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501 4 | after all this record of its degradation, dropping into its original
502 30 | from the most miserable and degraded abodes of captivity, and
503 17 | remark) there would be no delaying to the end of that doom
504 61 | them, handle them without delicacy, and, as their whim suggests,
505 4 | this in very subdued and delicate phrases, as suited to the
506 16 | with the divine goodness to deliver the innocent. A beneficent
507 44 | we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,
508 arg | WHO MAINTAINED THAT THE DEMIURGE, OR THE GOD WHO CREATED
509 14 | because there underlies this demurrer: the flesh may be quite
510 36 | is now encountering the denial of the Christian Sadducees
511 28 | inasmuch as those three signs denoted the threefold power of God:
512 13 | its birthday, for on it it departs and returns; once more a
513 63conc| The flesh, too, has her departures for a while in waters, in
514 21 | the danger of losing it, depend on the issues of the resurrection.
515 21 | our instruction entirely depends, should have the appearance
516 51 | keeps in His own self the deposit of the flesh which has been
517 52 | the ground is the grand depository for seeds which are meant
518 3 | heretic seek refuge in the depraved thoughts of the vulgar,
519 31 | true that Israel was then depressed at some shock in their existing
520 39 | resurrection. They had, in fact, derided his announcement; but they
521 1 | God reveals, but the crowd derides, which supposes that nothing
522 39 | would have indulged no such derision if they had heard from him
523 18 | death; and accordingly it derives its name, cadaver, from
524 22 | Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner
525 63conc| the new prophecy, which descends in copious streams from
526 53 | which the apostle's whole description manifestly refers, of which
527 17 | sufficient to constitute absolute desert without requiring the addition
528 17 | indissolubly attached to deserts; since also acts are ministerially
529 41 | the time of Antichrist, deserve by an instantaneous death,
530 25 | receive from the ten kings its deserved doom, and that the beast
531 34 | and has therefore made him deservedly amenable to perdition. So
532 26 | which it may be possible to designate as the land of our first
533 61 | collect; but are they not designed for the secretion of those
534 4 | is so favourable to their designs. Is there anything else
535 18 | flesh; for he could not have desired a place to bury her soul
536 4 | only the repetition of desires to escape out of it. Well
537 41 | this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with
538 31 | consoled their figurative despair with a figurative promise.
539 11 | flesh, inasmuch as they despise all its discipline, while
540 40 | be only worthy of being despised by us, as being light and
541 2 | is, simply of the soul, despising the flesh, just as they
542 2 | filled in with complete detail, and the deferred points
543 24 | things? And now ye know what detaineth, that he might be revealed
544 19 | they imagine that the body detains the soul, when it is shut
545 29 | much more effectual for determining the question will not those
546 21 | exposed as it is to public detestation and the imputation of hostility
547 25 | that there is, without any detriment to this view, room for believing
548 22 | a flower-stalk, and then developing the flower, which is the
549 8 | by still more atrocious devices of torment. Most blessed,
550 32 | and bones, will forthwith devise some different application
551 8 | kind of torture that can be devised, and when finally it is
552 31 | from their graves; for the dew which cometh from Thee is
553 6 | in His love, which was dictating the lineaments (of this
554 55 | their operations, too, they differ. One destroys, the other
555 52 | In no other way than as differing in glory only. For again,
556 2 | resurrection; for there is greater difficulty in believing the resurrection
557 32 | three days for consuming and digesting Jonah's flesh, quite as
558 11 | flesh, which had become dilapidated and blocked up, and in every
559 7 | the flesh may seem to be diminished, because it has not been
560 11 | its discipline, while they disbelieve its punishment. It is a
561 2 | in whom God is plainly discerned, is precisely of such a
562 46 | me that the flesh has any discernment of its own. If, however,
563 61 | outlets for the cleanly discharge of natural fluids? Women,
564 14 | as it possessed when it discharged its vital functions.~
565 16 | possess a discretion in discharging the functions of their respective
566 12 | instructor, that, being Nature's disciple, you may more easily believe
567 35 | secret nature, he must show, disclose, and prove to me that identical
568 37 | because they thought His discourse was harsh and intolerable,
569 22 | destruction of the temple, He discourses to them first of the order
570 12 | that God, whom you have discovered to be the restorer of all
571 15 | the more perfect, when it discovers the agents in every deed,
572 59 | nations, so also has He discriminated their flesh, which is one
573 48 | they come?" Now here he discusses the qualities of bodies,
574 57 | greatness of your conceit thus disdain to accept from God so vast
575 20 | analogy of the physical diseases which were healed by the
576 58 | and all injury, and all disgrace translated as they have
577 49 | they, which the apostle has disinherited of the kingdom of God? The
578 11 | and in every possible way dislocated? whether He has promulgated
579 53 | that is, was demolished, dismembered, dissolved in the ground,
580 9 | perfect in weakness; although disordered, since "they that are whole
581 10 | scriptures in which the flesh is disparaged; receive also those in which
582 43 | statement there is no design of disparaging the flesh, as if it separated
583 20 | conceits of this sort, let me dispel at once the preliminary
584 21 | to be supposed that those dispensations of His which are eternal,
585 61 | weaker sex is inadequate to disperse? For even details like these
586 38 | inconsistent with His actual disposal of the thing; nay more,
587 17 | to will, to desire, to dispose: for fully, carrying out
588 32 | the man who, being more disposed to learn than to assume,
589 32 | careful to believe than to dispute, and more scrupulous of
590 60 | renewed fabric! Do we then disquiet ourselves with doubt about
591 51 | be restored to it. Be not disquieted, O flesh and blood, with
592 16 | which were pursuing and disquieting him for lying down with
593 43 | to us an exhortation to disregard this present life, since
594 63conc| that they might be able to disseminate the seeds of truth with
595 18 | passages, that is so far a dissuasive against understanding it
596 12 | in the morning glow; the distant groups of the constellations
597 32 | signification? since, whenever any distinct statement is made of a bodily
598 53 | you not suppose that he is distinguishing between the natural body
599 19 | allegory, though not always, distort into some imaginary sense
600 63conc| very materials indeed (so distorted) are refutable from the
601 22 | moon, and in the stars, distress of nations with perplexity,
602 34 | that salvation is equally distributed over the two substances,
603 55 | which has the character of distruction. For undergoing change is
604 30 | foretold, but Israel, in the distrust of his great unbelief, was
605 18 | agitated in dreams, and disturbed: it might, however, rest,
606 14 | decrees, since this is the division which we mainly adopt in
607 5 | circumstance, that most of their doctrines, including even the harshest,
608 58 | that they are proofs and documents of our own future integrity
609 4 | the first draft of their dogmas, and afterwards add the
610 11 | promulgated in the public domains of nature any analogies
611 41 | possibly be understood of the domicile of this world, on the dissolution
612 47 | subsequently was. Now, if the dominion of death operates only in
613 47 | the wages of death to the donative of eternal life, he undoubtedly
614 46 | lodging in the flesh, which is doomed indeed to death, not however
615 1 | at least knocked at the door of truth, although they
616 2 | importance they begin with doubts about the resurrection;
617 63conc| bare and naked. She has her dower, her outfit, her fortune
618 4 | which they sketch the first draft of their dogmas, and afterwards
619 8 | for the name of Christ, dragged out to public view, and
620 26 | no doubt, it was, for it drank the blood of man; but even
621 63conc| satisfied with the refreshing draughts.~
622 22 | heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." He spake of its "
623 22 | nigh." He spake of its "drawing nigh," not of its being
624 28 | into his bosom, and then draws it out again dead, and again
625 16 | that he would be sure to dream of nothing but the apparitions
626 18 | repose. For it is agitated in dreams, and disturbed: it might,
627 58 | brethren, however foreign such dress might be to the Jews; that
628 42 | over one who is already dressed.~
629 16 | it will be adorned by its drinking-master with chaplets, or be honoured
630 4 | wants, especially meats and drinks? Shall we have with our
631 18 | entrance raises; nor can that droop which by its departure causes
632 4 | record of its degradation, dropping into its original earth
633 6 | original substance of its dross.~
634 16 | for the sword, which is drunk with the blood of the brigand'
635 8 | BEARS A LARGE SHARE IN THE DUTIES AND SACRIFICES OF RELIGION.~
636 43 | from the body, is at once a dweller in the presence of the Lord,
637 26 | events which happen to his dwelling-place, whereby he will rather
638 4 | corpse, and destined to dwindle away even from this loathsome
639 3 | III. SOME TRUTHS HELD E. EN BY THE HEATHEN, THEY
640 7 | substance, as into some earthenware, so now into flesh. In the
641 49 | separated from the quality of "earthiness," owing to that condition
642 53 | and in power? Now in the ease of Lazarus, (which we may
643 13 | which is peculiar to the East, famous for its singularity,
644 58 | shall flee away." The angel echoes the same to John: "And God
645 18 | is, I imagine, one divine edict which is exposed to the
646 14 | us now approach His very edicts and decrees, since this
647 45 | that which is good for the edification of faith, that it may minister
648 11 | rebuild and restore the edifice of the flesh, which had
649 20 | and Egypt, and Babylon and Edom, and the navy of Carthage;
650 14 | suitable to God. Now, in effecting this arrangement, you must
651 32 | Jonah's flesh, quite as effectually as a coffin, or a tomb,
652 16 | being certain that such efforts are actuated by the soul;
653 63conc| should no longer withhold the effusions of His gracious light upon
654 60 | swallow, secrete, digest, eject? Of what avail will be our
655 20 | enter into judgment with the elders and princes of the people."
656 23 | known all mysteries, as an elect vessel and the great teacher
657 41 | flesh a horse, he wished elegantly to use the same term in
658 6 | because of the bulk of the elephant, but on account of the renown
659 10 | eyes also to that which elevates it. "All flesh is grass."
660 27 | on a like principle that embalmed corpses are set aside for
661 2 | logical order, and have embarrassed it with doubtful insinuations
662 33 | hopes of improve-ment an emblem of Jewish sterility. Now,
663 15 | of life, that they may be emboldened to sunder it also in the
664 21 | fail to persuade any to embrace a religion like ours, exposed
665 60 | and the laboratories of embryos, and the fountains of the
666 49 | Christ, and there attain His eminence in glory: "As we have borne
667 20 | in a trope did she bear Emmanuel, that is, Jesus, God with
668 1 | philosophy of Pythagoras and Empedocles, and the Plantonists, take
669 34 | His words with increased emphasis, "And this is the Father'
670 24 | means indeed of this present empire, "and that man of sin be
671 16 | substance of the human owner or employer; whereas the flesh, being
672 16 | of their proprietors and employers. Thus much do I say from
673 4 | to a solid State, from an empty to a full condition, from
674 3 | III. SOME TRUTHS HELD E. EN BY THE HEATHEN, THEY WERE,
675 17 | solidity in its nature, such as enables it both to perceive and
676 62 | those of the spirit when encompassed in human form? We shall
677 17 | would suffice in itself to encounter the full responsibility
678 21 | may be shattered, truth endangered, and the Divine Being Himself
679 12 | things begin after they have ended; they come to an end for
680 40 | counterpoise for the labours in the endurance of which the flesh here
681 17 | conjunction of the flesh to endure suffering, in order that
682 47 | events), nor has our flesh endured the cross of Christ; but
683 14 | the outlines of the divine energies which God has displayed
684 57 | RESURRECTION. ILLUSTRATION' OF THE ENFRANCHISED SLAVE.~We now come to the
685 16 | in war, and has been thus engaged in a better manslaughter,
686 11 | whatever abyss it may have been engulphed. And surely He is most competent
687 60 | pursuing their labours and enjoyments, as appendages to the same
688 12 | injures; and that it may enlarge, it first lessens. (This
689 46 | death," and afterwards "enmity against God;" but he never
690 10 | also those in which it is ennobled. You read whatever passage
691 58 | again safe and sound; that Enoch and Elias, who even now,
692 52 | however, out of the furrow enriched with a copious crop, built
693 47 | is lost, freeing what is enslaved, recalling what has strayed,
694 60 | gulf of the belly, and the entangled tissue of the bowels, when
695 24 | it be, forsooth, in the entertainments of the heretics? For, allowing
696 18 | cannot fall which by its entrance raises; nor can that droop
697 15 | in thoughts. Still they enumerate the sins of the flesh; surely,
698 48 | Now, if I mistake not, he enumerates all these particulars in
699 21 | CLEARNESS OF THEIR SCRIPTURAL ENUNCIATION.~Well, if it occurs occasionally
700 40 | Thus when, writing to the Ephesians, he spoke of "Christ dwelling
701 48 | even fought with beasts at Ephesus," even with those beasts
702 2 | more nearly allied to the Epicureans than to the prophets, an
703 1 | according to the school of Epicurus. After death all things
704 44 | life of God? Else to what epoch belongs that life of the
705 5 | right, if a portion is on an equality with the whole. But we maintain
706 63conc| cleared from all obscurity and equivocation the ancient Scriptures (
707 18 | discover that it stands erect by means of life. Nature
708 24 | promised after this life; erring concerning the truth, no
709 33 | according to the prophecy of Esaias." But since it was to the
710 61 | there! How many virgins espoused to Christ! How many, both
711 52 | that is, the martyrs which essay to mount up to heaven), "
712 53 | two states, in the very essentials of their difference. And
713 53 | strenuously he labours to establish throughout his teaching
714 2 | it be asserted, that is established. There is no need, I suppose,
715 2 | same time refute heresy, by establishing the rule that no other being
716 59 | us even nations sometimes estimated as "the small dust of the
717 2 | THAN THE BODY, IN HERETICAL ESTIMATION, AS TO ITS FUTURE STATE.
718 | ETC
719 5 | CONSIDERATIONS IN REPLY EULOGISTIC OF THE FLESH. IT WAS CREATED
720 1 | beings invariably: thus Euphorbus is supposed to have passed
721 30 | proof is offered that this event will also happen to the
722 63conc| you; but by drinking in evermore the resurrection of the
723 48 | what is the point which he evidently labours hard to make us
724 45 | anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with
725 32 | be required by the full exaction of an avenging judgment.
726 24 | perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
727 44 | DOCTRINE.~Now, if you will examine the words which precede
728 14 | this very circumstance His excellent goodness, at the same time
729 50 | whenever a special one is excepted. Now, when it is clearly
730 56 | owe Him thanks? But why is exception taken only against the change
731 58 | nails and hair, so that any excess herein might not be attributed
732 39 | by its absolute novelty excited the heathen, and a not unnatural
733 22 | to that time, raising and exciting our minds to what is then
734 46 | where that is which it is excluding. But why am I resorting
735 61 | even, as we may be able, excuse our mouths from food, and
736 17 | laid upon the flesh the execution of its own thoughts. This,
737 15 | works; and idle, were He to exempt it from punishment, when
738 58 | it is for the flesh to be exempted from all humilation, and
739 5 | that he might be able to exercise his mastery, being created
740 54 | apostle, has devoured by exercising its strength, and therefore
741 49 | the flesh, yet we are not exhorted to put off the flesh; but
742 10 | members of Christ;" and he exhorts us to exalt and "glorify
743 40 | soul " man ": for after the exile of the soul from it, it
744 16 | themselves, and therefore (would expect) to share the credit with
745 1 | and that too in the most expensive way according to their bequest,
746 37 | life. He also goes on to explain what He would have us to
747 25 | THE APOCALYPSE, EQUALLY EXPLICIT IN ASSERTING THE SAME GREAT
748 21 | certainties and uncertainties, of explicitness and obscurity, faith may
749 48 | and of their belief in an exposition of the Lord's death and
750 4 | whole, and so have to fear exposure to such sufferings? What,
751 22 | shake terribly" (as Isaiah expresses it ("that earth," which,
752 42 | their bony frames are still extant. We have already spoken
753 15 | distinguished and known externally. Let the soul only meditate
754 27 | pass away," which shall extinguish Antichrist, he in fact shows
755 46 | the death which is to be extirpated of course from the body.
756 46 | body. Now, if life thus extirpates death from the body, it
757 27 | into them, and after the extirpation of Antichrist shall be busily
758 16 | does of material perfectly extraneous to the substance of the
759 51 | have to be charged with extreme indiscretion, if he had
760 42 | devourers. And verily it will be extremely fit that all shall be consummated
761 52 | what it acquires from God extrinsically may also at last be accounted
762 26 | royal dignity it before exulted? So again in Isaiah, "Ye
763 15 | the interval between the eyebrows, or wheresoever the philosophers
764 63conc| mysteries and blasphemous fables. But yet Almighty God, in
765 6 | much more nobly man could fabricate a god, than God could form
766 55 | shall rise again we ipso facto prove that no other flesh
767 6 | source which is comparatively faded and obscure. In like manner,
768 31 | resurrection had very frequently failed amongst them, it is manifest
769 22 | waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking
770 19 | during his present life fails to discover the mysteries
771 1 | LIGHT BY THE GOSPEL. THE FAINTEST' GLIMPSES OF SOMETHING LIKE
772 13 | however, all nature but faintly figures our resurrection;
773 34 | same condition ought in all fairness to benefit the flesh also,
774 5 | common-sense views, and as the falterers and the weak-minded have
775 13 | is peculiar to the East, famous for its singularity, marvelous
776 2 | IMPORTANCE ASSERTED. THE SOUL FARES BETTER THAN THE BODY, IN
777 6 | longer regarded as a god farmed out of a most silly animal,
778 42 | will exact the very last farthing? Nothwithstanding, he who
779 27 | Isaiah tells us what sort of "fast the Lord hath chosen," and
780 61 | forty days Moses and Elias fasted, and lived upon God alone.
781 8 | mean conflicts of the soul, fastings, and abstinences, and the
782 58 | what they call fortune or fate? What plague awaits the
783 8 | that the soul likewise may fatten on its God. They cannot
784 4 | human sentiment which is so favourable to their designs. Is there
785 56 | that must be a most highly favoured flesh, which shall have
786 37 | propositions in a way which favours our belief: for by showing
787 35 | that "He is rather to be feared, who is able to destroy
788 40 | the flesh, "within were fears," which afflicted the soul.
789 49 | eating and drinking, one feature of which would be to speak
790 8 | by the Spirit; the flesh feeds on the body and blood of
791 3 | participation in the same feelings, and its community of opinions;
792 52 | dead will come. And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once
793 40 | order to make the soul a fellow-sufferer with the body, he adds, "
794 57 | exposed to the whip, and the fetter, and the stripes), will
795 4 | ulcers, and wounds, and fever, and gout, and once more
796 63conc| thrist for other doctrine: no feverish craving after subtle questions
797 22 | he is even now liable to fevers and ulcers; he, too, has
798 | few
799 63conc| accompany her with the love and fidelity of a foster-sister. But
800 26 | obedience by the fruits of the field and the elements of this
801 5 | or the formation of some fiery being, an angel, as Apelles
802 33 | as in the parable of the fig-tree, which was spared a while
803 40 | every side; without were fightings," which of course warred
804 2 | until the outline can be filled in with complete detail,
805 8 | can be devised, and when finally it is spent beneath its
806 40 | interpretation. Well, then, heresies finding that the apostle had mentioned
807 7 | should provide for your finest wines and most costly unguents
808 60 | contend that the old form and finish is still not necessary to
809 7 | find for your swords of finished temper scabbards of equal
810 45 | everything which gives the finishing stroke and perfection to
811 32 | he comes forth from the fish's belly uninjured in both
812 42 | to discover, after some five hundred years, bones, which
813 58 | sighing," continues he, "shall flee away." The angel echoes
814 4 | we have with our lungs to float (in air or water), and suffer
815 7 | in what manner the flesh flourished into beauty out of its clay.
816 22 | tenderly sprouting into a flower-stalk, and then developing the
817 26 | of the Holy Ghost, truly flowing with milk and honey by the
818 61 | cleanly discharge of natural fluids? Women, moreover, have within
819 3 | PRACTICE. THE HEATHEN NOT TO BE FOLLOWED IN THEIR IGNORANCE OF THE
820 52 | some such question. "Thou fool," says he, "that which thou
821 57 | again, "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
822 37 | our heretics, forsooth, foolishly insist on understanding
823 3 | Wisdom of the world is foolishness," (as the inspired word)
824 35 | have to be " bound hand and foot," as being, of course, raised
825 10 | the Lord Jesus;" he also forbids our body to be profaned,
826 37 | food the memory of their forefathers, who had preferred the bread
827 58 | three brethren, however foreign such dress might be to the
828 24 | Ghost, in His greatness, foreseeing clearly all such interpretations
829 20 | Carthage; also when they foretell Israel's own chastisements
830 47 | apostle with superlative forethought adds: " For if we have been
831 23 | but this one thing (I do), forgetting those things which are behind,
832 45 | another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God
833 | formerly
834 25 | angels, and that the city of fornication may receive from the ten
835 32 | and nerves and bones, will forthwith devise some different application
836 49 | this faith (of ours) looks forward, yet the promise is made
837 63conc| the love and fidelity of a foster-sister. But suppose the flesh to
838 48 | body, in which "he even fought with beasts at Ephesus,"
839 42 | sacrilegiously laying the foundations of the Odeum on a good many
840 58 | God did not dry up every fountain of tears. And again: "God
841 8 | only adoption of it, are fragrant offerings to God paid out
842 5 | Respecting, then, this frail and poor, worthless body,
843 42 | decayed, for their bony frames are still extant. We have
844 8 | and noisome food, without freedom even in sleep, for it is
845 47 | redeeming what is lost, freeing what is enslaved, recalling
846 31 | the resurrection had very frequently failed amongst them, it
847 58 | Israel remained unworn and fresh for the space of forty years;
848 11 | notwithstanding, its greatest friends also; for there is nobody
849 26 | Judaean by reason of the friendship of God. For "he is not a
850 34 | of the flesh from actual fruition, it has marked the entire
851 14 | Thus it follows that the fulness and perfection of the judgment
852 2 | HERETICS ON THIS DOCTRINE. ITS FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE ASSERTED. THE
853 27 | departed this life in the last furious onset of the power of Antichrist.
854 2 | confidently assuming that it furnishes the strongest presumption
855 52 | rises, however, out of the furrow enriched with a copious
856 43 | prerogative of martyrdom, he gains a lodging in Paradise, not
857 15 | in acts, but they cannot gainsay their co-operation in thoughts.
858 23 | Even as he says to the Gala-tians: "Let us not be weary in
859 20 | raiment" "they gave Him gall, and made Him drink vinegar;" "
860 60 | timbers repaired and restored, gallantly riding on the wave in all
861 62 | the flesh in their angelic garb, than were the angels once
862 5 | whom He had formed in the garden." So that man was clay at
863 27 | as the morning, and thy garments, shall speedily arise;"
864 52 | WHICH DIED WILL RISE AGAIN, GARNISHED WITH THE APPLIANCES OF ETERNAL
865 44 | has broken the adamantine gates of death and the brazen
866 24 | Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, that
867 6 | MUST BE REMEMBERED, IN GAUGING THE EXCELLENCE OF TIlE FLESH.
868 18 | which is exposed to the gaze of all men: it is "The Resurrection
869 30 | offended at it; and, whilst gazing on the condition of the
870 7 | should refuse to mount the gems of Scythia and India and
871 19 | of prophetic statement, generally expressed in figure and
872 61 | for our stomachs and our generative organs. For forty days Moses
873 10 | notice God when He says in Genesis, "My Spirit shall not remain
874 59 | all misled respecting the Gentile nations by the diversity
875 52 | without a spike even in germ, without the protection
876 42 | both of them the lasting germs of that body which is to
877 57 | when it is cold, when it is ghastly, when it is stiff, when
878 26 | faith, if it is to obtain gifts which the enemies of God
879 49 | We come now to the very gist of the whole question: What
880 52 | some other grain; but God giveth it a body as it pleaseth
881 26 | is King, let the earth be glad," meaning the flesh of the
882 16 | Cybele's priest, or of a gladiator, or of a hangman: then I
883 1 | THE GOSPEL. THE FAINTEST' GLIMPSES OF SOMETHING LIKE IT OCCASIONALLY
884 12 | quenched in the morning glow; the distant groups of the
885 1 | immediately afterwards with gluttonous satiety, using the selfsame
886 35 | shall come that "weeping and gnashing of teeth," if not from eyes
887 2 | the very oneness of the Godhead will be defended along with
888 4 | and wounds, and fever, and gout, and once more the wishing
889 27 | thought of cloaks or stuff gowns, but means the rising of
890 2 | disparagement of the flesh, they gradually draw their argument to the
891 52 | ground, and the ground is the grand depository for seeds which
892 21 | light in themselves? The grander they are, the clearer should
893 21 | that all schemes of unusual grandeur are litigiously promulgated.~
894 20 | Jesus, God with us. Even granting that He was figuratively
895 61 | by means of which they gratify no doubt their animal passions;
896 8 | more bound even then in gratitude, because (for ever) set
897 56 | enjoyment of life at so gratuitous a rate! But if the soul
898 16 | Bountiful to bestow even gratuitously such a favour. And yet,
899 54 | swallowing bile, or swallowing grief, meaning that we conceal
900 45 | grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
901 41 | to say, "For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be
902 42 | be clothed upon, whilst groaning in this our present body,
903 40 | hearts by faith, rooted and grounded in love," making "faith"
904 3 | denying it, moreover, on grounds which are adopted by a man
905 48 | rule of our hope, and the groundwork thereof. Accordingly he
906 12 | morning glow; the distant groups of the constellations are
907 6 | as that of a sordid and grovelling element, with the view of
908 60 | shipowner, who does not grudge money merely for his amusement
909 15 | neither spares the guilty nor grudges the virtuous their full
910 57 | has already sufficiently guaranteed in Christ; and has displayed
911 53 | RESURRECTION, AS THE SECOND ADAM,GUARANTEES OUR OWN.~Some, however,
912 61 | impulses of your tongue, and guarding your articulate speech from
913 3 | yours. Why lean upon a blind guide, if you have eyes of your
914 21 | ascribed to Him either envy, or guile, or inconsistency, or artifice,
915 4 | worthless, weak, covered with guilt, laden with misery, full
916 15 | and neither spares the guilty nor grudges the virtuous
917 62 | clothed themselves in human guise, without i the loss of their
918 60 | of the stomach, and the gulf of the belly, and the entangled
919 19 | their view the world is the habitation of the dead that is, of
920 14 | sufficiently great to be habitually able to confer this restoration
921 35 | lastly, that "the very hairs of our head are all numbered,"
922 16 | chaplets, or be honoured with a handful of flowers. The sword also
923 61 | our bodies may suit them, handle them without delicacy, and,
924 63conc| His servants and on His handmaidens," has checked these impostures
925 16 | of a gladiator, or of a hangman: then I want to know whether
926 6 | its origin, and to have happiness aggrandized by the change
927 39 | wonderful a matter began to harass the simple faith with many
928 7 | indeed which was capable of hardening clay into another substance,
929 37 | thought His discourse was harsh and intolerable, supposing
930 20 | and the lame leap as an hart? No doubt we are accustomed
931 24 | they are with premature haste seizing that which is promised
932 45 | flesh to be the old man, hasten their own death, in order
933 8 | view, and exposed to the hatred of all men; when it pines
934 20 | physical diseases which were healed by the Lord; but still they
935 47 | reviving what is dead, healing what is stricken, curing
936 37 | previously said: "He that heareth my words, and believeth
937 32 | bent on his own, when he hears of a divine purpose respecting
938 55 | but on the recovery of heat, and on the restoration
939 1 | OCCASIONALLY MET WITH IN HEATHENISM. INCONSISTENCIES OF PAGAN
940 41 | with hands, eternal in the heavens;" in other words, owing
941 14 | righteous, not bearing less heavily on any particular part;
942 15 | senses, and which they call Hegemonikon, has its sanctuary in the
943 12 | darkness coming forth the heir to itself, until the night
944 59 | and he here constitutes us heirs even of the future world.
945 | hereafter
946 | herein
947 24 | less than Phygellus and Hermogenes. Hence it is that the Holy
948 5 | which they do not indeed hesitate to call evil, even if it
949 12 | believe Prophecy, and without hesitation accept (its testimony) when
950 18 | requested of the sons of Heth a spot to bury Sarah in,
951 23 | yourselves "and your life is hid with Christ in God." Now
952 54 | meaning that we conceal and hide it, and keep it within ourselves.
953 10 | resurrection, why shall not its high prerogatives rather avail
954 56 | Verily that must be a most highly favoured flesh, which shall
955 7 | the most precious and most highly-wrought gold; or, again, that you
956 24 | already work; only he who now hinders must hinder, until he be
957 8 | condition on which salvation hinges. And since the soul is,
958 2 | possessed no reality; or else holding, after the heretical tenets
959 14 | whose name I know not, holds that He properly is not
960 1 | passed into Phythagoras, and Homer into a peacock. They firmly
961 26 | this was as a figure of homicidal flesh. For if the earth
962 26 | truly flowing with milk and honey by the sweetness of His
963 42 | ancient graves, people were horror-stricken to discover, after some
964 41 | he had called the flesh a horse, he wished elegantly to
965 21 | detestation and the imputation of hostility to others. There is no certain
966 55 | taste, business, means, houses, laws and customs and still
967 62 | He might preserve their humanity unimpaired. When He ascribed
968 58 | to be exempted from all humilation, and all loss, and all injury,
969 42 | discover, after some five hundred years, bones, which still
970 61 | more meat, because no more hunger; no more drink, because
971 61 | WHICH HERESY IMPOSES OF HUNTING UP ALL ITS UNBLUSHING CAVILS.~
972 22 | David), making Him more hurried than the Father, whilst
973 52 | barest grain, without a husk to cover it, without a spike
974 43 | with a transposition of ideas? Is the question about what
975 60 | of God there will be no idleness.~
976 24 | read: "How ye turned from idols to serve the living and
977 4 | RESTITUTION OF SO WEAK AND IGNOBLE A SUBSTANCE.~Hence it is
978 7 | His own mouth, and by so ignominious a consignment secure, of
979 2 | II. THE JEWISH SADDUCEES A
980 3 | III. SOME TRUTHS HELD E. EN
981 8 | that the soul also maybe illuminated by the Spirit; the flesh
982 52 | sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the point, as if an objector
983 38 | receive these preliminary illustrations of a raising of the flesh,
984 19 | always, distort into some imaginary sense even the most clearly
985 3 | thoughts of the vulgar, or the imaginations of the world, I must say
986 20 | person of Israel "the people imagined vain things;" "the kings
987 3 | although you are all agreed in imagining a God, yet while you do
988 61 | devouring your food and imbibing your drink: why not, however,
989 60 | until "this mortal puts on immorality, and this corruptible puts
990 39 | which he would not appear to impair, he really confirmed in
991 36 | strongest case they could for impairing the credibility of the resurrection,
992 45 | their blindness they again impale themselves on the point
993 2 | before was concealed: to impart certainty to doubtful points;
994 37 | spirit "profiteth," for it imparts life. The flesh profiteth
995 57 | too; but at the same time impassible, inasmuch as it has been
996 16 | fact of its seeming to be impelled by the soul. So, again,
997 15 | the soul which acts and impels us in all we do, so it is
998 18 | whenever I hear of its impending over a human being, I am
999 49 | says "let us bear" in the imperative mood, he suits his words
1000 57 | nature against her Lord, and impiously contrast her law against