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1003 5 | WITH DIVINE QUALITIES, HE TRIES TO MAKE IT SOMEHOW INFERIOR
1004 27 | a relation. Such are the trifles and subtleties of heretics,
1005 15 | His proper work, for His troubling Himself about Matter also
1006 18 | proportioned, and beautiful, such truly as even God might well have
1007 14 | labouring in vain when you try to avoid making God the
1008 1 | things of nothing. For, turning away from Christians to
1009 1 | his art. He falsities by a twofold process with his cautery
1010 38 | respect of bulk immense and un-circumscribed. "Wherefore," say you, "
1011 3 | information of those who are unacquainted with the subject, that they
1012 40 | it present the image of unadorned Matter, in such a way that
1013 40 | rude, and confused, and unarranged portion cannot be recognized
1014 34 | state which they lose whilst undergoing the change. "And the stars
1015 31 | the depth and the darkness underlay the earth. Since the deep
1016 22 | things were made out of any underlying Matter, I have as yet failed
1017 41 | case merit the reproach of unevenness, and inequality, and turbulence.
1018 25 | become another thing, is unfit to bear the name of earth,
1019 2 | sure to have made nothing unfitting or unworthy of Himself.
1020 29 | sight, and at the same time unfurnished as yet with its other qualities);
1021 18 | restless in motion, not ungraceful in form, but natural, and
1022 6 | position, therefore, remains unimpugned both in the case of Matter,
1023 13 | and evil have been able to unite together, and have imparted
1024 5 | however, maintains the unity of God in such a way as
1025 41 | balance. Now this is not unrest; this is not turbulence
1026 45conc| wisdom and knowledge! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His
1027 8 | small, and too weak, and too unskilful, to form what He willed
1028 | unto
1029 14 | creation out of an evil stock unwillingly, no doubt, as being good;
1030 22 | CONCLUSION CONFIRMED BY THE USAGE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE IN ITS
1031 32 | of God might seem to be useless, if it made things which
1032 19 | their opportunity, as is usual with heretics, in wresting
1033 13 | So again, if qualities so utterly diverse as good and evil
1034 5 | V. HERMOGENES COQUETS WITH
1035 41 | HERMOGENES. NOW UNCERTAIN AND VAGUE ARE HIS SPECULATIONS RESPECTING
1036 11 | had been "made subject to vanity;" when the cattle restored
1037 44 | You are plainly enough at variance with the philosophers; but
1038 29 | He did not endow with its varied fruitfulness all at once;
1039 30 | is blended together from various component parts, must necessarily
1040 45conc| simple approach so many vast substances, instead of rather
1041 8 | nothing. A grand service, verily, did it confer on God in
1042 19 | is the beginning of the vessel. and the seed is the beginning
1043 34 | themselves perish. For even as a vesture shall He change them, and
1044 6 | VI. THE SHIFTS TO WHICH HERMOGENES
1045 7 | VII. HERMOGENES HELD TO HIS
1046 8 | VIII. ON HIS OWN PRINCIPLES,
1047 31 | XXXI. A FURTHER VINDICATION OF THE SCRIPTURE NARRATIVE
1048 9 | in need of it, or else by violent possession because He was
1049 32 | after paltering with the virtual meaning, would require for
1050 29 | and void," it gave both visibility and completion. Now no other
1051 38 | you are in your special vocation) you know is the boundary
1052 32 | of the earth, which was wafted over the waters, balancing
1053 43 | you go on to say, "But it waited for the regulation of God,
1054 29 | invisible condition it was then waiting to appear. "Dry," because
1055 37 | should it not have still wanted a change for the better?
1056 42 | shape? Or does that which wants to be put into shape, affect
1057 44 | distance, as soon as He washed to appear and approach to
1058 19 | potter made a basin or a water-jug," the word beginning will
1059 29 | hitherto covered with its watery envelope. Then it forthwith
1060 34 | mountains shall melt like wax at the presence of the Lord;"
1061 15 | difference whether it were by weakness or by will, that the Lord
1062 3 | Do I seem to you to be weaving arguments, Hermogenes? how
1063 40 | polished, and distinct and well-arranged parts of creation, which
1064 32 | Isaiah, "Because my spirit went forth from me, and I made
1065 22 | so. And God created great whales, and every living creature
1066 | whenever
1067 38 | immense and un-circumscribed. "Wherefore," say you, "it is not fabricated
1068 45conc| the works of Thine hands," wherewith "He hath meted out the heaven,
1069 10 | being the author of evil, whosoever he is that I will not say,
1070 11 | fact that it cannot in any wise be subject to any, because
1071 9 | would not God have more wisely determined that nothing
1072 29 | was when the waters were withdrawn into their hollow abysses
1073 22 | discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His
1074 45conc| His two bands, by which He worked and constructed the universe. "
1075 11 | His enemies, as being the workers of evil, if in this way
1076 44 | RESPECTING GOD'S METHOD OF WORKING WITH MATTER EXPOSED. DISCREPANCIES
1077 18 | of His works. Before the worlds He rounded me; before He
1078 14 | necessity. Which, then, is the worthier thought, that He created
1079 44 | to Matter, He yet did not wound it, as beauty does the soul;
1080 44 | forming the world, and beauty wounding a soul, or a magnet attracting
1081 12 | repentance?" And "children of wrath" fail to become sons of
1082 27 | subtleties of heretics, who wrest and bring into question
1083 19 | usual with heretics, in wresting the plain meaning of certain
1084 19 | WHICH THE HERETIC CURIOUSLY WRESTS TO AN ABSURD SENSE.~But
1085 18 | not to be gauged by the writings of philosophers, but to
1086 32 | pointed to Matter when he wrote the words: "And darkness
1087 10 | X. TO WHAT STRAITS HERMOGENES
1088 11 | XI. HERMOGENES MAKES GREAT
1089 12 | XII. THE MODE OF CONTROVERSY
1090 13 | XIII. ANOTHER GROUND OF HERMOGENES
1091 14 | XIV. TERTULLIAN PUSHES HIS OPPONENT
1092 19 | XIX. AN APPEAL TO THE HISTORY
1093 40 | XL. SHAPELESS MATTER AN INCONGRUOUS
1094 41 | XLI. SUNDRY QUOTATIONS FROM
1095 42 | XLII. FURTHER EXPOSURE OF INCONSISTENCIES
1096 43 | XLIII. OTHER DISCREPANCIES EXPOSED
1097 44 | XLIV. CURIOUS VIEWS RESPECTING
1098 45conc| XLV. CONCLUSION. CONTRAST BETWEEN
1099 15 | XV. THE TRUTH, THAT GOD MADE
1100 16 | XVI. A SERIES OF DILEMMAS. THEY
1101 17 | XVII. THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORK
1102 18 | XVIII. AN EULOGY ON THE WISDOM
1103 20 | XX. MEANING OF THE PHRASE IN
1104 21 | XXI. A RETORT OF HERESY ANSWERED.
1105 22 | XXII. THIS CONCLUSION CONFIRMED
1106 23 | XXIII. HERMOGENES PURSUED TO ANOTHER
1107 24 | XXIV. EARTH DOES NOT MEAN MATTER
1108 29 | XXIX. THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
1109 25 | XXV. THE ASSUMPTION THAT THERE
1110 26 | XXVI. THE METHOD OBSERVED IN
1111 27 | XXVII. SOME HAIR-SPLITTING USE
1112 28 | XXVIII. A CURIOUS INCONSISTENCY
1113 30 | XXX. ANOTHER PASSAGE IN THE
1114 31 | XXXI. A FURTHER VINDICATION OF
1115 32 | XXXII. THE ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION
1116 33 | XXXIII. STATEMENT OF THE TRUE DOCTRINE
1117 34 | XXXIV. A PRESUMPTION THAT ALL
1118 39 | XXXIX. THESE LATTER SPECULATIONS
1119 35 | XXXV. CONTRADICTORY PROPOSITIONS
1120 36 | XXXVI. OTHER ABSURD THEORIES RESPECTING
1121 37 | XXXVII. IRONICAL DILEMMAS RESPECTING
1122 38 | XXXVlII. OTHER SPECULATIONS OF HERMOGENES,
1123 | Ye
1124 13 | good; nor does an evil tree yield good fruit, since there