| Table of Contents | Words: Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText Library |
| Tascius Caecilius Cyprianus Exhortation to martyrdom IntraText - Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
bold = Main text
Chapter grey = Comment text
501 VIII| constitute your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
502 pref| baptism greater in grace, more lofty in power, more precious
503 VIII| adds, and says: "Let your loins be girded about, and your
504 XIII| prepared for martyrdom; without loss of time, the reward is rendered
505 pref| persecutions and afflictions is lying heavy upon us, and in the
506 XI | indeed, do we find in the Maccabees of seven brethren, equals
507 XII | fools counted their life madness, and their end to be without
508 XI | feeling and spirit free, maintains his confession to God, and
509 arg | are not greater than their maker and fashioner; nor can these
510 pref| garment that another was making use of, and probably the
511 arg | concerning the elements being manifested, we must show that God only
512 XI | With the seven children is manifestly associated also the mother,
513 XI | and had gone over to the manner of aliens; and that it was
514 XI | sacrifices to God. So many martyrdoms of the righteous have, in
515 XI | was as became a mother of martyrs--as became one who was mindful
516 XII | horrible fear: and they shall marvel at the suddenness of their
517 XI | is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted
518 pref| much, as to have suggested material for others to discourse
519 V | which precept and its force, Mattathias slew him who had approached
520 III | fingers have made; and the mean man was bowed down, and
521 XI | sacrifices and unlawful meats, would not consent to this
522 XIII| mind, founded in religious meditations, endures; and the spirit
523 VIII| Write this, and let it be a memorial in a book, and tell it in
524 II | Lord, in His Gospel, makes mention of the first and second
525 XI | king Saul persecuted the merciful David; and king Ahab endeavoured
526 I | made these mighty things is mightier than they."~
527 XI | the womb, and gave thee milk for three years, and nourished
528 XI | martyrs--as became one who was mindful of the law and of God--as
529 XI | opportunity was offered him by the ministers of the king, that having
530 XI | youths, Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, equal in age, agreeing
531 X | God affords; nor let human mischief overpower the mind, but
532 XI | he might pretend, for the misguiding of the king, that he ate
533 III | the wrath of God, which is mixed in the cup of His wrath,
534 XI | for salvation if he should mock and deceive man, when God,
535 XI | feared, cannot at all be mocked nor deceived. If, therefore,
536 XI | greatly happy in such a mode of punishment, since it
537 XI | taught that martyrs are modest, that they were confident
538 XII | those who persecute and molest us is announced. "Then,"
539 XIII| afflictions and tribulations; in a moment to close the eyes with which
540 XI | consequence to gain the short moments of life, and so incur eternal
541 XI | pity me that bare thee ten months in the womb, and gave thee
542 pref| after which no one sins any more--a baptism which completes
543 I | himself. For, since he is mortal, he worketh a dead thing
544 XI | are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let him which is on
545 XI | forth--sought to pollute the mouths of martyrs, glorious and
546 X | declares that we are rather multiplied and increased by afflictions,
547 V | will pity thee, and will multiply thee, if thou wilt hear
548 XI | things I beheld a great multitude, which no man could number,
549 VII | ungrateful in respect of God, murmur against Moses, looking back
550 XI | troubles, in the hardship of a narrow path. Thus, at the very
551 VI | sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we
552 pref| already beginning to draw near, I would collect from the
553 pref| six thousand years are now nearly completed since the devil
554 XI | Him alone, saying: "O king Nebuchodonosor, there is no need for us
555 XI | Nebuchodonosor, there is no need for us to answer thee in
556 XI | suffering. "Do not," said he, "needlessly err; for we on our own account
557 II | it, Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
558 | never
559 | ninety
560 IV | were in the midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they shall
561 XI | neither for his age nor nobility to feign that, whereby others
562 I | use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears
563 XI | milk for three years, and nourished thee and brought thee up
564 X | confessor; since in the book of Numbers He made even a she-ass to
565 V | the Lord thy God, and wilt observe His precepts." Remembering
566 IV | against me, by committing an offence, I will stretch forth mine
567 IV | Kings: "If a man sin by offending against another, they shall
568 XIII| is shut up, but heaven is opened; Antichrist is threatening,
569 I | admired their powers and operations, let them understand by
570 XI | king Ahab endeavoured to oppress Elias, who firmly and bravely
571 XII | shall be in many happily ordered, because God has tried them,
572 arg | according to the disposition and ordinance of God. The idols being
573 XI | associated also the mother, their origin and root, who subsequently
574 X | and the rivers shall not overflow thee. And if thou passest
575 X | nor let human mischief overpower the mind, but let divine
576 XI | clothed in white robes, and palms were in their hands; and
577 XII | leaveth house, or land, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or
578 XI | should embrace the wicked part of deceivers, let us not
579 XI | was allowable for him to partake of, he might pretend, for
580 XII | us? All these things have passed away like a shadow." Likewise
581 XI | the same testimonies of passions, considering the glory of
582 XI | the hardship of a narrow path. Thus, at the very beginning
583 XIII| to the angels; with the patriarchs, with the apostles. with
584 XII | way of unrighteousness and perdition, and have walked through
585 VIII| good, and acceptable, and perfect." And again: "We are children
586 XI | seven in the sacrament of a perfected completion? Seven brethren
587 VI | hunger, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,
588 arg | anybody, which themselves perish out of their temples, unless
589 pref| only who, by the Lord's permission, have given the first baptism
590 XI | the head in the martyr was persecuting God and Christ in that head.
591 VIII| crown;" which example of perseverance and persistence is pointed
592 VIII| unless when he had stedfastly persevered in the sign with hands continually
593 VIII| example of perseverance and persistence is pointed out in Exodus,
594 XI | should deny, but rather persuaded him to become a sharer in
595 XI | famines, and earthquakes, and pestilences, in every place. But all
596 IX | who is given unto us." And Peter, in his epistle, lays it
597 pref| all the entreaties of our petitions, that we who are God's servants
598 VII | the most severe slavery of Pharaoh and of Egypt--that is, of
599 pref| it a useful and wholesome plan in an exhortation so needful
600 XI | nothing, commanded iron plates to be heated, which being
601 VIII| that he may be able to please Him to whom he hath approved
602 VII | putting his hand to the plough, is fit for the kingdom
603 VIII| and attain to the highest point, exhorts us, saying: "Know
604 VIII| perseverance and persistence is pointed out in Exodus, when Moses,
605 XI | was set forth--sought to pollute the mouths of martyrs, glorious
606 XIII| prophets, to rejoice in the possession of the heavenly kingdom!
607 XII | forsaken and contemned all his possessions, the Christian has shown
608 XI | to cause error, if it be possible, even to the elect. But
609 IX | The furnace proveth the potter's vessel, and righteous
610 III | again: "To them hast thou poured out drink-offerings, and
611 pref| has learned by the very practice of long years. If he finds
612 IV | idolaters.~Moses in Exodus prays for the people, and does
613 II | the everlasting Gospel to preach over the earth, and over
614 XI | of the kingdom shall be preached through all the world, for
615 VIII| same exhortation of divine preaching speaks, saying, "Hold fast
616 V | precepts." Remembering which precept and its force, Mattathias
617 XI | his own torments, but to predict the penalties of his tormentor!
618 XI | XI.~That it was before predicted that the world would hold
619 XII | The Holy Spirit shows and predicts by Solomon, saying: "And
620 pref| Preface.~You have desired, beloved
621 arg | contrary, in our sufferings are preferring the riches and delights
622 VII | Exodus the Jewish people, prefigured as a shadow and image of
623 XI | But woe to them that are pregnant, and to those that are giving
624 XI | strength of faith, animated to prescience also and knowledge of future
625 arg | these things protect and preserve anybody, which themselves
626 arg | temples, unless they are preserved by man. But neither are
627 VIII| VIII. That we must press on and persevere in faith
628 XI | to partake of, he might pretend, for the misguiding of the
629 XI | them with whips, and could prevail nothing, commanded iron
630 VIII| raised up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he let down h
631 XII | way of the Lord. What hath pride profited us, or what hath
632 XI | majesty of God. Zacharias the priest was slain between the temple
633 pref| rejoice in it as your own private and special garment. And
634 VIII| indeed, yet one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
635 pref| another was making use of, and probably the thing made for another
636 pref| others to discourse on; a proceeding which will be of advantage
637 XI | penalties that urged them, proclaim that they only obey God,
638 XIII| the faith of sight, who professes that which he both learnt
639 XII | the Lord. What hath pride profited us, or what hath the boasting
640 XI | trusting in his martyrdom, and promising to himself from the retribution
641 XIII| soldier of God, his virtue, prompt for battle, will not be
642 pref| and establish what I had proposed by the authority of the
643 XIII| threatening, but Christ is protecting; death is brought in, but
644 VII | the devil and the world, protects them also when delivered. "
645 XI | his own confession with proud words, but rather ascribed
646 XII | sometime in derision and as a proverb of reproach. We fools counted
647 III | and worship them not, and provoke me not in the works of your
648 XI | first spoken, and had more provoked the king with the constancy
649 XI | tongue having first been pulled out and cut off, which had
650 III | His wrath, and shall be punished with fire and brimstone
651 XI | virtue sound, and abundantly pure, not to have regarded king
652 XIII| warfare,--in peace, the purity of conscience, is crowned.~
653 pref| you the very wool and the purple from the Lamb, by whom we
654 VII | No man looking back, land putting his hand to the plough,
655 XI | brethren, embracing, in the quantity of their number, the seven
656 XI | third being challenged, quickly put forth his tongue; for
657 pref| contest be rewarded on the racecourse, unless he first considers
658 XI | the King of the world will raise us up, who die for His laws,
659 XI | the first book of Kings we read that the barren hath borne
660 pref| and fatigue my hearer or reader by the abundance of a too
661 XI | holy place (let him who readeth understand), then let them
662 pref| devoted to God, by the divine readings. But what more fitly or
663 XIII| the life of eternity is realized. What a dignity it is, and
664 XII | it says. "in tears, shall reap in joy. As they walked,
665 V | Moreover, it shall no more be rebuilt, that the Lord may be turned
666 X | the failing faith. of the receiver be deficient and give way.~
667 VIII| run all indeed, yet one receiveth the prize? So run, that
668 XI | cheerfulness, and did not reckon those things punishments
669 arg | of the divine promise, in recompenses and rewards which shall
670 XI | tortured, and now at length reduced to extremity, while he was
671 XII | sparks in a place set with reeds. They shall judge the nations,
672 XI | And the Apostle Paul, who refers to this lawful and certain
673 XII | says, "And they lived and reigned with Christ." He says that
674 XI | innocence and the fear of true religion, advance always through
675 XIII| stedfast mind, founded in religious meditations, endures; and
676 XII | XII.~What hope and reward remains for the righteous and for
677 V | wilt observe His precepts." Remembering which precept and its force,
678 VIII| destroying I will destroy the remembrance of Ama-lek from under heaven."~
679 pref| of water is received the remission of sins, in the baptism
680 XIII| loss of time, the reward is rendered by the judgment of God.
681 VIII| be ye transformed in the renewing of your spirit, that ye
682 VII | the world, which we have renounced, and whence we have escaped,
683 XII | vengeance is described, and the repentance of those who persecute and
684 XII | saying among themselves, repenting and groaning for anguish
685 XII | derision and as a proverb of reproach. We fools counted their
686 X | of the Lord, this will I require; that I may dwell in the
687 X | adversaries shall not be able to resist." As in Exodus God speaks
688 III | and they shall have no rest day or night, whosoever
689 IX | majesty and power of the Lord resteth upon you; which indeed according
690 XIII| paradise is set forth to him restored; the life of time is extinguished,
691 XI | tortures, and answering, to restrain the king, with a heavenly
692 VII | And lest any one should be retarded by any covetousness of wealth
693 XIII| coming glory which shall be revealed in us." Who, then, does
694 IX | things, that also in the revelation made of His glory you may
695 XII | shall expel you, and shall revile your name as evil, for the
696 pref| the crown of contest be rewarded on the racecourse, unless
697 XII | our persecution and the rewarder of our suffering, says: "
698 X | I am with thee, and the rivers shall not overflow thee.
699 XI | faith, to be brought up and roasted, his tongue having first
700 pref| bear the garments of Christ robed in the sanctification of
701 XI | and alone founded upon a rock by the voice of the Lord.
702 XI | mother, their origin and root, who subsequently begat
703 III | the Lord only, shall be rooted out." Also in Deuteronomy: "
704 VI | which died for them, and rose again."~
705 pref| warriors. Let the ears be roused by them; let the minds be
706 VIII| down of the sun. Anti Jesus routed Amalek and all his people.
707 XI | Tobias also, although under a royal and tyrannical slavery,
708 arg | to riches, servitude to rule, death to immortality; that
709 XI | begin to hear of wars, and rumours of wars; see that ye be
710 XI | in the winter, nor on the Sabbath-day: for there shall be great
711 III | Also in Deuteronomy: "They sacrificed unto demons, and not to
712 III | idols?~In Exodus: "He that sacrificeth unto any gods but the Lord
713 XII | consented to his deadly and sacrilegious edicts.~
714 XII | Psalm also is expressed the sadness of the struggle, and the
715 X | Israel, am He who maketh thee safe." Who also promises in the
716 pref| garments of Christ robed in the sanctification of heavenly grace. Moreover
717 VIII| placed it under him, and he sate thereon. And Aaron and Hur
718 XI | might be soothed by the satisfaction of even one being subdued,
719 XI | Joseph was sold, and king Saul persecuted the merciful
720 XII | my sake, the same shall save it." Nor do the rewards
721 XI | whereby others would be scandalized and led into error; if they
722 XI | body, being beaten with scourges; but with my mind, on account
723 X | Also in Exodus, the Holy Scripture declares that we are rather
724 pref| collect from the sacred Scriptures some exhortations for preparing
725 II | heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that therein is."
726 XII | Lord. Blessed are they who search His testimonies, and seek
727 XII | received them, and in its season there will be respect of
728 V | own soul, should ask thee secretly, saying, Let us go anti
729 pref| in mind, I might subjoin sections of the Lord s word, and
730 XI | prophets shall arise, and shall seduce many; and because wickedness
731 XI | will torment thee and thy seed." What alleviation was that
732 XII | and wept, casting their seeds; but as they come again,
733 pref| the field; nor will he who seeks to gain the crown of contest
734 XII | these he joins together, as seen by him at one time in the
735 XI | become a martyr, when he sees that the crowd of martyrs
736 XI | the brother would not be separated from his brothers in the
737 XI | that I spoke unto you, The servant is not greater than his
738 XI | think that he doeth, God service; but they will do this because
739 arg | good, poverty to riches, servitude to rule, death to immortality;
740 X | speaketh in you." And again: "Settle it in your hearts not to
741 XI | the face of God, and the seven-branched lamp in the tabernacle of
742 XI | s flesh; and when he had severely beaten them with whips,
743 XI | from death, I suffer the severest pains of body, being beaten
744 XI | down by the weakness of her sex, nor moved by her manifold
745 XI | persuaded him to become a sharer in their suffering, that
746 XI | God. Then in the second, sharper pains having been devised,
747 X | of Numbers He made even a she-ass to speak against the prophet
748 XII | exultation, bearing their sheaves." And again, in the cxviiith
749 IX | because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
750 VI | long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay,
751 XI | Abel was the first to be shin by his brother; and Jacob
752 XII | respect of them. They will shine and run about as sparks
753 XII | of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun hath
754 XI | consequence to gain the short moments of life, and so
755 X | Holy Spirit, teaching and showing that the army of the devil
756 XII | present time, The Holy Spirit shows and predicts by Solomon,
757 XIII| In persecutions, earth is shut up, but heaven is opened;
758 XI | prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, to cause error,
759 XI | deceivers, let us not be silent, moreover, about Eleazar,
760 I | idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men'
761 IX | tribulation." Paul also testifies similar things, and speaks, saying: "
762 XI | Assuredly his faith was sincere and his virtue sound, and
763 XI | show forth His power in a sinful nation." What, indeed, do
764 XIII| whence Adam was ejected as a sinner, after casting down him
765 IV | of man, whatsoever land sinneth against me, by committing
766 XI | suffer these things, as sinning against our God. But think
767 XIII| at His side when He shall sit to judge, to become co-heir
768 XI | Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and unto
769 XI | his tormentor! But in the sixth, not his bravery only, but
770 pref| first considers the use and skilfulness of his powers. It is an
771 XI | other limbs, he tore off the skin of his head with the hair,
772 XI | forth: lo, he is in the sleeping chambers; believe it not.
773 V | and its force, Mattathias slew him who had approached the
774 I | for their feet, they are slow to go. For man made them,
775 II | will make alive; I will smite, and I will heal; and there
776 III | eyes of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torments shall
777 VIII| deliver him in what day soever he may transgress." Moreover,
778 XI | into exile, and Joseph was sold, and king Saul persecuted
779 pref| agrees with my own care and solicitude, than to prepare the people
780 XIII| strengthened by the sure and solid faith of things to come.
781 | sometime
782 XI | cruelty and ferocity might be soothed by the satisfaction of even
783 XI | shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy."
784 XI | shall rejoice; ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be
785 XII | And I saw," saith he, "the souls of them that were slain
786 XII | the retribution: "They who sow," it says. "in tears, shall
787 V | neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou
788 V | that neither must a city be spared, even though the whole city
789 XII | will shine and run about as sparks in a place set with reeds.
790 X | Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you." And again: "Settle
791 pref| as your own private and special garment. And you will exhibit
792 X | constancy and confidence in speech to His confessor; since
793 XI | thousand of years, as the seven spirits and seven angels which stand
794 XI | Remember the word that I spoke unto you, The servant is
795 X | man? and who hath made the stammerer? and who the deaf man? and
796 pref| bravely adhering to Christ, stands against him, he must needs
797 pref| fitting for his figure of stature and body. But now I have
798 VIII| and Moses' hands were made steady even to the going down of
799 VIII| adversary unless when he had stedfastly persevered in the sign with
800 XI | abhorrence, and that it would stir up persecutions against
801 X | but let divine protection strengthen the faith; since every one,
802 V | Whence the Lord exhorts and strengthens us to contempt of death,
803 IV | committing an offence, I will stretch forth mine hand upon it,
804 XI | was his lot to imitate, by stretching forth his hands, the form
805 XI | was dying in the midst of stripes and tortures, groaned and
806 X | upright." And even more strongly the Holy Spirit, teaching
807 XII | expressed the sadness of the struggle, and the joy of the retribution: "
808 arg | righteous and martyrs after the struggles and the sufferings of this
809 pref| abundance of a too diffuse style, I have made a compendium;
810 XI | satisfaction of even one being subdued, and asked that the mother
811 XI | his confession to God, and sublimely announces both the divine
812 XI | that to the martyr! how substantial a comfort in his sufferings,
813 XI | to those that are giving suck in those days! But pray
814 XI | And these are not new or sudden things which are now happening
815 XIII| swiftness! You shall be suddenly taken away from earth, to
816 XII | they shall marvel at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation,
817 pref| divine inspiration, are sufficient, some arms, as it were,
818 pref| treatise so much, as to have suggested material for others to discourse
819 IV | not for them in prayer and supplication; because I will not hear
820 pref| precepts themselves must be supplied, as it were, for arms for
821 IV | upon it, and will crush the support of the bread thereof; and
822 XIII| it is strengthened by the sure and solid faith of things
823 IX | and says: "Beloved, be not surprised at the fiery heat which
824 I | either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the
825 XI | the vengeance that should swiftly follow. "Having power,"
826 XIII| departure how great is the swiftness! You shall be suddenly taken
827 XI | confession, with the contagion of swine's flesh; and when he had
828 XI | seven-branched lamp in the tabernacle of witness, and the seven
829 VI | worthy of me; and he that taketh not his cross and followeth
830 pref| to cut off all delays and tardiness in our words, and to put
831 XI | he should be avenged. He taught that martyrs are modest,
832 XI | as in the Gospel the Lord teaches, saying, "Call no man your
833 XII | They who sow," it says. "in tears, shall reap in joy. As they
834 VIII| memorial in a book, and tell it in the ears of Jesus;
835 arg | themselves perish out of their temples, unless they are preserved
836 pref| attacked man. All kinds of temptation, and arts, and snares for
837 XI | pity me that bare thee ten months in the womb, and
838 XIII| unmoved against all the terrors of the devil and the threats
839 XI | through all the world, for a testimony to all nations; and then
840 XII | righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
841 | therein
842 VIII| it under him, and he sate thereon. And Aaron and Hur held
843 X | much from God's help as he thinks that he receives. Nor is
844 XIII| the heavenly kingdom! Such thoughts as these, what persecution
845 V | therefore in the Gospel He threatens, and says: "Whosoever shall
846 XIII| terrors of the devil and the threats of the world, when it is
847 II | shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
848 XII | but shall receive seven times as much in this present
849 pref| compendium; so that the titles being placed first, which
850 VII | which He shall do to you to-day. The Lord Himself shall
851 XI | the heaven and the earth." Tobias also, although under a royal
852 II | nations, and tribes, and tongues, and peoples, saying with
853 VIII| Amalek grew mighty. And they took a stone and placed it under
854 XI | great power, how He will torment thee and thy seed." What
855 XI | predict the penalties of his tormentor! But in the sixth, not his
856 VIII| to this world, but be ye transformed in the renewing of your
857 VIII| in what day soever he may transgress." Moreover, in the Gospel
858 XI | things are the beginnings of travailings. Then they shall deliver
859 XI | life." The fifth, besides treading under foot the torments
860 pref| to have sent you my own treatise so much, as to have suggested
861 X | Moses when he delayed and trembled to go to the people, saying: "
862 XI | every nation, and of every tribe, and people, and language,
863 XIII| to bring back victorious trophies to that place whence Adam
864 arg | to be in difficulty and trouble, they must not desire to
865 XI | and manifold penalties of troubles, in the hardship of a narrow
866 VII | Moses said unto the people, Trust, and stand fast, and see
867 VII | they ought rather to have trusted and believed on God, since
868 XI | Christ in that head. But he, trusting in his martyrdom, and promising
869 V | because he hath sought to turn thee away from the Lord
870 X | salvation,--lays down in the twenty-sixth Psalm, and says: "Though
871 II | neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the
872 VIII| of Ama-lek, who bore the type of the devil, raised up
873 XI | although under a royal and tyrannical slavery, yet in feeling
874 XIII| most acceptable gift--an uncorrupted faith, and an unyielding
875 XII | Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in
876 VII | of their labour; and, not understanding the divine benefits of liberty
877 XII | the suddenness of their unexpected salvation, saying among
878 VII | the world--faithless and ungrateful in respect of God, murmur
879 XI | from the sacrifices and unlawful meats, would not consent
880 XIII| endures; and the spirit abides unmoved against all the terrors
881 pref| he finds Christ's soldier unprepared, if unskilled, if not careful
882 XI | thou that thou shall be unpunished, who darest to fight against
883 XII | been wearied in the way of unrighteousness and perdition, and have
884 pref| s soldier unprepared, if unskilled, if not careful and watching
885 XIII| testifies that he heard unspeakable words, who boasts that he
886 | until
887 XIII| uncorrupted faith, and an unyielding virtue of mind, an illustrious
888 X | have risen up, and stand upright." And even more strongly
889 XI | flames and penalties that urged them, proclaim that they
890 pref| each one for the second; urging and teaching that this is
891 pref| I have considered it a useful and wholesome plan in an
892 XI | is in heaven." But what utterances of confessions did they
893 V | V. That God is so angry against
894 pref| of believers, and their valour dedicated and devoted to
895 XIII| country when the foe is vanquished, how much more excellent
896 XI | king, and his severe and various tortures, by the strength
897 IX | furnace proveth the potter's vessel, and righteous men the trial
898 VI | VI. That, being redeemed and
899 XIII| paradise, and to bring back victorious trophies to that place whence
900 VII | VII. That those who are snatched
901 VIII| VIII. That we must press on and
902 I | circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the sun, or the
903 pref| an old enemy with whom we wage our battle: six thousand
904 XIII| God. In persecution, the warfare,--in peace, the purity of
905 pref| be the incitements of the warlike trumpet; let them he the
906 VIII| And again: "No man that warreth for God binds himself to
907 pref| the clarion-blast for the warriors. Let the ears be roused
908 XI | great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them
909 XI | the love of many shall wax cold. But he who shall endure
910 X | they became greater, and waxed stronger." And in the Apocalypse,
911 XI | neither broken down by the weakness of her sex, nor moved by
912 VII | retarded by any covetousness of wealth or attraction of his own
913 pref| exhortations against the darts and weapons of the devil? For he cannot
914 XII | risen upon us. We have been wearied in the way of unrighteousness
915 VIII| he shall return from the wedding, that when he cometh and
916 XI | unto yon, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world
917 XII | walked, they walked and wept, casting their seeds; but
918 XI | and appeareth even to the west, so also shall the coming
919 IV | me, saying, Son of man, whatsoever land sinneth against me,
920 | where
921 XI | coming of the Son of man be. Wheresoever the carcase shall be, there
922 pref| things which God speaks, wherewith Christ exhorts His servants
923 XI | severely beaten them with whips, and could prevail nothing,
924 pref| considered it a useful and wholesome plan in an exhortation so
925 XI | seduce many; and because wickedness shall abound, the love of
926 VII | Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. And Moses said unto the
927 XI | on account of Thy fear, I willingly suffer these things." Assuredly
928 IV | the bread thereof; and I wills send into it famine, and
929 I | but deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the
930 pref| words, and to put away the windings of human discourse, and
931 XI | His elect from the four winds, from the heights of heaven,
932 III | shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which
933 XI | your flight be not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath-day:
934 pref| divine teaching, in such wise as that I might not appear
935 pref| to obey your so needful wish, so that as much as my limited
936 pref| faith--a baptism which, as we withdraw from the world, immediately
937 XI | carry away his clothes. But woe to them that are pregnant,
938 XI | bare thee ten months in the womb, and gave thee milk for
939 XI | seven. And in Isaiah seven women lay hold on one man, whose
940 XI | shall show great signs and wonders, to cause error, if it be
941 pref| I have sent you the very wool and the purple from the
942 I | are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have
943 I | acknowledge who was the workmaster; but deemed either fire,
944 VII | is, of the devil and the world--faithless and ungrateful
945 I | than the things which he worshippeth, since he indeed lived once,
946 VIII| the Lord said unto Moses, Write this, and let it be a memorial
947 XI | lawful and certain number, writes to the seven churches. And
948 X | X. That injuries and penalties
949 XI | XI.~That it was before predicted
950 XII | XII.~What hope and reward remains
951 XIII| XIII.~That we receive more as
952 XI | Antiochus, their enemy--yea, in Antiochus Antichrist
953 XI | Verily, verily, I say unto yon, That ye shall weep and
954 | yourself
955 | yourselves
956 XI | future generations. The three youths, Ananias, Azarias, and Misael,
957 XI | asserted the majesty of God. Zacharias the priest was slain between