Chapter

 1 1intro|        away, and taken away by the Lord God, without whose will
 2 2     |            in that utterance, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken
 3 2     |     utterance, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away; as seemed (
 4 2     |            as seemed (good) to the Lord, so hath it been done!"
 5 2     |          lay to the account of the Lord's will that which lies subject
 6 3     | declaration--not indeed I, but the Lord." Thus he shows, by the
 7 3     |         his own personality to the Lord, that what he had said above
 8 3     |          had pronounced not in the Lord's person, but in his own: "
 9 4     |            of man. "Precept of the Lord," says he, "I have not;
10 4     |       having obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful." In fact,
11 4     |       found to be permitted by the Lord is acknowledged to be forbidden.
12 4     |        marry any one, only 'in the Lord.'" Ah! but "happier will
13 7     |           who are justified by the Lord, but doers, according to
14 9     |    appropriate to fornication? The Lord Himself said, "Whoever has
15 9     |          concupiscence whereof the Lord put on the same footing
16 10    |            is making prayer to the Lord, he is near heaven. If he
17 10    |         our duty so to walk in the Lord's discipline as is "worthy,"
18 10    |       eternal. in Jesus Christ our Lord." Again, through the holy
19 11    |          already received into the Lord's presence; for whose spirit
20 11    |            stand, then, before the Lord with as many wives as you
21 12    |           in haste to be "with the Lord?" Assuredly, most free will