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1 XX | their uncorrupted faith abides sound; nor can he either
2 X | accepting it, whosoever abiding in Christ departs for a
3 XXVII | polluted their hands with abominable sacrifices, yet have defiled
4 XXVI | multitude, of sinners is abundant. Let each one consider not
5 XXXII | He would pity you. Repent abundantly, prove the sorrow of a grieving
6 X | unless the hour comes for accepting it, whosoever abiding in
7 II | fast follow your glory, and accompany your footsteps with the
8 II | hands, which had only been accustomed to divine works, have resisted
9 XXXV | grief look into your sins; acknowledge the very grave sin of your
10 XXXIII| Thoughtless before their sin was acknowledged, after their sin they are
11 XXXII | Him. I beg you, brethren, acquiesce in wholesome remedies, obey
12 VII | required of us, have so acted by our sins, that while
13 | actually
14 XXXIV | wholesome caution those who adhere to their mischievous contact.
15 XXIII | XXIII.~Receive rather, and admit what we say. Why do your
16 XXVIII| crime if he has not openly admitted his crime. Christ says in
17 VII | taught, did He not before admonish us of whatever is now done
18 XXXVI | the Lord in the Lord's own admonition, when he says: "Turn ye
19 XXX | art naked; although thou adornest thyself to excess both in
20 XXX | and gold, yet without the adornment of Christ thou art unsightly.
21 XXVI | herself. But the woman who in advanced life and of more mature
22 XXXIV | cancer; their conversation advances like a contagion; their
23 XVIII | only does it in no respect advantage the lapsed, but it does
24 XXVIII| the wicked food. This is advantageous to this extent, that the
25 XXXV | freed from death. What the adversary took from you, let Christ
26 XIII | Lord forgave Castus and AEmilius; thus, overcome in the first
27 XXVII | God at hand, and not a God afar off. If a man be hidden
28 XXXV | in proportion as with the affection of a Father He is always
29 VII | Holy Spirit, predicted the afflictions of the righteous, and always
30 II | resisted the world: you have afforded a glorious spectacle in
31 VII | rashness? Have not prophets aforetime, and subsequently apostles,
32 XXVIII| who is either ashamed or afraid to be a Christian? How can
33 VI | their divine charge, became agents in secular business, forsook
34 IX | nothing might be wanting to aggravate the crime, infants also,
35 XXII | yourself. You are still aggravating and. enhancing your crime;
36 VIII | VIII.~From some--ah, misery!--all these things
37 XXXVI | grief of his fall, heard and aided by the Lord, shall make
38 X | X.~Nor is there, alas, any just and weighty reason
39 XXIII | Why does your stricken and alienated mind not perceive the lively
40 XXXIII| themselves, and mad with the alienation of a hardened mind, they
41 XXXV | frequently apply yourself to almsgiving, whereby souls are freed
42 XV | suffering. Returning from the altars of the devil, they draw
43 XXXI | XXXI.~Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, the
44 XXII | angry with the priests. And--oh your excessive madness,
45 XXXVI | soldier will seek his contest anew; he will repeat the fight,
46 XIV | but faithlessness that anticipated the struggle? Nor does the
47 XIII | avail to forgiveness; an apology of that kind may excite
48 XXXIII| promises, and linked with apostates and unbelievers, they take
49 XXX | the clothing of precious apparel, and not to consider the
50 XVIII | For that may not always appear to be immediately conceded
51 XV | kind of devastation has appeared; and, as if the storm of
52 XXXV | may be purged; frequently apply yourself to almsgiving,
53 III | have stood. When the day appointed for denying was gone by,
54 II | knows no day of worldly appointment, neither does he who hopes
55 XIX | unless the divine pleasure approve.~
56 VI | they, with the insatiable ardour of covetousness, devoted
57 XXXI | amid the flames and the ardours of a raging furnace, did
58 Arg | Argument.~HAVING ENLARGED UPON THE
59 | around
60 V | the heavenly rebuke has aroused our faith, which was giving
61 XXIII | of punishment has not yet arrived. Some are punished in the
62 XIX | the pre-judgment of the asker, but in the free will of
63 XVIII | if the moderation of the asking party be religious. The
64 XI | have a domestic enemy and assailant. Heart and mind and feeling
65 XVI | crafty enemy still further assaults the lapsed; attacking them
66 XXXII | remedies, obey better counsels, associate your tears with our tears,
67 IX | of such a crime, we were associated by others to the partnership
68 XXX | sinned, and not to make atonement--to have committed crimes,
69 VIII | battle, prostrated before the attack. Nor did they even leave
70 XVI | further assaults the lapsed; attacking them by a secret corruption,
71 XXVIII| guiltless. He can more easily attain to pardon of his crime,
72 Arg | SINS OF THE FAITHFUL; OUR AUTHOR SEVERELY REPROACHES THE
73 XVIII | dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood upon those who
74 XXII | with him who endeavours to avert the anger of God from you;
75 XXXV | conquered. Wealth must be avoided as an enemy; must be fled
76 XXVIII| and make the conscientious avowal, put off from them the load
77 II | her gates, that in united bands you may enter, bearing the
78 II | traditions, the prescribed banishment, the destined tortures,
79 XXX | women; who, feeding at rich banquets, and puffed out with fuller
80 XIII | but when, with the renewed barbarity of the most cruel judge,
81 XVII | committed against Himself, who bare our sins, who sorrowed for
82 XXX | sin daily frequents the bathing-places with women; who, feeding
83 VI | discipline. In men, their beards were defaced; in women,
84 II | united bands you may enter, bearing the trophies from a prostrate
85 XIX | and will cut off man and beast from it. Though these three
86 | becoming
87 | beginning
88 IV | and my personal soundness beguile me to the soothing of my
89 XXX | walking about, you have begun to carry your own death
90 V | the divine precepts may be beheld. If the cause of disaster
91 XIV | chasten." And thus also it behoves the Lord's priest not to
92 XXX | out with fuller dainties, belches forth on the next day his
93 XXVIII| thinking that God is like man, believes that he evades the penalty
94 XXVIII| either blushes or fears to belong to Christ? He will certainly
95 XXXI | earth. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto Thee, but unto us confusion."~
96 XXVI | does that which is received benefit the undeserving for salvation,
97 I | be given to God, and His benefits and gifts must be celebrated
98 XXII | you; you threaten him who beseeches the divine mercy on your
99 XXXVI | repenting, the labouring, the beseeching sinner. He can regard as
100 XVII | have mercy. He alone can bestow pardon for sins which have
101 VII | greatest number of the brethren betrayed their faith, and were cast
102 | between
103 IV | wound of our body should be bewailed, with which the manifold
104 XVIII | the earth?" And they are bidden to rest, and still to keep
105 XXX | with you. And do you not bitterly moan; do you not continually
106 XXX | line drawn around them of black powder, now at least wash
107 XIV | the sinner with flattering blandishments furnishes the stimulus to
108 XVI | with deceiving words are blazoning forth: that is not peace,
109 XII | announces and warns us, "Blessed are ye when men shall persecute
110 I | strength, from declaring His blessings and praises always and everywhere
111 V | terrible persecution so to have blinded the mind and feeling, that
112 XXXIII| a crime, are struck with blindness of mind, so that they neither
113 II | return from the battle! How blissfully, how gladly, does she open
114 XV | covered over, and the deadly blow that is planted in the deep
115 XXVIII| with Christ, who either blushes or fears to belong to Christ?
116 VI | brethren. They united in the bond of marriage with unbelievers;
117 XII | own money, but rather the bond-slaves of their money. These times
118 XI | remained--those were the bonds by which both virtue was
119 X | suffered. Yet to whom that is born and dies is there not a
120 II | Church receive you in her bosom, as you return from the
121 VII | have made; and the mean man boweth down, and the great man
122 XXVI | unworthy hands to open her box, in which was the holy (
123 II | glory of their warfare, and boys transcending their years
124 XIX | mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of bread thereof,
125 IV | dry eyes, and not in the breaking out of his grief to express
126 IV | of his flock. I join my breast with each one, and I share
127 XV | driven forth from their breasts, and the memory of their
128 XV | with smell, still almost breathing of the plague-bearing idol-meats;
129 XIV | time that he instructs a brother, urges him onward to salvation. "
130 IV | who is so unmindful of brotherly love, as, among the varied
131 XXV | sacrificing, the mother brought it in with her. Moreover,
132 II | were there veiled; your brow, pure with the sign of God,
133 XIII | now tearing me, the clubs bruised me, the rack strained me,
134 XI | was retarded, and faith burdened, and the spirit bound, and
135 VIII | your hope; there you have burnt up your faith in those deadly
136 XXV | in the blood of the Lord burst forth from the polluted
137 VI | became agents in secular business, forsook their throne, deserted
138 Arg | UNFOLDED THE CAUSES OF THE BYGONE PERSECUTION, NAMELY, THE
139 XV | mischief and a fair-seeming calamity. Contrary to the vigour
140 II | hopes for eternity from God calculate the seasons of earth any
141 VIII | his own ruin? When they came voluntarily to the Capitol,--
142 XIX | knew thee; and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified
143 XXXIV | word doth eat as doth a cancer; their conversation advances
144 II | wicked veil with which the captive heads of those who sacrificed
145 XXV | little daughter under the care of a wet-nurse. The nurse
146 IX | of their parents, either carried or conducted, lost, while
147 XIII | one time the Lord forgave Castus and AEmilius; thus, overcome
148 Arg | LAPSED, AND UNFOLDED THE CAUSES OF THE BYGONE PERSECUTION,
149 XXXIV | avoid with a wholesome caution those who adhere to their
150 III | glory to be withdrawn by a cautious retirement, and to be reserved
151 I | persecution our voice has not ceased to give thanks. For not
152 XXVIII| sacrifice to idols or of certificate, yet, since they have even
153 XXVII | defiled their conscience with certificates. That profession of one
154 XI | a chain. Those were the chains to them that remained--those
155 XXV | witness Some parents who by chance were escaping, being little
156 XXXV | redeeming sins of such a character as these.~
157 VI | despising their divine charge, became agents in secular
158 XIV | the Lord, "I rebuke and chasten." And thus also it behoves
159 XVII | XVII.~Let no one cheat himself, let no one deceive
160 IV | is the shepherd that is chiefly wounded in the wound of
161 XII | or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God'
162 XXVII | us, saying, "And all the churches shall know that I am He
163 VI | simple, subtle meanings for circumventing the brethren. They united
164 XIX | neither can human judgment claim to itself or usurp anything,
165 XXXV | s mercy nor yet at once claiming His pardon. God, in proportion
166 XI | and their relatives, and clave to Christ with undivided
167 XIII | the rack strained me, the claw dug into me, the fire roasted
168 XV | saying, "Every one that is clean shall eat of the flesh;
169 VIII | senses fail, their tongue cleave to their mouth, their speech
170 XII | can they seek heaven, and climb to sublime and lofty heights,
171 XXXV | on the ground, you must cling close to the ashes, be surrounded
172 II | of virtue and of faith; clinging to them with holy kisses,
173 XXVII | the heart that is still closed up.~
174 XXX | ornament? Although thou clothest thyself in foreign garments
175 I | season of affliction and the cloud being dispersed, tranquillity
176 XXX | with neglected hair, with clouded face, with dejected appearance,
177 XIII | were now tearing me, the clubs bruised me, the rack strained
178 II | eagerness. The white-robed cohort of Christ's soldiers is
179 VIII | that time, when evening was coming on; how many even asked
180 X | And therefore the Lord commanded us in the persecution to
181 XXXV | believers kept Christ's commands: they were prompt, they
182 XXXIII| valid with those who are not communicants; they believe men against
183 X | the plagues who is found a companion in the crime. And therefore
184 XXXI | before God together with his companions in the midst of the fire."
185 XII | separate you from their company, and shall cast you out,
186 XIII | of that kind may excite compassion. Thus at one time the Lord
187 XII | worldly wealth? With what compensations does He atone for the small
188 VI | defaced; in women, their complexion was dyed: the eyes were
189 XXV | majesty, turned away its face, compressed its mouth with resisting
190 XXV | of her mind; as if by the compulsion of a torturer the soul of
191 XVIII | appear to be immediately conceded by the divine majesty, which
192 XXXVI | by shame for his sin, has conceived more both of virtue and
193 XXVII | minds, and the wills, and conceptions of all men, in the very
194 XIV | to mislead by deceiving concessions, but to provide with salutary
195 XVII | shall come; when, after the conclusion of this life and the world,
196 IX | parents, either carried or conducted, lost, while yet little
197 XX | does He confess him that confesses; the Gospel cannot be sound
198 IV | these glorious spiritual confessions, these very great and illustrious
199 XXXVI | be armed; He restores and confirms the strength whereby the
200 XXXI | belongs unto Thee, but unto us confusion."~
201 Arg | TO AVOID THE NOVATIANS, CONFUTING THEIR HERESY WITH MANY SCRIPTURES.~
202 XIII | been vanquished they were conquerors. They entreated not for
203 XXVIII| s priests, and make the conscientious avowal, put off from them
204 XVIII | by God's priest, if the consent of the obeying party be
205 XXVII | hidden and secret things, and considers those things which are concealed;
206 XVI | shipping. They take away the consolation of eternal hope; they overturn
207 Arg | PEACE OF THE CHURCH,AND THE CONSTANCY OF THE CONFESSORS AND THOSE
208 II | have rejected the profane contacts and the leavings of the
209 XVI | warnings being scorned and contemned,--before their sin is expiated,
210 XII | does the Lord invite us to contempt of worldly wealth? With
211 II | come women also, who, while contending with the world, have also
212 III | this world; the latter, content with God as its judge, keeps
213 XXXVI | The soldier will seek his contest anew; he will repeat the
214 XXXVI | his sin by righteous and continual works, he who expressed
215 XXX | shame of your sin or for continuance of your lamentation? Behold,
216 XXIV | executioner, nor did she long continue to live afterwards: tortured
217 XXX | spiritually dead here, you are continuing to live to yourself, and
218 XXXIV | as doth a cancer; their conversation advances like a contagion;
219 VII | indeed have we at last been converted to the fear of the Lord,
220 XXII | whom neither fear could correct nor persecution itself could
221 XXIII | meantime, that others may be corrected. The torments of a few are
222 XIV | remedy of cutting out the corrupting parts. The sick man may
223 XVI | attacking them by a secret corruption, that their lamentation
224 Arg | WITHDRAWN, ACCORDING TO CHRIST'S COUNSEL. LASTLY, HE WARNS HIS READERS
225 XXX | and weep with disordered countenance, with changed dress, with
226 II | II.~We look with glad countenances upon confessors illustrious
227 VII | to undergo patiently and courageously this our correction and
228 XXXI | and dreadful, keeping Thy covenant and mercy for them that
229 XV | wounds of the dying are covered over, and the deadly blow
230 XII | which, while some have coveted, they have erred s from
231 VI | the insatiable ardour of covetousness, devoted themselves to the
232 XXX | signs of grief. Miserable creature, you have lost your soul;
233 XVI | tree from the roots; they creep on to a deadly contagion
234 XXVI | more mature age secretly crept in among us when we were
235 XXX | behold, these are greater crimes--to have sinned, and not
236 XX | faith which has conquered be crowned, it is of necessity that
237 IV | destructiveness of its own cruelty. What shall I do in this
238 XXVIII| deluded by any deceptive cunning. Yea, he sins the more,
239 XIV | when he has felt that he is cured.~
240 XVII | ignorant that it is declared, "Cursed is the man that putteth
241 XIV | by the stronger remedy of cutting out the corrupting parts.
242 XXX | and puffed out with fuller dainties, belches forth on the next
243 XXXIII| that they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
244 XV | a vain and false peace, dangerous to those who grant it, and
245 XXVI | who himself was defiled, dared with the rest to receive
246 XVIII | remission of sins to all, or dares to rescind the Lord's precepts,
247 XXVI | fire rising from it from daring to touch it. And when one,
248 VIII | falter? Did not their sight darken, their heart tremble, their
249 IV | time stricken with those darts of the raging enemy; their
250 XVI | their pestilent words; they dash the ship on the rocks, so
251 XXV | their terror, left a little daughter under the care of a wet-nurse.
252 XIX | deliver neither sons nor daughters; but they only should be
253 II | not terrified them. The days for proving their faith
254 XXX | lost your soul; spiritually dead here, you are continuing
255 XXXIII| gave them the spirit of deadness." And again: "They received
256 XXIII | what we say. Why do your deaf ears not hear the salutary
257 XXX | tears. If you had lost any dear one of your friends by the
258 IX | and we were snared by the deceit of others?"~
259 VI | seized estates by crafty deceits, they increased their gains
260 XXVIII| deceived, nor deluded by any deceptive cunning. Yea, he sins the
261 XXXVI | live." And Joel the prophet declares the mercy of the Lord in
262 I | life, and strength, from declaring His blessings and praises
263 XX | beloved brethren, let no one decry the dignity of martyrs,
264 XXXVI | who by repentance for his deed, who by shame for his sin,
265 VI | In men, their beards were defaced; in women, their complexion
266 XXVIII| the deadly sacrifices, nor defiling his lips with the wicked
267 IV | relics disfigured with all degradation, to be able to stand and
268 XX | dignity of martyrs, let no one degrade their glories and their
269 XXX | with clouded face, with dejected appearance, you would show
270 XIX | were in it, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters;
271 XXVIII| mocked, nor deceived, nor deluded by any deceptive cunning.
272 XXIV | ascended the Capitol to make denial, after he had denied Christ,
273 XV | stubborn and froward, and denounces them, saying, "Whosoever
274 III | When the day appointed for denying was gone by, every one who
275 XXXI | we have transgressed, and departed from Thy precepts, and from
276 XI | prepared for, or at ease in, departing when their wealth fettered
277 XXVI | grace is changed by the departure of the sanctity into a cinder.
278 XVI | long and full penitence deprecate the Lord so grievously offended,
279 III | beloved brethren, let none depreciate this glory; let none by
280 XV | health nor the true medicine derived from atonement. Penitence
281 XXI | our mind; let us weigh the deserts of our conscience; let it
282 XXVI | suffered, but what he himself deserves to suffer; nor think that
283 XXXII | meek, simple, innocent, in deserving well of the majesty of God;
284 XII | weighed down by earthly desires? They think that they possess,
285 VI | VI.~Each one was desirous of increasing his estate;
286 XXXI | raging furnace, did not desist from making public confession
287 XXXV | understanding of your sin, neither despairing of the Lord's mercy nor
288 II | prescribed banishment, the destined tortures, the loss of property,
289 XIV | happy cause you to err, and destroy the paths of your feet,"
290 VII | the Lord only, shall be destroyed." In the Gospel also subsequently,
291 IV | and thrown it away in the destructiveness of its own cruelty. What
292 XXVI | body) of the Lord, was deterred by fire rising from it from
293 III | none by malignant dispraise detract from the uncorrupted stedfastness
294 XV | brethren, a new kind of devastation has appeared; and, as if
295 VI | ardour of covetousness, devoted themselves to the increase
296 VI | the priests there was no devotedness of religion; among the ministers
297 XIII | oath, I took up the arms of devotion and faith; but as I was
298 X | to whom that is born and dies is there not a necessity
299 XXXVI | in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord, hut that
300 I | seemed to incredulous people difficult, and to traitors impossible,
301 XX | brethren, let no one decry the dignity of martyrs, let no one degrade
302 V | beheld. If the cause of disaster is recognised, there is
303 XXV | secrets of darkness were disclosed under His light, and not
304 IV | and the mournful relics disfigured with all degradation, to
305 XXVII | done with less either of disgrace or of guilt among men. Be
306 XI | truth, brethren, must not be disguised; nor must the matter and
307 XXX | grievously, and weep with disordered countenance, with changed
308 XXVII | testimony of a, Christian disowning what he had been. He says
309 XXX | indigestions, and does not dispense of his meat and drink so
310 I | affliction and the cloud being dispersed, tranquillity and serenity
311 XXX | study to please any one who displeases God? Or does she groan and
312 III | glory; let none by malignant dispraise detract from the uncorrupted
313 VII | obligation to Christ should be dissolved with headlong rashness?
314 XXXV | they gave their all to be distributed by the apostles; and yet
315 V | discipline that had been divinely delivered to us, the heavenly
316 XXI | offences, revolving our doings and the secrets of our mind;
317 XI | they would not now have a domestic enemy and assailant. Heart
318 XVIII | O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge
319 II | virgins also come with the double glory of their warfare,
320 Arg | GRIEF HAVING POINTED TO THE DOWNFALL OF THE LAPSED, AND UNFOLDED
321 IV | of persecution among my downfallen brethren; sympathy has cast
322 XXV | Eucharist could not remain; the draught sanctified in the blood
323 XV | altars of the devil, they draw near to the holy place of
324 XXX | of your eyes with a line drawn around them of black powder,
325 XXX | countenance, with changed dress, with neglected hair, with
326 XXX | plucks out his beard, and dresses his hair; and does he now
327 VIII | not that altar, whither he drew near to perish, to him a
328 XV | Whosoever eateth the bread or drinketh the cup of the Lord unworthily,
329 XV | atonement. Penitence is driven forth from their breasts,
330 XII | and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and in
331 IV | able to stand and to keep dry eyes, and not in the breaking
332 XIII | rack strained me, the claw dug into me, the fire roasted
333 XXIV | had denied Christ, became dumb. The punishment began from
334 II | for the suffering of the dungeon, armed for the endurance
335 XVIII | our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?" And they
336 VI | women, their complexion was dyed: the eyes were falsified
337 XV | away. The wounds of the dying are covered over, and the
338 XXXV | God? You must pray more eagerly and entreat; you must spend
339 II | desired with insatiable eagerness. The white-robed cohort
340 XXI | that it cannot save; or His ear heavy, that it cannot hear?
341 XXXV | must prefer fasting; be earnest in righteous works, whereby
342 I | everywhere with glory. The day earnestly desired, by the prayers
343 XXIII | we say. Why do your deaf ears not hear the salutary precepts
344 XI | they be prepared for, or at ease in, departing when their
345 XVIII | of the obeying party be easy and yielding, if the moderation
346 XXIV | she had either impiously eaten or spoken. After the wicked
347 XXVII | in that he has obeyed his edict; he has been more obedient
348 XXXVI | sinner. He can regard as effectual whatever, in behalf of such
349 XXV | and, although against her efforts, forced on her some of the
350 | end
351 XXII | you are angry with him who endeavours to avert the anger of God
352 II | the dungeon, armed for the endurance of death. Bravely you have
353 XXII | are still aggravating and. enhancing your crime; and while you
354 Arg | Argument.~HAVING ENLARGED UPON THE UNLOOKED-FOR PEACE
355 II | in united bands you may enter, bearing the trophies from
356 XIV | call you happy cause you to err, and destroy the paths of
357 XII | have coveted, they have erred s from the faith, and pierced
358 XXVII | he will not be able to escape and avoid God his judge,
359 XXVI | suffer; nor think that he has escaped if his punishment delay
360 XXV | parents who by chance were escaping, being little careful on
361 VI | money in hoards, they seized estates by crafty deceits, they
362 II | neither does he who hopes for eternity from God calculate the seasons
363 XXV | profane body and mouth the Eucharist could not remain; the draught
364 XXVII | concealed; nor can any one evade the eyes of the Lord, who
365 XXVIII| like man, believes that he evades the penalty of his crime
366 II | and strengthened by the evangelical traditions, the prescribed
367 VIII | magistrates at that time, when evening was coming on; how many
368 XXIII | have little faith in future events, let them be terrified with
369 | ever
370 XII | in the world to come life everlasting." If we know these things,
371 | everything
372 | everywhere
373 XXIII | torments of a few are the examples of all.~
374 XXX | thou adornest thyself to excess both in pearls, and gems,
375 XXII | the priests. And--oh your excessive madness, O frantic one--
376 XIII | apology of that kind may excite compassion. Thus at one
377 XXV | of the sea by the violent excitement of her mind; as if by the
378 X | and weighty reason which excuses such a crime. One's country
379 XXIV | She herself was her own executioner, nor did she long continue
380 XV | and even with jaws still exhaling their crime, and reeking
381 VI | who ought to furnish both exhortation and example to others, despising
382 IX | sufficient. With mutual exhortations, people were urged to their
383 XXVI | had a cinder. Thus by the experience of one it was shown that
384 XVI | contemned,--before their sin is expiated, before confession has been
385 XXIV | the belly and bowels, she expired.~
386 XXXVI | continual works, he who expressed His mercy in these words
387 XXIX | with our whole heart, and, expressing our repentance for our sin
388 XXVIII| is advantageous to this extent, that the fault is less,
389 XIX | to seek. When the prophet Ezekiel entreated for the sin of
390 XVI | reach to the harbour. Such a facility does not grant peace, but
391 XXV | confessed a consciousness of the fact with such signs as it could.
392 VIII | down? Did not their senses fail, their tongue cleave to
393 XV | deceiving mischief and a fair-seeming calamity. Contrary to the
394 Arg | DISCIPLINE, AND THE SINS OF THE FAITHFUL; OUR AUTHOR SEVERELY REPROACHES
395 XXXV | quickly appeased, whom with faithless words you have denied, to
396 VI | hair was stained with a falsehood. Crafty frauds were used
397 VI | but even more, would swear falsely; would despise those set
398 VI | was dyed: the eyes were falsified from what God's hand had
399 VIII | wickedness,--did not their tread falter? Did not their sight darken,
400 V | The Lord has desired His family to be proved; and because
401 XIX | bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off
402 XV | crime, and reeking with the fatal contact, they intrude on
403 XXVIII| Christ, who either blushes or fears to belong to Christ? He
404 XXX | bathing-places with women; who, feeding at rich banquets, and puffed
405 XI | according to God's sentence, feeds upon earth. And therefore
406 XXII | which you yourself do not feel, who sheds tears for you,
407 XXII | mercy on your behalf, who feels your wound which you yourself
408 XIV | destroy the paths of your feet," he who soothes the sinner
409 II | conflict have broken the ferocious turbulence of an urgent
410 XI | departing when their wealth fettered them like a chain. Those
411 II | soldiers is here, who in the fierce conflict have broken the
412 XXXVI | anew; he will repeat the fight, he will provoke the enemy,
413 XXX | written, "Ye shall not mar the figure of your beard," he plucks
414 XXVII | therefore see him? Do not I fill heaven and earth?" He sees
415 XXXV | surrounded with sackcloth and filth; after losing the raiment
416 XV | of the Lord, with hands filthy and reeking with smell,
417 VII | worshipped them whom their fingers have made; and the mean
418 XXV | however, the solemnities were finished, and the deacon began to
419 XIX | for suffering martyrdom in firmness of faith, more happy in
420 XXXI | noble youths, even amid the flames and the ardours of a raging
421 XXVII | XXVII.~Nor let those persons flatter themselves that they need
422 XIV | soothes the sinner with flattering blandishments furnishes
423 XXXV | avoided as an enemy; must be fled from as a robber; must be
424 IV | wounded in the wound of his flock. I join my breast with each
425 XXV | idol whither the people flocked (because it was not yet
426 XXXV | concerning us. Thus faith flourished in the time of the apostles;
427 XIII | suffering of body. Blood flowed instead of weeping; and
428 VII | words of the threatening foe, the greatest number of
429 XII | but he shall receive seven fold even in this time, but in
430 XXV | sacrament of the cup. Then there followed a sobbing and vomiting.
431 XII | and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
432 II | glory, and accompany your footsteps with the insignia of praise,
433 XXV | although against her efforts, forced on her some of the sacrament
434 XVII | nor can a servant remit or forego by his indulgence what has
435 VI | already the divine rebuke has forewarned us, and said, "If they shall
436 XXVII | The Lord Himself also forewarns and prepares us, saying, "
437 XIII | Thus at one time the Lord forgave Castus and AEmilius; thus,
438 XIII | plea may readily avail to forgiveness; an apology of that kind
439 XIX | announces, saying, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew
440 VI | and said, "If they shall forsake my law, and walk not in
441 III | case there is a readier fortitude; in the latter, solicitude
442 VIII | and to be redolent of a foul rector, as if it were the
443 XIII | the weakness of my bodily frame gave way,--not my mind,
444 XXII | your excessive madness, O frantic one--you are angry with
445 VI | with a falsehood. Crafty frauds were used to deceive the
446 XXXV | almsgiving, whereby souls are freed from death. What the adversary
447 XXVI | to become stiffened with frenzy; and suffering the misery
448 XXXV | whereby sins may be purged; frequently apply yourself to almsgiving,
449 XXX | first day of his sin daily frequents the bathing-places with
450 XIX | out of my book." He, the friend of God; he who had often
451 XV | moreover, the stubborn and froward, and denounces them, saying, "
452 VII | instructs by His words and fulfils by His deeds, teaching what
453 XXX | banquets, and puffed out with fuller dainties, belches forth
454 XXXI | the ardours of a raging furnace, did not desist from making
455 VI | few bishops s who ought to furnish both exhortation and example
456 XIV | flattering blandishments furnishes the stimulus to sin; nor
457 XXI | has poured upon them the fury of His anger." And elsewhere
458 IX | their nativity they had gained. Will not they, when the
459 VI | hunted the markets for gainful merchandise, while brethren
460 VI | deceits, they increased their gains by multiplying usuries.
461 XIV | overcome show? what gashes of gaping entrails, what tortures
462 XIV | are overcome show? what gashes of gaping entrails, what
463 II | gladly, does she open her gates, that in united bands you
464 XXX | excess both in pearls, and gems, and gold, yet without the
465 XVIII | become of avail for the general remission and pardon of
466 I | God, and His benefits and gifts must be celebrated with
467 XIX | in the free will of the giver; neither can human judgment
468 XXXVI | by righteous entreaty, He gives arms again whereby the vanquished
469 II | battle! How blissfully, how gladly, does she open her gates,
470 I | re-established. Our minds return to gladness; and the season of affliction
471 V | had in view; nor ought the gloomy darkness of the terrible
472 XX | let no one degrade their glories and their crowns. The strength
473 X | of her plagues." He who goes out and departs does not
474 III | appointed for denying was gone by, every one who had not
475 XX | more merciful than God's goodness, that he should either wish
476 XIII | weeping; and instead of tears, gore poured forth from their
477 XXXVI | for He is merciful and gracious, and patient, and of great
478 XXXIII| their own accord when nobody granted it; seduced by false promises,
479 VII | the threatening foe, the greatest number of the brethren betrayed
480 IV | me to the soothing of my griefs, since it is the shepherd
481 XXXII | abundantly, prove the sorrow of a grieving and lamenting mind.~
482 IV | one, and I share in the grievous burden of sorrow and mourning.
483 XVI | may pass away, that the groaning of their heart may be repressed,
484 IV | his grief to express his groanings rather with tears than with
485 XXXII | with our tears, join your groans with ours; we beseech you
486 XXXV | lying stretched on the ground, you must cling close to
487 VIII | their mouth, their speech grow weak? Could the servant
488 XXVIII| that the conscience is .guiltless. He can more easily attain
489 XVI | of thing to the lapsed as hail to the harvests; as the
490 XIII | poured forth from their half-scorched entrails.~
491 XXVI | priest; he could not eat nor handle the holy of the Lord, but
492 XIV | unskilful physician who handles the swelling edges of wounds
493 XXXIV | way of atonement. Thus it happens that, while by the rashness
494 XVI | it may not reach to the harbour. Such a facility does not
495 IV | lamented. For whose heart is so hard or cruel, who is so unmindful
496 XXXIII| with the alienation of a hardened mind, they despise the Lord'
497 XVIII | lapsed, but it does them harm. Not to have observed His
498 XVI | the lapsed as hail to the harvests; as the stormy star to the
499 XVIII | any one, by an overhurried haste, rashly thinks that he can
500 IX | Lord's bread and cup to hasten freely to a profane contact;
501 VIII | own accord; freely they hastened to death, as if they had