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 502 VI    |          one another with obstinate hatred. Not a few bishops s who
 503 II    |         leavings of the idols. Your head has remained free from the
 504 VII   |            should be dissolved with headlong rashness? Have not prophets
 505 II    |         veil with which the captive heads of those who sacrificed
 506 XIV   |             be opened, and cut, and healed by the stronger remedy of
 507 XXXV  |          estate be laid out for the healing of your wound; let us lend
 508 XV    |           the patience necessary to health nor the true medicine derived
 509 XV    |         there has been added to the heap, under the title of mercy,
 510 XXXI  |          judgments; neither have we hearkened to the words of Thy servants
 511 VII   |          always the injuries of the heathens? Does not the sacred Scripture,
 512 XXI   |             cannot save; or His ear heavy, that it cannot hear? But
 513 XV    |             communion is relaxed to heedless persons,--a vain and false
 514 XII   |          climb to sublime and lofty heights, who are weighed down by
 515 XX    |           could be preserved by his help?~
 516 VIII  |            tremble, their arms fall helplessly down? Did not their senses
 517 II    |     confessors illustrious with the heraldry of a good name, and glorious
 518 XVI   |    destruction of pestilence to the herds; as the raging tempest to
 519 Arg   |          NOVATIANS, CONFUTING THEIR HERESY WITH MANY SCRIPTURES.~
 520 XXI   |        because of your sins He hath hid His face from you, that
 521 XXX   |       continually groan; do you not hide yourself, either for shame
 522 XXII  |            itself could reform? His high and rigid neck, even when
 523 XVI   |          name of piety? Why do they hinder those who ought to weep
 524 XI    |          spirit bound, and the soul hindered; so that they who were involved
 525 XVI   |           it give communion, but it hinders from salvation. This is
 526 VI    |          sought to possess money in hoards, they seized estates by
 527 XXXIII|          and unbelievers, they take hold of error instead of truth:
 528 X     |         salvation and of an eternal home should be feared. Behold,
 529 II    |    appointment, neither does he who hopes for eternity from God calculate
 530 IV    |           stand; which is, that the hostile violence has torn away a
 531 XII   |              saith He, "that leaves house, or land, or parents, or
 532 VII   |             down, and the great man humbleth himself, and I will forgive
 533 XXXI  |        cease from maintaining their humility, and from making atonement
 534 VI    |             over foreign provinces, hunted the markets for gainful
 535 XII   |           and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
 536 XVI   |            their lamentation may be hushed, that their grief may be
 537 XXXVI |         that dieth, saith the Lord, hut that he should return and
 538 XXVI  |             unsoundness of mind and idiotcy by the raging of madness!
 539 XXV   |           it, in the presence of an idol whither the people flocked (
 540 XV    |     breathing of the plague-bearing idol-meats; and even with jaws still
 541 XXV   |          happened unawares in their ignorance, that when we were sacrificing,
 542 XVII  |          added to his sin, if he be ignorant that it is declared, "Cursed
 543 II    |                                     II.~We look with glad countenances
 544 III   |                                     III.~Let none, my beloved brethren,
 545 V     |          should remain no light and illumination whence the divine precepts
 546 VIII  |      wretched man, a sacrifice? why immolate a victim? You yourself have
 547 VIII  |            a victim: there you have immolated your salvation, your hope;
 548 XXV   |           what had been used in the immolation of those that had perished.
 549 XIV   |    vociferate, and may complain, in impatience of the pain; but he will
 550 XXV   |             with the saints, became impatient of our prayer and supplications,
 551 XXVII |           my substance, that it was imperfect, and in Thy book shall all
 552 XVI   |          kindness? Why do they call impiety by the name of piety? Why
 553 II    |          has remained free from the impious and wicked veil with which
 554 XXIV  |           with which she had either impiously eaten or spoken. After the
 555 XXII  |          and while you yourself are implacable against the ministers and
 556 I     |          difficult, and to traitors impossible, our security is by divine
 557 XXXIII|            XXXIII.~Neither let that imprudent error or vain stupor of
 558 XXX   |           your friends by the death incident to mortality, you would
 559 XXXVI |          tears of repentance, if be incline the Lord to pardon of his
 560 VI    |           devoted themselves to the increase of their property. Among
 561 XIV   |          deep recesses of the body, increases it. The wound, must be opened,
 562 VI    |            Each one was desirous of increasing his estate; and forgetful
 563 I     |        although it lately seemed to incredulous people difficult, and to
 564 XXV   |           more able to speak, or to indicate the crime that had been
 565 XII   |             times and these men are indicated by the apostle, when he
 566 XXX   |           forth on the next day his indigestions, and does not dispense of
 567 XXVI  |            go through the deaths of individuals, since through the manifold
 568 XXI   |          Holy Scripture teaches the indocile, and admonishes the unmindful,
 569 XVII  |      servant remit or forego by his indulgence what has been committed
 570 XXXV  |            of a Father He is always indulgent and good, in the same proportion
 571 XXVI  |            XXVI.~This much about an infant, which was not yet of an
 572 IX    |             to aggravate the crime, infants also, in the arms of their
 573 XXXVI |            to the evil that He hath inflicted." He can show mercy; He
 574 XXI   |            it cannot hear? But your iniquities separate between you and
 575 XXXI  |           sinned, we have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly:
 576 VII   |           righteous, and always the injuries of the heathens? Does not
 577 XVI   |         Gospel. Why do they call an injury a kindness? Why do they
 578 XXXI  |     manifold grace of his faith and innocency, after the condescension
 579 XXXII |          done by men, meek, simple, innocent, in deserving well of the
 580 IV    |         untouched and free from the inroad of persecution among my
 581 II    |             your footsteps with the insignia of praise, very near to,
 582 XIV   |     brethren, but that I may rather instigate the brethren to a prayer
 583 XXV   |            the little child, by the instinct of the divine majesty, turned
 584 XXVIII|           people standing round and insulting, and not polluting his hands
 585 VIII  |             they ascended, or to be interrogated ere they denied. Many were
 586 XV    |             the fatal contact, they intrude on the body of the Lord,
 587 XXXVI |          the refreshed faith may be invigorated. The soldier will seek his
 588 XII   |          what rewards does the Lord invite us to contempt of worldly
 589 I     |           the world has shone forth irradiated by the light of the Lord.~
 590 XXI   |         gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to those who made a booty
 591 IV    |                                     IV.~One cause of grief saddens
 592 IX    |                                     IX.~But to many their own destruction
 593 XXI   |           speaks, saying, "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel
 594 XIX   |           his entreaty. God praises Jeremiah, and announces, saying, "
 595 XXXVI |        should return and live." And Joel the prophet declares the
 596 XII   |           in that day, and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward
 597 XXX   |          How does he who walks with joyous and glad step mourn for
 598 II    |           for the Lord's crown. How joyously does your Mother Church
 599 XXXI  |           and strong, and dreadful, keeping Thy covenant and mercy for
 600 III   |      content with God as its judge, keeps a pure conscience in integrity
 601 XXXV  |           first people of believers kept Christ's commands: they
 602 XXXIV |            and envenomed persuasion kills worse than persecution itself.
 603 XVI   |            do they call an injury a kindness? Why do they call impiety
 604 XII   |          wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, but he shall
 605 XXXI  |            spake in Thy name to our kings, and to all the nations,
 606 II    |          clinging to them with holy kisses, we embrace them long desired
 607 XIX   |         formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest
 608 XXVIII|         slight and moderate wounds, knowing that it is written, "God
 609 XXI   |             been done without God's knowledge, or all these things have
 610 II    |             has renounced the world knows no day of worldly appointment,
 611 XXXVI |           pardon the repenting, the labouring, the beseeching sinner.
 612 XIII  |    lamentable voice alone, but with laceration and suffering of body. Blood
 613 XIII  |            their wounds; nor with a lamentable voice alone, but with laceration
 614 IV    |             once numerous should be lamented. For whose heart is so hard
 615 XXVI  |          since through the manifold lapses occurring in the world the
 616 XXXV  |             done without delay, and largely; let all your estate be
 617       | last
 618 Arg   |      ACCORDING TO CHRIST'S COUNSEL. LASTLY, HE WARNS HIS READERS TO
 619 XVIII |           if this thing be just and lawful, if it can be done without
 620 XXIV  |           had lost the grace of the layer of life); there, unclean
 621 XXIX  |            to Him. Let all our hope lean upon Him. He Himself tells
 622 XII   |         Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy; for, behold, your
 623 XII   |            no man," saith He, "that leaves house, or land, or parents,
 624 III   |           perhaps was delayed, who, leaving his estate, withdrew for
 625 II    |            profane contacts and the leavings of the idols. Your head
 626 XXXV  |       healing of your wound; let us lend of our wealth and our means
 627 XXXV  |         they were prompt, they were liberal, they gave their all to
 628 XIX   |            for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them;
 629       | likely
 630 II    |            proving their faith were limited beforehand; but he who remembers
 631 XXX   |           edges of your eyes with a line drawn around them of black
 632 XXXIII|      seduced by false promises, and linked with apostates and unbelievers,
 633 XIX   |              when he had conquered, lived on? Was any more ready in
 634 XXIII |     alienated mind not perceive the lively remedies which we both learn
 635 XXIII |        terrified with present ones. Lo, what punishments do we
 636 XXVIII|       avowal, put off from them the load of their minds, and seek
 637 I     |          and after the dreadful and loathsome darkness of a long night,
 638 XII   |            and climb to sublime and lofty heights, who are weighed
 639 XIII  |      encounter, varied tortures and long-continued sufferings overcame me.
 640 XXVI  |             suffering the misery no longer of persecution, but of her
 641 XI    |            He would follow the Lord loosed and free, as did the apostles,
 642 XII   |            of their profit, and not lords with respect to their own
 643 XX    |            stand firm, or both must lose the force of truth. If they
 644 XXXV  |          sackcloth and filth; after losing the raiment of Christ, you
 645 XII   |          for the small and trifling losses of this present time? "There
 646 XVIII |            slain martyrs cry with a loud voice, saying, "How long,
 647 XXXV  |            now either to be held or loved, by which you have been
 648 XXIX  |             mercy. Let our soul lie low before Him. Let our mourning
 649 XXVII |             of all men, in the very lurking-places of the heart that is still
 650 XII   |            many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction
 651 XXXV  |            in wailful lamentations; lying stretched on the ground,
 652 XXXIII|            pleasing themselves, and mad with the alienation of a
 653 XXXI  |             they did not cease from maintaining their humility, and from
 654 III   |             this glory; let none by malignant dispraise detract from the
 655 XXIX  |            Himself tells us in what manner we ought to ask. "Turn ye,"
 656 VI    |        there was no mercy; in their manners there was no discipline.
 657 XXX   |           is written, "Ye shall not mar the figure of your beard,"
 658 VIII  |        unwillingly. They ran to the market-place of their own accord; freely
 659 VI    |       foreign provinces, hunted the markets for gainful merchandise,
 660 VI    |          They united in the bond of marriage with unbelievers; they prostituted
 661 XIX   |           more strong for suffering martyrdom in firmness of faith, more
 662 XXXI  |              even amid the glorious martyrdoms of their virtues. The sacred
 663 XXVII |            he has served an earthly master in that he has obeyed his
 664 XXVII |       written, "Ye cannot serve two masters," he has served an earthly
 665 XXVII |           authority than to God. It matters not whether he has published
 666 VII   |          fingers have made; and the mean man boweth down, and the
 667 VI    |        hearts of the simple, subtle meanings for circumventing the brethren.
 668       | meantime
 669 XXXII |            things were done by men, meek, simple, innocent, in deserving
 670 VI    |   unbelievers; they prostituted the members of Christ to the Gentiles.
 671 VI    |             the markets for gainful merchandise, while brethren were starving
 672 XXXVI |           back His judgment. He can mercifully pardon the repenting, the
 673 XVII  |           believe, indeed, that the merits of martyrs and the works
 674 XXXV  |           in the midst of lapse, is mindful of its misery, do you in
 675 XIX   |      grievously, I will stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break
 676 XXXI  |         XXXI.~Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, the illustrious and noble
 677 XV    |         title of mercy, a deceiving mischief and a fair-seeming calamity.
 678 XXXIV |           those who adhere to their mischievous contact. Their word doth
 679 XXX   |            show the signs of grief. Miserable creature, you have lost
 680 XXIV  |             to her crime and to her misfortunes, that she even went at once
 681 XIV   |            the Lord's priest not to mislead by deceiving concessions,
 682 XXX   |             And do you not bitterly moan; do you not continually
 683 XXVIII|        medicine even for slight and moderate wounds, knowing that it
 684 V     |           most merciful Lord has so moderated all things, that all which
 685 XVIII |           easy and yielding, if the moderation of the asking party be religious.
 686 XXV   |       supplications, and was at one moment shaken with weeping, and
 687 XXX   |            by the death incident to mortality, you would groan grievously,
 688 XXX   |           with joyous and glad step mourn for his death? And although
 689 IV    |             of his friends, and the mournful relics disfigured with all
 690 VI    |            increased their gains by multiplying usuries. What do not such
 691 IX    |          have found our parents our murderers; they have denied to us
 692 IX    |            was not sufficient. With mutual exhortations, people were
 693 XXX   |          and silken robes, thou art naked; although thou adornest
 694 II    |            That religious voice has named the name of Christ, in whom
 695       | NAMELY
 696 IX    |            first beginning of their nativity they had gained. Will not
 697 XV    |           not seek for the patience necessary to health nor the true medicine
 698 XXII  |          reform? His high and rigid neck, even when it has fallen,
 699 XXX   |        ornaments and richly wrought necklaces, and not to bewail the loss
 700 XXX   |            with changed dress, with neglected hair, with clouded face,
 701       | next
 702 I     |        loathsome darkness of a long night, the world has shone forth
 703 XXXV  |          the day in grief; wear out nights in watchings and weepings;
 704 XXXI  |         Misael, the illustrious and noble youths, even amid the flames
 705       | nobody
 706 XIV   |            nor does he repress, but nourishes wrong-doing. But he who,
 707 Arg   |            HIS READERS TO AVOID THE NOVATIANS, CONFUTING THEIR HERESY
 708 XXXIV |             like a contagion; their noxious and envenomed persuasion
 709 VII   |       threatening foe, the greatest number of the brethren betrayed
 710 IV    |      manifold loss of a people once numerous should be lamented. For
 711 XXV   |            care of a wet-nurse. The nurse gave up the forsaken child
 712 XIII  |        bravely, and, remembering my oath, I took up the arms of devotion
 713 XXXII |    acquiesce in wholesome remedies, obey better counsels, associate
 714 XXVII |       earthly master in that he has obeyed his edict; he has been more
 715 XVIII |       priest, if the consent of the obeying party be easy and yielding,
 716 VII   |         unknown and unexpected, the obligation to Christ should be dissolved
 717 VI    |             statutes, and shall not observe my precepts, I will visit
 718 XVIII |         does them harm. Not to have observed His judgment is to have
 719 XIX   |            with the Lord, could not obtain what he asked, nor could
 720 XVIII |           first know that they have obtained what they ask from God,
 721 XXXV  |             watchings and weepings; occupy all your time in wailful
 722 XXV   |                     XXV.~Learn what occurred when I myself was present
 723 VII   |        happened, that, as if on the occurrence of things unknown and unexpected,
 724 XXVI  |         through the manifold lapses occurring in the world the punishment
 725 XVI   |           of the priest, before the offence of an angry and threatening
 726 XVI   |    deprecate the Lord so grievously offended, although it is written, "
 727 VIII  |           have come to the altar an offering; you yourself have come
 728 XXII  |        angry with the priests. And--oh your excessive madness,
 729 XXII  |        excessive madness, O frantic one--you are angry with him who
 730 VII   |          were cast down, not by the onset of persecution, but cast
 731 XIV   |      instructs a brother, urges him onward to salvation. "As many as
 732 XXXI  |           stood up and prayed, and, opening his mouth, made confession
 733 XXVIII|             his crime if he has not openly admitted his crime. Christ
 734 VIII  |            if they would embrace an opportunity now given which they had
 735 XVIII |           if it can be done without opposing the Lord Himself by God'
 736 XVIII |         does any one think that, in opposition to the Judge, a man can
 737 VII   |             done? Did He not before ordain both for those who deny
 738 XIX   |            I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the
 739 XXX   |         loss of divine and heavenly ornament? Although thou clothest
 740 XXX   |           lost; to receive valuable ornaments and richly wrought necklaces,
 741       | ours
 742 XXVII |           And again: "Man seeth the outward appearance, but God seeth
 743 XIII  |           long-continued sufferings overcame me. My mind stood firm,
 744 III   |      private confession. The former overcomes the judge of this world;
 745 XVIII |        XVIII.~But if any one, by an overhurried haste, rashly thinks that
 746 XVI   |   consolation of eternal hope; they overturn the tree from the roots;
 747 XIV   |      complain, in impatience of the pain; but he will afterwards
 748 XIII  |         unshaken with the torturing pains; but when, with the renewed
 749 XXX   |             of sorrows; and you who paint the edges of your eyes with
 750 XXIV  |           afterwards: tortured with pangs of the belly and bowels,
 751 X     |           departs does not become a partaker of the guilt; but he will
 752 IX    |         associated by others to the partnership of wickedness, and we were
 753 XIV   |          cutting out the corrupting parts. The sick man may cry out,
 754 XVI   |             memory of their sin may pass away, that the groaning
 755 VIII  |          have fallen away, and have passed from memory. They indeed
 756 XIV   |             to err, and destroy the paths of your feet," he who soothes
 757 VII   |          the Lord, so as to undergo patiently and courageously this our
 758 XXX   |           thyself to excess both in pearls, and gems, and gold, yet
 759 XXVIII|         believes that he evades the penalty of his crime if he has not
 760 XXIII |     stricken and alienated mind not perceive the lively remedies which
 761 XXI   |                        XXI.~Unless, perchance, these things have been
 762 XII   |           men in destruction and in perdition. For the root of all evil
 763 XI    |              says, "If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell all that thou
 764 XXV   |        immolation of those that had perished. Subsequently the mother
 765 XXI   |           have happened without His permission; although Holy Scripture
 766 XII   |       Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you, and when they shall
 767 XXV   |           the cup. Still the deacon persisted, and, although against her
 768 IV    |             my own integrity and my personal soundness beguile me to
 769 XXXIV |         their noxious and envenomed persuasion kills worse than persecution
 770 XVI   |        trees; as the destruction of pestilence to the herds; as the raging
 771 XVI   |         deadly contagion with their pestilent words; they dash the ship
 772 XIV   |        remedies. He is an unskilful physician who handles the swelling
 773 XVI   |         call impiety by the name of piety? Why do they hinder those
 774 VIII  |            perish, to him a funeral pile? Ought he not to shudder
 775 XV    |          they draw near to the holy place of the Lord, with hands
 776 XXXV  |          whose mind, although it is placed in the midst of lapse, is
 777 XXVII |             man be hidden in secret places, shall not I therefore see
 778 XV    |             almost breathing of the plague-bearing idol-meats; and even with
 779 XV    |             the deadly blow that is planted in the deep and secret entrails
 780 XIII  |           in the suffering." Such a plea may readily avail to forgiveness;
 781 VIII  |             violence can such a one plead as an excuse? How can he
 782 XXX   |            and does he now study to please any one who displeases God?
 783 IX    |            to their ruin; death was pledged by turns in the deadly cup.
 784 XXX   |           figure of your beard," he plucks out his beard, and dresses
 785 Arg   |           WITH EXTREME GRIEF HAVING POINTED TO THE DOWNFALL OF THE LAPSED,
 786 XXVIII|        round and insulting, and not polluting his hands by the deadly
 787 XXXV  |              must be dreaded by its possessors as a sword and as poison.
 788 XXX   |          drawn around them of black powder, now at least wash your
 789 II    |      footsteps with the insignia of praise, very near to, and almost
 790 XIX   |             that is asked is in the pre-judgment of the asker, but in the
 791 XXX   |           to put on the clothing of precious apparel, and not to consider
 792 XXXV  |          the devil's meat, you must prefer fasting; be earnest in righteous
 793 XXXV  |             to whom you have rather preferred your worldly estate, whose
 794 XXVII |          Himself also forewarns and prepares us, saying, "And all the
 795 II    |         evangelical traditions, the prescribed banishment, the destined
 796 XXV   |   magistrates. They gave it, in the presence of an idol whither the people
 797 XXVI  |            her jaws and body, began presently to be tortured, and to become
 798 XX    |       should think that we could be preserved by his help?~
 799 XVIII |              despising the Lord, to presume on His power. Under the
 800 XVI   |        sorrowing of repentance, and pretend to receive them to communion?
 801 III   |             public, the latter is a private confession. The former overcomes
 802 VII   |           correction of our sin and probation of our faith. Nor indeed
 803 XXVIII|           seeing the idols, and not profaning the sanctity of the faith
 804 III   |           by, every one who had not professed within that time not to
 805 XXVII |             with certificates. That profession of one who denies, is the
 806 XII   |       possessed; as slaves of their profit, and not lords with respect
 807 XXXV  |        Christ's commands: they were prompt, they were liberal, they
 808 VII   |           our correction and divine proof. Immediately at the first
 809 VI    |     marriage with unbelievers; they prostituted the members of Christ to
 810 XX    |             had too little power to protect His Church, should think
 811 XXXII |             you. Repent abundantly, prove the sorrow of a grieving
 812 V     |            desired His family to be proved; and because a long peace
 813 XIV   |       deceiving concessions, but to provide with salutary remedies.
 814 VI    |         wandered about over foreign provinces, hunted the markets for
 815 II    |        terrified them. The days for proving their faith were limited
 816 XXXVI |           repeat the fight, he will provoke the enemy, and indeed by
 817 XVIII |             His judgment is to have provoked His, wrath, and to think
 818 XXVII |             Holy Spirit says in the Psalms, "Thine eyes did see my
 819 XXVII |          matters not whether he has published what he has done with less
 820 XXX   |       feeding at rich banquets, and puffed out with fuller dainties,
 821 VIII  |            as an excuse? How can he purge his crime, when it was he
 822 XVII  |              Cursed is the man that putteth his hope in man." The Lord
 823 XXVIII|             seems to be less in the quality of his fault, should be
 824 VI    |             envenomed tongue, would quarrel with one another with obstinate
 825 XVI   |        weeping of their eyes may be quenched; nor long and full penitence
 826 XXXV  |            you that the Lord can be quickly appeased, whom with faithless
 827 XIII  |           the clubs bruised me, the rack strained me, the claw dug
 828 XV    |            storm of persecution had raged too little, there has been
 829 XXXV  |             filth; after losing the raiment of Christ, you must be willing
 830 VIII  |             idols unwillingly. They ran to the market-place of their
 831 I     |          divine aid and retribution re-established. Our minds return to gladness;
 832 XVI   |           rocks, so that it may not reach to the harbour. Such a facility
 833 Arg   |       COUNSEL. LASTLY, HE WARNS HIS READERS TO AVOID THE NOVATIANS,
 834 III   |          the former case there is a readier fortitude; in the latter,
 835 XIII  |         suffering." Such a plea may readily avail to forgiveness; an
 836 X     |          alas, any just and weighty reason which excuses such a crime.
 837 XIV   |          who, with braver counsels, rebukes at the same time that he
 838 XIV   |          poison shut up in the deep recesses of the body, increases it.
 839 V     |            the cause of disaster is recognised, there is at once found
 840 XXV   |             Subsequently the mother recovered her child. But the girl
 841 VIII  |            to be redolent of a foul rector, as if it were the funeral
 842 XXXV  |          crime and the fault may be redeemed. Let good works be done
 843 XXXV  |     apostles; and yet they were not redeeming sins of such a character
 844 VIII  |            seen to smoke, and to be redolent of a foul rector, as if
 845 XXII  |            persecution itself could reform? His high and rigid neck,
 846 XXXVI |            the strength whereby the refreshed faith may be invigorated.
 847 XXXII |            who have denied the Lord refuse to make atonement to the
 848 XXV   |            with resisting lips, and refused the cup. Still the deacon
 849 X     |            he who has fallen, after refusing to depart, remained to deny
 850 XXVII |           am He which searcheth the reins and the heart." He looks
 851 II    |             blood of the Lord, have rejected the profane contacts and
 852 XII   |          for the Son of man's sake! Rejoice ye in that day, and leap
 853 XI    |          both their means and their relatives, and clave to Christ with
 854 XV    |      temerity of some, communion is relaxed to heedless persons,--a
 855 IV    |           friends, and the mournful relics disfigured with all degradation,
 856 VI    |         there was no devotedness of religion; among the ministers there
 857 XXV   |        which however itself was the remainder of what had been used in
 858 XI    |             the chains to them that remained--those were the bonds by
 859 XVI   |            although it is written, "Remember from whence thou art fallen,
 860 XIII  |             to strive bravely, and, remembering my oath, I took up the arms
 861 II    |      limited beforehand; but he who remembers that he has renounced the
 862 XVII  |         than God, nor can a servant remit or forego by his indulgence
 863 XXIX  |              and with mourning; and rend your hearts, and not your
 864 XIII  |           pains; but when, with the renewed barbarity of the most cruel
 865 VIII  |          stand there, and speak and renounce Christ, when he had already
 866 XXXVI |           his contest anew; he will repeat the fight, he will provoke
 867 XXXI  |     condescension of the Lord often repeated in respect of his virtues
 868 XXXVI |             and of great mercy, and repenteth Him with respect to the
 869 XXXVI |           can mercifully pardon the repenting, the labouring, the beseeching
 870 XIV   |        stimulus to sin; nor does he repress, but nourishes wrong-doing.
 871 XVI   |      groaning of their heart may be repressed, that the weeping of their
 872 Arg   |       FAITHFUL; OUR AUTHOR SEVERELY REPROACHES THE LAPSED, THAT, AT THE
 873 VII   |            of the law and obedience required of us, have so acted by
 874 XVIII |            sins to all, or dares to rescind the Lord's precepts, not
 875 XXV   |           compressed its mouth with resisting lips, and refused the cup.
 876 II    |     soundness of a tenacious faith. Resting on the unshaken roots of
 877 I     |          beloved brethren, peace is restored to the Church; and although
 878 XXXVI |         vanquished may be armed; He restores and confirms the strength
 879 XIV   |         with a tender hand, and, by retaining the poison shut up in the
 880 XI    |            by which both virtue was retarded, and faith burdened, and
 881 III   |             withdrawn by a cautious retirement, and to be reserved for
 882 I     |       security is by divine aid and retribution re-established. Our minds
 883 XV    |             dissimulated suffering. Returning from the altars of the devil,
 884 XXI   |       rather consider our offences, revolving our doings and the secrets
 885 XI    |           would not perish by their riches; if they laid up treasure
 886 XXX   |      receive valuable ornaments and richly wrought necklaces, and not
 887 XXXI  |           to all the earth. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto Thee, but unto
 888 XXII  |          could reform? His high and rigid neck, even when it has fallen,
 889 XXVI  |          Lord, was deterred by fire rising from it from daring to touch
 890 XIII  |          claw dug into me, the fire roasted me; my flesh deserted me
 891 XXXV  |              must be fled from as a robber; must be dreaded by its
 892 XXX   |             and not to consider the robe of Christ which she has
 893 XXX   |         foreign garments and silken robes, thou art naked; although
 894 XVI   |           they dash the ship on the rocks, so that it may not reach
 895 VI    |         visit their offences with a rod, and their sins with scourges?"~
 896 XII   |           and in perdition. For the root of all evil is the love
 897 XXVIII|           eyes of a people standing round and insulting, and not polluting
 898 IX    |         faithlessness of others has ruined us. We have found our parents
 899 IV    |          love, as, among the varied ruins of his friends, and the
 900 XXV   |           forced on her some of the sacrament of the cup. Then there followed
 901 XXIII |         those who have denied! what sad deaths of theirs do we bewail!
 902 XXXVI |          Church which he had lately saddened glad, and shall now deserve
 903 IV    |              IV.~One cause of grief saddens these heavenly crowns of
 904 XXV   |           the girl mingled with the saints, became impatient of our
 905 XXIX  |          may be received, while the satisfaction and remission made by the
 906 XVI   |            All these warnings being scorned and contemned,--before their
 907 XXV   |            about like a wave of the sea by the violent excitement
 908 XXVII |             know that I am He which searcheth the reins and the heart."
 909 I     |         return to gladness; and the season of affliction and the cloud
 910 II    |     eternity from God calculate the seasons of earth any more.~
 911 VI    |            charge, became agents in secular business, forsook their
 912 III   |          latter, solicitude is more secure. The former, as his hour
 913 I     |            traitors impossible, our security is by divine aid and retribution
 914 XXXIII|             when nobody granted it; seduced by false promises, and linked
 915       | seems
 916 VIII  |         devil's altar, which he had seen to smoke, and to be redolent
 917 XXVII |          fill heaven and earth?" He sees the heart and mind of every
 918 XI    |           thou wilt be perfect, go, sell all that thou hast, and
 919 VIII  |      helplessly down? Did not their senses fail, their tongue cleave
 920 XI    |           which, according to God's sentence, feeds upon earth. And therefore
 921 XVI   |         joined to the Church who is separated from the Gospel. Why do
 922 VIII  |             it were the funeral and sepulchre of his life? Why bring with
 923 I     |         dispersed, tranquillity and serenity have shone forth once more.
 924 XI    |            a booty and food for the serpent, which, according to God'
 925 XXVII |          serve two masters," he has served an earthly master in that
 926 XXXV  |             as remains should be of service, that by it the crime and
 927 VI    |        falsely; would despise those set over them with haughty swelling,
 928 XII   |          sake, but he shall receive seven fold even in this time,
 929 XIII  | subsequently tortures had come, and severe sufferings were threatening
 930 Arg   |            THE FAITHFUL; OUR AUTHOR SEVERELY REPROACHES THE LAPSED, THAT,
 931 VII   |       commandments, we have come by severer remedies to the correction
 932 II    |            have also overcome their sex; and virgins also come with
 933 IV    |         breast with each one, and I share in the grievous burden of
 934 XXII  |             which perhaps you never shed yourself. You are still
 935 XXII  |           yourself do not feel, who sheds tears for you, which perhaps
 936 IV    |             griefs, since it is the shepherd that is chiefly wounded
 937 XVIII |             of sins, or that he can shield others before he himself
 938 XVI   |      pestilent words; they dash the ship on the rocks, so that it
 939 XVI   |            as the raging tempest to shipping. They take away the consolation
 940 XXVI  |      persecution, but of her crime, shivering and trembling, she fell
 941 XXI   |           says, "Is the Lord's hand shortened, that it cannot save; or
 942 XXVI  |            experience of one it was shown that the Lord withdraws
 943 VIII  |       funeral pile? Ought he not to shudder at and flee from the devil'
 944 XIV   |             by retaining the poison shut up in the deep recesses
 945 XIV   |           the corrupting parts. The sick man may cry out, may vociferate,
 946 II    |            your brow, pure with the sign of God, could not bear the
 947 XVI   |             that their grief may be silent, that the memory of their
 948 XXX   |             in foreign garments and silken robes, thou art naked; although
 949 XXVIII|         such things, with grief and simplicity confess this very thing
 950 II    |            In them also is the same sincerity of heart, the same soundness
 951 XXX   |           are still worse wounds of sinning; behold, these are greater
 952 XVIII |             of God the souls of the slain martyrs cry with a loud
 953 XII   |            are rather possessed; as slaves of their profit, and not
 954 XXVIII|          salutary medicine even for slight and moderate wounds, knowing
 955 V     |          way, and I had almost said slumbering; and although we deserved
 956 XII   | compensations does He atone for the small and trifling losses of this
 957 XV    |             filthy and reeking with smell, still almost breathing
 958 VIII  |         altar, which he had seen to smoke, and to be redolent of a
 959 XII   |         fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and
 960 IX    |             wickedness, and we were snared by the deceit of others?"~
 961 XXV   |          cup. Then there followed a sobbing and vomiting. In a profane
 962 XXXVI |             may be invigorated. The soldier will seek his contest anew;
 963 II    |      white-robed cohort of Christ's soldiers is here, who in the fierce
 964 XXV   |           could. When, however, the solemnities were finished, and the deacon
 965 III   |           fortitude; in the latter, solicitude is more secure. The former,
 966 VIII  |                          VIII.~From some--ah, misery!--all these things
 967 XIX   |         they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; but they
 968 XIV   |         paths of your feet," he who soothes the sinner with flattering
 969 IV    |         soundness beguile me to the soothing of my griefs, since it is
 970 XVII  |              who bare our sins, who sorrowed for us, whom God delivered
 971 XXXI  |             in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowfully making confession, and saying, "
 972 XVI   |        entreat their Lord, from the sorrowing of repentance, and pretend
 973 XXXI  |            the prophets, which they spake in Thy name to our kings,
 974 II    |            have afforded a glorious spectacle in the sight of God; you
 975 VIII  |        cleave to their mouth, their speech grow weak? Could the servant
 976 XXXV  |       eagerly and entreat; you must spend the day in grief; wear out
 977 XXVI  |             are filled with unclean spirits! How many are shaken even
 978 IV    |             martyrs, these glorious spiritual confessions, these very
 979 XXX   |            you have lost your soul; spiritually dead here, you are continuing
 980 XXI   |       saying, "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to those who
 981 XIX   |         upon it, and will break the staff of bread thereof, and will
 982 XXX   |          art unsightly. And you who stain your hair, now at least
 983 VI    |           made them; their hair was stained with a falsehood. Crafty
 984 XXVIII|          under the eyes of a people standing round and insulting, and
 985 XV    |       although the sacred Scripture stands in their way, and cries,
 986 XVI   |             harvests; as the stormy star to the trees; as the destruction
 987 VI    |    merchandise, while brethren were starving in the Church. They sought
 988 VI    |            if they shall profane my statutes, and shall not observe my
 989 XXXIII|         they are obstinate; neither stedfast before, nor suppliant afterwards:
 990 III   |        detract from the uncorrupted stedfastness of those who have stood.
 991 XXVI  |             tortured, and to become stiffened with frenzy; and suffering
 992 XIV   |         blandishments furnishes the stimulus to sin; nor does he repress,
 993 XXV   |             forth from the polluted stomach. So great is the Lord's
 994 XV    |            appeared; and, as if the storm of persecution had raged
 995 XVI   |             to the harvests; as the stormy star to the trees; as the
 996 XIII  |          clubs bruised me, the rack strained me, the claw dug into me,
 997 II    |          the heavenly precepts, and strengthened by the evangelical traditions,
 998 VII   |             ever arms our faith and strengthens with a voice from heaven
 999 XIX   |      trespassing grievously, I will stretch out mine hand upon it, and
1000 XXXV  |         wailful lamentations; lying stretched on the ground, you must
1001 XIII  |            say, "I wished indeed to strive bravely, and, remembering
1002 XXXI  |            his virtues and praises, strives by fastings still further