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1 pref| For it is little to arouse God's people by the trumpet
2 pref| dedicated and devoted to God, by the divine readings.
3 pref| only those things which God speaks, wherewith Christ
4 pref| baptize--a baptism in which God and His Christ exult--a
5 pref| immediately associates us with God. In the baptism of water
6 pref| petitions, that we who are God's servants should be also
7 arg | disposition and ordinance of God. The idols being destroyed,
8 arg | manifested, we must show that God only is to be worshipped.
9 arg | Then we must add, what is God's threatening against those
10 arg | Besides, we must teach that God does not easily pardon idolaters.
11 arg | pardon idolaters. And that God is so angry with idolatry,
12 arg | time, immortality to death, God and Christ to the devil
13 I | them; but no man can make a god like unto himself. For,
14 II | II. That God alone must be worshipped.~"
15 II | shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou
16 II | He, and that there is no God beside me. I will kill,
17 II | with a loud voice, Fear God rather, and give glory to
18 II | O Israel, The Lord thy God is one God;" and, "Thou
19 II | The Lord thy God is one God;" and, "Thou shalt love
20 II | Thee, the only and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
21 III | III. What is God's threatening against those
22 III | unto demons, and not to God." In Isaiah also: "They
23 III | the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in the cup
24 IV | IV. That God does not easily pardon idolaters.~
25 IV | denounces this same anger of God upon those who sin against
26 IV | upon those who sin against God, and says: "And the word
27 IV | but if a man sin against God, who shall entreat for him?"~
28 V | V. That God is so angry against idolatry,
29 V | thee away from the Lord thy God." And again the Lord speaks,
30 V | cities which the Lord thy God shall give thee, to dwell
31 V | the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt observe His precepts."
32 V | concerning the worship of God and the despising of idols
33 VI | price. Glorify and bear God in your body." And again: "
34 VII | image of us, when, with God for their guardian and avenger,
35 VII | ungrateful in respect of God, murmur against Moses, looking
36 VII | trusted and believed on God, since He who delivers His
37 VII | is fit for the kingdom of God." And again: "And let him
38 VIII| No man that warreth for God binds himself to anxieties
39 VIII| brethren, by the mercy of God, that ye constitute your
40 VIII| sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God; and be not conformed to
41 VIII| prove what is the will of God, good, and acceptable, and
42 VIII| again: "We are children of God: but if children, then heirs;
43 VIII| then heirs; heirs indeed of God, but joint-heirs with Christ,
44 IX | Deuteronomy, "The Lord your God proveth you, that He may
45 IX | if ye love the Lord. your God with all your heart, and
46 IX | the hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we
47 IX | ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
48 X | the name of the Lord our God. They themselves are bound,
49 X | thee; for I, the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
50 X | shall not be wanting to God's servants in persecutions,
51 X | to resist." As in Exodus God speaks to Moses when he
52 X | man? Have not I, the Lord God? And now go, and I will
53 X | Nor is it difficult for God to open the mouth of a man
54 X | indeed consider what help God affords; nor let human mischief
55 X | faith, receives so much from God's help as he thinks that
56 XI | will think that he doeth, God service; but they will do
57 XI | those who are devoted to God in the law of innocence
58 XI | asserted the majesty of God. Zacharias the priest was
59 XI | accustomed to offer sacrifices to God. So many martyrdoms of the
60 XI | proclaim that they only obey God, that they know Him alone,
61 XI | in this matter. For the God whom we serve is able to
62 XI | And Daniel, devoted to God, and filled with the Holy
63 XI | nothing but the Lord my God, who founded the heaven
64 XI | maintains his confession to God, and sublimely announces
65 XI | and out before the face of God, and the seven-branched
66 XI | themselves as the sons of God in suffering are now no
67 XI | counted as of any father but God, as in the Gospel the Lord
68 XI | off, which had confessed God; and this happened the more
69 XI | had confessed the name of God, ought itself first to go
70 XI | ought itself first to go to God. Then in the second, sharper
71 XI | the head of the man, and God is the head of Christ, he
72 XI | the martyr was persecuting God and Christ in that head.
73 XI | from the retribution of God the reward of resurrection,
74 XI | should wait for hope from God, to be raised up by Him
75 XI | to the king the wrath of God, and the vengeance that
76 XI | our race is forsaken of God. Abide, and see His great
77 XI | while he attributed to God that afterwards he should
78 XI | as sinning against our God. But think not thou that
79 XI | darest to fight against God." Also the admirable mother,
80 XI | giving as great a witness to God by the virtue of her eyes,
81 XI | was that he would confess God. She entreated that the
82 XI | not to the world, but to God. Therefore arming him, and
83 XI | understand that out of nothing God made these things and the
84 XI | but greater in the fear of God and in the truth of faith,
85 XI | whom she had sent before to God. And lest any, when the
86 XI | and betrayed the law of God, and had gone over to the
87 XI | punishment from an offended God. And he having been long
88 XI | regarded king Antiochus, but God the Judge, and to have known
89 XI | mock and deceive man, when God, who is the judge of our
90 XI | voice, Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne,
91 XI | they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night
92 XII | happily ordered, because God has tried them, and has
93 XII | numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among
94 XII | children, for the kingdom of God's sake, but shall receive
95 XII | of Jesus and the word of God." And when he had placed
96 XII | faith and in the fear of God, have not worshipped the
97 XIII| may become the friend of God, that he may at once rejoice
98 XIII| cast him down; to offer to God the most acceptable gift--
99 XIII| to open them to look upon God and Christ! Of such a blessed
100 XIII| fall upon such a soldier of God, his virtue, prompt for
101 XIII| rendered by the judgment of God. In persecution, the warfare,--