Chapter

 1 1pref|        linger in the world, if nature shall have laid the preliminary
 2 1pref|     together with its inherent nature, if it was wont to originate
 3 1pref|       its all from heaven; its nature, "through the layer of regeneration;"
 4 2    |      Because, albeit God is by nature good, still He is "just"
 5 2    |       just" too. For, from the nature of the case, just as He
 6 4    |      sexes--beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from
 7 6    |      Law in demonstrating (the nature of) adultery, it is justly
 8 6    |     Adam, with its own vicious nature, easily indulging concupiscence
 9 7    | arising out of the teaching of nature, out of the law of ear and
10 9    |    that is, publicans; some by nature, that is, not publicans--
11 10   |        are to ignorance, which nature alone renders culpable before
12 10   |        of a discipline of this nature remote from the path of
13 14   |        therefore--the moderate nature of his fault permitting
14 15   |  decreed nothing of a contrary nature just before? Compare, in
15 15   |        a sense contrary to the nature and design of the man himself,
16 16   |    avoid giving pardon even to nature, for fear he may flatter
17 20   | uncleanness), ought of the old nature shall have revived with
18 22   |    confess that crimes of that nature are not to be washed away