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1001 21| would go away," what was Simon Peter's answer? "To whom
1002 1 | many were asleep in their simplicity of doctrine; but these tares
1003 30| parts of the earth. "He sitteth at the Father's right hand "
1004 6 | things) which are beneath the sky, I was by, arranging all
1005 26| after so many servants, and slain by the husbandmen, and avenged
1006 1 | carnally-minded, in whose society the transaction then took
1007 16| of waters, raining upon Sodom and Gomorrah fire and brimstone,
1008 13| Then the Lord rained upon Sodore and upon Gomorrah brimstone
1009 21| Father do; for what things soever He doeth these also doeth
1010 6 | Scriptures under the name of Sofia, Wisdom; for what can be
1011 29| For even if a river be soiled with mire and mud, alhough
1012 7 | have made things which are solid, and He who is void have
1013 21| very account that "the Jews sought the more intently to kill
1014 1 | tares had been moreover sown, and had produced their
1015 30| this effect: "If the Father spa. red not His own Son." This
1016 5 | for Himself universe, and space, and all things. Moreover,
1017 30| He "forsook" Him, in not sparing Him; "forsook" Him, in delivering
1018 14| with Moses, even as a man speaketh unto his friend; " just
1019 28| Christ, the bestower of spiritual gifts. And once for all,
1020 29| BLASPHEMOUS CONCLUSIONS SPRING FROM PRAXEAS' PREMISES.~
1021 23| is the authority whence springs belief in the Son. "And
1022 2 | is true, whereas that is spurious which is later in date.
1023 4 | But it remains so firm and stable in its own state, notwithstanding
1024 13| Most High;" and again, "God standeth in the congregation of gods;"
1025 23| of these crowds that are standing by that I have spoken to
1026 7 | even before the morning star did I beget Thee. The Son
1027 3 | majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation (of
1028 14| the Scripture is false in stating that God said, "If a man
1029 13| Christ: "The Sabaeans, men of stature, shall pass over to Thee;
1030 30| at His own. He is seen by Stephen, at his martyrdom by stoning,
1031 8 | intertwined and connected steps, does not at all disturb
1032 1 | hurt not thy foot against a stone." Or perhaps, after all,
1033 22| which did He deserve to be stoned. And to prevent their thinking
1034 1 | God, command that these stones be made bread." Again: "
1035 30| Stephen, at his martyrdom by stoning, still sitting at the right
1036 15| our view, that you may not straightway attribute to the Father
1037 7 | the works of God? which "strengthened the heavens;" "by which
1038 28| be some other Being who "strengtheneth the thunder, and createth
1039 22| All along did He therefore strenuously aim at this conclusion,
1040 24| me," He laid the greater stress on His question on this
1041 19| is in this sense that He stretches out the heavens alone, how
1042 18| with His Son, with whom "He stretcheth out the heavens alone." ~
1043 26| that chapter, are only in strict accord with that single
1044 30| answering you with greater stringency, and of meeting you with
1045 6 | Him; and when He made His strong places upon the winds, which
1046 7 | grammarians teach) air when struck against, intelligible to
1047 1 | and along with every other stumbling-block shall be burnt up with unquenchable
1048 4 | however, all things shall be subdued to Him, (with the exception
1049 22| who loves the Son, and submission on the Son's, who obeys
1050 19| either an angel or some subordinate agent sent to form external
1051 16| TESTAMENT; REHEARSALS OF HIS SUBSEQUENT INCARNATION.~But you must
1052 1 | We indeed, on our part, subsequently withdrew from the carnally-minded
1053 7 | allow Him to be really a substantive being, by having a substance
1054 29| yield Him nothing by this subterfuge of your fears. You are afraid
1055 27| THE PERSON OF THE SON. THE SUBTERFUGES OF PRAXEAS THUS EXPOSED.~
1056 29| the Father; and let this suffice, because the Scriptures
1057 24| Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." Then the Lord answered
1058 28| from His anointing, thus suggesting the proviso that Christ
1059 17| teach us) that they belonged suitably to the Son also, and that
1060 27| else such things as are suited neither to the Flesh nor
1061 22| inseparable? Indeed, this was the sum: and substance of what He
1062 13| name of" sun" even to a sunbeam, considered in itself; but
1063 13| although I make not two suns, still I shall reckon both
1064 23| up, and prayed, and made supplication of the Father; whither also
1065 14| THEIR DISTINCTNESS, THUS SUPPLIED.~Moreover, there comes to
1066 3 | destroyed, that it is actually supported by it. They are constantly
1067 2 | case of this heresy, which supposes itself to possess the pure
1068 25| the Father and the Son, supposing that they serve your views
1069 27| character. Nay more, on this supposition, either the Word underwent
1070 4 | UNITY OF THE GODHEAD AND THE SUPREMACY AND SOLE GOVERNMENT OF THE
1071 28| a name, and not rather a surname, or designation; for it
1072 2 | Holy Ghost. How they are susceptible of number without division,
1073 8 | cannot; nay, he is almost swallowed up and dissolved into the
1074 13| open to us, as soon as we swore by a plurality of gods and
1075 3 | power itself and the entire system of His monarchy, are the
1076 14| Gospel," Moses appeared talking with Jesus" it is evident
1077 27| which shall nevertheless tally with their own opinions:
1078 11| and an impostor, and a tamperer with His word, if, when
1079 23| CATHOLIC FAITH. PRAXEAS' TAUNT OF WORSHIPPING TWO GODS
1080 13| Paraclete, not of human teachers, do indeed definitively
1081 16| sufferings hunger and thirst, and tears, and actual birth and real
1082 19| be rejected, because it tells us that all things were
1083 14| a ray, by reason of the tempered condition of this portion
1084 21| God. When He entered the temple, He called it "His Father'
1085 16| He who dwelleth not in temples made with hands;" " from
1086 1 | no other purpose than to tempt Him that I approached Him.
1087 26| knew Him to be this in his temptations: "Since Thou art the Son
1088 16| He had lacked foresight; tempting Abraham, as if ignorant
1089 16| entered it; and at Abraham's tent should have refreshed Himself
1090 22| lastly, that (the predicate terminates in an abstract, not a personal
1091 25| this Gospel, at its very termination, intimate that these things
1092 27| however, it was only a tertium quid, some composite essence
1093 20| FEW. THEY ARE MENTIONED BY TERTULLIAN.~But I must take some further
1094 20| entire revelation of both Testaments yield to these three passages,
1095 28| gathered together." These then testified both that Jesus was the
1096 23| replies, for the purpose of testifying to the Son: "This is my
1097 28| to the Romans, he gives thanks to God through our Lord
1098 31| until John the Baptist, if thenceforward the Father, the Son, and
1099 19| PRAXEAS' IDENTIFICATION THEORY.~But this very declaration
1100 | thereby
1101 | therein
1102 25| when, "lifting up His eyes thereto," He commended His disciples
1103 11| IDENTITY OF THE FATHER AND THESON, AS PRAXEAS HELD IT, SHOWN
1104 7 | devise and think out all thinks under the name of Wisdom "
1105 27| the devil's temptation, thirsty with the Samaritan woman,
1106 28| Being who "strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind,
1107 15| all things were made by tile Son, and without Him was
1108 4 | Father; for He must reign till He hath put all enemies
1109 15| Father, however, he says to Timothy: "Whom none among men hath
1110 19| it that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh
1111 23| against us, it would be a more tolerable assertion than the maintenance
1112 11| Scripture, because we have a tolerably large accumulation of them
1113 16| tower, and dividing the tongues, punishing the whole world
1114 13| lords, we should quench our torches, and we should become less
1115 | towards
1116 16| throwing down the haughty tower, and dividing the tongues,
1117 5 | much more fully is all this transacted in God, whose image and
1118 1 | carnally-minded, in whose society the transaction then took place; afterwards
1119 27| either nature. But by a transfer of functions, the Spirit
1120 23| even in the Son's case, the treason which the devil wrought
1121 29| This likewise has been treated by us. Nor will any one
1122 2 | division, will be shown as our treatise proceeds.~
1123 25| question, and the Lord's whole treatment of it, to the end of John'
1124 16| before whose sight the earth trembles, and the mountains melt
1125 11| called my Son to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore
1126 27| wept over Lazarus, was troubled even unto death, and at
1127 12| Man (more surely and more truly so), had already caused
1128 19| and maketh diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making
1129 16| He who dwelleth in light unapproachable;" "He who dwelleth not in
1130 10| ignorant of it? Who also can be unaware that "the things which are
1131 27| needs believe God to be unchangeable, and incapable of form,
1132 27| ever," even by holding on unchangeably in His own proper form.
1133 9 | POINTS. ESPECIALLY IN THE UNCONFUSED DISTINCTION OF THE SEVERAL
1134 28| Anointed One, and receives the unction of course from another.
1135 30| flesh, the flesh cannot undergo the full extent of death,
1136 27| supposition, either the Word underwent death, or the flesh did
1137 19| stretched out the heaven alone." Undoubtedly alone as regards all other
1138 9 | in a wrong sense by every uneducated as well as every perversely
1139 8 | Father, and has Himself unfolded "the Father's bosom." He
1140 16| and therefore that it was uniformly one God, even the Father,
1141 26| the Holy Ghost, not into a unipersonal God. And indeed it is not
1142 12| own likeness," as being a unique and singular Being? In the
1143 27| WERE, WITHOUT CONFUSION, UNITED IN THE PERSON OF THE SON.
1144 22| puts on an equality and unites in one. He therefore adds
1145 27| dividing them rather than uniting them. For if Jesus is one,
1146 22| be either acknowledged or unknown without the other. "He that
1147 3 | not call them unwise and unlearned,) who always constitute
1148 1 | stumbling-block shall be burnt up with unquenchable fire.~
1149 13| mouth: not as if it were untrue that the Father is God,
1150 3 | indeed, (I will not call them unwise and unlearned,) who always
1151 1 | Phrygia, he, by importunately urging false accusations against
1152 | used
1153 18| you not have remarked how useless was such a statement, as
1154 5 | and therefore it is now usual with our people, owing to
1155 16| in no place; who is the utmost bound of the universe; how
1156 5 | reciprocity of process,) in uttering speech you generate thought.
1157 29| of God be in us, who also utters by our instrumentality whatever
1158 5 | V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SON
1159 7 | shalt not take God's name in vain." This for certain is He "
1160 3 | introduced, according to your Valentinuses and your Prodicuses. Then
1161 13| declared. If you are so venturesome and harsh, reflect a while;
1162 30| suffering of death. This verity the apostle also perceived,
1163 23| than the maintenance of so versatile and changeful a God as yours!
1164 6 | VI. THE WORD OF GOD IS ALSO
1165 25| resurrection and glorious victory over death. Now that all
1166 7 | VII. THE SON BY BEING DESIGNATED
1167 8 | VIII. THOUGH THE SON OR WORD
1168 19| for the express purpose of vindicating the unity of God, that unity
1169 26| parable of the mission to the vineyard of the Son (not the Father),
1170 16| punishing the whole world by the violence of waters, raining upon
1171 14| there is good reason why, in virtue indeed of the unity, the
1172 1 | for some while, with its vitality concealed under a mask,
1173 7 | garb, His own sound and vocal utterance, when God says, "
1174 23| not as many as there are voices? You have the Son on earth,
1175 13| worshippers of One God and the votaries of polytheism. For it was
1176 12| because He would not have waited to command Himself.~
1177 16| Most High, should yet have walked in paradise towards the
1178 28| for all, that we may not wander through every passage, He "
1179 6 | This, however, was still wanting to them, that they should
1180 24| Himself visible even by those wards and works whereby He abides
1181 29| and although it is the water of the fountain which suffers
1182 16| world by the violence of waters, raining upon Sodom and
1183 16| the mountains melt like wax; " who holdeth the whole
1184 16| them; and whatever other (weaknesses and imperfections) the heretics
1185 29| not without feeling the weight of it that "Christ died,"
1186 27| with the Samaritan woman, wept over Lazarus, was troubled
1187 18| is named without the Son whensoever He is defined as the principle (
1188 11| be unworthy of God, that, widen it was Himself to whom He
1189 1 | I. SATAN'S WILES AGAINST THE TRUTH. HOW THEY
1190 10| it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be
1191 28| thunder, and createth the wind, and declareth unto men
1192 6 | His strong places upon the winds, which are the clouds above;
1193 26| from His very boyhood: "Wist ye not," says He, "that
1194 13| certainly should at once withdraw the name of sun from the
1195 3 | their very rule of faith withdraws them from the world's plurality
1196 1 | on our part, subsequently withdrew from the carnally-minded
1197 14| THE VISIBILITY OF THE SON WITNESSED IN MANY PASSAGES OF THE
1198 27| miracles, and mighty deeds, and wonders; and the Flesh, on the other
1199 21| impotent man, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." "
1200 13| fetters; and they shall worship Thee, because God is in
1201 23| FAITH. PRAXEAS' TAUNT OF WORSHIPPING TWO GODS REPUDIATED.~Again,
1202 21| shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.''
1203 28| AGREES WITH OTHER SACRED WRITERS.~And so, most foolish heretic,
1204 30| also perceived, when he writes to this effect: "If the
1205 28| Lord Jesus Christ." When writing to the Romans, he gives
1206 9 | statement is taken in a wrong sense by every uneducated
1207 23| treason which the devil wrought against Him contributed
1208 11| XI. THE IDENTITY OF THE FATHER
1209 12| XII. OTHER QUOTATIONS FROM HOLY
1210 13| XIII. THE FORCE OF SUNDRY PASSAGES
1211 14| XIV. THE NATURAL INVISIBILITY
1212 19| XIX. THE SON IN UNION WITH THE
1213 15| XV. NEW TESTAMENT PASSAGES
1214 16| XVI. EARLY MANIFESTATIONS OF
1215 17| XVII. SUNDRY AUGUST TITLES, DESCRIPTIVE
1216 18| XVIII. THE DESIGNATION OF THE
1217 20| XX. THE SCRIPTURES RELIED ON
1218 21| XXI. IN THIS AND THE FOUR FOLLOWING
1219 22| XXII. SUNDRY PASSAGES OF ST.
1220 23| XXIII. MORE PASSAGES FROM THE
1221 24| XXIV. ON ST. PHILIP'S CONVERSATION
1222 29| XXIX. IT WAS CHRIST THAT DIED,
1223 25| XXV. THE PARACLETE, OR HOLY
1224 26| XXVI. A BRIEF REFERENCE TO THE
1225 27| XXVII. THE DISTINCTION OF THE
1226 28| XXVIII. CHRIST NOT THE FATHER,
1227 30| XXX. HOW THE SON WAS FORSAKEN
1228 31| XXXI. RETROGRADE CHARACTER OF
1229 6 | been planned and disposed, yea, and already made, so far
1230 2 | Praxeas, a pretender of yesterday, will be apparent both from