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1001 40 | man" (it was subsequently implanted in the clayey mould to which
1002 43 | resurrection of the body is implied; and if the things which
1003 35 | body of a wall. If any one imports into our argument some body
1004 33 | the arrogant judge and the importunate widow, which is expressly
1005 62 | because we cease to be importuned by the usual wants of the
1006 61 | THE NECESSITY WHICH HERESY IMPOSES OF HUNTING UP ALL ITS UNBLUSHING
1007 8 | flesh is shadowed with the imposition of hands, that the soul
1008 63conc| handmaidens," has checked these impostures of unbelief and perverseness,
1009 37 | cometh down from heaven," impressing on (His hearers) constantly
1010 21 | inconstant. Then arises the improbability that the very mystery on
1011 33 | spared a while in hopes of improve-ment an emblem of Jewish sterility.
1012 7 | FLESH IS CREATED WONDERFULLY IMPROVED BY GOD'S MANIPULATION. BY
1013 61 | too, for moderating the impulses of your tongue, and guarding
1014 16 | itself which is not also imputed to the soul, he yet deems
1015 61 | tardier and weaker sex is inadequate to disperse? For even details
1016 47 | regeneration a course were not inaugurated tending to its restitution;
1017 7 | became a living soul by the inbreathing of God by the breath indeed
1018 17 | labours under some amount of incapacity; for in its own nature it
1019 51 | SESSION OF JESUS IN HIS INCARNATE NATURE AT THE RIGHT HAND
1020 4 | these will be the longings incident on the recovery of the flesh,
1021 54 | received, and restored, and included in it? For the rest, it
1022 5 | most of their doctrines, including even the harshest, accord
1023 52 | enough. For nothing which is incompatible with the idea suggested
1024 60 | limbs being deemed to be as inconceivable, as that of the limbs themselves
1025 1 | MET WITH IN HEATHENISM. INCONSISTENCIES OF PAGAN TEACHING.~The resurrection
1026 21 | either envy, or guile, or inconsistency, or artifice, by help of
1027 38 | thing in a way which is inconsistent with His actual disposal
1028 21 | Being Himself be branded as inconstant. Then arises the improbability
1029 37 | resting-place of corpses: for it is incontestable that even those who partake
1030 17 | pain or pleasure, as being incorporeal; for this is the common
1031 42 | corruptible must put on incorrruption, and this mortal must put
1032 53 | doubt. But that soul was incorrupt; nobody had wrapped it in
1033 16 | dash to pieces, and then to increase our anger with our servant.
1034 39 | heathen, and a not unnatural incredulity in so wonderful a matter
1035 36 | resurrection as well as incredulous of the power of God, though,
1036 49 | so wholly intent on the inculcation of moral conduct is he throughout.
1037 58 | presence of God? where, incursions of an enemy in the bosom
1038 58 | might not be attributed to indecency; that the fires of Babylon
1039 16 | even though it may have no independent discretion of its own),
1040 7 | the gems of Scythia and India and the pearls of the Red
1041 15 | design, the face gives the indication the face being the mirror
1042 27 | fact shows that after that indignation the flesh will come forth
1043 51 | be charged with extreme indiscretion, if he had so abruptly,
1044 51 | they say, blindfold, and so indiscriminately, and so unconditionally,
1045 31 | eternal salvation and an indispensable restoration, and thereby
1046 17 | Since, however, acts too are indissolubly attached to deserts; since
1047 48 | severally, on account of the individual merits. Now, as the merits
1048 39 | announcement; but they would have indulged no such derision if they
1049 31 | Unquestionably, if the people were indulging in figurative murmurs that
1050 42 | not only that bones remain indurated, but also that teeth continue
1051 26 | land; holy indeed by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, truly
1052 60 | concubinage, and pregnancy, and infant nurture shall cease? In
1053 16 | but one which has been infected with the breath of a lascivious
1054 5 | creatures which were made were inferior to him for whom they were
1055 18 | heretics, which arise from infidelity solely, because it is deemed
1056 4 | minds are caught by its influence, (and actuated) by that
1057 63conc| REFRESHING RESTORATION UNDER THE INFLUENCES OF THE PARACLETE.~And so
1058 35 | we surely have sufficient information in this fact respecting
1059 18 | because even the Scripture informs us that "He spoke of His
1060 26 | flesh, whose lot it was to inhabit and keep it, in order that
1061 46 | to be condemned with its inhabitant. He said, indeed, that "
1062 arg | THEY ATTACHED AN IDEA OF INHERENT CORRUPTION AND WORTHLESSNESS
1063 51 | flesh and blood from all inheritance of incorruption. For a little
1064 arg | SOUL ALONE WAS CAPABLE OF INHERITING IMMORTALITY.~
1065 9 | queen of His creation, the inheritor of His own liberality, the
1066 1 | up its dead with harshest inhumanity, only to pamper them immediately
1067 16 | which some certain death is injected, but one which has been
1068 49 | that substance to which the injunction is given to labour earnestly
1069 12 | that it may make whole, it injures; and that it may enlarge,
1070 40 | For the afflictions and injuries wherewith the outward man
1071 34 | understood to be stronger for injuring man, ruining him wholly?
1072 48 | answer." "And why," he inquires, "stand we in jeopardy every
1073 3 | and let them support their inquiries from the Scriptures alone:
1074 16 | which at the first was inscribed with the title of a man,
1075 2 | a difference of gods is insinuated. How many do we thus see
1076 2 | how hard is their task in insinuating the existence of a second
1077 2 | embarrassed it with doubtful insinuations in disparagement of the
1078 16 | by another argument, by insisting on so placing the flesh
1079 48 | measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of
1080 58 | not to that which ought to inspire in us the belief that they
1081 55 | Holy Scriptures give us instances of. The hand of Moses is
1082 41 | Antichrist, deserve by an instantaneous death, which is accomplished
1083 6 | further labour, the clay had instantly assumed its form at the
1084 34 | committed quite as much by the instigation of the soul from concupiscence
1085 12 | would say, all creation is instinct with renewal. Whatever you
1086 9 | with His sacraments and His instructions; whose purity He loves,
1087 12 | Prophecy also as a supplemental instructor, that, being Nature's disciple,
1088 17 | which in like manner are insufficient for its full perception,
1089 55 | which is in question, yet insulated questions and their occasions
1090 16 | the ground of its being an integral portion of that which possesses
1091 3 | manner, use all the other intelligences of our common nature, when
1092 39 | already received in simple and intelligent faith, without any question
1093 30 | and done these things," intending of course to do that of
1094 60 | ordains salvation for man, intends it for his flesh; whether
1095 48 | front of the battle, we have intentionally reserved the objection until
1096 15 | being the mirror of all our intentions. They may deny all combination
1097 18 | a man who enjoyed close intercourse with God. For when he requested
1098 14 | simply in representing the interests of the entire human being.
1099 61 | may be suspended, with an intermission which, like the dispensation
1100 33 | of the sower, (which He interprets) of the management of the
1101 30 | on showing the bones, He interrupts the scene by saying somewhat
1102 45 | fraction of time was it that intervened between the creative hand
1103 7 | with the flesh? Yes; and so intimate is the union, that it may
1104 49 | God, without any previous intimation, of his meaning, would it
1105 37 | discourse was harsh and intolerable, supposing that He had really
1106 62 | i the loss of their own intrinsic nature. If therefore angels,
1107 24 | into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist upon (its own
1108 39 | Christ. Consequently they introduced nothing new concerning the
1109 63conc| misinterpreting the Scripture, and introducing, above all, apocryphal mysteries
1110 60 | for you to rule, from the inutility of its limbs in the future
1111 4 | against the casualties and the invariable end which await it; unclean
1112 1 | even those of human beings invariably: thus Euphorbus is supposed
1113 4 | beginning and everywhere an invective against the flesh against
1114 2 | recovery from death, heretical inventors of a second deity. Driven
1115 14 | judgment, and it must undergo investigation in as many natures as it
1116 50 | blood, after that change and investiture, will become able to inherit
1117 26 | kind of exhortation and invitation be suitable for that Jerusalem
1118 26 | how vain that God should invite men to obedience by the
1119 20 | truth? The realities are involved in the words, just as the
1120 36 | die again or not, without involving in doubt the restoration
1121 26 | outwardly, but he who is one inwardly." In the same way it is
1122 55 | flesh shall rise again we ipso facto prove that no other
1123 35 | head are all numbered," and ir the affirmation He of course
1124 7 | Sea in lead, or brass, or iron, or even in silver, but
1125 26 | dispenses these to even irreligious men and blasphemers; on
1126 14 | be final, and therefore irrevocable; to be also righteous, not
1127 45 | and a heart to avoid all irritation, and hands to labour and
1128 2 | have ourselves previously issued our volume On the flesh
1129 4 | IV. HEATHENS AND HERETICS ALIKE
1130 6 | the Olympian Jupiter of ivory; worship is given to the
1131 9 | IX. GOD'S LOVE FOR THE FLESH
1132 48 | he inquires, "stand we in jeopardy every hour?" meaning, of
1133 20 | David? What allegories does Jeremiah? Not even of His mighty
1134 26 | of God. For "he is not a Jew which is one outwardly,
1135 53 | body. When the flesh was joined by the soul, it then became
1136 26 | of His assurance, truly Judaean by reason of the friendship
1137 60 | POINT, HOWEVER, WE ARE NO JUDGES. ANALOGY OF THE REPAIRED
1138 6 | Phidias forms the Olympian Jupiter of ivory; worship is given
1139 60 | ship is perfect without her keel, or her bow, or her stern,
1140 51 | between God and man," He keeps in His own self the deposit
1141 47 | of the Lord, which is the key of the resurrection.~
1142 28 | it is by death that He kills, it is by the resurrection
1143 42 | possibly allege that what is to kindle it is sometimes necessary
1144 24 | being scattered into ten kingdoms, shall introduce Antichrist
1145 16 | condemnation on it than on the kisses of such persons? One indeed
1146 52 | between the flesh of mules and kites, as well as the heavenly
1147 5 | have prohibited it, when He knew it was in progress. It follows,
1148 1 | it wholly: they at least knocked at the door of truth, although
1149 46 | But why am I resorting to knotty arguments, when the apostle
1150 50 | L. IN WHAT SENSE FLESH AND
1151 60 | in the two sexes, and the laboratories of embryos, and the fountains
1152 60 | hands, and feet, and all our labouring limbs, when even all care
1153 58 | angels are "cast into the lake of fire." Where now is necessity,
1154 22 | beneath His feet" (to use the lan-guage of David), making Him more
1155 8 | FLESH. WHICH ALSO BEARS A LARGE SHARE IN THE DUTIES AND
1156 51 | death, which profits so largely by the works of the flesh
1157 34 | man is to perish; and no larger portion is in danger, because
1158 16 | infected with the breath of a lascivious woman, or of Cybele's priest,
1159 59 | person two instruments of lasciviousness, he has it in his power,
1160 42 | for ages both of them the lasting germs of that body which
1161 42 | elsewhere. For instance, even lately in this very city, when
1162 | later
1163 | latter
1164 39 | believe it such refusal leading them indeed to an absolute
1165 3 | himself learn from yours. Why lean upon a blind guide, if you
1166 20 | become strong, and the lame leap as an hart? No doubt we
1167 56 | life's course, which has learnt the knowledge of God, and
1168 8 | its bed of straw; when at length before the public view it
1169 4 | and the blind, and the leper, and the palsied shall come
1170 12 | it may enlarge, it first lessens. (This process) indeed,
1171 57 | cases prescribe rules for lesser ones. Is not the amputation
1172 51 | LI. THE SESSION OF JESUS IN
1173 40 | the flesh as its especial liability according to the statement
1174 9 | the inheritor of His own liberality, the priestess of His religion,
1175 4 | would you know) how great a licence of unseemly language these
1176 2 | substitutes some other thing in lieu of it. Some third nature
1177 37 | therefore, His word as the life-giving principle, because that
1178 22 | pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your
1179 18 | it also appertains to be lifted and raised up again; although
1180 42 | say that a fire is to be lighted, you could not possibly
1181 2 | touch some questions but lightly on their first occurrence,
1182 52 | LII. FROM ST. PAUL'S ANALOGY
1183 53 | LIII. NOT THE SOUL, BUT THE NATURAL
1184 19 | old man, even as the Lord likened the scribes and Pharisees
1185 31 | nations, instead of being limited to Israel only, of reinvesting
1186 59 | nations within the ocean's limits, and from the heaven which
1187 53 | nobody had wrapped it in its linen swathes; nobody had deposited
1188 2 | THE JEWISH SADDUCEES A LINK BETWEEN THE PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS
1189 22 | consigning "the Christians to the lions?" Who has yet beheld Jesus
1190 21 | of unusual grandeur are litigiously promulgated.~
1191 54 | LIV. DEATH SWALLOWED UP OF LIFE.
1192 59 | LIX. OUR FLESH IN THE RESURRECTION
1193 29 | face of the plain; and, lo, they were very dry. And
1194 4 | dwindle away even from this loathsome name into none henceforth
1195 21 | which are merely temporal, local, and personal in their character,
1196 15 | philosophers are pleased to locate it, the flesh will still
1197 2 | of the advantages of its logical order, and have embarrassed
1198 60 | purpose can be served by loins, conscious of seminal secretions,
1199 15 | and again: "Whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after
1200 31 | sepulchres, as young calves let loose from their bonds, and ye
1201 23 | King of kings and Lord of lords," speaking of (Him as) God
1202 41 | resurrection. Just as the Lore also promises us many mansions
1203 55 | into an angel of light," loses his own proper character.
1204 26 | promised to the flesh, whose lot it was to inhabit and keep
1205 20 | and His feet;" "they cast lots for his raiment" "they gave
1206 9 | instructions; whose purity He loves, whose mortifications He
1207 58 | might weep again, if the loving-kindness of God did not dry up every
1208 6 | VI. NOT THE LOWLINESS OF THE MATERIAL, BUT THE
1209 4 | Shall we have with our lungs to float (in air or water),
1210 15 | Whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath already
1211 10 | God," because "the flesh lusteth against the Spirit;" yet
1212 55 | LV. THE CHANGE OF A THING'S
1213 56 | LVI. THE PROCEDURE OF THE LAST
1214 57 | LVII. OUR BODIES, HOWEVER MUTILATED
1215 58 | LVIII. FROM THIS PERFECTION OF
1216 60 | LX. ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS
1217 61 | LXI. THE DETAILS OF OUR BODILY
1218 62 | LXII. OUR DESTINED LIKENESS TO
1219 63conc| LXIII. CONCLUSION. THE RESURRECTION
1220 55 | condition, in dignity, and m age in taste, business,
1221 40 | When we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest;"
1222 10 | X. HOLY SCRIPTURE MAGNIFIES THE FLESH, AS TO ITS NATURE
1223 31 | Ye shall go forth," (says Malachi), "from your sepulchres,
1224 45 | away from you, with all malice: but be ye kind one to another,
1225 5 | our side necessarily so manage our defences, as to guard,
1226 8 | bound on its very pallet and mangled in its bed of straw; when
1227 53 | apostle's whole description manifestly refers, of which he clearly
1228 7 | it has not been actually manipulated by the hand of God, as the
1229 7 | WONDERFULLY IMPROVED BY GOD'S MANIPULATION. BY THE ADDITION OF THE
1230 28 | apply as a presage to all mankind? inasmuch as those three
1231 41 | Lore also promises us many mansions as of a house in His Father'
1232 16 | thus engaged in a better manslaughter, will secure its own praise
1233 57 | ask you, if you were to manumit your slave (seeing that
1234 5 | angels, as Menander and Marcus are pleased to think, or
1235 10 | carries about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus;" he also
1236 8 | restraint in secret on the marriage-bed, and the one only adoption
1237 36 | case of a woman who had married seven brothers, so that
1238 3 | lies in the very pith and marrow of things, not on the surface,
1239 62 | unto the angels." As by not marrying, because of not dying, so,
1240 37 | Then again, when He says, "Marvel not at this: for the hour
1241 13 | famous for its singularity, marvelous from its posthumous life,
1242 60 | these members to take in, masticate, swallow, secrete, digest,
1243 30 | we are maintaining, what matters it to me, provided there
1244 27 | set aside for burial in mausoleums and sepulchres, in order
1245 4 | waters of the sea, and the maws of beasts, and the crops
1246 | maybe
1247 61 | the consumption of your meal: why not rather for wreathing
1248 48 | that we were pressed above measure, above strength, insomuch
1249 61 | away. There will be no more meat, because no more hunger;
1250 4 | present wants, especially meats and drinks? Shall we have
1251 31 | which cometh from Thee is medicine to their bones." In another
1252 15 | externally. Let the soul only meditate some design, the face gives
1253 26 | that it should shake and melt at the presence of the Lord,
1254 26 | trembled; the mountains melted like wax at the presence
1255 5 | been the work of angels, as Menander and Marcus are pleased to
1256 29 | of the body by expressly mentioning it! Take Ezekiel: "And the
1257 29 | Spirit, and set me in the midst of a plain which was full
1258 16 | whether you would pass a milder condemnation on it than
1259 26 | Ghost, truly flowing with milk and honey by the sweetness
1260 16 | filth, or one which is not mingled to our own mind we are apt
1261 46 | on the ground that it is ministered to for the flesh and through
1262 17 | deserts; since also acts are ministerially effected by the flesh, it
1263 16 | the credit of a faithful ministration, it will be adorned by its
1264 4 | uncleaner afterwards from the mire of its own seminal transmission;
1265 12 | Readorned also are the mirrors of the moon, which her monthly
1266 4 | covered with guilt, laden with misery, full of trouble; and after
1267 36 | raised," (speaking) without misgiving, and affirming the very
1268 63conc| either by mutilating or misinterpreting the Scripture, and introducing,
1269 19 | often been in the habit of misleading our brethren, as if they
1270 59 | the Lord, are we at all misled respecting the Gentile nations
1271 40 | decays not in the sense of missing the resurrection, but of
1272 48 | even of life." Now, if I mistake not, he enumerates all these
1273 58 | Babylon injured not either the mitres or the trousers of the three
1274 55 | destruction are, will not admit of mixture and confusion; in their
1275 20 | they shook their heads, and mocked Him;" "He was appraised
1276 1 | What piety is that which mocks its victims with cruelty?
1277 33 | of His resorting to this mode of address. Besides, there
1278 61 | wide? Why not, too, for moderating the impulses of your tongue,
1279 8 | and widowhood, and the modest restraint in secret on the
1280 35 | which it is constructed and modified, is seen and handled, and
1281 7 | the blast of his fire, to modify his clayey material into
1282 42 | which still retained their moisture, and hair which had not
1283 60 | shipowner, who does not grudge money merely for his amusement
1284 58 | Jonah was swallowed by the monster of the deep, in whose belly
1285 12 | mirrors of the moon, which her monthly course had worn away. Winters
1286 49 | bear" in the imperative mood, he suits his words to the
1287 54 | Death is one thing, and morality is another. It is one thing
1288 9 | whose purity He loves, whose mortifications He approves; whose sufferings
1289 46 | through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
1290 18 | Passing now to the other word mortuorum, I wish you to look carefully,
1291 arg | THIS WORLD AND GAVE THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION, WAS OPPOSED
1292 63conc| these, and returning to her mother earth, she is absorbed once
1293 61 | defence of life, nor will mothers' limbs any longer have to
1294 57 | palsied, than when quite motionless? Thus, for a dead man to
1295 26 | earth saw and trembled; the mountains melted like wax at the presence
1296 61 | may be able, excuse our mouths from food, and withdraw
1297 29 | is a voice, behold also a movement, and bones approached bones.
1298 59 | his power, to be sure, to mow down "the grass" of the
1299 52 | contrast between the flesh of mules and kites, as well as the
1300 3 | instruction from the ignorant multitude. He, therefore, will not
1301 34 | less than that; whereas the munificence of princes of this world
1302 35 | formidable than a merely human murder, which is only temporal.
1303 31 | indulging in figurative murmurs that their bones were become
1304 55 | absolutely different, as mutation and destruction are, will
1305 57 | LVII. OUR BODIES, HOWEVER MUTILATED BEFORE OR AFTER DEATH, SHALL
1306 63conc| became flesh, either by mutilating or misinterpreting the Scripture,
1307 2 | before all others in the mysteriesof His being, and is especially
1308 58 | the rank growth of their nails and hair, so that any excess
1309 42 | condition may well be called nakedness,) they shall afterwards
1310 61 | indeed gave their several names to the animals, before he
1311 20 | Babylon and Edom, and the navy of Carthage; also when they
1312 9 | I say), so often brought near to God, not rise again?
1313 7 | both contains an essence nearest to God's, and renders itself
1314 50 | that the Spirit is still needed (to qualify them) for the
1315 45 | have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication
1316 45 | every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one
1317 2 | thus see drawn into the net vanquished on the resurrection
1318 35 | this circumstance that this never-ending "killing" is more formidable
1319 | nevertheless
1320 | next
1321 13 | S VIEW OF A VERSE IN THE NINETY-SECOND PSALM, THE PHOENIX IS MADE
1322 6 | more splendid and more noble, though coming from a source
1323 6 | granted to the flesh to be nobler than its origin, and to
1324 6 | remain to shaw how much more nobly man could fabricate a god,
1325 8 | amidst squalor, filth, and noisome food, without freedom even
1326 46 | of the flesh, just as its non-condemnation subjugates it to the law
1327 59 | you maintain, that the non-eternal substance of this life is
1328 55 | it had already begun its non-existence! Now, things which are absolutely
1329 30 | for a similitude, nor does nonentity form a suitable foundation
1330 58 | to what faith do these notable facts bear witness, if not
1331 42 | the very last farthing? Nothwithstanding, he who has already traversed
1332 12 | of which nothing comes to nought?~
1333 43 | does he purposely use a novel phraseology? For, wanting
1334 39 | not heard, by its absolute novelty excited the heathen, and
1335 40 | flesh, with the view of nullifying the resurrection. So also
1336 35 | use of having taken such a numerical care of them? Surely the
1337 60 | and pregnancy, and infant nurture shall cease? In short, what
1338 61 | will be no more need of the nutriment of food for the defence
1339 47 | mortal body, that ye should obey it, and that ye should yield
1340 52 | illustrate the point, as if an objector had plied him with some
1341 8 | completely, that the only obligation remaining due to Him is,
1342 2 | first occurrence, so I am obliged also to postpone the consideration
1343 7 | The clay, therefore, was obliterated and absorbed into flesh.
1344 12 | The glory of the world is obscured in the shadow of death;
1345 21 | ambiguously announced and obscurely propounded, inasmuch as
1346 24 | taken out of the way." What obstacle is there but the Roman state,
1347 32 | bodily substance, they will obstinately prefer taking any other
1348 63conc| have been by your prayers obtaining resurrection for her: her
1349 54 | very often are suggested by occasional and isolated terms, just
1350 5 | renewal of their perplexities occasioned by the selfsame views; and
1351 55 | insulated questions and their occasions do require even discussions
1352 5 | flesh, which had a prior occupation in man's designation: "And
1353 12 | everywhere business ceases, and occupations rest. And so over the loss
1354 2 | but lightly on their first occurrence, so I am obliged also to
1355 59 | on the nations within the ocean's limits, and from the heaven
1356 42 | laying the foundations of the Odeum on a good many ancient graves,
1357 30 | his great unbelief, was offended at it; and, whilst gazing
1358 6 | Now, although the clay is offensive (for its poorness), it is
1359 30 | reunion of bones, proof is offered that this event will also
1360 1 | insult (which the crowd offers), when it burns its offerings
1361 26 | heavenly bread, and of the oil of God's unction, and the
1362 6 | hand of Phidias forms the Olympian Jupiter of ivory; worship
1363 4 | as that the lame, and the one-eyed, and the blind, and the
1364 23 | Similarly, concerning Onesiphorus, does he also write to Timothy: "
1365 26 | will reckon, (I suppose) onions and truffles among earth'
1366 27 | life in the last furious onset of the power of Antichrist.
1367 44 | passion, which was not only openly shown among the Jews, but
1368 48 | to make the resurrection operate on the same substance as
1369 47 | if the dominion of death operates only in the dissolution
1370 46 | flesh. When, however, this operativeness of the flesh is done away
1371 17 | have no doubt given to my opponent room to say: Since, then,
1372 46 | very thing is to which he opposes it even the death which
1373 24 | the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above
1374 28 | from the flesh, and its opposite, reviving, amounts to restoring
1375 41 | who shall, owing to the oppressions of the time of Antichrist,
1376 60 | whether the Lord, when He ordains salvation for man, intends
1377 47 | even baptism be properly ordered for the flesh, if by its
1378 37 | flesh, He, with the view of ordering the state of salvation as
1379 2 | conduct discussion in an orderly manner. They are well aware
1380 23 | world, are ye subject to ordinances?" Now, since he makes us
1381 4 | FLESH AND ITS FUNCTIONS, THE ORDINARY CAVILS AGAINST THE FINAL
1382 7 | the result of a fleshly organ. The arts come through the
1383 49 | preceding sentence, which originated this distinction respecting
1384 52 | in itself the grace and ornament which God shall please to
1385 7 | also took on itself the ornaments of the soul. You surely
1386 31 | only, of reinvesting those osseous remains with bodily substance
1387 63conc| The soul shall never be an outcast, to be had home by the bridegroom
1388 35 | and thrust out into that outer darkness which shall be
1389 63conc| She has her dower, her outfit, her fortune in the flesh,
1390 61 | they not rather regarded as outlets for the cleanly discharge
1391 2 | consideration of them, until the outline can be filled in with complete
1392 42 | will be impossible for the outside garment to fit except over
1393 26 | is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he who is one inwardly."
1394 22 | king although he even now owes to Caesar the things which
1395 16 | the substance of the human owner or employer; whereas the
1396 45 | neither is before the other in paint of time. It is more correct (
1397 8 | it is bound on its very pallet and mangled in its bed of
1398 53 | which we may take as) the palmary instance of a resurrection,
1399 51 | reference to an object which was palpable and apparent. The expression
1400 1 | harshest inhumanity, only to pamper them immediately afterwards
1401 20 | mighty works have they used parabolic language. Or else, were
1402 35 | raised again at all. A pretty paradox, to be sure, that an essence
1403 40 | have suffered together. Parallel with their participation
1404 58 | death, after their eternal pardon? What wrath is there for
1405 20 | s own chastisements and pardons, its captivities, restorations,
1406 49 | Now, when the apostle parenthetically inserted this, he censured
1407 2 | prepare ourselves, but still partakers of their doctrine. For instance,
1408 16 | instruments, that so they too may participate in the merits of their proprietors
1409 48 | he enumerates all these particulars in order that in his unwillingness
1410 51 | committed to Him by both parties the pledge and security
1411 6 | EXCELLENCE OF TIlE FLESH. CHRIST PARTOOK OF OUR FLESH.~Let me therefore
1412 5 | the fashion of this world passeth away," as the apostle himself
1413 44 | which He lived up to His passion, which was not only openly
1414 61 | gratify no doubt their animal passions; but why are they not rather
1415 57 | as well as table of his patron. Give, then, the same prerogative
1416 4 | fishes, and time's own great paunch itself of course yielding
1417 26 | whereby he will rather have to pay the penalty which, simply
1418 17 | own to commit, it at once pays the penalty of them. Now,
1419 1 | Phythagoras, and Homer into a peacock. They firmly pronounced
1420 7 | Scythia and India and the pearls of the Red Sea in lead,
1421 2 | human nature without any peculiarity of condition such a nature
1422 46 | accomplish this only by penetrating thither where that is which
1423 17 | such as enables it both to perceive and suffer. That souls are
1424 37 | reflections, because He perceived that they were going to
1425 43 | body that the actions were performed. Thus the apostle's whole
1426 8 | duty it is the flesh which performs again and again to its own
1427 42 | hair which had not lost its perfume. It is certain not only
1428 48 | is, undoubtedly, in the perils of the body, in which "he
1429 31 | that it was owing to the perishing condition of their bodies
1430 60 | itself must be destroyed, its permanence without its limbs being
1431 60 | these ought to continue permanently pursuing their labours and
1432 34 | the last day, then He will permit not only a fraction of man
1433 49 | displaying to the Galatians these pernicious works that he professes
1434 16 | the beasts, if a man has perpetrated with it the atrocities of
1435 40 | in its appointed state of perpetual decay; but the wear and
1436 44 | in a substance which is perpetually dissolved, that the life
1437 22 | distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring,
1438 41 | Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,
1439 40 | well as in tortures and persecutions. Now the inward man will
1440 11 | should maintain, with no less persistence, that He produced these
1441 55 | unless it shall itself persistently remain throughout the altered
1442 21 | merely temporal, local, and personal in their character, have
1443 63conc| parables, by the open and perspicuous explanation of the entire
1444 3 | CHRISTIAN MYSTERY. THE HERETICS PERVERSELY PRONE TO FOLLOW THEM.~One
1445 63conc| impostures of unbelief and perverseness, reanimated men's faltering
1446 40 | DOCTRINE RESCUED FROM THE PERVERSIONS OF HERESY.~Now it is no
1447 2 | idea of its being a vain phantom; and claim for it a human
1448 13 | inasmuch as its several phenomena can hardly be said to die
1449 13 | what other thing can such a phenomenon bear witness? God even in
1450 43 | he purposely use a novel phraseology? For, wanting to express
1451 24 | the truth, no less than Phygellus and Hermogenes. Hence it
1452 20 | according to the analogy of the physical diseases which were healed
1453 9 | that are whole need not the physician, but they that are sick;"
1454 1 | supposed to have passed into Phythagoras, and Homer into a peacock.
1455 1 | and to insult them. What piety is that which mocks its
1456 20 | people." For in the person of Pilate "the heathen raged," and
1457 16 | his bed-room, or from his pillow, from the presumption that
1458 8 | hatred of all men; when it pines in prisons under the cruellest
1459 25 | devil into the bottomless pit for a while, the blessed
1460 3 | contrary, lies in the very pith and marrow of things, not
1461 16 | argument, by insisting on so placing the flesh in the service
1462 58 | call fortune or fate? What plague awaits the redeemed from
1463 25 | first drink to the dregs the plagues that await it out of the
1464 46 | the subject with perfect plainness? "For if," says he, "the
1465 31 | their hope had perished plaintive at the consequences of their
1466 47 | adds: " For if we have been planted together in the likeness
1467 1 | and Empedocles, and the Plantonists, take the contrary view,
1468 3 | therefore, the opinion of a Plato, when he declares, "Every
1469 51 | argument, will now stand as a plea for all, and for the apostle
1470 52 | God give it "a body, as it pleases Him," even when it already
1471 52 | God giveth it a body as it pleaseth Him?'' Gives it of course
1472 61 | both the functions and the pleasures of our members may be suspended,
1473 52 | point, as if an objector had plied him with some such question. "
1474 63conc| heretical subtleties, and pluck out from it their tares.
1475 61 | to the animals, before he plucked the fruit of the tree; before
1476 28 | hand into his bosom, and plucks it out living, does not
1477 43 | Lord. For there is here pointedly addressed to us an exhortation
1478 39 | of this Christian hope, pointing out that there was such
1479 16 | cup if any. man has mixed poison in it? or who sentences
1480 16 | cup, I will not take the poisoned one, into which some certain
1481 6 | clay is offensive (for its poorness), it is now something else.
1482 22 | whilst every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with
1483 5 | whatever God has at all posposed or promised to man, is due
1484 13 | singularity, marvelous from its posthumous life, which renews its life
1485 2 | so I am obliged also to postpone the consideration of them,
1486 17 | of that judgment which is postponed to the last great day, in
1487 23 | is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord
1488 63conc| into these, but she is only poured into them, as into vessels.
1489 63conc| gracious providence, by "pouring out of His Spirit in these
1490 38 | THE DEAD, ATTESTED IN A PRACTICAL WAY THE DOCTRINE OF THE
1491 38 | is impossible for God to practise deception (weak as He only
1492 16 | he is ascribing certain praiseworthy actions to the flesh, he
1493 33 | applied to earnestness in prayer; or capable of being spontaneously
1494 5 | hand," for the sake of his pre-eminence, that so he might not be
1495 16 | judged (at the last day) pre-eminently as to how it has employed
1496 14 | such recovery must needs pre-exist. Admit then a sufficient
1497 44 | examine the words which precede the passage where mention
1498 26 | in that innocence which preceded the fall into sin. For how
1499 53 | a grave; nobody had yet preceived it "stink;" nobody for four
1500 45 | may satisfy the apostle's precepts? As for ourselves, we believe