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501 VII | servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen
502 IX | as a dove, a simple and joyous creature, not bitter with
503 XV | deserve well of God the Judge; we must obey His precepts
504 XV | observance of the right and just way. The Lord denounces,
505 XXV | new assembly of believers, keeping the Lord's commandments,
506 VI | sanctity of one couch. She keeps us for God. She appoints
507 IV | will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven;
508 IX | concord of peace with the kiss of the beak, in all things
509 XV | profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
510 XXVII| Lord, that when He shall knock, our faith may be on the
511 XXVII| that when He cometh and knocketh, they may open to Him. Blessed
512 XVII | false sacrifices, and not to know that he who strives against
513 IX | loving human dwellings, knowing the association of one home;
514 XVI | and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. And as Jannes
515 IX | simplicity that ought to be known in the Church, this is the
516 XVIII| XVIII.~Thus Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, who
517 XXVI | righteousness, in love, in labour; none considers the fear
518 XXIII| entrails wrenched asunder by laceration. Whatever has proceeded
519 XVI | lead captive silly women laden with sins, which are led
520 VIII | the Exodus than that the lamb which is slain in the figure
521 IX | meekness may be like the lambs and sheep. What does the
522 III | with eternal health, the lame might run to the church,
523 XIX | that he has sinned, and laments and bewails it; the other,
524 XXVII| loins be girt, and your lamps burning; and ye yourselves
525 XV | is the first commandment; land the second is like unto
526 III | idols forsaken, and his lanes and his temples deserted
527 | latter
528 XII | in His commandments He lays it down, and says, "Where
529 XVI | with divers lusts; ever learning, and never coming to the
530 XXIV | this one, saying, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
531 XVI | laden with sins, which are led away with divers lusts;
532 IV | things, there is no need for lengthened discussion and arguments.
533 XX | confessors advance to these lengths, and thence also that some
534 XVIII| forehead by the spot of leprosy: he was marked by an offended
535 XXII | true, though every man be a liar." The greater and better
536 V | broadly expands her rivers, liberally flowing, yet her head is
537 X | the choice of one's own liberty remains, so that while the
538 XVI | and more; senselessness lifts up, envy inflames, covetousness
539 II | and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, that
540 XXIV | tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile.
541 XXVII| the slumber of our ancient listlessness, let us be watchful to observe
542 XIV | fires, or lay down their lives, thrown to the wild beasts,
543 XXVII| to be, saying, "Let your loins be girt, and your lamps
544 VI | he is an enemy. He can no longer have God for his Father,
545 XXVI | And therefore the Lord, look ing to our days, says in
546 arg | HEAD OF THE CHURCH, IS NOT LOOKED TO, THAT THE COMMON COMMISSION
547 VIII | rend it--the garment of the Lord--the Church of Christ? He
548 XI | Begotten of perfidy, they lose the grace of faith. They
549 XXIII| detached condition, but loses the substance of health.~
550 XIX | In the former, it is the loss of one soul; in the latter,
551 XX | forsook the Lord's way he lost also then Lord's grace.
552 XIV | one another even as I have loved you:" he cannot attain who
553 XXIV | ensue it. He who knows and loves the bond of charity, ought
554 XIV | provoked, thinketh no evil; loveth all things, believeth all
555 IX | the rending of its claws, loving human dwellings, knowing
556 XXI | a confessor, let him be lowly and quiet; let him be in
557 XVI | are led away with divers lusts; ever learning, and never
558 I | deceived; and flattering with lying words, he misled inexperienced
559 XIV | profiteth me nothing. Charity is magnanimous; charity is kind; charity
560 XXII | they are as praiseworthy in maintaining the peace of Christ, as
561 | makes
562 VIII | Psalms, saying, "God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind
563 XVIII| spot of leprosy: he was marked by an offended Lord in that
564 XII | placed them again in the market-place, that they might declare
565 XIX | subsequently attained to martyrdom, may receive the promises
566 XX | XX.~Nor let any one marvel, beloved brethren, that
567 XXV | prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
568 III | teaching of the heavenly Master.~
569 XVII | other brethren beware of matters of a like kind, because
570 IX | that their gentleness and meekness may be like the lambs and
571 VII | divided, Abijah the prophet, meeting Jeroboam the king in the
572 XXV | they asked from the Lord's mercy.~
573 XV | precepts and warnings, that our merits may receive their reward.
574 V | womb we are born, by her milk we are nourished, by her
575 X | testing our hearts and our minds, the sound faith of those
576 XVIII| madness besides, who had been mingled with them in that boldness,
577 XXIII| deceived by some craftiness of misleading cunning, loose yourselves
578 I | flattering with lying words, he misled inexperienced souls by an
579 XXI | let him be in his doings modest with discipline, so that
580 VI | she guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch.
581 XIV | faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not charity, I
582 XI | speak, but not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say to
583 XVII | headlong faithlessness of many move or disturb us, but rather
584 XVIII| only those who had been the movers (of the sedition); but two
585 V | many streams, although the multiplicity seems diffused in the liberality
586 IX | spending their life in mutual intercourse, acknowledging
587 III | after light has come to the nations, and saving rays have shone
588 XI | even accumulated. Such a nativity does not generate sons to
589 XVI | unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers,
590 XXIV | Lord, when He was now very near to His passion, added this
591 X | says by the apostle, "It is needful also that there should be
592 XV | it: Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
593 | nevertheless
594 VI | who was outside the ark of Noah, then he also may escape
595 V | born, by her milk we are nourished, by her spirit we are animated.~
596 arg | OCCASION OF THE SCHISM OF NOVATIAN, TO KEEP BACK FROM HIM THE
597 arg | AVERSE TO HIM, ON ACCOUNT OF NOVATUS AND SOME OTHER PRESBYTERS
598 III | temples deserted by the numerous concourse of believers--
599 XVIII| withstood him, would not be obedient and yield,--was confounded
600 XV | of God the Judge; we must obey His precepts and warnings,
601 XXI | subsequently been blameworthy and obnoxious; if he shall have wasted
602 XV | unless he walks in the observance of the right and just way.
603 III | of Christ, and with the observation and law of Christ, they
604 XXVII| listlessness, let us be watchful to observe and to do the Lord's precepts.
605 XXVII| vigilance. If these commands be observed, if these warnings and precepts
606 XXIII| who abide in blind and obstinate madness, yet do you others,
607 arg | Argument.~ON THE OCCASION OF THE SCHISM OF NOVATIAN,
608 XVIII| leprosy: he was marked by an offended Lord in that part of his
609 XVII | the truth of the Lord's offering by false sacrifices, and
610 XIII | not respect unto Cain's offerings; for he could not have God
611 | often
612 XII | and lay aside the former ones, remembering part, and craftily
613 IX | trees are overthrown by the onset of the whirlwind. The Apostle
614 XX | temptations, and dangers, and onsets, and attacks of the world;
615 VI | by the parting asunder of opposing wills? He who does not hold
616 XII | seeing that He Himself ordained and made the Church; but
617 XVIII| men had endeavoured, in order by human will to overthrow
618 X | prelates without any law of ordination, who assume to themselves
619 IV | arranged by His authority the origin of that unity, as beginning
620 XXIII| certain leaders of schisms and originators of dissensions, who abide
621 | otherwise
622 | ourselves
623 II | death is driven out and overcome, when He Himself warns us,
624 V | in the liberality of an overflowing abundance, yet the unity
625 XXVII| precepts be kept, we cannot be overtaken in slumber by the deceit
626 XVIII| in order by human will to overthrow God's appointment, had been
627 IX | tempest, the feeble trees are overthrown by the onset of the whirlwind.
628 I | advance by open attack to overwhelm and cast down the servants
629 XVI | blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without
630 XXIII| disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them." We must withdraw,
631 VI | can be separated by the parting asunder of opposing wills?
632 IV | Peter, endowed with a like partnership both of honour and power;
633 VII | the garment of Christ who parts and divides the Church of
634 XXIV | was now very near to His passion, added this one, saying, "
635 VIII | Also, the sacrament of the passover contains nothing else in
636 XXIII| wandering away from the path of the true road, should
637 XXVI | give the tenths from our patrimony; and while our Lord bids
638 X | the perverted mind has no peace--while a discordant faithlessness
639 XII | is, with the simple and peaceable--with those who fear God
640 XIX | nevertheless, standing as penitents for their crime, beseech
641 I | an anxious heart, both to perceive and to beware of the wiles
642 XXI | of the crown; nor does it perfect our praise, but it initiates
643 XXI | but after confession his peril is greater, because the
644 XVI | the last days," says he, "perilous times shall come, and men
645 X | maintain unity. But the Lord permits and suffers these things
646 XX | placed in the world, with a perpetual security from temptations,
647 I | salvation? For it is not persecution alone that is to be feared;
648 IV | Songs designated in the person of our Lord, and says, "
649 II | friends." Finally, these persons He calls strong and stedfast;
650 XVI | envenomed plague of heretical perversity and schisms has begun to
651 X | as sitting in the seat of pestilence, plagues, and spots of the
652 X | forth deadly poisons from pestilential tongues; whose speech doth
653 XII | for themselves of diverse places of worship, they have forsaken
654 XVI | increased, and the envenomed plague of heretical perversity
655 X | the seat of pestilence, plagues, and spots of the faith,
656 XIX | puffed up in his heart, and pleasing himself in his very crimes,
657 XVI | high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
658 V | and she is one mother, plentiful in the results of fruitfulness:
659 X | discourse forms a deadly poison in the heart and breast
660 X | truth, vomiting forth deadly poisons from pestilential tongues;
661 XVIII| divine indignation, and was polluted upon his forehead by the
662 VII | an entire garment, and is possessed as an uninjured and undivided
663 VII | by the receiver and the possessor, but without separation
664 III | the night of the world, he pours over them again, in their
665 XXII | brightness, they are as praiseworthy in maintaining the peace
666 XII | together with unanimity should pray--though they be only two
667 XXV | brethren." And thus they prayed with effectual prayers;
668 XXV | they prayed with effectual prayers; thus they were able with
669 III | pray with clear voices and prayers--seeing his idols forsaken,
670 XIII | saying, "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought
671 XII | word which they faithfully preached. When, therefore, in His
672 VIII | said to Rahab, in whom was prefigured the Church, "Thy father,
673 X | who appoint themselves prelates without any law of ordination,
674 I | manifest, and the mind is prepared beforehand for the contest
675 XII | made the concord of peace a prerequisite; He taught that we should
676 arg | OF NOVATUS AND SOME OTHER PRESBYTERS OF HIS CHURCH, WHO HAD ORIGINATED
677 XVIII| once extinguished in the presence of an avenging Lord.~
678 XII | one mind, He Himself was present; He Himself, having loosed
679 XXVI | themselves treasures in heaven, presented to the apostles the price
680 V | yet the unity is still preserved in the source. Separate
681 III | hope, perfidy under the pretext of faith, antichrist under
682 IV | gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give
683 XXV | This unanimity formerly prevailed among the apostles; and
684 V | the faith by perfidious prevarication. The episcopate is one,
685 XXVI | presented to the apostles the price of them, to be distributed
686 XVI | blind, impiety depraves, pride puffs up, discord exasperates,
687 XII | two apostles shut up in prison, because they were simple-minded
688 XVI | they have come for the probation as well of the men as of
689 XVI | the truth; but they shall proceed no further, for their folly
690 XXIII| laceration. Whatever has proceeded from the womb cannot live
691 IV | power; but the beginning proceeds from unity. Which one Church,
692 XV | peace, dissipates charity, profanes the sacrament?~
693 XV | wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew
694 XIV | crowned he cannot be. He professes himself to be a Christian
695 XIV | and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is magnanimous;
696 XXIV | to us as an heritage; He promised all the gifts and rewards
697 IV | arguments. There is easy proof for faith in a short summary
698 XV | XV.~For both to prophesy and to cast out devils,
699 XXVI | unanimity is diminished in proportion as liberality of working
700 I | beaten back, and therefore prostrated, because he was recognised
701 XVI | lovers of their own selves, proud, boasters, covetous, blasphemers,
702 V | Church, that we may also prove the episcopate itself to
703 I | wisdom in the matter of providing for our salvation? For it
704 I | with our simplicity to be prudent, what else, beloved brethren,
705 XVI | impiety depraves, pride puffs up, discord exasperates,
706 XVII | the appointment of God, is punished on account of the daring
707 XXVI | the wrath of God, and the punishments to come upon unbelievers,
708 XXI | jarring with reproaches and quarrels, let it not after words
709 XXII | so also in the case in question the holiness and dignity
710 XXI | confessor, let him be lowly and quiet; let him be in his doings
711 XII | interpreters of the Gospel quote the last words, and lay
712 XVI | deceives as the adversary rages more and more; senselessness
713 VIII | dwelling, when it is said to Rahab, in whom was prefigured
714 V | in the source. Separate a ray of the sun from its body
715 XVII | An enemy of the altar, a rebel against Christ's sacrifice,
716 XIX | appointment, whom the Lord rebukes and reproves in His Gospel,
717 XII | and made the Church; but rebuking the faithless for their
718 XXIII| wholesome counsel cannot recall to the way of salvation
719 XI | from these He restrains and recalls His erring people, saying, "
720 XVIII| gulf, and the cleft of the receding ground swallowed up the
721 VII | to be at all rent by the receiver and the possessor, but without
722 I | prostrated, because he was recognised and detected.~
723 XVII | ears about with thorns, and refuse to hear a wicked tongue."
724 XIX | His Gospel, saying, "Ye reject the commandment of God,
725 XXIII| should perish, and that our rejoicing Mother may enclose in her
726 XIV | be the glorious ending of religious valour, but the destruction
727 IX | together; when they fly abroad, remaining in their flights by the
728 X | choice of one's own liberty remains, so that while the discrimination
729 XXII | peace of the Church, who remember that they have obtained
730 XII | lay aside the former ones, remembering part, and craftily suppressing
731 IV | Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted
732 IV | ye remit, they shall be remitted unto him; and whose soever
733 XIV | have faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not
734 IX | bite, not violent with the rending of its claws, loving human
735 XXI | not be heard jarring with reproaches and quarrels, let it not
736 XIX | whom the Lord rebukes and reproves in His Gospel, saying, "
737 XXI | given, of him much shall be required; and to whom more dignity
738 XVI | Moses, so do these also resist the truth; but they shall
739 XIX | that case, the Church is resisted: here it is possible that
740 IV | who strives against and resists the Church trust that he
741 IV | from one. Assuredly the rest of the apostles were also
742 XI | Lord cries; from these He restrains and recalls His erring people,
743 XXI | terminus wherein the full result of the ascent is already
744 V | mother, plentiful in the results of fruitfulness: from her
745 IV | and whose soever sins ye retain, they shall be retained;"
746 XVIII| Lord consumed with a hasty revenge; doubtless to admonish and
747 XV | in the observance of the right and just way. The Lord denounces,
748 X | judgment, the souls of the righteous and of the unrighteous are
749 XII | heresies and schisms have risen subsequently, from their
750 XIX | soul; in the latter, the risk of many. Certainly the one
751 XIII | sacrifices do those who are rivals of the priests think that
752 V | She broadly expands her rivers, liberally flowing, yet
753 II | declares to be founded in robust security upon the rock,
754 III | eternal health, the lame might run to the church, the dumb
755 XVIII| themselves the power of sacrificing in opposition to Moses and
756 VII | him for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem, the
757 XXVI | Then they used to give for sale houses and estates; and
758 I | us, saying, "Ye are the salt of the earth," and since
759 XXIV | His divine commands and salutary teachings, the Lord, when
760 VI | with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch. She keeps
761 IX | venom of serpents, and the sanguinary cruelty of wild beasts?
762 XIX | crime, beseech God with full satisfactions. In this case, the Church
763 XV | maintain or consider, who, savage with the madness of discord,
764 IX | Christian breast? What the savageness of dogs, and the deadly
765 XXI | the end, the same shall be saved," whatever has been before
766 VI | who gathereth not with me scattereth." He who breaks the peace
767 VI | elsewhere than in the Church, scatters the Church of Christ. The
768 arg | HE PROVES, AS WELL BY THE SCRIPTURES AS BY THE FIGURES OF THE
769 X | Psalms as sitting in the seat of pestilence, plagues,
770 XV | first commandment; land the second is like unto it: Thou shall
771 XII | off the substance of one section. For the Lord, when He would
772 VII | his garment into twelve sections, saying, "Take thee ten
773 XVIII| been the movers (of the sedition); but two hundred and fifty
774 | seems
775 XVII | is condemned of his own self. Does he think that he has
776 XXVI | and while our Lord bids us sell, we rather buy and increase
777 XVI | shall be lovers of their own selves, proud, boasters, covetous,
778 XVI | adversary rages more and more; senselessness lifts up, envy inflames,
779 V | preserved in the source. Separate a ray of the sun from its
780 VII | the possessor, but without separation we obtain a whole and substantial
781 XXI | is ascribed, of him more service is exacted." Let no one
782 IV | teaches the same thing, and sets forth the sacrament of unity,
783 XXVII| about, lest, when the day of setting forth comes, it should find
784 XXIII| concord. Unity cannot be severed; nor can one body be separated
785 IX | Apostle John execrates and severely assails these, when he says, "
786 XXI | become a confessor, and severing the concord of unity, he
787 VII | coat, because it was not sewed, but woven from the top
788 II | error, like dust which is shaken by the wind, be blown about;
789 XVIII| but two hundred and fifty sharers and associates of that madness
790 V | with the light of the Lord, sheds forth her rays over the
791 VIII | there can be either many shepherds or many flocks? The Apostle
792 XVI | begun to spring forth and shoot anew; because even thus
793 IV | easy proof for faith in a short summary of the truth. The
794 XII | my name, I am with them;" showing that most is given, not
795 XII | which, with the two apostles shut up in prison, because they
796 VII | Christ. By the sacrament and sign of His garment, He has declared
797 XVIII| his body where they are signed who deserve well of the
798 XVI | houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, which
799 XII | prison, because they were simple-minded and of one mind, He Himself
800 X | points out in the Psalms as sitting in the seat of pestilence,
801 XII | together in my name, I," slays He, "am with them;" that
802 XX | make a man free from the snares of the devil, nor does it
803 III | the error of a new way. He snatches men from the Church itself;
804 XXVII| brightness. Let us always with solicitude and caution wait for the
805 IX | tree that is based on a solid root. The light straws are
806 IV | the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs designated in the
807 IV | Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs designated in the person
808 XX | which now with groans and sorrow we witness in some. Whosoever
809 XIX | this case, the Church is sought after and entreated; in
810 X | hearts and our minds, the sound faith of those that are
811 IX | the side of one another, spending their life in mutual intercourse,
812 III | might receive the hearing of spiritual grace, the blind might open
813 XXIV | and rewards of which He spoke through the preservation
814 XI | come upon him. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
815 XVIII| upon his forehead by the spot of leprosy: he was marked
816 IV | and says, "My dove, my spotless one, is but one. She is
817 X | pestilence, plagues, and spots of the faith, deceiving
818 VI | VI.~The spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous;
819 V | Church also is one, which is spread abroad far and wide into
820 V | Her fruitful abundance spreads her branches over the whole
821 IX | fertility, drought with springs, storm with tranquillity.
822 XIV | confession of the Name, that stain is not even washed away
823 XXI | conversation; if he shall have stained his life by disgraceful
824 I | appearance of peace, he steals forward by hidden approaches,
825 I | subtlety; that is his dark and stealthy artifice for circumventing
826 II | persons He calls strong and stedfast; these He declares to be
827 XXI | been before the end is a step by which we ascend to the
828 XXIII| deceit, free your wandering steps from errors, acknowledge
829 XI | prophesied. If they had stood on my foundation (substantia,
830 XXVI | rather buy and increase our store. Thus has the vigour of
831 IX | fertility, drought with springs, storm with tranquillity. Let none
832 XXIII| errors, acknowledge the straight way of the heavenly road.
833 VI | rewards of Christ. He is a stranger; he is profane; he is an
834 X | preside among the daring strangers assembled, who appoint themselves
835 IX | a solid root. The light straws are tossed about by the
836 V | able to bud; cut off the stream from its fountain, and that
837 V | from one spring flow many streams, although the multiplicity
838 XVII | or disturb us, but rather strengthen our faith in the truthfulness
839 XIII | comes to the sacrifice in strife, and bids him first agree
840 XVIII| anger of the indignant God strike only those who had been
841 XXIII| separated by a division of its structure, nor torn into pieces, with
842 XV | the earth is certainly a sublime and an admirable thing;
843 XI | stood on my foundation (substantia, upostasei), and had heard
844 III | schisms, whereby he might subvert the faith, might corrupt
845 XXVII| and caution wait for the sudden coming of the Lord, that
846 XIV | discord is not even purged by suffering. He cannot be a martyr who
847 X | But the Lord permits and suffers these things to be, while
848 XXI | by which we ascend to the summit of salvation, not a terminus
849 XII | than by the discordant supplication of many.~
850 XII | remembering part, and craftily suppressing part: as they themselves
851 IX | if they had been of us, surely they would have continued
852 XII | them, in the midst of the surrounding flames, with the breath
853 XVIII| cleft of the receding ground swallowed up the men standing and
854 IX | consist and be associated with sweetness, darkness with light, rain
855 XXVI | fear of futurity, and none takes to heart the day of the
856 III | seek the head nor keep the teaching of the heavenly Master.~
857 XVII | account of the daring of his temerity by divine visitation.~
858 IX | are tossed about by the tempest, the feeble trees are overthrown
859 II | in opposition to all the tempests and hurricanes of the world. "
860 III | forsaken, and his lanes and his temples deserted by the numerous
861 I | Thus he endeavoured to tempt the Lord Himself: he secretly
862 XX | perpetual security from temptations, and dangers, and onsets,
863 V | one strength based in its tenacious root; and since from one
864 XXVI | we do not even give the tenths from our patrimony; and
865 XXI | summit of salvation, not a terminus wherein the full result
866 arg | FIGURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH.~
867 XIV | apostle teaches this, and testifies, saying, "And though I have
868 X | discrimination of truth is testing our hearts and our minds,
869 XVI | manifest unto all men, even as theirs also was." Whatever things
870 | thence
871 | thereof
872 XIV | is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; loveth all things,
873 XVII | Hedge thine ears about with thorns, and refuse to hear a wicked
874 XI | turned them from their evil thoughts." Again, the Lord points
875 XX | assuredly the Lord would not threaten that the crown of righteousness
876 XII | though they be only two or three--they may obtain from the
877 XIV | or lay down their lives, thrown to the wild beasts, that
878 XV | shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
879 XV | He taught, at the same time, love and unity by His instruction.
880 III | fraud, and under the very title of the Christian name to
881 XVII | ye heed: behold, I have told you all things." Avoid,
882 X | poisons from pestilential tongues; whose speech doth creep
883 XXVI | also take heed; and if it took heed, it would escape.~
884 XXVI | unbelievers, and the eternal torments decreed for the faithless.
885 XXIII| division of its structure, nor torn into pieces, with its entrails
886 IX | root. The light straws are tossed about by the tempest, the
887 XII | you shall agree on earth touching anything that ye shall ask,
888 XXII | apostles fail, because the traitor Judas failed from their
889 XVI | fierce, hating the good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers
890 IX | with springs, storm with tranquillity. Let none think that the
891 III | according to the apostle's word, transforms himself into an angel of
892 XXI | arrogance, let no one learn treachery, from the manners of a confessor.
893 XXVI | might lay up for themselves treasures in heaven, presented to
894 arg | DISTURBANCE, CYPRIAN WROTE THIS TREATISE. AND FIRST OF ALL, FORTIFYING
895 IX | the tempest, the feeble trees are overthrown by the onset
896 XIII | heaven may forgive you your trespasses." And He calls back from
897 VII | name there." As the twelve tribes of Israel were divided,
898 XVI | without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent,
899 IV | against and resists the Church trust that he is in the Church,
900 XVII | strengthen our faith in the truthfulness which has foretold the matter.
901 XXI | evil-speaking; let it not be turbulent, let it not be heard jarring
902 XVII | make another prayer with unauthorized words, to profane the truth
903 XXVI | punishments to come upon unbelievers, and the eternal torments
904 III | over them again, in their unconsciousness, new darkness; so that,
905 XIX | Certainly the one both understands that he has sinned, and
906 I | and deceive; yet he was understood, and beaten back, and therefore
907 XVIII| Moses and Aaron the priest, underwent immediate punishment for
908 XVI | to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
909 VII | and is possessed as an uninjured and undivided robe by those
910 XII | Church itself, and with the universal brotherhood? How can two
911 X | the righteous and of the unrighteous are already divided, and
912 II | established with immoveable and unshaken firmness, in opposition
913 XVI | disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural
914 XI | foundation (substantia, upostasei), and had heard my words,
915 IX | nor does the hurricane uproot the tree that is based on
916 XII | the Lord, when He would urge unanimity and peace upon
917 VIII | Apostle Paul, moreover, urging upon us this same unity,
918 | used
919 XVIII| opposition to God. Thus also Uzziah the king,--when he bare
920 V | V.~And this unity we ought
921 XXIII| no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these
922 XIV | not; charity acteth not vainly, is not puffed up, is not
923 XIV | glorious ending of religious valour, but the destruction of
924 VI | VI.~The spouse of Christ cannot
925 XXII | Christ, as they have been victorious in their combat with the
926 XXVII| the Lord the reward of our vigilance. If these commands be observed,
927 XXVI | our store. Thus has the vigour of faith dwindled away among
928 VII | VII.~This sacrament of unity,
929 VIII | VIII.~Who, then, is so wicked
930 XIV | he cannot attain who has violated the love of Christ b faithless
931 IX | not cruel in its bite, not violent with the rending of its
932 XVIII| when he bare the censer and violently claimed to himself to sacrifice
933 XI | false prophets; for the visions of their hearts deceive
934 XVII | of his temerity by divine visitation.~
935 III | dumb might pray with clear voices and prayers--seeing his
936 III | like the truth, they make void the truth by their subtlety.
937 X | in corrupting the truth, vomiting forth deadly poisons from
938 XX | although so long as he walked in God's ways, retained
939 III | themselves Christians, and, walking in darkness, they think
940 XV | these things, unless he walks in the observance of the
941 II | must of necessity waver and wander, and, caught away by a spirit
942 I | Father, may not seem to be wanting in wisdom in the matter
943 IX | Church, lest they should lay waste the doves and sheep of Christ
944 XXI | obnoxious; if he shall have wasted his confession by evil conversation;
945 XXVII| listlessness, let us be watchful to observe and to do the
946 XI | the fountain of living waters, and have hewed them out
947 II | commandment? He must of necessity waver and wander, and, caught
948 XXVII| when He shall come from the wedding, that when He cometh and
949 | wherein
950 IX | overthrown by the onset of the whirlwind. The Apostle John execrates
951 XXII | with the Lord's pure and white brightness, they are as
952 | Whoever
953 XXIII| people at agreement. Yet if wholesome counsel cannot recall to
954 XIX | the will is engaged in the wickedness: on the one hand, he who
955 V | is spread abroad far and wide into a multitude by an increase
956 I | perceive and to beware of the wiles of the crafty foe, that
957 VI | parting asunder of opposing wills? He who does not hold this
958 II | warns us, and says, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the
959 II | descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that
960 XX | with groans and sorrow we witness in some. Whosoever that
961 XXIII| heavenly road. The word of the witnessing apostle is: "We command
962 IX | What does the fierceness of wolves do in the Christian breast?
963 XV | and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess
964 XV | depart from me, ye that work iniquity." There is need
965 XXVI | proportion as liberality of working is decayed. Then they used
966 XIX | own tradition." This is a worse crime than that which the
967 XII | themselves of diverse places of worship, they have forsaken the
968 XXIII| pieces, with its entrails wrenched asunder by laceration. Whatever
969 arg | WHOLE DISTURBANCE, CYPRIAN WROTE THIS TREATISE. AND FIRST
970 X | X.~Hence heresies not only
971 XI | XI.~Against people of this
972 XII | XII.~Nor let any deceive themselves
973 XIII | XIII.~Thus, also, when He gave
974 XIV | XIV.~Even if such men were slain
975 XIX | XIX.~These, doubtless, they
976 XV | XV.~For both to prophesy and
977 XVI | XVI.~This evil, most faithful
978 XVII | XVII.~Yet let not the excessive
979 XVIII| XVIII.~Thus Korah, Dathan, and
980 XX | XX.~Nor let any one marvel,
981 XXI | XXI.~Confession is the beginning
982 XXII | XXII.~For the Lord chose Judas
983 XXIII| XXIII.~I indeed desire, beloved
984 XXIV | XXIV.~The Holy Spirit warns us,
985 XXV | XXV.~This unanimity formerly
986 XXVI | XXVI.~ ~But in us unanimity is
987 XXVII| XXVII.~Let us, beloved brethren,
988 XVIII| would not be obedient and yield,--was confounded by the
989 | yourself
990 XII | as He was with the three youths in the fiery furnace; and