| Table of Contents | Words: Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText Library |
| Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus Of patience IntraText - Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
bold = Main text
Chapter grey = Comment text
1 5 | affliction, he demands from Aaron "gods as his guides;" when
2 11| patient? For no one can abase himself without patience,
3 11| instance, to bear the act of abasement. "Blessed," saith He, "are
4 11| registered to the best of our ability, why should we wander out
5 | above
6 11| are found at home, what abroad? Wide and diffusive is the
7 12| be granted" you? if the absence of patience makes you tenacious
8 6 | and Master of patience was absent. But after He has supervened,
9 3 | betrayer, and stedfastly abstained from pointing him out. Moreover,
10 9 | we wound Christ when we accept not with equanimity the
11 4 | God, the Demonstrator and Acceptor of all good things, carried
12 14| to us, for the thorough accomplishment of patience as well in spirit
13 4 | found with a character in accordance with our Lord,--servants
14 | according
15 1 | Philosophers indeed, who are accounted animals of some considerable
16 12| ministers to Repentance, (accustomed as Repentance is to come
17 3 | this kind none of men would achieve. Such and so mighty evidences--
18 4 | the creatures) which obey, acknowledge their masters. Do we hesitate
19 4 | to the Lord God; for the acknowledgment of God understands what
20 16| patience the Gentiles are acquainted with; and they eagerly seize
21 9 | assertion of a right to grief acts the patron to it. For the
22 8 | patiently from another. I will add (somewhat) touching the
23 1 | becoming that such as have addressed themselves to the demonstration
24 13| ashes. This bodily patience adds a grace to our prayers for
25 15| indivisibly. If we do not give admission to her together with the
26 8 | Lord keeps us, the same He admonishes us to bear patiently from
27 2 | most ungrateful nations, adoring as they do the toys of the
28 15| lord, and his lord to God; adorns the woman; makes the man
29 12| prevents from becoming an adulterer; the other she amends. So,
30 5 | deed. Who ever committed adultery without impatience of lust?
31 5 | may appear how primarily adverse it is to faith. For that
32 11| because no one will "exult" in adversities unless he have first learnt
33 16| wives; which, with feigned affection, undergoes. every toil of
34 10| humility, of servitude, affectionately jealous of the right of
35 11| pray have the impatient any affinity with "peace?" Even a fool
36 14| dearest, nor even to bodily afflictions. What a bier for the devil
37 15| in youth, looked up to in age; is beauteous in either
38 14| ruin, nor, finally, the agony of his own body in (one
39 12| will compose the matter by agreement, unless he first begin by
40 5 | own experiment, what an aid unto sinning was that which
41 12| in jeopardy: we are not allowed to remain one day without
42 | almost
43 7 | property in the cause of almsgiving: for who that endures not
44 | along
45 3 | not strive; He did not cry aloud; nor did any hear His voice
46 12| his "duteous gift at the altar," unless he first, with
47 10| stumble, or else to fall altogether, or else to vanish headlong.
48 11| blessed servant, on whose amendment the Lord is intent! with
49 12| adulterer; the other she amends. So, to, she is found in
50 7 | the Lord Himself is found amid no riches. He always justifies
51 10| honour; but we make them an ampler satisfaction than they would
52 6 | pre-eminent coadjutrix for amplifying and fulfilling the law,
53 5 | the Lord as impatience. And--not to rove through individual
54 5 | patiently borne. What that angel of perdition" first was--
55 3 | He willed it, legions of angels would at one word have presented
56 12| in the presence of the angry brother's impatience. He,
57 1 | indeed, who are accounted animals of some considerable wisdom,
58 7 | other precepts also will answer in their own places. If
59 13| all which prophets and apostles, by enduring, conquered! ~
60 12| OTHER DIVINE PRECEPTS. THE APOSTOLIC DESCRIPTION OF CHARITY.
61 5 | from this consideration may appear how primarily adverse it
62 13| flesh--a victim able to appease the Lord by means of the
63 12| long suffering;" thus she applies patience: "is beneficent;"
64 16| of so great goodness to apply it to foul practises: patient
65 10| their patience we not only approve as mindful of humility,
66 10| arrogate to ourselves the arbitrament of vengeance? We are corrupt --
67 5 | forgetful of the heavenly arm whereby he had been drawn
68 5 | origin) of delinquency, arose the first origin of judgment;
69 7 | places. If our spirit is aroused by the loss of property,
70 2 | patience; but the divine arrangement of a living and celestial
71 10| offering to the Lord God, if we arrogate to ourselves the arbitrament
72 4 | their lord; if, that is, the art of deserving favour is obedience,
73 13| baptism, unto the act of ascending the divine seat, no patience
74 5 | compendiously, every sin is ascribable to impatience. "Evil" is "
75 5 | would be idle for me to ascribe this to impatience, if Cain,
76 1 | who shall presently be ashamed of their wisdom, destroyed
77 13| herself to sackcloth and ashes. This bodily patience adds
78 9 | with sadness at the falling asleep of any one, just as the
79 6 | it is no longer lawful to assail even with word, nor to say "
80 3 | repels with words alone the assaults of the tempter; while from
81 9 | ones is excused, where some assertion of a right to grief acts
82 1 | some considerable wisdom, assign it so high a place, that,
83 5 | he called the same to his assistance for the thrusting of man
84 15| is the pilot of peace; assists charity; establishes humility;
85 10| own servant-boys, if they assume to themselves the right
86 11| of the heavens?" No one, assuredly, is "poor in spirit," except
87 9 | unwillingness ourselves to attain it.~
88 9 | impatiently over such as have attained the desire of Christians,
89 1 | inspiration is effectual for attaining and practising them. For
90 8 | in frivolous ones. If one attempt to provoke you by manual
91 5 | great presently were her augmentations ! And no wonder, If she
92 5 | V. AS GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF PATIENCE SO THE DEVIL
93 1 | their commonishing by the authority of their personal conduct,
94 5 | as the discord of their authors. Further, since God is best,
95 3 | heavens, approved not the avenging sword of even one disciple
96 5 | digest of what is to be avoided. Let us therefore consider,
97 13| elicits clemency. Thus that Babylonish king, after being exiled
98 8 | malediction or reproach, look back at the saying, "When they
99 13| is more needed there than badly patience. If the "spirit
100 1 | in that a thing divine is bandied among worldly sciences?
101 7 | wild beasts, they play the bandit along the highway. But us,
102 14| person of that hero! What a banner did He rear over the enemy
103 13| the occasion of the second baptism, unto the act of ascending
104 3 | contumelious to Himself, and is baptized by His own servant; and
105 8 | but gratified, into the bargain, by your adversary's disappointment,
106 13| patience of the flesh, does battle under persecution. If flight
107 3 | for birth; and, when born, bears the delay of growing up;
108 8 | enduring: for he will be beaten by Him for whose sake you
109 11| ITS CONNECTION WITH THE BEATITUDES.~After these principal material
110 15| looked up to in age; is beauteous in either sex, in every
111 5 | was induced to offend, God began to be wroth. Whence (came)
112 | beginning
113 5 | from the sight of God, he begins to be easily turned by impatience
114 4 | subjection: how much more does it behove us to be found with a character
115 5 | on the contrary worst, of beings, by their own very diversity
116 6 | faith. In short, Abraham believed God, and was accredited
117 15| strong; is the delight of the believer; invites the Gentile; commends
118 16| makes the slaves of the belly submit to contumelious patronage,
119 10| return, saying, "Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will avenge; "
120 12| she applies patience: "is beneficent;" Patience does no evil: "
121 12| her own, provided she may benefit her neighbours: "nor is
122 3 | Moreover, while He is being betrayed, while He is being led up "
123 3 | His company even His own betrayer, and stedfastly abstained
124 6 | proved his faith, when he was bidden to immolate his son, with
125 14| bodily afflictions. What a bier for the devil did God erect
126 3 | and awaits the time for birth; and, when born, bears the
127 14| His glory, when, at every bitter message, that man uttered
128 11| patience what we have to blame ourselves for. Moreover,
129 6 | your personal enemies, and bless your cursers, and pray for
130 12| enter salvation? How great a blessing she confers on each! The
131 1 | how to be silent about its blessings. So I, most miserable, ever
132 2 | over just and unjust the bloom of this light; who suffers
133 1 | conduct, for fear their words blush at the deficiency of their
134 1 | deeds. And would that this "blushing" would bring a remedy, so
135 9 | in matters of this kind bodes ill for our hope, and is
136 4 | from men only, who have the bond of their slavery under their
137 13| the flesh (still was) in bonds, the flesh in the gyve,
138 8 | fall then and there with bootless and fruitless labour; and
139 7 | we shall be detected as bordering on covetousness: we seek
140 5 | time when he impatiently bore that the Lord God subjected
141 14| replaced the vermin that brake out thence, in the same
142 5 | his very speech with her, breathed on by a spirit infected
143 15| flesh; preserves the spirit; bridles the tongue; restrains the
144 4 | subject of patience are briefly, and as it were in the compendium
145 1 | that this "blushing" would bring a remedy, so that shame
146 7 | is another's when we ill brook losing what is another's.
147 5 | is not wroth with his own brother--if, finally, he took away
148 5 | anger as her son; and when brought forth, trained him in her
149 15| tranquil and peaceful; her brow serene contracted by no
150 3 | streets. He did not break the bruised reed; the smoking flax He
151 4 | even from cattle, even from brutes; understanding that they
152 10| you will have to bear the burden. What have I to do with
153 12| the quest, and the patient burden-bearer carries home on his shoulders
154 13| only recovered his kingdom, but--what is more to be desired
155 5 | ascribe this to impatience, if Cain, that first homicide and
156 15| sits on the throne of that calmest and gentlest Spirit, who
157 7 | themselves for sport and the camp; when, after the manner
158 12| all other things will be cancelled, will have their consummation. "
159 2 | no human affectation of canine equanimity, modelled by
160 | cannot
161 4 | turns not on a fetter or a cap of freedom, but on an eternity
162 3 | contumelious a town. He cared for the ungrateful; He yielded
163 7 | by force, or else even by carelessness, would himself readily or
164 4 | Acceptor of all good things, carried about in His own self? To
165 12| the patient burden-bearer carries home on his shoulders the
166 8 | AND MALEDICTION.~We who carry about our very soul, our
167 5 | rove through individual cases--there was no instance in
168 14| out thence, in the same caves and feeding-places of his
169 14| Esaias is cut asunder, and ceases not to speak concerning
170 12| is not emulous;" that certainly is a peculiar mark of patience: "
171 9 | again. Since, then, there is certainty as to the resurrection of
172 12| first begin by lopping off chagrin, hardheartedness, and bitterness,
173 4 | behove us to be found with a character in accordance with our Lord,--
174 5 | this also is laid to their charge by the Lord as impatience.
175 12| but those of Patience is Charity--the highest sacrament of
176 11| Whom I love," saith He, "I chasten." O blessed servant, on
177 11| thought worthy of divine chastisement. "Whom I love," saith He, "
178 5 | in regard of the devil's cheatery; not enduring to observe
179 6 | the petulance of the hand checked, the poison of the tongue
180 8 | the face, turn the other cheek likewise." Let outrageousness
181 10| There is, too, another chief spur of impatience, the
182 15| man approved; is loved in childhood, praised in youth, looked
183 16| a view to ensnaring the childless; which makes the slaves
184 4 | their slavery under their chin, or in any other legal way
185 9 | have attained the desire of Christians, we show unwillingness ourselves
186 3 | He repel; not with that city even which had refused to
187 3 | spitted on, scourged, derided, clad foully, more foully crowned.
188 11| impatient cannot possibly be classed. Again, when He marks "the
189 3 | There was none desirous of cleaving to Him whom He did not receive.
190 13| dissipates severity, elicits clemency. Thus that Babylonish king,
191 7 | takes away his coat his cloak as well? How shall we fashion
192 8 | therefore, follow our Lord closely; and be cursed patiently,
193 12| s patience receives, and clothes, and feeds, and makes excuses
194 15| her laugh threatening; her clothing, moreover, about her bosom
195 15| in the leaden hue of the cloud but is of soft serenity,
196 6 | patience her pre-eminent coadjutrix for amplifying and fulfilling
197 7 | to one who takes away his coat his cloak as well? How shall
198 7 | will one, when he has two coats, give the one of them to
199 5 | found for itself it lays collectively on the account of impatience,
200 7 | encounter the gainful perils of commerce on the sea; when, for money'
201 4 | obedience as great as are the comminations themselves which the severity
202 7 | loss of property, it is commonished by the Lord's Scriptures,
203 1 | regulate the constancy of their commonishing by the authority of their
204 13| that the ruling mind easily communicates the gifts" of the Spirit
205 7 | exercise in bestowing and communicating. Who fears not to lose,
206 1 | sentiments, yet, having a community of regard for patience alone,
207 15| any longer. Without His companion and handmaid, He must of
208 3 | if He had not had in His company even His own betrayer, and
209 5 | or the avarice. Whatever compels a man, it is not possible
210 5 | the Lord, for, to speak compendiously, every sin is ascribable
211 4 | briefly, and as it were in the compendium of a prescriptive rule,
212 16| undergoes. every toil of forced complaisance, with a view to ensnaring
213 4 | the rule of obedience is a compliant subjection: how much more
214 6 | of patience is succinctly comprised, since evil-doing is not
215 13| the pure drink of water in con joining fasts to all this;
216 3 | who had set before Him the concealing of Himself in man's shape,
217 6 | since evil-doing is not conceded even when it is deserved.~
218 7 | consisting merely in the concupiscence of what is another's: for
219 10| who both prohibits and condemns every wickedness. In evil
220 12| How great a blessing she confers on each! The one she prevents
221 1 | TO TREAT OF IT.~I FULLY confess unto the Lord God that it
222 15| repentance; sets tier seal on confession; rules the flesh; preserves
223 8 | Whatever that blow may be, conjoined with pain and contumely,
224 10| separate what similarity conjoins. And the precept is absolute,
225 13| and apostles, by enduring, conquered! ~
226 5 | first delinquent, it is a consequence that, because she has been
227 5 | avoided. Let us therefore consider, concerning Impatience,
228 1 | accounted animals of some considerable wisdom, assign it so high
229 4 | God? By means of which (considerations) both commendation and exhortation
230 7 | interpret that covetousness as consisting merely in the concupiscence
231 8 | because the hurter's enjoyment consists in the pain of the hurt.
232 11| unhappinesses? And so to such, "consolation" and "laughter" are promised. "
233 15| crowning grace to martyrdoms; consoles the poor; teaches the rich
234 1 | should themselves first be conspicuous in the practice of that
235 1 | granting peace: for it they conspire; for it they league; it,
236 5 | that subsequently they conspired between themselves; and
237 10| a neighbour's malice, it constitutes itself superior in following
238 12| cancelled, will have their consummation. "Tongues, sciences, prophecies,
239 12| seventy-seven times?" Who that is contemplating a suit against his adversary
240 1 | recall to mind, and, in the contemplation of my own weakness, digest,
241 13| holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps
242 15| peaceful; her brow serene contracted by no wrinkle of sadness
243 5 | pours down for an idol the contributions of his gold: for the so
244 3 | must be undergone need of contumelies likewise? Nay, but, when
245 8 | conjoined with pain and contumely, it shall receive a heavier
246 10| on the contrary, it is convicted of malignity. For what difference
247 7 | OF IMPATIENCE, AND THEIR CORRESPONDENT PRECEPTS.~Now, however,
248 10| arbitrament of vengeance? We are corrupt --earthen vessels. With
249 14| blunted themselves against the corslet and shield of his patience,
250 15| her mien and habit. Her countenance is tranquil and peaceful;
251 11| of the Evil One, that the counter-zeal of our equanimity may mock
252 4 | of which severity or the courting of which liberality there
253 5 | was suggested during this cradle-time of impatience, then (in
254 5 | celestial. Thenceforward, a creature given to earth, and ejected
255 5 | own fount various veins of crimes. Of murder we have spoken;
256 14| urging him to resort to crooked remedies! How did God smile,
257 13| constancy stripes, fire, cross, beasts, sword; all which
258 3 | clad foully, more foully crowned. Wondrous is the faith of
259 15| away scandals; gives their crowning grace to martyrdoms; consoles
260 3 | silence (the fact) that He is crucified, for this was the end for
261 3 | did not strive; He did not cry aloud; nor did any hear
262 7 | they do, when, in their cupidities of lucre, they encounter
263 6 | enemies, and bless your cursers, and pray for your persecutors,
264 7 | without heart-sickness the cutting down or taking away. "Covetousness,"
265 2 | malignity, waxing insolent daily: so that by His own patience
266 14| that we succumb neither to damages of our worldly goods, nor
267 7 | there is nothing which damnation (itself) would fear which
268 6 | say "fool" even, without "danger of the judgment." Anger
269 1 | impudent, in me to have dared compose a treatise on Patience,
270 14| flesh! And so, when all the darts of temptations had blunted
271 9 | the resurrection of the dead, grief for death is needless,
272 9 | impatience under the loss of our dear ones is excused, where some
273 14| losses of those who are dearest, nor even to bodily afflictions.
274 15| Patience, to have God as her Debtor! And not without reason:
275 4 | any other legal way are debtors to obedience? but even from
276 11| wroth! whom He does not deceive by dissembling His reproofs!
277 5 | grieved. Accordingly he deceived him, because he had envied
278 9 | consideration of the apostle's declaration must be set before us, who
279 15| reason: for she keeps all His decrees; she has to do with all
280 1 | the deficiency of their deeds. And would that this "blushing"
281 1 | possesses it dispense it, as He deems meet to each. And so to
282 14| concerning the Lord--he deferred; meantime he endured a voluntary
283 1 | their words blush at the deficiency of their deeds. And would
284 8 | delivered that "a man is defiled, not by the defilements
285 8 | servant of Christ be such a defilement as that the patience which
286 8 | man is defiled, not by the defilements of vessels, but of the things
287 11| is intent! with whom He deigns to be wroth! whom He does
288 3 | and, when born, bears the delay of growing up; and, when
289 5 | gold: for the so necessary delays of Moses, while he met with
290 15| exhausts not the strong; is the delight of the believer; invites
291 5 | If she has been the first delinquent, it is a consequence that,
292 5 | Egyptian affliction, he demands from Aaron "gods as his
293 5 | he had been impatient, he demonstrates that what he did through
294 7 | contempt" (as portion); demonstrating, by means of (His own) repudiation
295 1 | addressed themselves to the demonstration and commendation of some
296 4 | which the Lord God, the Demonstrator and Acceptor of all good
297 14| thanks to God, while he denounced his wife, now quite wearied
298 3 | Nay, but, when about to depart, He wished to be sated with
299 9 | you think to be death is departure. He who goes before us is
300 15| it be a wrong which you deposit in His care, He is an Avenger;
301 15| PATIENCE.~So amply sufficient a Depositary of patience is God. If it
302 3 | is spitted on, scourged, derided, clad foully, more foully
303 15| Patience. When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies
304 12| PRECEPTS. THE APOSTOLIC DESCRIPTION OF CHARITY. THEIR CONNECTION
305 6 | conceded even when it is deserved.~
306 4 | if, that is, the art of deserving favour is obedience, while
307 13| but--what is more to be desired by a man--made satisfaction
308 3 | falsely spoken. There was none desirous of cleaving to Him whom
309 5 | following of the rock, they despair of the Lord in not enduring
310 16| DOOMED TO PERDITION. OURS DESTINED TO SALVATION.~This is the
311 1 | ashamed of their wisdom, destroyed and disgraced together with
312 5 | by the Good. Therefore I detect the nativity of impatience
313 9 | for whose sake He both died and rose again. Since, then,
314 13| food, content with simple diet and the pure drink of water
315 10| convicted of malignity. For what difference is there between provoker
316 11| home, what abroad? Wide and diffusive is the Evil One's operation,
317 4 | liberality there needs a diligence in obedience as great as
318 4 | Do we hesitate to listen diligently to Him to whom alone we
319 7 | over things heavenly, sin directly against God; for the Spirit,
320 8 | bargain, by your adversary's disappointment, and revenged by his pain.
321 5 | to offend the Lord, the Disapprover of evils? Is it not manifest
322 3 | avenging sword of even one disciple The patience of the Lord
323 5 | any time. And so, if the discourse be concerning some particular
324 1 | meet to each. And so to discuss about that which it is not
325 5 | Nevertheless, the proceeding of a discussion on the necessaries of faith
326 1 | their wisdom, destroyed and disgraced together with the world (
327 16| patience, not false and disgraceful, like as is that patience
328 5 | not impatient of modesty; dishonest of honesty; impious of piety;
329 12| have fallen,) when, on a disjunction of wedlock (for that cause,
330 8 | lighted upon patience, will be dismissed with the same fate as, some
331 2 | that by His own patience He disparages Himself; for the cause why
332 1 | than He who possesses it dispense it, as He deems meet to
333 4 | conduct suitably to the disposition of their lord; if, that
334 11| whom He does not deceive by dissembling His reproofs! On every side,
335 13| ears of Christ our God, dissipates severity, elicits clemency.
336 3 | being, as it were, at a distance, may perhaps be esteemed
337 7 | diversity by which we are distinguished from them, it becomes to
338 15| being neither inflated nor disturbed. For Patience sits on the
339 10| every wickedness. In evil doing there is no account taken
340 16| CHRISTIAN PATIENCE. THEIRS DOOMED TO PERDITION. OURS DESTINED
341 10| and by paying wickedness doubles that which has once been
342 8 | with retorted impetus. No doubt the reason why any one hurts
343 4 | whom, again, would it be doubtful that every good thing ought,
344 15| gladsome wise, with eyes downcast in humility, not in unhappiness;
345 16| making husbands venal for dowry, and teaching them to trade
346 11| imprudence or else voluntarily, draw upon ourselves anything,
347 7 | cut by another, himself draws the sword on his own body?
348 13| simple diet and the pure drink of water in con joining
349 15| temptations under foot; drives away scandals; gives their
350 14| patience! --whom neither the driving away of his cattle nor those
351 4 | exhibition of obedience due from us to the Lord God;
352 | during
353 12| will finish offering his "duteous gift at the altar," unless
354 3 | and, when grown up, is not eager to be recognised, but is
355 16| acquainted with; and they eagerly seize a name of so great
356 5 | perpetrates that wickedness, the earlier step is his becoming impatient
357 4 | it pertains to God, to be earnestly pursued with the whole mind
358 10| vengeance? We are corrupt --earthen vessels. With our own servant-boys,
359 6 | which the law gave. That was easy, while the Lord and Master
360 5 | with impatience. After the edible rain of the manna, after
361 5 | had honoured the divine edict by maintaining her patience
362 5 | it is not unfruitful. In edification no loquacity is base, if
363 3 | to believe, that as the effect and excellence of some inherent
364 15| SUMMARY OF THE VIRTUES AND EFFECTS OF PATIENCE.~So amply sufficient
365 1 | of divine inspiration is effectual for attaining and practising
366 5 | had been drawn out of his Egyptian affliction, he demands from
367 5 | creature given to earth, and ejected from the sight of God, he
368 2 | seasons, the services of the elements, the tributes of entire
369 15| serenity, open and simple, whom Elias saw at his third essay.
370 13| God, dissipates severity, elicits clemency. Thus that Babylonish
371 12| Patience does no evil: "is not emulous;" that certainly is a peculiar
372 7 | cupidities of lucre, they encounter the gainful perils of commerce
373 6 | says, "Love your personal enemies, and bless your cursers,
374 3 | by the sermons only, in enjoining, but likewise by the sufferings
375 5 | For whether from private enmities, or for the sake of prey,
376 3 | ungrateful; He yielded to His ensnarers. This were a small matter,
377 16| complaisance, with a view to ensnaring the childless; which makes
378 12| in all who are one day to enter salvation? How great a blessing
379 2 | elements, the tributes of entire nature, to accrue at once
380 14| joy as that --secure so entirely concerning the Lord--he
381 3 | together with patience in its entirety, in His Son--had not falsely
382 12| for, she persuades by her entreaties, repentance in all who are
383 13| find that)it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care
384 11| anything, let us meet with equal patience what we have to
385 2 | of patience; who scatters equally over just and unjust the
386 14| bier for the devil did God erect in the person of that hero!
387 10| Revenge, in the estimation of error, seems a solace of pain;
388 11| quarter, either by our own errors or else by the snares of
389 14| this strength of patience, Esaias is cut asunder, and ceases
390 3 | Master," teaching man to escape death, having been trained
391 4 | of a prescriptive rule, established.~
392 15| peace; assists charity; establishes humility; waits long for
393 3 | distance, may perhaps be esteemed as among "things too high
394 10| case of a Lord so just in estimating, so potent in executing?
395 4 | cap of freedom, but on an eternity either of penalty or of
396 13| and raises the self-made eunuch to the realms of heaven.
397 5 | which had immersed Adam and Eve in death, taught their son,
398 15| or of anger; her eyebrows evenly relaxed in gladsome wise,
399 | everywhere
400 3 | achieve. Such and so mighty evidences--the very magnitude of which
401 4 | freely makes. And yet we exact obedience not from men only,
402 16| diversity of evil and good is exactly on a par with their magnitude)
403 12| she is found in those holy examples touching patience in the
404 3 | that as the effect and excellence of some inherent propriety,
405 9 | loss of our dear ones is excused, where some assertion of
406 12| clothes, and feeds, and makes excuses for, in the presence of
407 10| estimating, so potent in executing? Why, then, do we believe
408 6 | heavy a precept, the perfect execution whereof was not even pleasing
409 14| SPIRITUAL AND THE BODILY. EXEMPLIFIED IN THE SAINTS OF OLD.~With
410 14| violence of the devil by the exertion of every species of patience! --
411 12| sciences, prophecies, become exhausted; faith, hope, charity, are
412 15| overstrains not the weak; exhausts not the strong; is the delight
413 13| a quality which has been exhibited by the Lord Himself in bodily
414 4 | there more words on the exhibition of obedience due from us
415 13| Babylonish king, after being exiled from human form in his seven
416 13| simple and uniform, and as it exists merely in the mind: though
417 5 | been instructed, by his own experiment, what an aid unto sinning
418 8 | very soul, our very body, exposed in this world to injury
419 6 | the poison of the tongue extracted. The law has found more
420 11| is not to the patience of exultation that He makes that promise;
421 15| sadness or of anger; her eyebrows evenly relaxed in gladsome
422 15| relaxed in gladsome wise, with eyes downcast in humility, not
423 8 | who smiteth thee on the face, turn the other cheek likewise."
424 5 | Israel himself also always failed in his duty toward God,
425 5 | instance in which it was not by failing in duty through impatience
426 10| nothing done with impetuosity fails either to stumble, or else
427 12| the rescue of such as have fallen,) when, on a disjunction
428 9 | overwhelmed with sadness at the falling asleep of any one, just
429 16| Christian patience, not false and disgraceful, like as
430 3 | entirety, in His Son--had not falsely spoken. There was none desirous
431 2 | His Name together with His family; bearing with luxury, avarice,
432 1 | discord with the various fancies of their sects and rivalries
433 7 | cloak as well? How shall we fashion to us friends from mammon,
434 13| of water in con joining fasts to all this; in inuring
435 8 | dismissed with the same fate as, some weapon launched
436 4 | is, the art of deserving favour is obedience, while the
437 7 | bestowing and communicating. Who fears not to lose, finds it not
438 5 | s seed, produced, in the fecundity of malice, anger as her
439 14| thence, in the same caves and feeding-places of his pitted flesh! And
440 12| receives, and clothes, and feeds, and makes excuses for,
441 4 | servants of probity and right feeling shaping their conduct suitably
442 3 | washing of the disciples' feet; not sinners, not publicans,
443 16| their wives; which, with feigned affection, undergoes. every
444 11| with the same title of felicity, and names them "sons of
445 10| right of vengeance on their fellow-servants, we are gravely offended;
446 5 | of lust? Moreover, if in females the sale of their modesty
447 4 | servants turns not on a fetter or a cap of freedom, but
448 13| it is led forth unto the final proof of happiness, unto
449 12| brother in his mind, will finish offering his "duteous gift
450 3 | wished that the celestial fires should be forthwith hurled
451 15| her bosom white and well fitted to her person, as being
452 3 | bruised reed; the smoking flax He did not quench: for the
453 13| is the affliction of the flesh--a victim able to appease
454 11| may mock the zeal of the foe. If, however, we ourselves,
455 14| prays for pardon to his foes. Oh, happy also he who met
456 8 | shall I be found to have followed the doctrine of the Lord,
457 8 | vain and needless word." It follows that, from whatever the
458 13| together with scantiness of food, content with simple diet
459 15| tramples temptations under foot; drives away scandals; gives
460 3 | exercise of the absolute forbearance of offended patience. He
461 7 | either by theft, or else by force, or else even by carelessness,
462 7 | always justifies the poor, fore-condemns the rich. So He fore-ministered
463 7 | fore-condemns the rich. So He fore-ministered to patience "loss," and
464 5 | God, from that time when, forgetful of the heavenly arm whereby
465 12| impatience will even once forgive his brother, I will not
466 13| being exiled from human form in his seven years' squalor
467 13| the mind: though in many forms likewise I labour after
468 8 | greater temptations should forsake him in frivolous ones. If
469 12| home on his shoulders the forsaken sinner. That prodigal son
470 3 | celestial fires should be forthwith hurled on so contumelious
471 15| with all His mandates. She fortifies faith; is the pilot of peace;
472 7 | money's sake, even in the forum, there is nothing which
473 15| God is, there too is His foster-child, namely Patience. When God'
474 16| goodness to apply it to foul practises: patient they
475 4 | BEASTS. OBEDIENT IMITATION IS FOUNDED ON PATIENCE.~Therefore,
476 5 | pouring down from her own fount various veins of crimes.
477 5 | first homicide and first fratricide, had borne with equanimity
478 5 | they would have been set free.~
479 4 | on a fetter or a cap of freedom, but on an eternity either
480 4 | promises which the liberality freely makes. And yet we exact
481 15| the motion of her head frequent against the devil, and her
482 5 | rival, of course is not friendly to God's things. The discord
483 7 | How shall we fashion to us friends from mammon, if we love
484 5 | he was, and in intimate friendship with God, and the husbandman
485 8 | temptations should forsake him in frivolous ones. If one attempt to
486 8 | there with bootless and fruitless labour; and sometimes will
487 1 | one can obey no precept, fulfil no work well-pleasing to
488 6 | God had willed) would have fulfilled. Deservedly then was he "
489 6 | coadjutrix for amplifying and fulfilling the law, because that alone
490 1 | UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT OF IT.~I FULLY confess unto the Lord God
491 2 | modelled by insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising
492 3 | to be recognised, but is furthermore contumelious to Himself,
493 7 | lucre, they encounter the gainful perils of commerce on the
494 6 | Do you see whom patience gains for us as a Father? In this
495 6 | opportunities which the law gave. That was easy, while the
496 1 | I. OF PATIENCE GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN'S OWN UNWORTHINESS
497 15| the believer; invites the Gentile; commends the servant to
498 11| promised. "Blessed are the gentle:" under this term, surely,
499 15| throne of that calmest and gentlest Spirit, who is not found
500 12| finish offering his "duteous gift at the altar," unless he