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  1 arg   |         THAT THE DEMIURGE, OR THE GOD WHO CREATED THIS WORLD AND
  2 arg   |        WAS OPPOSED TO THE SUPREME GOD. HENCE THEY ATTACHED AN
  3 1     |       compels us that truth which God reveals, but the crowd derides,
  4 2     |       even within the confines of God's Church a sect which is
  5 2     |    Creator must be believed to be God, since we show that Christ,
  6 2     |         show that Christ, in whom God is plainly discerned, is
  7 2     |       Being thus refuted touching God as the Creator, and Christ
  8 2     |         the existence of a second god, to the disparagement of
  9 2     |         the reception of a second god after destroying and changing
 10 2     |     against them: on the one only God and His Christ, in our work
 11 3     |          be wise in the things of God, even from one's natural
 12 3     |        many; the knowledge of our God is possessed by all. I may
 13 3     |       nation, when it attests the God of gods. I may, in like
 14 3     |       nature, when they pronounce God to be a judge. "God sees," (
 15 3     |     pronounce God to be a judge. "God sees," (say they)(say they);
 16 3     |            and, "I commend you to God." But when they say, What
 17 3     |      according to the estimate of God, and that the very "Wisdom
 18 3     |         all agreed in imagining a God, yet while you do so in
 19 5     |          FLESH. IT WAS CREATED BY GOD. THE BODY OF MAN WAS, IN
 20 5     |     angels, we know, rank next to God. Now, whatever be the supreme
 21 5     |           whatever be the supreme God of each heretic, I should
 22 5     |      flesh is equally the work of God. There is no work but belongs
 23 5     |           harshest, accord to our God the entire formation of
 24 5     |       believe that He is the only God. Let, then, the flesh begin
 25 5     |          the world is the work of God, and yet "the fashion of
 26 5     |         because it is the work of God. And surely if the universe,
 27 5     |          were made by the Word of God, and without Him was nothing
 28 5     |        existence from the Word of God, because of the principle,
 29 5     |        the rest of creation. And "God," says (the Scripture), "
 30 5     |        afterwards made subject by God. Rightly, therefore, had
 31 5     |         their lord, was formed by God Himself, to the intent that
 32 5     |           man's designation: "And God formed man the clay of the
 33 5     |         became a living soul; and God placed the man whom He had
 34 5     |       your knowing, that whatever God has at all posposed or promised
 35 6     |         its way into the hands of God, whatever these were, happy
 36 6     |          its form at the touch of God? The truth is, a great matter
 37 6     |          experiences the hands of God, when it is touched by them,
 38 6     |       moulded into shape. Imagine God wholly employed and absorbed
 39 6     |          after our likeness." And God made man, that is to say,
 40 6     |     fashioned; after the image of God (in other words, of Christ)
 41 6     |         make him And the Word was God also, who being in the image
 42 6     |         who being in the image of God, "thought it not robbery
 43 6     |        not robbery to be equal to God." Thus, that clay which
 44 6     |         the pledge and surety, of God. To what purpose is it to
 45 6     |           no longer regarded as a god farmed out of a most silly
 46 6     |          not therefore the living God, the true God, purge away
 47 6     |          the living God, the true God, purge away by His own operation
 48 6     |       nobly man could fabricate a god, than God could form a man?
 49 6     |       could fabricate a god, than God could form a man? Now, although
 50 6     |           was quite allowable for God that He should dear the
 51 7     |           WONDERFULLY IMPROVED BY GOD'S MANIPULATION. BY THE ADDITION
 52 7     |        manipulated by the hand of God, as the clay was at first.
 53 7     |           was at first. Now, when God handled the clay for the
 54 7     |        soul by the inbreathing of God by the breath indeed which
 55 7     |            Shall man contend with God? although the apostle speaks
 56 7     |           glorious by the hand of God, and the flesh more glorious
 57 7     |         are not more careful than God, that you indeed should
 58 7     |  scabbards of equal worth; whilst God must consign to some vilest
 59 7     |         proximate in character to God. This circumstance even
 60 7     |    contains an essence nearest to God's, and renders itself a
 61 8     |           vast a privilege before God has been conferred on this
 62 8     |          chosen to the service of God, it is the flesh which actually
 63 8     |        likewise may fatten on its God. They cannot then be separated
 64 8     |           which are acceptable to God I mean conflicts of the
 65 8     |         are fragrant offerings to God paid out of the good services
 66 9     |                               IX. GOD'S LOVE FOR THE FLESH OF
 67 9     |           THE BOUNTY AND POWER OF GOD.~To recapitulate, then:
 68 9     |         own hands in the image of God; which He animated with
 69 9     |          so often brought near to God, not rise again? God forbid,
 70 9     |           to God, not rise again? God forbid, God forbid, (I repeat),
 71 9     |           rise again? God forbid, God forbid, (I repeat), that
 72 9     |        experience the goodness of God; from His Christ we learn
 73 9     |         learn that He is the only God, and the very good. Now,
 74 9     |         conditions which wait for God, which hope in God, which
 75 9     |       wait for God, which hope in God, which receive honour from
 76 9     |         which receive honour from God, which He succours? I venture
 77 9     |           the beneficent power of God, would have had no opportunity
 78 10    |        shall see the salvation of God. " They notice God when
 79 10    |   salvation of God. " They notice God when He says in Genesis, "
 80 10    |           the flesh cannot please God," because "the flesh lusteth
 81 10    |           as being "the temple of God;" he makes our bodies "the
 82 10    |          us to exalt and "glorify God in our body." If, therefore,
 83 10    |     better suits the character of God to restore to salvation
 84 11    |                  XI. THE POWER OF GOD FULLY COMPETENT TO EFFECT
 85 11    |          might, and competency of God Himself, whether He be so
 86 11    |    thirsting for the knowledge of God, when faith in Him must
 87 11    |       ascribe its creation to our God. Firmly believe, therefore,
 88 11    |       have found the knowledge of God, by believing that He possesses
 89 11    |          in the beginning made by God out of underlying matter.
 90 11    |       support my position. For if God produced all things whatever
 91 12    |        the dead. In His works did God write it, before He wrote
 92 12    |        every side; nor doubt that God, whom you have discovered
 93 13    |          phenomenon bear witness? God even in His own Scripture
 94 14    |         the divine energies which God has displayed as much in
 95 14    |     inquiry touching the power of God, whether it was sufficiently
 96 14    |           one, you who learn of a God who is both supremely good
 97 14    |      simply and solely have known God in His superlative goodness,
 98 14    |      experiences Him to be a just God also, from the necessity
 99 14    |         be the whole character of God. Meanwhile, so perfect is
100 14    |     Meanwhile, so perfect is our (God), that He is rightly Judge,
101 14    |        the Creator, because He is God. Whence it happens that
102 14    |          a loss to know how He is God, who is neither the Creator,
103 14    |        neither the Creator, which God is; nor the Lord, which
104 14    |        for the great Being who is God, and Lord, and Creator to
105 14    |         shall be most suitable to God. Now, in effecting this
106 14    |          is, that the judgment of God must be believed first of
107 14    |          to be moreover worthy of God, being complete and definite,
108 15    |         permitted to suppose that God is either unjust or idle.
109 16    |       Therefore glorify and exalt God in your body," being certain
110 18    |            the power and might of God, the analogous cases in
111 18    |         itself, or impossible for God to effect, or unsuitable
112 18    |           revealed in the word of God; except that, even if it
113 18    |           thus first announced by God, it might have been fairly
114 18    |           life. Nature pronounces God's sentence: "Dust thou art,
115 18    |    enjoyed close intercourse with God. For when he requested of
116 19    |           rather the ignorance of God, by reason of which man
117 19    |           of which man is dead to God, and is not less buried
118 19    |          endowed with new life by God, has burst forth from the
119 19    |         is, of those who know not God; or they will go so far
120 20    |         Emmanuel, that is, Jesus, God with us. Even granting that
121 21    |         if even those purposes of God against cities, and nations,
122 21    |    believed. And I apprehend that God cannot possibly have ascribed
123 22    |        which were to be chosen of God, and gathered in with the
124 22    |          aroused the Lord, now at God's right hand so unseasonably
125 23    |         faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from
126 23    |      sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things
127 23    |        life is hid with Christ in God." Now that life is not yet
128 23    |           By the righteousness of God, he means that judgment
129 23    |      lords," speaking of (Him as) God It is to these same times
130 23    |  restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth
131 24    |         serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son
132 24    |          the presence of our Lord God, Jesus Christ, at His coming?"
133 24    |        coming?" Likewise: "Before God, even our Father, at the
134 24    |        which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with Him. For this
135 24    |  archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ
136 24    |          I wonder), what trump of God is now heard, except it
137 24    |           be called "the trump of God," since it was still calling
138 24    |          above all that is called God or religion; so that he
139 24    |          sitteth in the temple of God, affirming that he is God.
140 24    |         God, affirming that he is God. Remember ye not, that when
141 25    |         wage war on the Church of God; and that, after the casting
142 25    |    evident, either that all which God promises to us receives
143 26    |           primeval sentence which God spake when He called man
144 26    |     whatever of wrath or of grace God has determined for the earth,
145 26    |          suffer. When, therefore, God even threatens the earth,
146 26    |       enjoyment of the kingdom of God. Then he afterwards says: "
147 26    |      flesh when in the kingdom of God it shall be renewed, and
148 26    |          Otherwise, how vain that God should invite men to obedience
149 26    |        gifts which the enemies of God and Christ not only use,
150 26    |          bread, and of the oil of God's unction, and the wine
151 26    |       reason of the friendship of God. For "he is not a Jew which
152 26    |          same way it is that both God's temple and Jerusalem (
153 27    |      shelter us from the wrath of God?), it appears that by the
154 28    |    denoted the threefold power of God: when it shall, first, in
155 28    |          same prophet, (how that) God says: "For your blood of
156 29    |          live? And I said, O Lord God, Thou knowest. And He said
157 29    |         Lord. Thus saith the Lord God to these bones, Behold,
158 29    |          say, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds,
159 30    |          Lord, Thou knowest." Now God would not, you may be sure,
160 30    |          circumstances, therefore God first instructed the prophet (
161 31    |          of their dispersion then God might fairly enough seem
162 31    |          resurrection was shaken. God, therefore was rebuilding
163 32    |      AGAIN. WHATEVER BEFALLS THEM GOD WILL RESTORE THEM AGAIN.
164 32    |         QUOTED IN ILLUSTRATION OF GOD'S POWER.~But, that you may
165 32    |       scrupulous of the wisdom of God than wantonly bent on his
166 33    |         management of the word of God; or else cleared by a preface
167 33    |          them that the kingdom of God is at hand." And again, "
168 33    |  judgment-day, and the kingdom of God, and the resurrection) has
169 33    |      experience of the kingdom of God, and of the judgment, and
170 34    |           how unworthy it were of God to bring only a moiety of
171 34    |      ruining him wholly? and must God have the character of comparative
172 35    |          fear" being destroyed by God so also will it be restored
173 35    |  resurrection has to be killed by God in hell along with the soul,
174 35    |        ground without the will of God." He says this, that you
175 35    |           by the will of the same God. For although this is not
176 35    |           feast in the kingdom of God, and sitting on Christ's
177 36    |       incredulous of the power of God, though, of course, effectual
178 36    |       dead before Him who is "the God of the living," (it clearly
179 37    |           the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall
180 37    |         and what is "the voice of God" but the Word? and what
181 37    |           the voice of the Son of God, and shall come forth; they
182 37    |        through their ignorance of God (whom our heretics, forsooth,
183 38    |           but a poor knowledge of God, who suppose Him to be only
184 38    |         that it is impossible for God to practise deception (weak
185 39    |          and above all, to preach God in Christ. Consequently
186 41    |  archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
187 42    |        about by the operations of God, and not by the laws of
188 43    |      desire to be acceptable unto God, whether absent or present;
189 44    |        speaks of the "light which God hath commanded to shine
190 44    |       being called) the temple of God, can now be also designated
191 44    |           and already the life of God? Else to what epoch belongs
192 45    |          the new man, which after God is created in righteousness
193 45    |      between the creative hand of God and His afflatus? I will
194 45    |     grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto
195 45    |    forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven
196 46    |           the flesh cannot please God," he immediately recalls
197 46    |         they who could not please God were not those who were
198 46    |       flesh; whereas they pleased God, who, although existing
199 46    |           weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the
200 46    |        afterwards "enmity against God;" but he never predicated
201 47    |        will be saved " alive unto God in Christ Jesus," through
202 47    |          yield ye yourselves unto God, as those that are alive
203 47    |            and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
204 47    |         is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through
205 47    |  sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God." But how a living sacrifice,
206 47    |         soiled? How acceptable to God, if they are condemned?
207 47    |          Scripture: "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly."
208 48    |     cannot inherit the kingdom of God." We are quite aware that
209 48    |          found false witnesses of God; because we have testified
210 48    |      because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ,
211 49    |    disinherited of the kingdom of God? The t preceding statements
212 49    |      heaven" that is, the Word of God, which is Christ, in no
213 49    |        longer indeed the image of God, and no longer the image
214 49    |     cannot inherit the kingdom of God," he means the flesh and
215 49    |       receives not the kingdom of God, therefore flesh and blood,
216 49    |          receiving the kingdom of God, are reduced to the life
217 49    | alienating us from the kingdom of God. It is after displaying
218 49    |        not inherit the kingdom of God," even because they bore
219 49    |      excluded from the kingdom of God, without any previous intimation,
220 50    |      EXCLUDED FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD.~Putting aside, however,
221 50    |         blood, but the kingdom of God, which is incidental to
222 50    |      excluded from the kingdom of God in respect of their sin,
223 50    |     cannot inherit the kingdom of God;" and justly (does the apostle
224 50    | quickeneth" us for the kingdom of God; "the flesh profiteth nothing."
225 50    |           to enter the kingdom of God, will have to put on the
226 50    |         enter into the kingdom of God. With good reason, then,
227 50    |          to obtain the kingdom of God. But inasmuch as "this corruptible (
228 50    |         to inherit the kingdom of God but not without the resurrection.
229 50    |     alienated from the kingdom of God, as being accounted "the
230 50    |       also, who, "when it pleased God to reveal to him His Son,
231 51    |       NATURE AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD A GUARANTEE OF THE RESURRECTION
232 51    |      excluded from the kingdom of God, and indeed from the court
233 51    |           of the Father, man, yet God the last Adam, yet the primary
234 51    |             the Mediator' between God and man," He keeps in His
235 51    |         heaven and the kingdom of God. Otherwise, if they say
236 51    |         not obtain the kingdom of God, with the view of stating
237 52    |          of some other grain; but God giveth it a body as it pleaseth
238 52    |          is safe enough, to which God has to assign a body. But
239 52    |        cannot receive a body from God. But there is every possible
240 52    |          purpose, therefore, will God give it "a body, as it pleases
241 52    |         make it another body from God, to which it is changed
242 52    |  amplification. And to every seed God has assigned its own body
243 52    |        that what it acquires from God extrinsically may also at
244 52    |          grace and ornament which God shall please to spread over
245 52    |        man" (that is, servants of God, but really human), "another
246 52    |           was the substance which God's decree demolished, "Earth
247 53    |        ever decreed against it by God: let them display to our
248 56    |          respects how unworthy of God, for one substance to do
249 56    |         the wisdom and justice of God? Better that Marcion should
250 56    |           the permanent effect of God's judgment both on soul
251 56    |          shall I ascribe glory to God? How sing to Him "the new
252 56    |           learnt the knowledge of God, and put on Christ, and
253 57    |       thus disdain to accept from God so vast a grace? Does it
254 57    |            As life is bestowed by God, so is it restored by Him.
255 57    |    accident, do we rise again. If God raises not men entire, He
256 57    |           he has not risen again. God is quite able to re-make
257 57    |       were not permitted the Lord God both to change nature, and
258 57    |          are impossible, but with God all things are possible;"
259 57    |        are possible;" and again, "God hath chosen the foolish
260 57    |           the same prerogative to God, by virtue of such a change,
261 58    |     echoes the same to John: "And God shall wipe away all tears
262 58    |         if the loving-kindness of God did not dry up every fountain
263 58    |    fountain of tears. And again: "God shall wipe away all tears
264 58    |    adversities in the presence of God? where, incursions of an
265 59    |        shall see the salvation of God." It is the issues of men,
266 59    |         hold that the judgment of God consists in the twofold
267 59    |        shall see the salvation of God," which is ordained to eternal
268 59    |        shall see the salvation of God. But when the same prophet
269 60    |          For the judgment-seat of God requires that man be kept
270 60    |        ourselves with doubt about God's skill, and will, and rights?
271 60    |            for in the presence of God there will be no idleness.~
272 61    |           preaching the gospel of God, that so you may become
273 61    |      Elias fasted, and lived upon God alone. For even so early
274 61    |    proceedeth out of the mouth of God." See here faint outlines
275 63conc|          it is in safe keeping in God's presence, through that
276 63conc|        faithful "Mediator between God and man, (the man) Jesus
277 63conc|          who shall reconcile both God to man, and man to God;
278 63conc|       both God to man, and man to God; the spirit to the flesh,
279 63conc|       born along with yourself in God. You ought rather to have
280 63conc|       corrupting the very Word of God Himself, who became flesh,
281 63conc|          fables. But yet Almighty God, in His most gracious providence,
282 63conc|       ancient Scriptures (of both God's Testaments) by the clear