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501 XII  |             or from doing an act of parricide. You, who cannot endure
502 XIV  |         some cases the feet or some parts of the limbs are taken off
503 XXII |             time being traversed, a passage to eternity. Who would not
504 XIV  |           enrolled in the cross and passion of Christ; he may fear to
505 XXVI |       victory of their struggle and passion--there the triumphant virgins,
506 XI   |           but to accept bravely and patiently whatever things happen in
507 XVI  |          not forsake the beseeching patients; whether the fierce suppress
508 XXVI |           transferred their earthly patrimonies to the heavenly treasuries.
509 XV   |     speedily given to the faithful, penalty to the unbelieving. We are
510 XVII |                           XVII.~But perchance some one may object, and
511 XV   |           brothels. Boys escape the peril of their unstable age, and
512 XVI  |       whether, when their dear ones perish, the rich, even then bestow
513 V    |                          V.~So many persecutions the soul suffers daily,
514 XVI  |            a great thing is it, how pertinent, how necessary, that pestilence
515 X    |          him also his wife tried to pervert, saying, "Where are thy
516 XVI  |      pertinent, how necessary, that pestilence and plague which seems horrible
517 II   |       famines, and earthquakes, and pestilences would arise in each place;
518 XVI  |       languishing servants; whether physicians do not forsake the beseeching
519 XVI  |            kindred; whether masters pity their languishing servants;
520 III  |             faith, when it had been pledged him from heaven that he
521 Arg  |       CYPRIAN. FIRST OF ALL, HAVING POINTED OUT THAT AFFLICTIONS OF
522 XXIII|           this world they should be polluted with the contagions of the
523 Arg  |                Argument.~THE DEACON PONTIUS IN A FEW WORDS UNFOLDS THE
524 XXVI |             feeding and helping the poor have done the works of righteousness--
525 XI   |             Righteous men have ever possessed this endurance. The apostles
526 II   |          the perpetual gladness and possession lately lost of paradise,
527 XXV  |        depart from it as quickly as possible. If in your dwelling the
528 XIV  |           and his anguish are being postponed.~
529 XIII |           trieth the vessels of the potter, and the trial of tribulation
530 X    |             affliction increased in praise; and even him also his wife
531 X    |             the remembrance of your prayer in the presence of the glory
532 XVIII|            with frequently repeated prayers do we entreat and beg that
533 XXII |            in heavenly kingdoms, He prays the Father for us, saying, "
534 XX   |             departing from us, they precede us as travellers, as navigators
535 XXVI |             who, keeping the Lord's precepts, have transferred their
536 II   |     endurance of things to come, He predicted and said that wars, and
537 II   |      instructing, and teaching, and preparing, and strengthening the people
538 XVIII|        bidden us daily to pray. How preposterous and absurd it is, that while
539 XIX  |              proving that the Lord, prescient of the future, takes counsel
540 XX   |             speech and word. We are prevaricators of our hope and faith: what
541 II   |       mischiefs should shake us, He previously warned us that adversity
542 XIX  |        order that, when we find the priest who sought for delay rebuked,
543 XII  |            it should be the loss of private estate, although the constant
544 XIV  |             the sight darkened;--is profitable as a proof of faith. What
545 II   |        before, whatever things were promised will also follow; as the
546 VI   |         assuredly have faith in the promiser, and would not think that
547 XXVI |           the host of the rejoicing prophets--there the innumerable multitude
548 XXVI |          would not eagerly desire a prosperous gale, that he might the
549 XIV  |          human race, and not to lie prostrate with those who have no hope
550 IV   |           resists it. If avarice is prostrated, lust springs up. If lust
551 XI   |           again: "The Lord your God proveth you, that He may know whether
552 XIX  |           indications of the divine providence may be more evidently manifest,
553 XXIII|         wickedness." So also in the Psalms, the soul that is devoted
554 XX   |         diligently bear witness and publicly declare that our brethren
555 IV   |            anger exasperates, pride puffs up, wine-bibbing entices,
556 XVII |            among whom confession is purposed and martyrdom conceived
557 VIII |        until this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this
558 XIV  |           the contagion of diseased putrefaction; that from the weakness
559 IV   |          man besieged, and in every quarter invested with the onsets
560 XVI  |           whether the rapacious can quench the ever insatiable ardour
561 V    |           to Christ by the aid of a quicker death; as He Himself instructs
562 XX   |       already taken upon them white raiment there; that occasion should
563 VIII |          serene clouds withhold the rain, the drought is alike to
564 XVI  |         their violence; whether the rapacious can quench the ever insatiable
565 XV   |            for she has escaped by a rapid death the fear of persecution,
566 XVII |           sees that your virtue was ready in you, will give you a
567 XV   |           as the unrighteous, is no reason for you to suppose that
568 XXI  |        Apostle Paul reproaches, and rebukes, and blames any who are
569 XIX  |              It was the word of one rebuking and warning, one who, when
570 XII  |        victors. For the helmsman is recognised in the tempest; in the warfare
571 XXIV |             follow Christ, who both redeemed you and loves you? John
572 XXVI |             we should ever and anon reflect that we have renounced the
573 XV   |            called to their place of refreshing, the unrighteous are snatched
574 XIV  |         fear to die, who, not being regenerated of water and the Spirit,
575 XVI  |       health tend the sick; whether relations affectionately love their
576 XIV  |         trial, that now the bowels, relaxed into a constant flux, discharge
577 X    |           armed by the faith of his religion to all endurance of suffering,
578 X    |             forth the patience of a religious mind, he says, "Naked came
579 VIII |            this flesh of ours still remains, according to the law of
580 XVIII|                  XVIII.~We ought to remember that we should do not our
581 VII  |         rather rejoice than grieve. Remembering which truth, the blessed
582 X    |    daughter-in-law, I did offer the remembrance of your prayer in the presence
583 VIII |           and when the jagged rocks rend the ship, the shipwreck
584 XXII |             crave to be changed and renewed into the likeness of Christ,
585 XXVI |           anon reflect that we have renounced the world, and are in the
586 XVIII|             us? Why with frequently repeated prayers do we entreat and
587 III  |            then free, then tranquil repose, when, withdrawn from these
588 XX   |           deservedly and rightly to reprehend us, that we mourn for those,
589 XXI  |           Finally, the Apostle Paul reproaches, and rebukes, and blames
590 VIII |          adverse things here and is reserved for future joy. It disturbs
591 XVIII|           His will! We struggle and resist, and after the manner of
592 XXIV |           without delay and without resistance to the Lord when He Himself
593 IV   |          meets the attack, scarcely resists it. If avarice is prostrated,
594 XIX  |     approach of death, prayed for a respite to himself; there stood
595 XXVI |            snares of the world, and restores us to paradise and the kingdom.
596 I    |       luxurious disposition must be restrained, and he who has begun to
597 XXI  |   encourages us and says, "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth
598 XX   |         last, how often has it been revealed, how frequently and manifestly
599 XXVI |  continency--there are merciful men rewarded, who by feeding and helping
600 XVI  |         their dear ones perish, the rich, even then bestow anything,
601 XXVI |         poor have done the works of righteousness--who, keeping the Lord's
602 X    |              saying, "Where are thy righteousnesses? Behold what thou sufferest!"
603 XX   |             for them deservedly and rightly to reprehend us, that we
604 X    |             thou didst not delay to rise up and leave thy dinner,
605 XXI  |          and through Him and in Him rising again, why either are we
606 V    |         suffers daily, with so many risks is the heart wearied, and
607 I    |            like a strong and stable rock, rather shatters the turbulent
608 VIII |            all; and when the jagged rocks rend the ship, the shipwreck
609 XXV  |          were shaking with age, the roofs above you were trembling,
610 II   |         things that fade away. What room is there here for anxiety
611 XII  |            is deeply founded in its root is not moved by the onset
612 XXV  |          away, and witnesses to its ruin not now by its age, but
613 XXVI |            why do we not hasten and run, that we may behold our
614 XI   |           since it is written, "The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit;
615 II   |            things, is trembling and sad, except he who is without
616 VII  |             when His disciples were saddened that He said that He was
617 XVII |              It is this, then, that saddens me in the present mortality,
618 XV   |            virgins depart in peace, safe with their glory, not fearing
619 VIII |       without exception to all that sail in her; and the disease
620 XIII |             flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should
621 XIII |             after shipwrecks, after scourgings, after many and grievous
622 XVI  |          seems horrible and deadly, searches out the righteousness of
623 XIV  |          death shall pass over to a second death; he may fear to die,
624 XVII |          investigator and knower of secret things, sees you, and praises
625 XXV  |    shipwreck, would you not quickly seek the harbour? Lo, the world
626      | seemed
627      | seems
628 XIII |    inefficiency and any destruction seize us, then our strength is
629 VIII |           fleshly equality, but are separated in spirit. Therefore until
630 VIII |         desolates all; and when the serene clouds withhold the rain,
631 IX   |             when thou comest to the service of God, stand in righteousness
632 XXIII|         hence, and are more quickly set free, lest while they are
633 XXVI |        which snatches us hence, and sets us free from the snares
634 XX   |            There is no advantage in setting forth virtue by our words,
635 X    |            I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, who are present,
636 I    |       through the softness of their sex, or what is of still greater
637 II   |           dread of mischiefs should shake us, He previously warned
638 XIV  |             that the intestines are shaken with a continual vomiting;
639 XXV  |             dwelling the walls were shaking with age, the roofs above
640 I    |             and stable rock, rather shatters the turbulent onsets of
641      | she
642 XIX  |       majesty, lofty in stature and shining in aspect, and on whom,
643 XIII |     tribulation just men." This, in short, is the difference between
644 VII  |    salvation and of our good works, shows to us, who, when His disciples
645 XII  |           might please God, did not shrink even from losing his son,
646 XVI  |          who are in health tend the sick; whether relations affectionately
647 I    |            be disguised nor kept in silence, but as far as my feeble
648 IX   |         have patience; for gold and silver is tried in the fire, but
649 III  |           from the devil? Certainly Simeon, that just man, who was
650 XX   |           what we say appears to be simulated, feigned, counterfeit. There
651 VI   |      Teacher of believers, with the sin of incredulity; this is
652 X    |         thou didst bury the dead in singleness of heart, and because thou
653 X    |        things which befell him, Job sinned not with his lips in the
654 VII  |          longer to be liable to the sins and vices of the flesh,
655 XV   |          lukewarm are inflamed, the slack are nerved up, the slothful
656 XII  |            do if you were bidden to slay your son? The fear and faith
657 XV   |            slack are nerved up, the slothful are stimulated, the deserters
658 I    |             the Lord's lessons, the slothfulness of a luxurious disposition
659 II   |        earthly, and great things of small, and eternal things of things
660 VII  |          flesh, but taken away from smarting troubles, and freed from
661 XV   |     refreshing, the unrighteous are snatched away to punishment; safety
662 XXVI |           us to his own home, which snatches us hence, and sets us free
663 Arg  |             NOT ENSUE; AND HOW MUCH SOEVER DISEASES ARE COMMON TO THE
664 XVI  |            neck; whether the wicked soften their boldness; whether,
665 I    |        worldly life, or through the softness of their sex, or what is
666 XII  |         tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. It is a wanton
667 XXVI |         their own safety, and still solicitous for our salvation. To attain
668 II   |          there here for anxiety and solicitude? Who, in the midst of these
669 XII  |          ship which is compacted of solid timbers is beaten by the
670 XXIII|          the Holy Spirit teaches by Solomon, that they who please God
671      | something
672 XXVI |             gale, that he might the sooner embrace those dear to him?
673 XIII |           in order that while he is sorely afflicted he might more
674 X    |           afflicted, moreover, with sores and worms, was not overcome,
675 V    |            rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be
676 XIX  |         when we find the priest who sought for delay rebuked, we might
677 XXIV |            beloved brethren, with a sound mind, with a firm faith,
678 X    |           acuteness of his pain, to speak something against God with
679 X    |            answered and said, "Thou speakest as one of the foolish women.
680 VI   |           and his deeds. Now God is speaking with you; and do you faithlessly
681 XX   |         faith which we express with speech and word. We are prevaricators
682 XXV  |              would you not with all speed depart? If, when you were
683 XV   |      punishment; safety is the more speedily given to the faithful, penalty
684 XXIII|            is devoted to its God in spiritual faith hastens to the Lord,
685 VII  |         that He was soon to depart, spoke to them, and said, "If ye
686 II   |             things occur which were spoken; and since those occur which
687 IV   |         avarice is prostrated, lust springs up. If lust is overcome,
688 I    |              but, like a strong and stable rock, rather shatters the
689 I    |           error from the truth, are standing less steadily, and are not
690 XIX  |        honour and majesty, lofty in stature and shining in aspect, and
691 I    |            truth, are standing less steadily, and are not exerting the
692 XV   |         nerved up, the slothful are stimulated, the deserters are compelled
693 II   |            have no trembling at the storms and whirlwinds of the world,
694 XXVI |           living here as guests and strangers. Let us greet the day which
695 II   |        teaching, and preparing, and strengthening the people of His Church
696 XIII |            of virtue and faith, but strengthens us by its suffering.~
697 XVIII|             our greater desires and stronger wishes are to obey the devil
698 XXV  |        immediate destruction to its structure crumbling with age, would
699 X    |           proved; since in his very struggles and anguish, showing forth
700 XXVI |             triumphant virgins, who subdued the lust of the flesh and
701 XIV  |         devastation and death! what sublimity, to stand erect amid the
702 X    |   righteousnesses? Behold what thou sufferest!" But he, stedfast and firm
703 V    |          many persecutions the soul suffers daily, with so many risks
704 I    |             far as my feeble powers suffice with my full strength, and
705 XIII |           said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for strength is
706 XV   |             is no reason for you to suppose that it is a common death
707 XVI  |        patients; whether the fierce suppress their violence; whether
708 VII  |            If ye loved me, ye would surely rejoice because I go to
709 IV   |       forbids; you are compelled to swear, which is not lawful.~
710 I    |            of faith, or through the sweetness of this worldly life, or
711 XIX  |          wish to depart; what shall t do to you? It was the word
712      | taking
713 V    |   afflictions, and punishments, and tears, and not rather to hasten
714 XIX  |          very purpose that he might tell it; he heard not for himself,
715 Arg  |         BEEN FORETOLD BY CHRIST, HE TELLS THEM THAT THE MORTALITY
716 XXV  |           and is oppressed with the tempests of mischievous ills; in
717 III  |             come an infant into the temple with His mother, acknowledged
718 I    |         overcome but tried by these temptations; yet because I observe that
719 XVI  |      whether they who are in health tend the sick; whether relations
720 XXV  |             And do you not give God thanks, do you not congratulate
721      | THENCE
722      | thereby
723      | thereof
724 XXIV |           to wish to remain long in theworld whom the world delights,
725      | thine
726 XIII |           given to me," he says, "a thorn in the flesh, the messenger
727      | though
728 XVII |            As in that case the evil thought and mischievous intention
729 XV   |             the unbelieving. We are thoughtless and ungrateful, beloved
730 XXV  |          worn out and wearied, were threatening an immediate destruction
731 XV   |        their glory, not fearing the threats of the coming Antichrist,
732 XII  |             shattered; and when the threshing-floor brings out the corn, the
733 XIII |           thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from
734 XXII |             who is to attain to the throne of Christ, to the glory
735 XII  |         which is compacted of solid timbers is beaten by the waves and
736 II   |           more and more in the last times. Behold, the very things
737 XXVI |           them, and quickly to come toChrist. May God behold this our
738 IV   |          ambition; our diligent and toilsome wrestle with carnal vices,
739 XIV  |           world eternal flame shall torment with never-ending punishments;
740 XV   |  persecution, and the hands and the torments of the executioner. By the
741 XVI  |            to fear death. These are trainings for us, not deaths: they
742 III  |          had peace, then free, then tranquil repose, when, withdrawn
743 III  |            peace, that our faithful tranquillity, that our stedfast, and
744 XXVI |           the Lord's precepts, have transferred their earthly patrimonies
745 XXII |             is not an ending, but a transit, and, this journey of time
746 XXII |           in this his departure and translation.~
747 XX   |         from us, they precede us as travellers, as navigators are accustomed
748 XXII |          this journey of time being traversed, a passage to eternity.
749 XXVI |         patrimonies to the heavenly treasuries. To these, beloved brethren,
750 Arg  |         UNFOLDS THE BURTHEN OF THIS TREATISE IN HIS LIFE OF CYPRIAN.
751 XII  |             trial of the truth. The tree which is deeply founded
752 XIII |            potter, and the trial of tribulation just men." This, in short,
753 XIII |            is written, "The furnace trieth the vessels of the potter,
754 XXVI |     struggle and passion--there the triumphant virgins, who subdued the
755 XIV  |          the narrow way that Christ trod, we may receive the reward
756 X    |             of his weak wife in his trouble, but rather deserved better
757 XXI  |             and believe in God, and trust that Christ suffered for
758 I    |           rock, rather shatters the turbulent onsets of the world and
759 VI   |            believers is eternal and un- changeable. If a grave and
760 VIII |            ills; and not as one who undergoes all adverse things here
761 XXIII|        wickedness should change his understanding. For his soul was pleasing
762 II   |             each place; and lest an unexpected and new dread of mischiefs
763 Arg  |       DEACON PONTIUS IN A FEW WORDS UNFOLDS THE BURTHEN OF THIS TREATISE
764 XV   |              We are thoughtless and ungrateful, beloved brethren, for the
765 VIII |             earth is barren with an unproductive harvest, famine makes no
766 XIV  |           with all the powers of an unshaken mind against so many onsets
767 XV   |           escape the peril of their unstable age, and in happiness attain
768      | until
769 I    |             exerting the divine and unvanquished vigour of their heart, the
770 XVIII|      rewards by Him to whom we come unwillingly. Why, then, do we pray and
771 X    |              And when his wife also urged him, in his impatience at
772 V    |                                     V.~So many persecutions the
773 XIX  |            point of death, a youth, venerable in honour and majesty, lofty
774 XIII |              The furnace trieth the vessels of the potter, and the trial
775 XI   |               The Lord thy God will vex thee, and will bring hunger
776 VI   |                                     VI.~But, beloved brethren,
777 Arg  |          COMMON TO THE VIRTUOUS AND VICIOUS, YET THAT DEATH IS NOT COMMON
778 XII  |           the crown is given to the victors. For the helmsman is recognised
779 VII  |                                     VII.~How great is the advantage
780 VIII |                                     VIII.~But nevertheless it disturbs
781 XVI  |           the fierce suppress their violence; whether the rapacious can
782 XXV  |        raging tempest, by the waves violently aroused, foretold the coming
783 Arg  |          DISEASES ARE COMMON TO THE VIRTUOUS AND VICIOUS, YET THAT DEATH
784 XIV  |             shaken with a continual vomiting; that the eyes are on fire
785 XXV  |              If, when you were on a voyage, an angry and raging tempest,
786 XXV  |             If in your dwelling the walls were shaking with age, the
787 XII  |          soldier is proved. It is a wanton display when there is no
788 II   |             shake us, He previously warned us that adversity would
789 XIX  |            word of one rebuking and warning, one who, when men are anxious
790 XI   |         Deuteronomy the Holy Spirit warns by Moses. and says, "The
791 XIV  |            not being regenerated of water and the Spirit, is delivered
792 VI   |              and do you faithlessly waver in your unbelieving mind?
793 XIV  |             to Christ by the narrow way that Christ trod, we may
794 X    |            to the temptation of his weak wife in his trouble, but
795 XII  |           but battles: nor let them weaken nor break the Christian'
796 X    |          Job, after the loss of his wealth, after the death of his
797 V    |             unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world
798 X    |           and leave thy dinner, and wentest and didst bury the dead,
799 VIII |          lead us to God the Father, whatsoever are the disadvantages of
800      | whence
801 XXIII|           soul was pleasing to God; wherefore hasted He to take him away
802 XX   |             already taken upon them white raiment there; that occasion
803 XXI  |            die, yet shall live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in
804 XVI  |             their neck; whether the wicked soften their boldness; whether,
805 II   |            to fear death who is not willing to go to Christ. It is for
806 XX   |          and that we do not approve wills the testimony of the heart
807 IV   |        exasperates, pride puffs up, wine-bibbing entices, envy breaks concord,
808 XVIII|        greater desires and stronger wishes are to obey the devil here,
809 III  |         then tranquil repose, when, withdrawn from these whirlwinds of
810 VIII |          and when the serene clouds withhold the rain, the drought is
811 XXV  |      changing and passing away, and witnesses to its ruin not now by its
812 X    |           came I out of my mother's womb, naked also I shall go under
813 X    |      speakest as one of the foolish women. If we have received good
814 Arg  |             BETTER WORLD. NOR IS IT WONDERFUL THAT THE EVILS OF THIS LIFE
815 I    |       through the sweetness of this worldly life, or through the softness
816 X    |            moreover, with sores and worms, was not overcome, but proved;
817 XXV  |       trembling, and the house, now worn out and wearied, were threatening
818 X    |           without complaint, a true worshipper of God." And Tobias, after
819 I    |            of Christ, must be found worthy of God and of Christ.~
820 XIV  |            the marrow ferments into wounds of the fauces; that the
821 XII  |             the deadly and mournful wrench from wife, from children,
822 IV   |           our diligent and toilsome wrestle with carnal vices, with
823 X    |                                     X.~Thus Job, after the loss
824 XI   |                                     XI.~Righteous men have ever
825 XII  |                                     XII.~Thus Abraham pleased God,
826 XIII |                                     XIII.~Thus, moreover, the Apostle
827 XIV  |                                     XIV.~This trial, that now the
828 XIX  |                                     XIX.~Besides, that the indications
829 XV   |                                     XV.~Many of our people die
830 XVI  |                                     XVI.~And further, beloved brethren,
831 XVII |                                     XVII.~But perchance some one
832 XVIII|                                     XVIII.~We ought to remember that
833 XX   |                                     XX.~To myself also, the very
834 XXI  |                                     XXI.~Finally, the Apostle Paul
835 XXII |                                     XXII.~That in the meantime we
836 XXIII|                                     XXIII.~Thus, moreover, we find
837 XXIV |                                     XXIV.~It is for him to wish to
838 XXV  |                                     XXV.~And this, as it ought always
839 XXVI |                                     XXVI.~We should consider, dearly
840 XIX  |       departure, learn for himself? Yea, doubtless, he learnt it
841 X    |             endurance of suffering, yielded not to the temptation of
842      | yourself
843 XIX  |            at the point of death, a youth, venerable in honour and