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501 | hereby
502 1 | Rome from Asia this kind of heretical pravity, a man in other
503 28| Thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with
504 | herself
505 11| Lord of all things, have hesitated to speak thus of Himself,
506 18| IN THE FATHER.~But what hinders them from readily perceiving
507 21| man, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." "My Father
508 16| mountains melt like wax; " who holdeth the whole world in His hand "
509 24| preference to the Father, and honoured the Father. This, then,
510 29| blasphemy against the Father, hope to diminish it by this expedient:
511 25| all the restraint of His humiliation is taken away, He might,
512 1 | bear thee up, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone."
513 10| instance, in order to be a husband, I must have a wife; I can
514 25| that "the Father, being the husbandman," must surely have been
515 26| servants, and slain by the husbandmen, and avenged by the Father.
516 18| PRECLUDE THE CORRELATIVE IDEA OF THE SON OF GOD. THE SON
517 19| OPPOSED ONLY TO PRAXEAS' IDENTIFICATION THEORY.~But this very declaration
518 28| one given, then Jesus is identified with Him, because the Anointed
519 24| was the object of their ignorance, wished Himself to be acknowledged
520 2 | II. THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE OF
521 3 | III. SUNDRY POPULAR FEARS AND
522 8 | GHOST SEPARABLE FROM EITHER. ILLUSTRATIONS FROM NATURE.~If any man
523 14| cannot be seen except in an imaginary form. But, (they say,) He
524 10| harshly in our capricious imaginations, we may then make out God
525 17| Meanwhile, let this be my immediate answer to the argument which
526 26| three times, that we are immersed into the Three Persons,
527 15| ampler terms: "Who only hath immortality, and dwelleth in the light
528 4 | No one, therefore, will impair it, on account of admitting
529 4 | THE MONARCHY NOT AT ALL IMPAIRED BY THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE.~
530 30| uttered so as to prove the impassibility of God, who "forsook" His
531 7 | WISDOM, (ACCORDING TO THE IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE)
532 16| whatever other (weaknesses and imperfections) the heretics lay hold of (
533 15| although it was not without imperilling his sight that he experienced
534 1 | For he was the first to import into Rome from Asia this
535 1 | Asia and Phrygia, he, by importunately urging false accusations
536 11| out to be a liar, and an impostor, and a tamperer with His
537 21| respecting the cure of the impotent man, "My Father worketh
538 5 | of your thought, at every impulse of your conception. Whatever
539 16| Son of God, which you are imputing to the very Father Himself,
540 22| of which they were making in-quiry whether He were the Christ
541 26| particular substance. Power is incidental to the Spirit, but cannot
542 5 | both in company with and included within His very Reason,
543 10| from the other since by including both together in one under
544 28| FATHER, AS PRAXEAS SAID. THE INCONSISTENCY OF THIS OPINION, NO LESS
545 11| Psalm: "O Lord, how are they increased that trouble me !" But almost
546 25| curiosity, nor with Thomas' incredulity. But not so; Jesus saith
547 24| Thomas, who was so long incredulous, said: "Lord, we know not
548 29| heretics, indeed, fearing to incur direct blasphemy against
549 22| opinion. Unus, no doubt, indicates the singular number; but (
550 3 | meaning than single and individual rule; but for all that,
551 22| they take their stand, too infatuated, nay, too blind, to see
552 13| may not, as you perversely infer, be Himself believed to
553 9 | than I." In the Psalm His inferiority is described as being "a
554 1 | disposition, and above all inflated with the pride of confessorship
555 20| rule of faith without any infraction of the unity of the Godhead,
556 13| righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, even Thy
557 7 | appellation of the Word, which was initiated for the works of God? which "
558 29| from the fountain, yet the injury which affects the stream
559 30| and also descends to the inner parts of the earth. "He
560 10| has not done. But we must inquire whether He has really done
561 21| Lord. To those also who inquired "what the should do to work
562 22| God?" Then, upon the man's inquiring who He was, He proceeded
563 22| but that, by reason of the inseparability of the Two, it was impossible
564 22| teaching them, that they were inseparably Two; since, after citing
565 13| grace of God possess an insight into both the times and
566 26| they do not hesitate to insinuate what, if it had been true,
567 13| HERE, SINCE THE UNITY IS INSISTED ON AS A REMEDY AGAINST POLYTHEISM.~
568 1 | and their churches, and insisting on the authority of the
569 4 | passage of the epistle of the inspired apostle, we have been already
570 11| Father, and again in other instances to the (Holy) Spirit.~
571 30| after so commending it, He instantly died; and as the Spirit
572 | instead
573 1 | beginning, and whatever man he instigates in his own way; as, for
574 2 | heretics), with a view to the instruction and protection of divers
575 29| who also utters by our instrumentality whatever pertains to our
576 3 | substance, pledges of His love, instruments of His might, nay, His power
577 19| unity of His is preserved intact; for He is one, and yet
578 7 | air when struck against, intelligible to the ear, but for the
579 16| feelings and affections were, intending as He always did to take
580 21| the Jews sought the more intently to kill Him, not only because
581 24| whom, after His lengthened intercourse with them, they were ignorant
582 18| Father took care of the Son's interests, that Christ should not
583 5 | you admit speech as an interlocutor with you, involved in which
584 5 | owing to the mere simple interpretation of the term, to say that
585 5 | the Scriptures, and the interpretations which guard them. There
586 8 | from the Father through intertwined and connected steps, does
587 25| at its very termination, intimate that these things were ever
588 8 | which He had known most intimately, even from the beginning. "
589 22| there is in this passage an intimation of Two Beings "I and my
590 8 | this shall think that I am introducing some probolê that is to
591 4 | state, notwithstanding the introduction into it of the Trinity,
592 2 | keeping this prescriptive rule inviolate, still some opportunity
593 13| the Son, are alike to be invoked, I shall call the Father "
594 13| children of light," adoring and invoking Him who is the One God and
595 3 | of the Monarchy, since it involves the destruction of the Creator.~
596 3 | if the Unity itself with irrational deductions did not produce
597 12| second. But still He did issue the command, although He
598 1 | pacific letter which he had issued, as well as to desist from
599 12| indeed, He would not be issuing a command if He were all
600 4 | IV. THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD
601 9 | IX. THE CATHOLIC RULE OF FAITH
602 15| befell Peter, and John, and James, (who confronted not the
603 22| Son, because they read in Jeremiah, "And the Lord said to me,
604 31| bears a likeness) to the Jewish faith, of which this is
605 16| Him in the sepulchre of Joseph. Hence, therefore, their
606 31| GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY.~But, (
607 23| devil put into the heart of Judas was the betrayal, not of
608 2 | and that He will come to judge the quick and the dead;
609 16| set Him before Pilate's judgment-seat, and bury Him in the sepulchre
610 13| God and Lord, Christ would justly enough be inadmissible to
611 2 | which is later in date. But keeping this prescriptive rule inviolate,
612 6 | also be openly known, and kept permanently in their proper
613 14| be some other face which kills if it be only seen. Well,
614 24| upbraiding Philip for not knowing Himself who was the object
615 16| had made man, as if He had lacked foresight; tempting Abraham,
616 24| and the Father in me," He laid the greater stress on His
617 1 | their seed, which having lain hid for some while, with
618 21| John (the Baptist) as "the Lamb of God," He is not described
619 11| because we have a tolerably large accumulation of them in
620 26| natural sense. I will not here largely use the support of the other
621 31| the Law anti the Prophets lasted until John the Baptist,
622 2 | be apparent both from the lateness of date which marks all
623 | latter
624 13| suffered, which it is not lawful to believe, forasmuch as
625 27| Samaritan woman, wept over Lazarus, was troubled even unto
626 30| the new prophecy; and "the Leader into all truth," such as
627 2 | instructed by the Paraclete, who leads men indeed into all truth),
628 23| given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know when
629 10| inasmuch as I ought to leave one of these relations in
630 5 | no ground for this, I am led to other arguments derived
631 24| the Father whom, after His lengthened intercourse with them, they
632 12| God made a greater and a lesser light." But all the rest
633 1 | him to recall the pacific letter which he had issued, as
634 16| rehearsing), in order to level for us the way of faith,
635 7 | HUMAN THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE) LIABLE TO BE DEEMED A MERE ATTRIBUTE.
636 25| Son as in heaven, when, "lifting up His eyes thereto," He
637 12| that true light, which lighteth man on his coming into the
638 12| also said. "Let there be lights (in the firmament); and
639 10| it. God could, if He had liked, have furnished man with
640 | likely
641 27| EXPOSED.~But why should I linger over matters which are so
642 5 | Consciousness) which the Greeks call logos, by which term we also designate
643 8 | not know the Father: he longs, indeed, to know Him, but
644 15| light) without risking the loss of their reason and mind;
645 11| was at any rate afraid of lying. Of Himself, too, and of
646 19| liars, and maketh diviners mad, turning wise men backward,
647 25| faithful a woman (as Mary Magdalene) when she approached to
648 17| are not. As to the point maintained by them, that the name of
649 3 | who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled
650 12| was only one who was the Maker, and if there was not also
651 18| distinct reference to the makers of idols and the worshippers
652 19| tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad, turning wise
653 29| was crucified, we do not malign Him with a curse; we only
654 24| mighty works, and not in the manifestation of His person. If, indeed,
655 16| XVI. EARLY MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD, AS RECORDED
656 13| and Himself declaring and manifesting the Father more fully (than
657 3 | Creator, as in the opinions of Marcion; or when many gods are introduced,
658 2 | the lateness of date which marks all heresies, and also from
659 23| REPUDIATED.~Again, when Martha in a later passage acknowledged
660 13| courageous to endure the martyr's sufferings, from which
661 30| seen by Stephen, at his martyrdom by stoning, still sitting
662 21| than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth
663 22| still the subject in the masculine gender. He accordingly says
664 1 | vitality concealed under a mask, has now broken out with
665 20| for them) in the general mass, they pertinaciously set
666 27| why should I linger over matters which are so evident, when
667 1 | of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla, and, in consequence of
668 11| the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be their salvation to the
669 21| He says, therefore," My meat is to do the will of Him
670 27| the apostle calls Him "the Mediator between God and Men,"" and
671 25| had not these passages, we meet with satisfactory evidence)
672 30| greater stringency, and of meeting you with the exclamation
673 5 | you by your reason, which meets you with a word at every
674 16| trembles, and the mountains melt like wax; " who holdeth
675 3 | Those, who are naturally members of the Father's own substance,
676 13| in itself; but if I were mentioning the sun from which the ray
677 21| Samaria? Was it not "the Messias which is called Christ?''
678 18| self-contradictory. It has a method of its own, both when it
679 8 | heresy, when in any point it mimics the truth. The question
680 12| the Trinity, as with His ministers and witnesses In the following
681 21| CHAPTERS IT IS SHEWN, BY A MINUTE ANALYSIS OF ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL,
682 27| suitable to Itself, such as miracles, and mighty deeds, and wonders;
683 29| if a river be soiled with mire and mud, alhough it flows
684 14| that He says to Aaron and Miriam, "And if there shall be
685 3 | UNITY RESCUED FROM THESE MISAPPREHENSIONS.~The simple, indeed, (I
686 11| the Same. So absurd arid misleading a statement would be unworthy
687 14| Either way, the Scripture misleads us, when it makes God invisible,
688 19| was made. And if I am not mistaken, there is also another passage
689 27| flesh and spirit, a kind of mixture, like electrum, composed
690 27| immortal, or the Word was modal. Forasmuch, however, as
691 16| furnace of the Babylonian monarch (although He is there called
692 10| which the most conceited "Monarchians" maintain. He Himself, they
693 1 | acknowledged the prophetic gifts of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla,
694 15| qualities to the Son Himself mortality, accessibility of whom the
695 8 | from Truth, in order to mould it into its own counterfeit.
696 14| in the retirement of the mount (of transfiguration), when
697 5 | you with a word at every movement of your thought, at every
698 29| be soiled with mire and mud, alhough it flows from the
699 9 | severance, but a disposition (of mutual relations in the Godhead);
700 26| God,) and by not directly naming God, he wished that portion
701 22| Him." And the Scripture narrative goes on to explain in an
702 17| committed the destiny of that nation; and is likewise "the One
703 3 | suppose that Those, who are naturally members of the Father's
704 27| THE DISTINCTION OF THE TWO NATURES, WHICH WERE, WITHOUT CONFUSION,
705 18| you will find that they nearly always have distinct reference
706 12| to acknowledge, from the necessity of the case, that He who
707 16| world in His hand "like a nest;" "whose throne is heaven,
708 22| accordingly says Unum, a neuter term, which does not imply
709 2 | absolutely novel character of our new-fangled Praxeas. In this principle
710 10| day is not the same as the night; nor is the Father the same
711 16| have shut up the ark after Noah had entered it; and at Abraham'
712 4 | stable in its own state, notwithstanding the introduction into it
713 22| abstract, not a personal noun) "we are one thing" Unum,
714 2 | also from the absolutely novel character of our new-fangled
715 | nowhere
716 3 | with His own oikonomia. The numerical order and distribution of
717 16| refreshed Himself under an oak; and have called to Moses
718 22| submission on the Son's, who obeys the Father's will. When
719 7 | He may be regarded as an objective thing and a person, and
720 9 | Spirit. I am, moreover, obliged to say this, when (extolling
721 27| points on which they seek to obscure the plainest proof? For,
722 13| Economy would be involved in obscurity, which has been planned
723 9 | by reason of the order observed in the Economy. Besides,
724 4 | thus see that the Son is no obstacle to the Monarchy, although
725 23| Persons do you discover, obstinate Praxeas? Are there not as
726 21| believed on Him, should obtain the life (everlasting,)
727 14| that authority which He obtains as the begotten of the Father?
728 20| the other points, which obviously maintain the rule of faith
729 13| into both the times and the occasions of the Sacred Writings,
730 28| be the name Jesus which occurs alone, Christ is also understood,
731 | off
732 29| Scriptures, and so remove offence from the reader. Now, although
733 30| delivered Him up for our offences." In this manner He "forsook"
734 12| number of the Trinity also offends you, as if it were not connected
735 23| glorify Thee again." The Son offers His request from earth,
736 3 | it has itself provided as officials to itself. If, moreover,
737 | often
738 2 | even before any of the older heretics, much more before
739 24| of the Father. And yet He omitted not to explain how the Father
740 13| the Lord on the true and one-only Son of God. Very well! you
741 13| escape would everywhere lie open to us, as soon as we swore
742 5 | allege that even Genesis opens thus in Hebrew: "In the
743 27| them severally their own operations, and their own issues. Learn
744 14| indeed He really had, (as our opponents suppose.) Or what is that
745 6 | which He had planned and ordered within Himself, in conjunction
746 12| the work Himself, while ordering it to be done by the second.
747 | others
748 | ours
749 5 | now usual with our people, owing to the mere simple interpretation
750 1 | compelled him to recall the pacific letter which he had issued,
751 26| Father. He also introduces a parable of the mission to the vineyard
752 13| expressed in allegories and parables, but in determinate and
753 16| should yet have walked in paradise towards the coal of the
754 8 | every original source is a parent, and everything which issues
755 15| coming in) the flesh? And by parity of reasoning, if He is the
756 27| Men,"" and so affirmed His participation of both substances. Now,
757 26| but the accidents of the particular substance. Power is incidental
758 21| into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. Verily
759 30| exclaiming in the midst of His passion: "My God, my God, why hast
760 23| before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that the Father
761 16| if we knew that in times past also something similar had
762 1 | acknowledgment, had bestowed his peace on the churches of Asia
763 18| hinders them from readily perceiving this community of the Father'
764 | perhaps
765 21| believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
766 6 | be openly known, and kept permanently in their proper forms and
767 14| existence; even as it is not permitted us to contemplate, the sun,
768 11| IT, SHOWN TO BE FULL OF PERPLEXITY AND ABSURDITY. MANY SCRIPTURES
769 30| HOLY GHOST.~However, if you persist in pushing your views further,
770 14| propriety in saying of some personage greater (than yourself),
771 7 | through Him, He Himself (personally) made. How could it be,
772 29| instrumentality whatever pertains to our own conduct and suffering;
773 20| in the general mass, they pertinaciously set off the few against
774 2 | it may not seem that each perversion of the truth is condemned
775 19| of His they will hastily pervert into an argument of His
776 15| not be supposed to be a phantom, was actually handled. Him,
777 22| me." When, likewise, the Pharisees sent men to apprehend Him,
778 1 | the churches of Asia and Phrygia, he, by importunately urging
779 2 | the Unity into a Trinity, placing in their order the three
780 27| they seek to obscure the plainest proof? For, confuted on
781 6 | ACCORDING TO THE DIVINE PLAN.~This power and disposition
782 5 | Now, whilst He was thus planning and arranging with His own
783 11| the part of His Son to be played by another, when all the
784 10| to have done anything we please, on the ground that it was
785 7 | excellent Word." The father took pleasure evermore in Him, who equally
786 26| resurrection He promises in a pledge to His disciples that He
787 3 | Father's own substance, pledges of His love, instruments
788 22| assurance) that no man should pluck them out of His hand, He
789 1 | actually seemed to have been plucked up, having been discovered
790 12| or amusing us in speaking plurally, if He is One only and singular.
791 28| anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles
792 3 | III. SUNDRY POPULAR FEARS AND PREJUDICES. THE
793 19| these heretics assume their position so perversely, as to render
794 23| own names and persons and positions. "Then again, Jesus exclaims,
795 5 | this distinction is of any practical moment. For although God
796 1 | Asia this kind of heretical pravity, a man in other respects
797 1 | THEY TAKE THE FORM OF THE PRAXEAN HERESY. ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION
798 28| the apostle in his epistle prays, "That the God of our Lord
799 3 | they take to themselves pre-eminently the credit of being worshippers
800 3 | out against us that we are preachers of two gods and three gods,
801 2 | Almighty, whom in their preaching they declare to be Jesus
802 21| comes at once to hand the preamble of John to his Gospel, which
803 21| His own bosom. For this is preceded by another statement: "No
804 14| they maintain) because in a preceding passage, before He had refused (
805 1 | authority of the bishop's predecessors in the see, compelled him
806 28| latter is only an adjunct, predicable of Him from His anointing,
807 29| there is no blasphemy in predicating of the subject that which
808 24| character was He anciently predicted, in this was He also declared
809 3 | right in so thinking. I prefer your exercising yourself
810 24| named the Father, and gave preference to the Father, and honoured
811 2 | examination, and simply prejudged; especially in the case
812 3 | SUNDRY POPULAR FEARS AND PREJUDICES. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
813 29| CONCLUSIONS SPRING FROM PRAXEAS' PREMISES.~Silence ! Silence on such
814 19| powers; and He thus gives a premonitory evidence against the conjectures
815 20| for every case, gives its prescription against the later assumptions,
816 10| both together in one under pretence of the Monarchy, he causes
817 15| of the adversary, (which pretended) that he had seen the Father
818 2 | much more before Praxeas, a pretender of yesterday, will be apparent
819 26| a cavil; but truth will prevail. Of course, they say, the
820 1 | above all inflated with the pride of confessorship simply
821 5 | proves to have been the prior existence as being its own
822 1 | prophetic gifts of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla, and, in
823 1 | time the annoyance of a prison; on which occasion, even "
824 8 | sun the ray. For these are probolai, or emanations, of the substances
825 8 | that I am introducing some probolê that is to say, some prolation
826 3 | your Valentinuses and your Prodicuses. Then it amounts to an overthrow
827 5 | are (by reciprocal action) producing thought by means of that
828 9 | the rule of faith which I profess; by it I testify that the
829 24| regarded, having always professed Himself to be the Son, and
830 1 | be burned, it would have profiled him nothing," not having
831 14| of this portion which is projected from him to the earth. Here
832 8 | divides and separates his prolations from their Author, and places
833 26| accord with that single and prominent statement, which must be
834 30| received from the Father the promised gift, and has shed it forth,
835 3 | was as complete as their pronunciation of the term. Well, then
836 27| incarnate for He is not properly flesh, and it was flesh
837 11| almost all the Psalms which prophesy of the person of Christ,
838 22| afforded them in these words to propound their heresy of His separation;
839 23| Himself; and even though prostrated to the earth, and put to
840 2 | view to the instruction and protection of divers persons; were
841 18| SCRIPTURES. INTENDED AS A PROTEST AGAINST HEATHEN IDOLATRY,
842 10| this) when you shall have proved to us that He actually did
843 3 | and whom it has itself provided as officials to itself.
844 26| wisdom (of God) and the providence (of God) is not God: these
845 13| clear a foresight in His providential dispensation as matter for
846 28| anointing, thus suggesting the proviso that Christ must be the
847 26| things from the wise and prudent." He, moreover, affirms
848 11| me !" But almost all the Psalms which prophesy of the person
849 1 | PRAXEAN HERESY. ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF THIS HERESY.~IN various
850 16| and dividing the tongues, punishing the whole world by the violence
851 2 | supposes itself to possess the pure truth, in thinking that
852 12| Spirit in the Word, that He purposely adopted the plural phrase, "
853 30| However, if you persist in pushing your views further, I shall
854 15| apply even the contrary qualities to the Son Himself mortality,
855 26| may possibly be such in quality exactly as the personal
856 13| gods and lords, we should quench our torches, and we should
857 16| coal of the evening, in quest of Adam; and should have
858 2 | He will come to judge the quick and the dead; who sent also
859 28| Father, or even from the quickened Father, if Christ who died
860 28| must certainly be, as the quickener, different from the dead
861 27| however, it was only a tertium quid, some composite essence
862 28| and the rulers. And if, to quote another passage, "Thus saith
863 13| Genesis: "Then the Lord rained upon Sodore and upon Gomorrah
864 16| the violence of waters, raining upon Sodom and Gomorrah
865 21| marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth
866 19| never have had order or rank. Therefore, if they have
867 5 | I may therefore without rashness first lay this down (as
868 3 | heresy, and the Trinity rationally considered constitute the
869 29| Him with a curse; we only re-affirm the curse pronounced by
870 29| which affects the stream reaches not to the fountain; and
871 8 | of such a term, and its reality and meaning, because heresy
872 20| take some further pains to rebut their arguments, when they
873 1 | the see, compelled him to recall the pacific letter which
874 25| already shown, "He shall receive of mine," says Christ, just
875 10| and they who thus become reciprocally related out of each other
876 5 | through which also, (by reciprocity of process,) in uttering
877 14| of His majesty, while we recognise the Son as visible by reason
878 7 | name of Son; and while I recognize the Son, I assert His distinction
879 15| Invisible? In order, however, to reconcile this diversity between the
880 16| offended with persons, and then reconciled to them; and whatever other (
881 16| MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD, AS RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; REHEARSALS
882 30| effect: "If the Father spa. red not His own Son." This did
883 1 | charge concerning thee" referring no doubt, to the Father "
884 13| so venturesome and harsh, reflect a while; and that you may
885 8 | Truth must not therefore refrain from the use of such a term,
886 16| Abraham's tent should have refreshed Himself under an oak; and
887 27| to Him. However, another refutation awaits them on this point
888 5 | would be more suitable to regard Reason as the more ancient;
889 19| alone." Undoubtedly alone as regards all other powers; and He
890 14| the Son as being Two, that regulating principle which has determined
891 16| RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; REHEARSALS OF HIS SUBSEQUENT INCARNATION.~
892 16| He was thus learning (or rehearsing), in order to level for
893 4 | the Father; for He must reign till He hath put all enemies
894 21| that He Himself would not reject them," because He had come
895 6 | delighted; and daily, too, did I rejoice in His presence." Now, as
896 16| that only the works which relate to the (creation of the)
897 21| is the Son. This (divine relationship) Nathanael at once recognised
898 20| XX. THE SCRIPTURES RELIED ON BY PRAXEAS TO SUPPORT
899 30| died; and as the Spirit remained with the flesh, the flesh
900 27| and "the Word of the Lord remaineth for ever," even by holding
901 1 | handwriting in evidence remaining among the carnally-minded,
902 4 | pleased God to employ. But it remains so firm and stable in its
903 18| ray," would you not have remarked how useless was such a statement,
904 21| whilst to the Jews He remarks respecting the cure of the
905 13| UNITY IS INSISTED ON AS A REMEDY AGAINST POLYTHEISM.~Well
906 24| ought at the moment to have remembered: "No man shall see God,
907 29| of the Scriptures, and so remove offence from the reader.
908 22| one Person," He might have rendered some assistance to their
909 31| God? God was pleased to renew His covenant with man in
910 1 | faith, teaching it after his renunciation of error; and there is his
911 15| by the apostles? How, I repeat, can all this be, unless
912 16| Where art thou, Adam? " repenting that He had made man, as
913 23| the Father from heaven replies, for the purpose of testifying
914 24| might be regarded as the representative of the Father. And yet He
915 22| and my Father are One," representing Himself as the Father's
916 24| as that Being whom He had reproached them for being ignorant
917 1 | after all, he was only reproaching the Gospels with a lie,
918 24| God, and live." So he is reproved for desiring to see the
919 23| OF WORSHIPPING TWO GODS REPUDIATED.~Again, when Martha in a
920 22| sanction of the law, which requires not the testimony of one,
921 18| Scripture is not in danger of requiring the aid of any one's argument,
922 3 | OF THE TRINITY IN UNITY RESCUED FROM THESE MISAPPREHENSIONS.~
923 14| face." Since, therefore, He reserves to some future time His
924 27| in which He was Spirit, reserving for the flesh the appellation "
925 15| INVISIBILITY.~If I fail in resolving this article (of our faith)
926 6 | to put forth into their respective substances and forms the
927 1 | man in other respects of restless disposition, and above all
928 25| death. Now that all the restraint of His humiliation is taken
929 1 | Praxeas had deliberately resumed his old (true) faith, teaching
930 26| understood, which was about to retire into the designation of "
931 14| afterwards fulfilled in the retirement of the mount (of transfiguration),
932 31| XXXI. RETROGRADE CHARACTER OF THE HERESY
933 23| forth from Himself, and had returned to Himself; so that what
934 2 | opportunity must be given for reviewing (the statements of heretics),
935 18| possible for it to have rightly determined that God is only
936 30| Son, then, both dies and rises again, according to the
937 15| the same light) without risking the loss of their reason
938 3 | itself (and is therefore a rival), is brought in over and
939 1 | various ways has the devil rivalled and resisted the truth.
940 7 | form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." In
941 28| Christ." When writing to the Romans, he gives thanks to God
942 1 | life. But again shall it be rooted up, if the Lord will, even
943 24| we come to Philip, who, roused with the expectation of
944 13| reason of the sceptre's royal power. Accordingly, Isaiah
945 14| seen Him for (the sentence runs), "No man shall see God,
946 13| the Person of Christ: "The Sabaeans, men of stature, shall pass
947 21| only because He broke the Sabbath, but also because He said
948 25| commended His disciples to the safe-keeping of the Father. We have,
949 24| believe me for my works' sake;" meaning those works by
950 11| that Thou mayest be their salvation to the end of the earth. "
951 21| He reveal to the woman of Samaria? Was it not "the Messias
952 27| temptation, thirsty with the Samaritan woman, wept over Lazarus,
953 22| Him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world,
954 2 | Ghost, the Paraclete, the sanctifier of the faith of those who
955 12| on the other, who was to sanctify man. With these did He then
956 25| these passages, we meet with satisfactory evidence) after His resurrection
957 23| What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for
958 21| world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him
959 29| Let us be content with saving that Christ died, the Son
960 27| learnt, I suppose, in the school of Valentinus, making two
961 22| when to speak a word in season." In accordance with which,
962 21| Father did not divulge the secrets of His own bosom. For this
963 5 | Thus shall the truth itself secure its own sanction from the
964 6 | clouds above; and when He secured the fountains, (and all
965 | seemed
966 | seems
967 22| Father. Some persons indeed seize the opportunity afforded
968 20| arguments, when they make selections from the Scriptures in support
969 18| lest it should seem to be self-contradictory. It has a method of its
970 23| lower than the angels," by sending Him down to the earth, but
971 9 | is another; He, too, who sends is one, and He who is sent
972 14| they had seen Him for (the sentence runs), "No man shall see
973 24| the Father as if He were separately visible, and that the Son
974 8 | Valentinus divides and separates his prolations from their
975 16| judgment-seat, and bury Him in the sepulchre of Joseph. Hence, therefore,
976 1 | Jesus Christ. Here the old serpent has fallen out with himself,
977 26| who was sent after so many servants, and slain by the husbandmen,
978 25| Son, supposing that they serve your views therein, you
979 1 | this Praxeas did a twofold service for the devil at Rome: he
980 30| OF CHRIST, HIS ASCENSION, SESSION AT THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND,
981 8 | But still the tree is not severed from the root, nor the river
982 10| devil this excluding and severing one from the other since
983 1 | Praxeas had then everywhere shaken out their seed, which having
984 | shalt
985 21| at any time, nor seen His shape;" thus affirming that in
986 3 | the son also be taken as a sharer in it; but it is as to its
987 30| the promised gift, and has shed it forth, even the Holy
988 22| Then, again, concerning His sheep, and (the assurance) that
989 21| FOLLOWING CHAPTERS IT IS SHEWN, BY A MINUTE ANALYSIS OF
990 13| right that Christians should shine in the world as "children
991 28| proper name than Clothed or Shod; it is only an accessory
992 11| thing for Thee, that Thou shouldest be called my Son to raise
993 21| Father loveth the Son, and showeth Him all things that He Himself
994 16| of Adam; and should have shut up the ark after Noah had
995 27| proof? For, confuted on all sides on the distinction between
996 28| or designation; for it signifies "Anointed." But Anointed
997 9 | the Paraclete, so as to signify not a division or severance,
998 5 | Himself even while He is silent, and involved in that Reason
999 16| times past also something similar had been done. For as it
1000 12| formed of clay the image and similitude of the true and perfect