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1 I | WHEREIN IS DESCRIBED THE GOD OF MARCION. HE IS SHOWN
2 I | THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE TRUE GOD.~
3 I, 1pref | true Prometheus, Almighty God, is mangled by Marcion's
4 I, 1pref | his faith, and so lost the God whom he had found. His disciples
5 I, 2 | HERESY OF AN EVIL AND A GOOD GOD.~The heretic of Pontus introduces
6 I, 2 | able to prove, i.e. his own god. The unhappy man gained
7 I, 2 | every perverted mind, that God is the author of evil, so
8 I, 2 | there ought to be another god, after the analogy of the
9 I, 2 | they had not seen the one God with soundness of faith.
10 I, 3 | III. THE UNITY OF GOD. HE IS THE SUPREME BEING,
11 I, 3 | declared this principle, "God is not, if He is not one;"
12 I, 3 | that you may know that God is one, ask what God is,
13 I, 3 | that God is one, ask what God is, and you will find Him
14 I, 3 | can form a definition of God, I adduce one which the
15 I, 3 | will also acknowledge, that God is the great Supreme existing
16 I, 3 | that eternity which makes God to be the great Supreme,
17 I, 3 | is this very attribute in God; and so on as to the other
18 I, 3 | other qualities: so that God is the great Supreme in
19 I, 3 | because nobody will deny that God is in some sense the great
20 I, 3 | the opposite opinion, that God is but some inferior being,
21 I, 3 | in order that he may deny God by robbing Him of an attribute
22 I, 3 | robbing Him of an attribute of God), what must be the condition
23 I, 3 | uniqueness. Since, then, God is the great Supreme, our
24 I, 3 | verity has rightly declared, "God is not, if He is not one."
25 I, 3 | if we doubted His being God, by saying, He is not, if
26 I, 3 | without which He is not God; that is to say, the great
27 I, 3 | Being, therefore, will be God not otherwise God than as
28 I, 3 | will be God not otherwise God than as the great Supreme;
29 I, 3 | being Unique. Whatever other god, then, you may introduce,
30 I, 4 | BETWEEN HUMAN POWERS AND GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY. THE OBJECTION
31 I, 4 | I will not say a third god or a fourth, but as many
32 I, 4 | of the earth? Now it is God that is in question, whose
33 I, 4 | not an Isaiah, or rather God speaking by Isaiah, will
34 I, 4 | but they may not be with God. God is one thing, and what
35 I, 4 | they may not be with God. God is one thing, and what belongs
36 I, 4 | thing, and what belongs to God is another thing. Once more:
37 I, 4 | supreme on his throne next to God, he is still inferior to
38 I, 4 | he is still inferior to God; and when he is compared
39 I, 4 | when he is compared with God, he will be dislodged from
40 I, 4 | which is transferred to God. Now, this being the case,
41 I, 4 | employ in a comparison with God an object as your example,
42 I, 4 | either we must deny that God is the great Supreme, which
43 I, 4 | himself to do; or say that God has no one else with whom
44 I, 5 | self-same rule lays down one God and not two, which declares
45 I, 5 | two, which declares that God must be a Being to which,
46 I, 6 | have been maintaining that God ought to be believed as
47 I, 6 | deny that the Creator is God, I most fairly object against
48 I, 6 | said nor believed to be God, except as the great Supreme.
49 I, 6 | to acknowledge that the God whom he does not deny is
50 I, 6 | not the characteristic of God to cease from any attribute
51 I, 6 | Marcion's more powerful god, if it were capable of depreciation
52 I, 6 | other. If you deny him to be God whom you call inferior,
53 I, 7 | VII. OTHER BEINGS BESIDES GOD ARE IN SCRIPTURE CALLED
54 I, 7 | ARE IN SCRIPTURE CALLED GOD. THIS OBJECTION FRIVOLOUS,
55 I, 7 | objection from the name of God, by alleging that that name
56 I, 7 | also; as it is written, "God standeth in the congregation
57 I, 7 | urged against the (superior) god of Marcion: he too is called
58 I, 7 | Marcion: he too is called god, but is not on that account
59 I, 7 | divine because he is called a god. It is not, therefore, for
60 I, 7 | therefore, for the name of god, for its sound or its written
61 I, 7 | it has come to be called god, you suppose that I ascribe
62 I, 7 | Being consists who is called God, and who is accounted the
63 I, 7 | imputes this character to his god, imputes it to the nature,
64 I, 7 | then, which we ascribe to God in consideration of His
65 I, 7 | substance for which the name of God is given; because, in as
66 I, 7 | shall hold good of Marcion's god, it will equally so of ours;
67 I, 8 | THE NOVELTY OF MARCION'S GOD FATAL TO HIS PRETENSIONS.
68 I, 8 | FATAL TO HIS PRETENSIONS. GOD IS FROM EVERLASTING, HE
69 I, 8 | bringing forward a new god, as if we were ashamed of
70 I, 8 | Now when I hear of a new god, who, in the old world and
71 I, 8 | old time and under the old god was unknown and unheard
72 I, 8 | several deification. What new god is there, except a false
73 I, 8 | Saturn will be proved to be a god by all his ancient fame,
74 I, 8 | therefore it lacks age. God, if old, forfeits the eternity
75 I, 8 | oldness threatens an end. God, moreover, is as independent
76 I, 9 | PRETENSIONS VAIN, FOR THE TRUE GOD IS NEITHER UNKNOWN NOR UNCERTAIN.
77 I, 9 | CREATOR, WHOM HE OWNS TO BE GOD, ALONE SUPPLIES AN INDUCTION,
78 I, 9 | WHICH TO JUDGE OF THE TRUE GOD.~Now I know full well by
79 I, 9 | they boast of their new god; even their knowledge. It
80 I, 9 | a proof of this unknown god. For him whom by their knowledge
81 I, 9 | could have been an unknown god. I find, no doubt, that
82 I, 9 | shall we carve for Marcion's god? Both, I suppose, as for
83 I, 9 | the Creator, being a known God, caused him to be unknown;
84 I, 9 | so, as being a certain God, he made him to be uncertain.
85 I, 9 | of my way, as to say: If God was unknown and concealed,
86 I, 9 | undoubtedly greater than the God whom it concealed. But I
87 I, 9 | pursue it, promising that God neither could have been,
88 I, 9 | new and heretofore unknown god ought, for its test, to
89 I, 9 | acknowledge the Creator to be God, and from your knowledge
90 I, 9 | not know that the other god should be examined by you
91 I, 9 | taught you how to find out a god in the first case? Every
92 I, 9 | is concerning the unknown god. Possibly he has no existence;
93 I, 9 | existence at all. You have a god who is so far certain, as
94 I, 9 | confidence that he is not God who is to-day uncertain,
95 I, 9 | it is evident that he is God, from this very fact it
96 I, 10 | CREATOR WAS KNOWN AS THE TRUE GOD FROM THE FIRST BY HIS CREATION.
97 I, 10 | He might become known as God. For although Moses, some
98 I, 10 | introduce the knowledge of the God of the universe in the temple
99 I, 10 | his writings, yet knew the God of Moses; and even when
100 I, 10 | separately by His own name as God, and the God of gods, and
101 I, 10 | own name as God, and the God of gods, and said, "If God
102 I, 10 | God of gods, and said, "If God grant," and, "As God pleases,"
103 I, 10 | If God grant," and, "As God pleases," and, "I commend
104 I, 10 | and, "I commend you to God." Reflect, then, whether
105 I, 10 | beginning the knowledge of God is the dowry of the soul,
106 I, 10 | For their souls call the God of the Jews their God. Do
107 I, 10 | the God of the Jews their God. Do not, O barbarian heretic,
108 I, 10 | the Creator had been the God of one family, He was yet
109 I, 10 | yet not later than your god; even in Pontus was He known
110 I, 10 | the unknown. Never shall God be hidden, never shall God
111 I, 10 | God be hidden, never shall God be wanting. Always shall
112 I, 10 | whatsoever way He shall wish. God has for His witnesses this
113 I, 10 | unknown, proved to be both God and the only One, although
114 I, 11 | XI. THE EVIDENCE FOR GOD EXTERNAL TO HIM; BUT THE
115 I, 11 | EXTRANEOUS, FOR ALL THINGS ARE GOD'S. MARCION'S GOD, HAVING
116 I, 11 | THINGS ARE GOD'S. MARCION'S GOD, HAVING NOTHING TO SHOW
117 I, 11 | TO SHOW FOR HIMSELF, NO GOD AT ALL. MARCION'S SCHEME
118 I, 11 | FURNISHING EVIDENCE FOR HIS NEW GOD'S EXISTENCE, WHICH SHOULD
119 I, 11 | anything be strange. to God, to whom, if He were personally
120 I, 11 | this is the attribute of God, that all things are His,
121 I, 11 | the Creator is shown to be God, God without any doubt,
122 I, 11 | Creator is shown to be God, God without any doubt, from
123 I, 11 | strange to Him; so the rival god is seen to be no god, from
124 I, 11 | rival god is seen to be no god, from the circumstance that
125 I, 11 | see no room for any other god. All things are full of
126 I, 11 | find room for Marcion's god? This, therefore, I insist
127 I, 11 | character of the Creator, that God must have been known from
128 I, 11 | believed from the character of God to be a divine function;
129 I, 11 | vegetable s at least Marcion's god ought to have produced as
130 I, 11 | which shall be worthy of a God, why he, supposing him to
131 I, 11 | is clear to us thai our God is no otherwise existent,
132 I, 11 | acknowledge the Creator to be God, and also prove him divine
133 I, 11 | be equally believed in as God, except they adjust him
134 I, 11 | they and all men hold to be God; which is this, that whereas
135 I, 11 | doubts the Creator to be God on the express ground of
136 I, 11 | believe that he also is God who has made nothing except,
137 I, 11 | is a reason unworthy of God. Whether to have been unwilling
138 I, 11 | Tell me, Marcion, did your god wish himself to be recognised
139 I, 11 | Marcionites aver, of any god being above Himself, and
140 I, 11 | care; while the Superior God, knowing all the while how
141 I, 11 | both be acknowledged as God from His works, and even
142 I, 12 | IMPOSSIBILITY OF ACKNOWLEDGING GOD WITHOUT THIS EXTERNAL EVIDENCE
143 I, 12 | OF SUCH EVIDENCE FOR HIS GOD SAVOURS OF IMPUDENCE AND
144 I, 12 | more worthily believe that God does not exist, than that
145 I, 12 | reason of not having a proof. God, however, ought not to be
146 I, 12 | accustomed to believe in God from the idea he gets of
147 I, 12 | acquired the knowledge of God. For although most persons
148 I, 12 | Deity in works worthy of God. And so upon this ground
149 I, 13 | IS A WORTHY WITNESS OF GOD. THIS WORTHINESS ILLUSTRATED
150 I, 13 | from this rank (of Deity) a god who has no evidence to show
151 I, 13 | grand work, worthy of a God. Then is the Creator not
152 I, 13 | the Creator not at all a God? By all means He is God.
153 I, 13 | God? By all means He is God. Therefore the world is
154 I, 13 | world is not unworthy of God, for God has made nothing
155 I, 13 | not unworthy of God, for God has made nothing unworthy
156 I, 13 | as it is, be unworthy of God, how much more unworthy
157 I, 13 | divine than as unworthy of God. I will, however, come down
158 I, 14 | HEREIN EXPOSED. MARCION'S OWN GOD DID NOT HESITATE TO USE
159 I, 14 | Even this handiwork of our God will be pleasing to you,
160 I, 14 | your own lord, that better god, loved it so well, and for
161 I, 15 | REVELATION OF MARCION'S GOD. THE QUESTION OF THE PLACE
162 I, 15 | in company with its own god. But now, how happens it
163 I, 15 | the world above and to the God thereof. For, behold, if
164 I, 15 | Creator's head. Therefore God both Himself occupied local
165 I, 15 | too, will be greater than God and the world together.
166 I, 15 | vacant, in which some third god also may be able with a
167 I, 15 | will be local space for a god, not only as being greater
168 I, 15 | only as being greater than God, but as being also unbegotten
169 I, 15 | therefore eternal, and equal to God, in which God has ever been.
170 I, 15 | and equal to God, in which God has ever been. Then, inasmuch
171 I, 15 | and contemporaneous with God, just as Marcion holds of
172 I, 15 | enclosed two gods, both God and matter. For matter also
173 I, 15 | matter. For matter also is a god according to the rule of
174 I, 15 | process occurred to him as God which lay before the Creator
175 I, 15 | before the Creator as equally God. And thus you may, if you
176 I, 15 | manner makes the Creator a god in local space, which is
177 I, 15 | so here he makes a fourth God. Accordingly you have three
178 I, 16 | OF THE CREATOR, THE ONE GOD MAKER OF ALL THINGS VISIBLE
179 I, 16 | does not appear, nor its god either, the only resource
180 I, 16 | their own, (the supreme) God. But who, except an heretical
181 I, 17 | PRETEND, THAT THE SUPREME GOD SHOULD RESCUE MAN; HE MUST
182 I, 17 | CREATED HIM. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PROVED BY HIS CREATION,
183 I, 17 | work is sufficient for our god; he has delivered man by
184 I, 17 | the locusts. What superior god is this, of whom it has
185 I, 17 | as the man of the lesser god! Now without doubt the first
186 I, 17 | manner that the existence of God must ordinarily be proved
187 I, 17 | question of the unknown god, two points were made clear
188 I, 17 | for it was not fit that God should have lain hid. It
189 I, 17 | question of the unknown god, that I may strike off into
190 I, 17 | creatures, with which as God he was indeed so closely
191 I, 17 | arriving at the knowledge of God, or a good reason for it,
192 I, 17 | opposition to which the good God has wrought the deliverance.
193 I, 17 | alternatives are unworthy of God, especially the supreme
194 I, 18 | NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR CONCEITS, THE GOD OF THE MARCIONITES FAILS
195 I, 18 | whether Marcion's supreme god has become known in a way
196 I, 18 | things which are worthy of God will prove the existence
197 I, 18 | will prove the existence of God. We maintain that God must
198 I, 18 | of God. We maintain that God must first be known from
199 I, 18 | guesses, do not say that God can possibly become known
200 I, 18 | to the conditions both of God's greatness and man's littleness;
201 I, 18 | possibility to be greater than God, by having somehow drawn
202 I, 18 | than to follow the true God whom men now understand
203 I, 18 | be thus able to devise a god, as Romulus did Consus,
204 I, 19 | BE THE SAME AS MARCION'S GOD, WHO WAS ONLY MADE KNOWN
205 I, 19 | THE GOSPELS.~Well, but our god, say the Marcionites, although
206 I, 19 | the revealer of none other god but the Creator. In the
207 I, 19 | shown, first introduced this god to notice in the time of
208 I, 19 | in other words, that the God of the Antonine period was
209 I, 19 | Antonine period was not the God of the Tiberian; and consequently,
210 I, 19 | which has suggested that the God of the gospel is different
211 I, 19 | gospel is different from the God of the law, it is clear
212 I, 19 | the said separation, that god could not have been known
213 I, 19 | which firmly held that the God of both law and gospel was
214 I, 20 | of prevarication against God on a point of public doctrine.
215 I, 20 | to the faith of another god and christ, but rather to
216 I, 20 | Creator proves that none other God was preached by the apostle
217 I, 21 | ST. PAUL PREACHED NO NEW GOD, WHEN HE ANNOUNCED THE REPEAL
218 I, 21 | ANNOUNCED THE REPEAL OF SOME OE GOD'S ANCIENT ORDINANCES. NEVER
219 I, 21 | BELIEF IN THE CREATOR, AS THE GOD WHOM CHRIST REVEALED, UNTIL
220 I, 21 | view of preaching a new god that he was eager to abrogate
221 I, 21 | abrogate the law of the old God, how is it that he prescribes
222 I, 21 | prescribes no rule about the new god, but solely about the old
223 I, 21 | And, indeed, if another god were preached by Paul, there
224 I, 21 | newness and difference of the god would take away not only
225 I, 21 | this, that although the God of the law was the same
226 I, 21 | resurrection; but about God no one disputed. Now, if
227 I, 21 | respecting the belief of God suffered corruption, but
228 I, 21 | Marcion's time no other God in the rule of sacred truth'
229 I, 21 | which we have shown that the god of our heretic first became
230 I, 21 | accordingly made good, that no god is to be believed whom any
231 I, 21 | to be the revealer of no God else but the Creator.~
232 I, 22 | XXII. GOD'S ATTRIBUTE OF GOODNESS
233 I, 22 | CONSIDERED AS NATURAL; THE GOD OF MARCION FOUND WANTING
234 I, 22 | take the very person of God Himself, or rather His shadow
235 I, 22 | unmistakeable rules for examining God's goodness. My first point,
236 I, 22 | the goodness of the other god should have been ready to
237 I, 22 | cause for it began. For in God all things should be natural
238 I, 22 | wanting in eternity. In God, therefore, goodness is
239 I, 22 | had any existence. That God should at all fail in power
240 I, 22 | Moreover, the.nature of God Him self knows nothing of
241 I, 22 | ceased to act. In Marcion's god, however, goodness ceased
242 I, 22 | the goodness of Marcion's god failed in the beginning (
243 I, 22 | be transferred to his new god, who helped on the ruthless
244 I, 22 | And all this your better god either is ignorant of, or
245 I, 22 | pronounced against Marcion's god: tolerant of evil, encouraging
246 I, 22 | by discipline, if he is God from eternity and not from
247 I, 22 | stands, however, such a god as we are considering would
248 I, 23 | XXIII. GOD'S ATTRIBUTE OF GOODNESS
249 I, 23 | CONSIDERED AS RATIONAL. MARCION'S GOD DEFECTIVE HERE ALSO; HIS
250 I, 23 | him. All the properties of God ought to be as rational
251 I, 23 | the goodness of Marcion's god is rational, on this account
252 I, 23 | the character of Marcion's god, swooping upon an alien
253 I, 23 | snatching away man from his God, the son from his father,
254 I, 23 | make him impious to his God, undutiful to his father,
255 I, 23 | him who is baptized to his god in water which belongs to
256 I, 23 | stretches out his hands to his god towards a heaven which is
257 I, 23 | another's, who kneels to his god on ground which is another'
258 I, 23 | his thanksgivings to his god over bread which belongs
259 I, 23 | charity, for the sake of his god, gifts which belong to another
260 I, 23 | which belong to another God. Who, then, is that so good
261 I, 23 | then, is that so good a god of theirs, that man through
262 I, 23 | incense against man that other God who is, indeed, his own
263 I, 24 | THE GOODNESS OF MARCION'S GOD ONLY IMPERFECTLY MANIFESTED;
264 I, 24 | THE BODY ABSURD.~But as God is eternal and rational,
265 I, 24 | that the goodness of your god also is a perfect one. That
266 I, 24 | attribute goodness (to your god) in reference to the Creator, (
267 I, 24 | thereof, as you claim your god to be, that you must submit
268 I, 24 | then, as you prefer your god to the Creator on the simple
269 I, 24 | to prove that Marcion's god is imperfect in goodness
270 I, 24 | restored by the most merciful god. I rather think that by
271 I, 24 | designation? "And the LORD God made man of the dust of
272 I, 24 | of it, of the dust; and God placed him in paradise,
273 I, 24 | the most good and merciful God. Poor dupe of Marcion, fever
274 I, 24 | display Him as a merely good God; but you are unable to prove
275 I, 25 | XXV. GOD IS NOT A BEING OF SIMPLE
276 I, 25 | SIMPLY GOOD AND EMOTIONLESS GOD.~As touching this question
277 I, 25 | Being should be regarded as God who is alleged to have such
278 I, 25 | open to discussion, whether God ought to be regarded as
279 I, 25 | indeed transfer from their god to the Creator, and which
280 I, 25 | because we consider Him to be God. Well, then, on this ground
281 I, 25 | we shall deny him to be God in whom all things are not
282 I, 25 | Epicurus, and entitle him God in the name of Christ, on
283 I, 25 | imperturbable and listless god (and then what could he
284 I, 25 | When, therefore, (Marcion's god) felt both a will and a
285 I, 25 | deliver man, (Marcion's god) already in the very act
286 I, 26 | ATTRIBUTE OF JUSTICE, MARCION'S GOD IS HOPELESSLY WEAK AND UNGODLIKE.
287 I, 26 | extreme perversity of their god is proved from the mere
288 I, 26 | If it is unbecoming for God to discharge a judicial
289 I, 26 | more unworthy course for God to spare the evil-doer than
290 I, 26 | in the most good and holy God, who is not otherwise fully
291 I, 27 | THE DOCTRINE OF SO WEAK A GOD.~Again, he plainly judges
292 I, 27 | prevaricator of truth is such a god! What a dissembler with
293 I, 27 | to such a pass! A better god has been discovered, who
294 I, 27 | that you may seem to honour God; for your fear he does not
295 I, 27 | they have no fear of their god at all. They say it is only
296 I, 27 | not love? Surely (such a god) is neither your Father,
297 I, 27 | then, if you do not fear God as being good, why do you
298 I, 27 | life to all who fear not God? Why do you not frequent
299 I, 27 | the denial of your faith? God forbid, you say with redoubted
300 I, 27 | obsequious homage you pay to the god whom you do not fear, which
301 I, 27 | most good and excellent god! And what will it be to
302 I, 28 | provision been made (by their god) for the purpose of banishing
303 I, 28 | Himself; except indeed their god in his zeal, as perhaps
304 I, 28 | revolted subjects. Oh, what a god is this! everywhere perverse;
305 I, 28 | be as stupid as Marcion's god. Why then impose sanctity
306 I, 29 | me to remark of Marcion's god, that in reproaching marriage
307 I, 29 | most good and excellent god. For how could he desire
308 I, 29 | destroyed lives, our heretic's god refuses to give them: the
309 I, 29 | Enough; however, of Marcion's god, who is shown to have absolutely
310 II | CALUMNIATED, IS THE TRUE AND GOOD GOD.~
311 II, 1 | Other that He is rightly God; thus far keeping pace with
312 II, 1 | point alone, that he is no god who supersedes the Creator.
313 II, 1 | Creator. Then, when the false god had been excluded by certain
314 II, 1 | question as to the true God. The proof of His existence
315 II, 1 | in support of any other god; and still clearer would
316 II, 1 | careful estimate of the true God, on whom, so to speak, he
317 II, 1 | because there was no other god?~
318 II, 2 | II. THE TRUE DOCTRINE OF GOD THE CREATOR. THE HERETICS
319 II, 2 | SUBVERSIVE OF REVELATION. GOD'S NATURE AND WAYS PAST HUMAN
320 II, 2 | contemplation of the Almighty God, the Lord and Maker of the
321 II, 2 | account suppose that another god must be assumed to exist,
322 II, 2 | all their thoughts about God from the deductions of sense;
323 II, 2 | respect of the inferior god, what is your view of the
324 II, 2 | proof of things, holding God to be certainly, undoubtedly,
325 II, 2 | But you do not even deny God intelligently, you treat
326 II, 2 | greatness which is called God; not acknowledging it to
327 II, 2 | wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His
328 II, 2 | unsearchable," as being those of God the Judge; and "His ways
329 II, 2 | the Divine Being, who say, God ought not to have been this,
330 II, 2 | any one knew what is in God, except the Spirit of God.
331 II, 2 | God, except the Spirit of God. Moreover, having the spirit
332 II, 2 | world, and "in the wisdom of God by wisdom knowing not God,"
333 II, 2 | God by wisdom knowing not God," they seem to themselves
334 II, 2 | themselves to be wiser than God; because, as the wisdom
335 II, 2 | world is foolishness with God, so also the wisdom of God
336 II, 2 | God, so also the wisdom of God is folly in the world's
337 II, 2 | that "the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the
338 II, 2 | men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." Accordingly,
339 II, 2 | than men." Accordingly, God is then especially great,
340 II, 2 | things of the Spirit of God," has deemed God's law to
341 II, 2 | Spirit of God," has deemed God's law to be foolishness,
342 II, 2 | paradise and the friendship of God, by means of which he might
343 II, 2 | have known all things of God, if he had continued in
344 II, 2 | the things which belong to God? Or who will hesitate to
345 II, 2 | own will rather than of God's? Except that Adam never
346 II, 3 | III. GOD KNOWN BY HIS WORKS. HIS
347 II, 3 | ITS NATURE; INHERENT IN GOD, PREVIOUS TO ALL EXHIBITION
348 II, 3 | examination of the known God, when the question arises,
349 II, 3 | recognising the goodness of our God, to learn how worthy it
350 II, 3 | unworthy in the case of their god. Now this very point, which
351 II, 3 | did not find in any other god, but eliminated it for himself
352 II, 3 | for himself out of his own god. The first goodness, then,
353 II, 3 | of the Creator, whereby God was unwilling to remain
354 II, 3 | be a something by which God should become known. For
355 II, 3 | knowledge and fruition of God? Now, although it did not
356 II, 3 | it could transpire, yet God foreknew what good would
357 II, 3 | order. "Let them be," says God, "for seasons, and for days,
358 II, 3 | eternal attribute, inbred in God, and everlasting, and on
359 II, 3 | benevolence of Marcion's god, subsequent as he is to (
360 II, 4 | FREE-WILL.~The goodness of God having, therefore, provided
361 II, 4 | promoted from the good which God had given him, that is,
362 II, 4 | from his high position, to God's best; that is, to some
363 II, 4 | abode. In this good work God employs a most excellent
364 II, 4 | how fruitful was the Word! God issued His fiat, and it
365 II, 4 | His fiat, and it was done: God also saw that it was good;
366 II, 4 | that contemplation. Thus God blessed what He made good,
367 II, 4 | reasons required this also of God. Meanwhile the world consisted
368 II, 4 | dwelling amongst the works of God, as he who was His own image
369 II, 4 | that he might cleave to God, and so not show himself
370 II, 4 | subjects, which were free from God, and exempt from all tedious
371 II, 4 | worthy of receiving laws from God; and as a rational being,
372 II, 4 | then the goodness of our God amidst these things and
373 II, 5 | S FALL SHOWED FAILURE IN GOD. THE PERFECTION OF MAN'S
374 II, 5 | LAY IN HIS LIBERTY, WHICH GOD PURPOSELY BESTOWED ON HIM.
375 II, 5 | outside, and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to
376 II, 5 | perpetually gnawing! If God is good, and prescient of
377 II, 5 | most certainly true, that God must be deemed neither good,
378 II, 5 | could have happened had God been such as He is reputed
379 II, 5 | because He is not such a God. In reply, we must first
380 II, 5 | because they are good; and God is likewise mighty, because
381 II, 5 | death. Now if there were in God such attributes as must
382 II, 5 | not have happened through God. I find, then, that man
383 II, 5 | find, then, that man was by God constituted free, master
384 II, 5 | indicating the presence of God's image and likeness in
385 II, 5 | likeness to the form of God; but he showed his stamp
386 II, 5 | essence which he derived from God Himself (that is, the spiritual,
387 II, 5 | answered to the form of God), and in the freedom and
388 II, 5 | even by the very law which God then imposed upon him. For
389 II, 5 | arranged in precepts by God's calling men from sin,
390 II, 6 | GOODNESS AND THE PURPOSE OF GOD. REWARD AND PUNISHMENT IMPOSSIBLE
391 II, 6 | his own charge, and not to God's, yet that you may not
392 II, 6 | by both the goodness of God and by His purpose, both
393 II, 6 | found in concert in our God. For His purpose is no purpose
394 II, 6 | in the case of Marcion's god, who is purposelessly good,
395 II, 6 | then, it was proper that God should be known; it was
396 II, 6 | something worthy of knowing God. What could be found so
397 II, 6 | the image and likeness of God? This also was undoubtedly
398 II, 6 | the image and likeness of God should be formed with a
399 II, 6 | the image and likeness of God in him. For this purpose
400 II, 6 | himself? The goodness of God, then, you can learn from
401 II, 6 | things. At present, let God's goodness alone occupy
402 II, 6 | the liberty of his will. God's purpose claims some other
403 II, 6 | instruction of like import. Now, God alone is good by nature.
404 II, 6 | own, bestowed on him by God, and there might be henceforth
405 II, 6 | witness of the goodness which God bestowed upon him, freedom
406 II, 6 | evil also (for even this God, of course, foresaw), being
407 II, 6 | duty, in the judgment of God, to do justice according
408 II, 6 | goodness and purpose of God are discovered in the gift
409 II, 6 | facts to presume to say that God ought not in such a way
410 II, 6 | assumed to be proper for God. We ought rather, after
411 II, 6 | considering that it behoved God so to create man, to leave
412 II, 6 | conclude: the goodness of God, then fully considered from
413 II, 6 | possibly have come forth from God; and the liberty of man
414 II, 7 | VII. IF GOD HAD ANYHOW CHECKED MAN'S
415 II, 7 | MAN'S FALL FORESEEN BY GOD. PROVISION MADE FOR IT REMEDIALLY
416 II, 7 | is reserved unimpaired to God; both His natural goodness,
417 II, 7 | however, to deduct from God's attributes both His supreme
418 II, 7 | happened against the will of God. For, while holding this
419 II, 7 | earnestness and truth of the good God, which are indeed capable
420 II, 7 | wonder at the fact that God did not interfere to prevent
421 II, 7 | to His own character as God, that is, for good (for
422 II, 7 | consequence, therefore, was, that God must separate from the liberty
423 II, 7 | in goodness. But, suppose God had interposed; suppose
424 II, 7 | of the issue of things? God, however, did fore-know
425 II, 7 | what can be so worthy of God as His earnestness of purpose,
426 II, 8 | AND RESUMING OBEDIENCE TO GOD.~For it was not merely that
427 II, 8 | live the natural life that God had produced man, but that
428 II, 8 | that is, in relation to God and to His law. Accordingly,
429 II, 8 | to His law. Accordingly, God gave him to live when he
430 II, 8 | required to obey a law. So also God shows that man was not constituted
431 II, 8 | his death. As, therefore, God designed for man a condition
432 II, 8 | the image and likeness of God, was stronger than any angel;
433 II, 8 | obedience to the laws of God.~
434 II, 9 | I.E., THE FALL IMPUTABLE TO GOD, BECAUSE MAN'S SOUL IS A
435 II, 9 | fault, when the afflatus of God, that is to say, the soul,
436 II, 9 | tarnishing the Spirit of God, that is to say, God Himself,
437 II, 9 | of God, that is to say, God Himself, with default. And
438 II, 9 | manner, man is the image of God, that is, of spirit; for
439 II, 9 | that is, of spirit; for God is spirit. Afflatus is therefore
440 II, 9 | to compare the image of God in such a way, that, because
441 II, 9 | which is only conceded to God, that is, to the reality,
442 II, 9 | who received a soul, but God. Besides, to take another
443 II, 9 | everything which pertains to God will be regarded as God,
444 II, 9 | God will be regarded as God, so that you would not maintain
445 II, 9 | maintain that His afflatus was God, that is, exempt from fault,
446 II, 9 | because it is the breath of God. And in an act of your own,
447 II, 9 | breathed into it, precisely as God breathed of His own Spirit,
448 II, 9 | by expressly saying that God breathed into man's nostrils
449 II, 9 | for it an equality with God, that is, a freedom from
450 II, 9 | stand fast in the law of God an obedience which he refused
451 II, 9 | possible for the afflatus of God to commit: it was possible,
452 II, 9 | it has an affinity with God, that is to say, through
453 II, 9 | was indeed given to it by God in accordance with His purpose
454 II, 9 | case, the entire course of God's action is purged from
455 II, 9 | man's sin, it will not be God's fault, because it is man'
456 II, 10 | HIMSELF THE CREATURE OF GOD. NAY, THE PRIMEVAL CHERUB
457 II, 10 | PRIMEVAL CHERUB ONLY WAS GOD'S WORK. THE DEVILISH NATURE
458 II, 10 | that which was not made by God, even the devil, or accuser,
459 II, 10 | by false detraction from God: first, how that God had
460 II, 10 | from God: first, how that God had forbidden them to eat
461 II, 10 | they ate; thirdly, as if God grudged them the property
462 II, 10 | towards man, and slandering of God? Most certainly not from
463 II, 10 | Most certainly not from God, who made the angel good
464 II, 10 | him, Thus saith the Lord God: Thou sealest up the sum,
465 II, 10 | delights of the paradise of thy God wast thou born" (for it
466 II, 10 | for it was there, where God had made the angels in a
467 II, 10 | upon the holy mountain of God, thou wast in the midst
468 II, 10 | born in the paradise of God, not even Adam himself,
469 II, 10 | placed with a cherub upon God's holy mountain, that is
470 II, 10 | creation, formed for good by God, as by the good Creator
471 II, 10 | glory, and associated with God, good with the Good; but
472 II, 10 | expelled from his allegiance to God, even from that time did
473 II, 10 | faculty of free-will. For God would in nothing fail to
474 II, 10 | Nevertheless, by precondemning him, God testified that he had departed
475 II, 10 | fault was all his own, not God's), and so worthily recover
476 II, 10 | previously injured; and wherein God might be discovered to be
477 II, 11 | XI. IF, AFTER MAN'S SIN, GOD EXERCISED HIS ATTRIBUTE
478 II, 11 | IDEA OF THE PERFECTION OF GOD'S CHARACTER.~Up to the fall
479 II, 11 | therefore, from the beginning God was simply good; after that
480 II, 11 | nakedness without a blush. Thus God's prior goodness was from
481 II, 11 | disguise or concealment. God provided the one for Himself,
482 II, 11 | been dreaming of another god as a purely good one solely
483 II, 11 | although we have proved God to be also a judge. Or if
484 II, 11 | do not, however, disprove God's being a judge, who have
485 II, 12 | ARE COMPATIBLE IN THE TRUE GOD. THE FUNCTION OF JUSTICE
486 II, 12 | as distinctively the good God, and the other as distinctively
487 II, 12 | as distinctively the just God? Where the just is, there
488 II, 12 | accidentally accruing to God, inasmuch as she was found
489 II, 13 | REGULATED THE DIVINE GOODNESS, GOD'S CLAIMS ON OUR LOVE AND
490 II, 13 | out, and the goodness of God began now to have an adversary
491 II, 13 | adversary to contend against, God's justice also acquired
492 II, 13 | that free course whereby God was spontaneously good,
493 II, 13 | being ought you to wish God to be? Would it be right
494 II, 13 | suppose Him to be a good God, who should be able to make
495 II, 13 | who is its punisher? Thus God is wholly good, because
496 II, 13 | Deity Himself, manifesting God as both a perfect father
497 II, 13 | attributes: Thou shalt love God, and, Thou shalt fear God.
498 II, 13 | God, and, Thou shalt fear God. It proposed one for the
499 II, 14 | OF THE LATTER SORT THAT GOD IS THE AUTHOR, BUT ONLY
500 II, 14 | JUSTICE.~On all occasions does God meet you: it is He who smites,