   4,  24 |          eloquence of the encomiums and censures, but are led to
2105   4,  24 |       themselves to deserve praise, and to avoid living so as to
2106   4,  24 |     majestic style act accordingly, and all who are taught by the
2107   4,  25 |         aspire to speak with wisdom and eloquence to secure. On
2108   4,  25 |         what we have to say is good and useful, and when the hearers
2109   4,  25 |             say is good and useful, and when the hearers are both
2110   4,  25 |             both acquainted with it and favourably disposed towards
2111   4,  25 |           is to speak persuasively, and its object is to persuade,
2112   4,  25 |          that his speech is elegant and ornate. But what use is
2113   4,  25 |             vain of their eloquence and make a boast of panegyrics,
2114   4,  25 |         make a boast of panegyrics, and suchlike performances, where
2115   4,  25 |            to cultivate good habits and give up evil ones, if they
2116   4,  25 |           pursue it more zealously, and to persevere in it with
2117   4,  26 |             at perspicuity, beauty, and persuasiveness~
2118   4,  26 |         wishes to speak with wisdom and eloquence, viz. perspicuity,
2119   4,  26 |       perspicuity, beauty of style, and persuasive power, we are
2120   4,  26 |            beauty to the temperate, and persuasive power to the
2121   4,  26 |         ought constantly to aim at, and as far as possible to display,
2122   4,  26 |            to pall upon the hearer; and therefore we would be listened
2123   4,  26 |         testimonies are very sure"? And when any one narrates a
2124   4,  26 |            by some beauty of style? And if he be not intelligible,
2125   4,  26 |           of very great difficulty, and throws an unexpected light
2126   4,  26 |             them; when it worms out and brings to light some very
2127   4,  26 |       expected; when it seizes upon and exposes the falsity of an
2128   4,  26 |       unsought grace of expression, and by a rhythm and balance
2129   4,  26 |         expression, and by a rhythm and balance of style which is
2130   4,  26 |         either ornament or defense, and offers battle in its own
2131   4,  26 |        adversary by weight of nerve and muscle, and overwhelming
2132   4,  26 |         weight of nerve and muscle, and overwhelming and destroying
2133   4,  26 |            muscle, and overwhelming and destroying the falsehood
2134   4,  26 |            How explain the frequent and vehement applause that waits
2135   4,  26 |           irresistibly established, and so victoriously defended,
2136   4,  26 |      endeavour not only to be clear and intelligible, but to give
2137   4,  26 |  intelligible, but to give pleasure and to bring home conviction
2138   4,  26 |        others; but in its encomiums and censures it should aim at
2139   4,  26 |          firmly by what it praises, and to avoid or renounce what
2140   4,  26 |         style cannot give pleasure. And so the three qualities,
2141   4,  26 |     qualities, perspicuity, beauty, and persuasiveness, are to be
2142   4,  26 |           becomes necessary to stir and sway the hearer's mind by
2143   4,  26 |         mind by the majestic style (and this is always necessary
2144   4,  26 |           what you say is both true and agreeable, and yet is unwilling
2145   4,  26 |            both true and agreeable, and yet is unwilling to act
2146   4,  26 |            understand what is said? And who will stay to listen
2147   4,  26 |             to be both intelligible and pleasing, if you would be
2148   4,  27 |           The man who speaks wisely and eloquently, but lives wickedly,
2149   4,  27 |              that is, what is right and true in itself may be preached
2150   4,  27 |       preached by a man of perverse and deceitful mind. And thus
2151   4,  27 |        perverse and deceitful mind. And thus it is that Jesus Christ
2152   4,  27 |          those that seek their own, and not the things that are
2153   4,  27 |           you observe, that observe and do: but do not ye after
2154   4,  27 |           their works; for they say and do not;" and therefore it
2155   4,  27 |           for they say and do not;" and therefore it is that men
2156   4,  27 |           observation: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses'
2157   4,  27 |             they did what was evil. And so they followed their own
2158   4,  27 |       conduct of their instructors, and who say in their hearts,
2159   4,  27 |           even go a little further, and say with their lips: Why
2160   4,  27 |        yourself what you bid me do? And thus they cease to listen
2161   4,  27 |         does not listen to himself, and in despising the preacher
2162   4,  28 |              speak not only quietly and temperately, but even vehemently,
2163   4,  28 |          honest in the sight of God and men, fearing God, and caring
2164   4,  28 |           God and men, fearing God, and caring for men. In his very
2165   4,  28 |   proportion as it is true in fact, and that a teacher should govern
2166   4,  28 |             doctrine both to exhort and convince the gainsayers?"
2167   4,  28 |           the truth plain, pleasing and effective; for not even
2168   4,  28 |          the end of the commandment and the fulfilling of the law,
2169   4,  28 |            objects of love are true and not false. For as a man
2170   4,  28 |             speak eloquently, then, and wisely as well, is just
2171   4,  28 |           expedient to teach in fit and proper words, words which
2172   4,  28 |             the temperate, elegant, and in the majestic, forcible.
2173   4,  28 |        cannot speak both eloquently and wisely should speak wisely
2174   4,  29 |        afford an example to others; and let his manner of living
2175   4,  29 |            been written with wisdom and eloquence by others, and
2176   4,  29 |            and eloquence by others, and commit it to memory, and
2177   4,  29 |            and commit it to memory, and deliver it to the people,
2178   4,  29 |            is certainly desirable), and yet not many teachers; for
2179   4,  29 |          real teacher has composed, and there are no divisions among
2180   4,  29 |         belongs to all who obey it; and it is the man who speaks
2181   4,  29 |          result of his own thought, and yet they have nothing in
2182   4,  29 |            with his manner of life. And so God has said that they
2183   4,  29 |         they follow their own ways. And if you look closely into
2184   4,  29 |             they do say the things, and in another sense they do
2185   4,  29 |           you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after
2186   4,  29 |            do ye not; "for they say and do not." And so, though
2187   4,  29 |           for they say and do not." And so, though they do not,
2188   4,  29 |           evil, speak good things?" And from this it would appear
2189   4,  29 |     themselves who say, for in will and in deed they deny what they
2190   4,  29 |            man who is not eloquent; and when this takes place, the
2191   4,  29 |             does not belong to him, and the latter receives from
2192   4,  29 |          belongs all that they say; and even those who could not
2193   4,  30 |        blessing who labours in word and doctrine for the eternal
2194   4,  30 |         those who are preparing it; and when they have received
2195   4,  30 |     themselves may deliver it well, and that those to whom they
2196   4,  30 |            address it may give ear; and when the discourse has a
2197   4,  30 |           in whose hand are both we and our words." ~