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1 8(77) | Hos. vi. 6; Matt. ix. 13. The words in Hosea in the
2 1(1) | days, and may be dated A.D. 192.]~
3 5(38) | against St. Matt. xviii. 22. In our own self-indulgent
4 12(116)| Cf. Gen. iii. 24 with Luke xxiii. 43, 2 Cor.
5 12(109)| Dan. iv. 25 sqq. See de Pa. xiii. ~
6 8(85) | See Luke xv. 29-32. ~
7 4(21) | Comp. Ezek. xviii. 30, 32.~
8 6(55) | Jer. xxxi. (LXX. xxxviii.) 34; Heb. viii. 11. ~
9 4(26) | Dan. ii. 35; Matt. iii. 12.~
10 10(99) | the Son." Comp. John xi. 41, 42. ~
11 12(116)| iii. 24 with Luke xxiii. 43, 2 Cor. xii. 4, and Rev.
12 3(15) | Luke xxii. 61.~
13 1(1) | best days, and may be dated A.D. 192.]~
14 5 | he rejects the Giver in abandoning the gift; he denies the
15 9 | punishments. Therefore, while it abases the man, it raises him;
16 10 | forehead for sinning, but an abashed one for deprecating! I give
17 6 | while, pardon being in abeyance, there is still a prospect
18 4 | utmost seriousness; that, abiding permanently in (the faith
19 4 | proportion to our narrow abilities, inculcate one point,-that
20 6 | Whatever, then, our poor ability has attempted to suggest
21 2 | the salvation of man-the abolition of former sins being the
22 2 | the promise surely made to Abraham. John holds not his peace,
23 5(38) | attrition suffice, and so turn absolution into a mere sponge, and
24 9 | excuses; while it condemns, it absolves. The less quarter you give
25 3 | that from which God bids us abstain is to be accounted sin: "
26 12(112)| Ministerium," the abstract for the concrete: so "servitia" =
27 5 | proportion as he will be the more acceptable to His rival. But some say
28 5 | acknowledging the Lord, and accepting His precepts40 -in short,
29 1 | treasure-house3 at all is accessible to strangers. And thus,
30 9 | Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied~The narrower, then, the
31 3 | concupiscence of his gaze? 20 Accordingly it is dangerous enough for
32 3 | bids us abstain is to be accounted sin: "inasmuch as, since
33 4 | for pre-eminence in sins I acknowledge to be mine23 ), do you so
34 5 | your behalf; in that, after acknowledging the Lord, and accepting
35 3 | and being admitted to (an acquaintance with) the divine precepts,
36 2 | to His Laws.~But if they acted as men who had any part
37 9 | narrower, then, the sphere of action of this second and only (
38 | actually
39 12 | cast away.~ ~Why should I add more touching these two
40 3 | Lord demonstrate Himself as adding a superstructure to the
41 5(41) | Adgultinaris.~
42 5(38) | our author for his severe adherence to this principle of purifying
43 3 | of the truth; and being admitted to (an acquaintance with)
44 3(14) | justification, we must all adopt this as the test of "a standing
45 12 | may not hesitate about the adoption of the remedy. What do we
46 6(47) | Adulantur.~
47 6(50) | Adulter; see de Idol. c. i.~
48 6 | it be cut, or scraped, or adulterated, 50 we believe likewise
49 3 | another's wedlock to be an adulterer, but likewise him who had
50 10 | bearable for the sake100 of the advantage to supervene.~
51 11 | meannesses of dress do they not affect? what houses do they not
52 3 | one consummated by His afflatus. Since, then, they equally
53 12 | after pursuing the once afflicted people of God, long denied
54 5 | good and evil, often an affront to his own understanding-that
55 6 | sourness or bitterness of age, do yet still in some part
56 6 | lacked the instrumental agent of repentance, that is,
57 8 | as much as dissimulation aggravates them; for confession is
58 12 | impenitent? Who will not agree that such sparks are but
59 3 | as, since it is generally agreed that God is some great essence
60 12 | exomologesis a second reserve of aid against hell, why do you
61 8(77) | e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\ ou0 qusi/an).~
62 4(24) | sub fin. [Ut naufragus alicuius tabulae fidem; this expression
63 3 | will in God's sight. God is all-sufficient. Nothing from whence any
64 6 | goodness? he who is not allowed, or he whom it displeases,
65 10(96) | In uno et altero.~
66 | although
67 9 | on all the brethren to be ambassadors to bear his91 deprecatory
68 3 | it not so much the rather amenable to penalty as it is first
69 7 | benefit renewed, not to say amplified; for restoring is a greater
70 12 | their inly-gendered fire; and-which proves to us the perpetuity
71 5 | prey recovered, rejoices anew against the Lord. Does he
72 12 | you? Even dumb irrational animals recognise in their time
73 3 | thing, you would have been anxious to carry it through; in
74 4(36) | Asseveratione: " apparently a play on the word, as compared
75 9 | born; by repentance God is appeased. And thus exomologesis is
76 5 | devil, and had under this appellation subjected him to the Lord,
77 7 | of it. It is irksome to append mention of a second-nay,
78 4 | Chapter IV.-Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin.
79 1 | chiefly of repentance which is applied to the best works they fix
80 6 | and to get the minister appointed over this business misled
81 2 | an eye to justice that He appoints all the sum of His discipline,
82 6 | the treasure), who, after approaching to the faith of repentance,
83 1 | be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust2 at some previously
84 6 | appears modesty, in the other arrogance; the former satisfies, the
85 12 | stag, transfixed by the arrow, knows that, to force out
86 7 | again set free. Let none be ashamed. Repeated sickness must
87 11 | wine: and when any shall ask him, "On whom are you lavishing
88 10 | for mercy. What a son99 asks is ever easily obtained.~ ~
89 7 | And so he observes, assaults, besieges him, in the hope
90 4(36) | Asseveratione: " apparently a play on
91 6 | business misled by your asseverations, is easy; but God takes
92 11 | frequenting no banquets, associating in no entertainments, but
93 6 | renounce their former deed, and assume (the profession of) repentance,
94 2 | men see to it, 12 if it attaches repentance even to good
95 6 | it may be granted us to attain that blessing. For who will
96 7 | benefit which they have attained; they shun, with a solicitude
97 5 | despise Him, who, after attaining by His help to an understanding
98 6 | then, our poor ability has attempted to suggest with reference
99 4 | even (after human fashion) attests on oath, we are bound of
100 11 | that, unwashen, sordidly attired, estranged from gladness,
101 5(38) | The Roman casuists make attrition suffice, and so turn absolution
102 4 | good and best. I hold it audacity to dispute about the "good"
103 4 | has the prior34 right; the authority of Him who commands is prior
104 8 | again, and he who hath been averted shall be converted?" He
105 10 | private parts of the body, avoid the privity of physicians,
106 6 | the Lord has determined to award pardon: He proposes the
107 4 | shall not see fire," 30 nor "axe." 31 Having found "the truth," 32
108 3(19) | Praevaricatorem: comp. ad Ux. b. ii. c. ii. ad init.~
109 12 | that by which restored the Babylonian king109 to his realms? Long
110 12 | People" alone, ) by the backward roll of the waves:111 for
111 2 | through His Spirit, He bade the baptism of repentance
112 8 | and graces his joy with a banquet. 82 Why not? He had found
113 11 | personage, frequenting no banquets, associating in no entertainments,
114 6 | there one Christ for the baptized, another for the learners?
115 7 | and fastened up with the bar of baptism, has permitted
116 6 | with which they make their bargains, to see whether it be cut,
117 6 | theft unless the hardness of bars withstand us, nor refrain
118 6 | since in heart we have been bathed57 already. For the first
119 11 | him furthermore seek out baths of more genial temperature
120 12 | their Lord, rushed into the battle110 -did, after so many warning
121 10 | and make present injury bearable for the sake100 of the advantage
122 10 | honourable in your modesty; bearing an open forehead for sinning,
123 4 | is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time," 29
124 | become
125 | becomes
126 6 | are only just beginning to bedew45 their ears with divine
127 1 | Moreover, how irrationally they behave in the practice of repentance,
128 | behind
129 7 | servants, as is likewise behoves them, while learners, 61
130 6 | brands? A sinner is bound to bemoan himself before receiving
131 5 | the gift; he denies the Benefactor in not honouring the benefit.
132 6 | that I deny that the divine benefit-the putting away of sins, I
133 5 | the score of His heavenly benefits, is not possible42 -how
134 11 | what houses do they not beset with early and late visits?-
135 | beside
136 7 | so he observes, assaults, besieges him, in the hope that he
137 6 | were under a necessity of bestowing even on the unworthy, what
138 5 | of (past) sins-you again betake you self to sins. Thus,
139 6 | displeases, to be evil? he who is bidden, or he whose pleasure it
140 3 | that "that from which God bids us abstain is to be accounted
141 11 | mention: "Woe to them who bind their own sins as it were
142 4 | fact that it is good which binds us to obey, but the fact
143 12 | mountains start asunder in the birth-throes of their inly-gendered fire;
144 6 | turn into the sourness or bitterness of age, do yet still in
145 12 | vent-holes105 of it rouse such blasts of flames that neighbouring
146 4 | credence may be given Him. Oh blessed we, for whose sake God swears!
147 12 | dittany. The swallow, if she blinds her young, knows how to
148 7(65) | iv. (mid.), "perdition of blood," and the note there. ~
149 11 | men dread likewise the bodily inconveniences; in that,
150 8 | length she is found, and is borne back on the shoulders of
151 2 | liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after so often finding
152 9 | the Lord your90 God; to bow before the feet of the presbyters,
153 11 | with early and late visits?-bowing whenever they meet any high
154 11 | forked implement of steel or brass for cleaning the nails.
155 11 | nails. Whatever of false brilliance, whatever of feigned redness,
156 10 | exomologesis:" yes, for evil does bring to misery; but where repentance
157 2 | nations"9 -the Lord, that is, bringing salvation according to God'
158 4 | Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands
159 10 | why do you think these brothers to be anything other than
160 2 | condition that repentance be brought to bear only on sins. Further,
161 4 | nothing but "a drop of a bucket," 25 and "dust of the threshing-floor," 26
162 12 | know that after the first bulwarks of the Lord's baptism107
163 7 | unwilling a second time to be a burden to the divine mercy; they
164 10 | serious, is when it is a butt for jeering speech in the
165 1 | ourselves were in days gone by-blind, without the Lord's light.
166 6 | same practises as in days bygone, when you knew Him not?
167 9 | humiliation, enjoining a demeanor calculated to move mercy. With regard
168 8 | indigence, slays his best fatted calf, and graces his joy with
169 2 | repentance, them whom He was calling, through grace, to (inherit)
170 8 | pass over in silence, who calls his prodigal son home, and
171 6 | merit-so far as merit we can-his liberation; while God is
172 5 | ought never afterward to be cancelled by repetition of sin. No
173 11 | Why, they who go about canvassing for the obtaining of civil
174 3 | a deed, like a body, is capable of being seen and touched;
175 1 | their heart, making it their care to remember never again
176 11 | enlarge his expenses; let him carefully seek the rarest delicacy
177 12 | were) of human salvation, caring more for the business of
178 9 | alone, but may likewise be carried out in some (external) act.
179 5(38) | over strictness. The Roman casuists make attrition suffice,
180 11 | and the sunkenness of face caused by fasting? Is it then becoming
181 10 | Miserable it is to be cut, and cauterized, and racked with the pungency
182 10 | is to be made, the misery ceases, because it is turned into
183 12(108)| Or "celandine," which is perhaps only
184 5 | ignorance, in so far are you cemented41 to contumacy. For if the
185 8 | of "works not full; "73 censures the Pergamenes for teaching
186 12 | of some inestimably vast centre of fire?~ ~Therefore, since
187 3 | any sins are imputed to chance, or to necessity, or to
188 6 | after his position has been changed by reception of freedom,
189 9(90) | Tertullian changes here to the second person,
190 1(1) | a practical and ethical character. This treatise on Penitence
191 6 | by reception of freedom, charges himself with his (past)
192 5 | without damage to their chastity; they mingle poison for
193 11 | apply it to his lips or cheeks. Let him furthermore seek
194 1 | disgust2 at some previously cherished worse sentiment: that kind
195 7 | with ship and sea; and by cherishing the memory of the danger,
196 8 | the Spirit saith to the churches." He imputes to the Ephesians "
197 12 | flames that neighbouring cities either are already no more,
198 11 | canvassing for the obtaining of civil office, feel it neither
199 10 | ruin, where there is upward clambering over the prostrate. But
200 1(1) | pass from the polemical class of our author's writings
201 11 | implement of steel or brass for cleaning the nails. Whatever of false
202 6 | will then, I suppose, be clear that we are amended when
203 3 | double-dealer with, 19 His own clear-sightedness. What (shall we say of the
204 7 | a man is freed from his clutches; he then flames fiercest
205 6 | sellers first examine the coin with which they make their
206 6 | the time of repentance is coincident with that of peril and of
207 6(54) | Comp. Rom. vi. 3, 4, 8; Col. ii. 12, 20.~
208 3 | man is composed of this combination of a two-fold substance,
209 2 | proper to wickedness? Thus it comes to pass that, when a thing
210 5 | which, being shown us and commanded us through God's grace,
211 6(48) | Commeatus," a military word = "furlough,"
212 6 | which faith is begun and is commended by the faith of repentance.
213 4 | therefore, God so highly commends, what He even (after human
214 7 | far and no farther let us commit ourselves to perils, even
215 5 | ungrateful.~ ~Besides, that man commits no light sin against the
216 9 | more usually expressed and commonly spoken of under a Greek
217 3 | flesh and the spirit, whose communion and conjunction in life,
218 1(4) | treatise, partly because of the comparative purity of its style. See
219 4(36) | apparently a play on the word, as compared with "perseverare," which
220 5 | he seems to have made the comparison who has known each; and
221 6 | release from penalty at this compensating exchange of repentance.
222 11 | stake, to endure what the competitor for consulship or praetorship
223 6 | to the Lord, as being all competitors for salvation in earning
224 6 | repentance, but neglect to complete it. 46 For the very end
225 2(8) | Componeret.~
226 3 | spiritual. For since man is composed of this combination of a
227 3 | than the sources of his composition. But it is not the fact
228 5 | He is set before men, and comprehensible as He is even on the score
229 10 | of man, shall we equally conceal it from God? Are the judgment
230 10 | reward of modesty, which the concealment of our fault promises us!
231 12(112)| Ministerium," the abstract for the concrete: so "servitia" = slaves.~
232 9 | accuses, it excuses; while it condemns, it absolves. The less quarter
233 2 | only be fulfilled on the condition that repentance be brought
234 7 | danger, honour the benefit conferred by God,-their deliverance,
235 9 | e0comolo/ghsij, 86 whereby we confess our sins to the Lord, not
236 6 | Moreover, a presumptuous confidence in baptism introduces all
237 3 | spirit, whose communion and conjunction in life, in death, and in
238 12(106)| play on the word, which is connected with "super" and "superus,"
239 3 | by the confession of your consciousness, you pronounce your own
240 10 | necessarily join with one consent in the grief, and in labouring
241 12 | back from exomologesis, consider in your heart the hell, 104
242 3 | seen nor handled: by which consideration is shown that sins not of
243 12 | Chapter XII.-Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis~
244 4 | of voluntary obedience33 consists in similarity of minds.~ ~
245 3 | spirit are two things that constitute the sins mutually different-otherwise
246 7 | redundance of celestial clemency constituted a licence for human temerity.
247 11 | what the competitor for consulship or praetorship puts up with? 101
248 3 | wrought by His hand, one consummated by His afflatus. Since,
249 3 | but likewise him who had contaminated (a woman) by the concupiscence
250 2 | error had imparted, whatever contamination in the heart of man ignorance
251 6 | repentance? for he has feared to continue still in sin, lest he should
252 10 | just like men who, having contracted some malady in the more
253 5 | is shown to be not only contumacious toward the Lord, but likewise
254 11 | annoyances merely, but likewise contumelies of all kinds. What meannesses
255 8 | hath been averted shall be converted?" He it is, indeed, who "
256 2 | to make it a ground for convicting themselves of perverse self-amendment.
257 4 | repentance, the subject-matter is copious, and therefore should be
258 6 | make us the grant of so costly merchandise, even of eternal
259 | could
260 8 | them; for confession is counselled by (a desire to make) satisfaction,
261 9 | sackcloth and ashes, to cover his body in mourning, 88
262 9 | it raises him; while it covers him with squalor, it renders
263 6 | neglects it; the former covets to merit it, but the latter
264 12(105)| Fumariola, i.e. the craters of volcanoes.~
265 3 | both flesh and spirit are creatures of God; one wrought by His
266 4 | live," 35 He desires that credence may be given Him. Oh blessed
267 6 | with eyes not yet perfect, creep about uncertainly, and say
268 6 | pleasure it is, to be free from crime? Let us, then, neither keep
269 3 | that account make light of crimes of the will in God's sight.
270 10 | do, by the benefit of the cure, excuse their own offensiveness,
271 7(63) | find enough when we come to Cyprian and Novatian.]~
272 12 | already no more, or are in daily expectation of the same
273 10 | par? Is it better to be damned in secret than absolved
274 3 | gaze? 20 Accordingly it is dangerous enough for the mind to set
275 6 | Draw whatever (veil of) darkness you please over your deeds, "
276 12 | few missiles and sportive darts of some inestimably vast
277 1(1) | s best days, and may be dated A.D. 192.]~
278 7(65) | Mortis opera," or "deadly works:" cf. de Idol. c.
279 3(14) | church," viz. "How does it deal with sin and the sinner."]~
280 8 | had felt him to be all the dearer of whom he had made a gain.
281 2 | paradise and subjection to death-when He had hasted back to His
282 7 | However, if any do incur the debt of a second repentance,
283 2 | good deed has God as its debtor, just as an evil has too;
284 6 | Giver. And thus it sometimes deceives, 60 for it promises to itself
285 7 | shipwreck, thenceforward declare divorce with ship and sea;
286 3 | ignorant, nor does He omit to decree it to judgment. He is no
287 2 | must necessarily be the defender too), is in like manner
288 2(13) | Or, "defending."~
289 5 | there is no exception which defends from liability to penalty
290 7 | traditions: he is never deficient in stumbling-blocks nor
291 2 | men's minds, that whatever defilement inveterate error had imparted,
292 3 | as other sins); while He defines not only the man who had
293 2 | know the Lord, retains a definite form,-viz., that no violent
294 11 | office, feel it neither degrading nor irksome to struggle,
295 6 | introduces all kind of vicious delay and tergiversation with
296 11 | carefully seek the rarest delicacy of fatted fowls; let him
297 7 | conferred by God,-their deliverance, namely. I praise their
298 3 | sin-the occasion indeed demands that I should note down;
299 9 | humiliation, enjoining a demeanor calculated to move mercy.
300 3 | fact, how does the Lord demonstrate Himself as adding a superstructure
301 8 | had not withal elsewhere demonstrated this profusion of His clemency.
302 12 | afflicted people of God, long denied to their Lord, rushed into
303 5 | abandoning the gift; he denies the Benefactor in not honouring
304 6 | and of fear. Not that I deny that the divine benefit-the
305 10 | but an abashed one for deprecating! I give no place to bashfulness
306 9 | ambassadors to bear his91 deprecatory supplication (before God).
307 10 | mischances, as from such as will derisively cheer them? The body cannot
308 12 | against hell, why do you desert your own salvation? Why
309 6 | with his (past) thefts and desertions? What soldier, after his
310 7 | enough? You have what you now deserved not, for you had lost what
311 2 | no deed but an evil one deserves to be called sin, nor does
312 6 | For the very end of desiring importunes them to desire
313 7 | cut down and undermined by despair. Let it by all means be
314 5 | known? Now, that man does despise Him, who, after attaining
315 5 | perilous is it for Him to be despised when known? Now, that man
316 6 | inflates the seeker, it despises the Giver. And thus it sometimes
317 6 | price at which the Lord has determined to award pardon: He proposes
318 6(45) | Deut. xxxii. 2.~
319 12 | asunder, though they be devoured, yet come they never to
320 3 | constitute the sins mutually different-otherwise they are on this account
321 3 | first in guilt? Nor, if some difficulty interferes with its full
322 11 | redness, is to be had, let him diligently apply it to his lips or
323 8(77) | in Hosea in the LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/
324 2 | John, as His harbinger, directed the repentance (which he
325 6(60) | Or, "disappoints," i.e., the hasty recipient
326 6 | What soldier, after his discharge, makes satisfaction for
327 6 | their ears with divine discourses, and who, as whelps in yet
328 6 | who hastily receives it, disdains it: in the one appears modesty,
329 1 | of the mind arising from disgust2 at some previously cherished
330 6 | not allowed, or he whom it displeases, to be evil? he who is bidden,
331 5 | for offending But these dispositions have been wont to sprout
332 4 | best. I hold it audacity to dispute about the "good" of a divine
333 3 | it to judgment. He is no dissembler of, nor double-dealer with, 19
334 3 | the Lord. Is it for you to distinguish the acts of the flesh and
335 6 | What, moreover, is it which distinguishes you from a perfected56 servant
336 2 | fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after
337 12 | he must heal himself with dittany. The swallow, if she blinds
338 3 | Chapter III.-Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual.
339 12 | medicines which have been divinely assigned them. The stag,
340 7 | shipwreck, thenceforward declare divorce with ship and sea; and by
341 5(38) | The formidable doctrine of I. John iii. 9, v. 18,
342 6 | up on the sands a house doomed to ruin.~ ~Let no one, then,
343 2 | scrape away, and cast out of doors, and thus prepare the home
344 2(5) | Saeculi dote. With which he had been
345 3 | is no dissembler of, nor double-dealer with, 19 His own clear-sightedness.
346 1(4) | Saeculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness of this
347 8 | repentant. The matter were doubtful if He had not withal elsewhere
348 2 | discipline, is there room for doubting that, just as in all our
349 2 | of man, together with the dowry of the world5 after his
350 8 | that a woman has lost a drachma, and seeks it and finds
351 9 | moreover, to know no food and drink but such as is plain,-not
352 11 | perishing: and so now I am drooping, and wasting and torturing
353 4 | God's sight nothing but "a drop of a bucket," 25 and "dust
354 3 | repentance seems just and due-that is, what things are to be
355 12 | you know heals you? Even dumb irrational animals recognise
356 4 | drop of a bucket," 25 and "dust of the threshing-floor," 26
357 12 | sinner as I am of every dye, 115 and born for nothing
358 8(77) | in the LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al.
359 9 | of under a Greek name, is e0comolo/ghsij, 86 whereby we confess
360 12 | wildly growing after the eagle's fashion, and his unkempt
361 8 | than the one: that one is earnestly sought; the one is longed
362 6 | beginning to bedew45 their ears with divine discourses,
363 3 | accomplishment, is it even in that ease exonerated; for it is itself
364 6 | by your asseverations, is easy; but God takes foresight
365 8 | with "fornication," and "eating of things sacrificed to
366 9(87) | satisfaction," see Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. 5, where several
367 5 | put forward with a view to edification-place the devil before the Lord?
368 12 | on the other hand, the Egyptian emperor-who, after pursuing
369 2 | of the world5 after his ejection from paradise and subjection
370 7(63) | perhaps we have here an element of his subsequent system,
371 4 | should be committed to great eloquence. Let us, however, in proportion
372 | elsewhere
373 4 | do you so hasten to, so embrace, as a shipwrecked man the
374 6 | conscience having once for all embraced repentance. Otherwise, if
375 3 | upon"15 by its own Author, emerges unbidden into the knowledge
376 1 | nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from
377 12 | other hand, the Egyptian emperor-who, after pursuing the once
378 5(38) | into a mere sponge, and an encouragement to perpetual sinning and
379 2(5) | With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28, Ps. viii.
380 11 | eternity is at stake, to endure what the competitor for
381 5 | by his own return (to the enemy), and makes himself a ground
382 8(76) | be the passage meant. The Eng. Ver. is very different.~
383 2 | heart of man ignorance had engendered, that repentance should
384 4(35) | phrase is "as I live" in the English version.~
385 9 | exomologesis (does), that it may enhance repentance; may honour God
386 9 | kneel to God's dear ones; to enjoin on all the brethren to be
387 4 | but the fact that God has enjoined it. To exact the rendering
388 9 | prostration and humiliation, enjoining a demeanor calculated to
389 4(37) | Or, "enjoyment."~
390 11 | seaside retreat; let him enlarge his expenses; let him carefully
391 8(84) | Publicly enrolled as such in baptism; for
392 7 | concupiscence, or else to entangle his mind with worldly enticements,
393 2 | not his peace, saying, "Enter upon repentance, for now
394 6 | such as are on the point of entering the (baptismal) water; but
395 6 | thereto by baptism. But if any entertain this sentiment, I know not
396 11 | banquets, associating in no entertainments, but voluntarily exiled
397 7 | entangle his mind with worldly enticements, or else to subvert his
398 10 | handling Christ, you are entreating Christ. In like manner,
399 8(83) | Cf. Matt. xxiii. 9; and Eph. iii. 14, 15, in the Greek.~
400 8 | churches." He imputes to the Ephesians "forsaken love; "71 reproaches
401 7 | which formerly was his own erased. He grieves that that sinner, (
402 1(4) | Saeculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness
403 2 | whatever defilement inveterate error had imparted, whatever contamination
404 4 | the truth," 32 repent of errors; repent of having loved
405 7 | even if we seem likely to escape a second time. 63 Men in
406 3 | agreed that God is some great essence of good, of course nothing
407 11 | unwashen, sordidly attired, estranged from gladness, they must
408 10(96) | In uno et altero.~
409 11 | God, and am in peril of eternally perishing: and so now I
410 11 | year! Do we hesitate, when eternity is at stake, to endure what
411 1(1) | those of a practical and ethical character. This treatise
412 7 | of their temerity is the evidence of their fear.~ ~Moreover,
413 8(70) | Evolve: perhaps simply = "read."~
414 8 | strays, withal, one little ewe of the shepherd's; but the
415 12(111)| Ex. xiv. 15-31.~
416 4 | God has enjoined it. To exact the rendering of obedience
417 2 | Judge presides over the exacting and maintaining13 of justice,
418 6 | If, then, sellers first examine the coin with which they
419 3 | themselves: if these be excepted, there is no sinning save
420 5 | fear. Since there is no exception which defends from liability
421 9 | clean; while it accuses, it excuses; while it condemns, it absolves.
422 1 | on thankless soil. They execrate their own selves for having
423 3 | the will to perfect its execution. And since the power of
424 1 | this one fact, that they exercise it even in the case of their
425 9 | order that it may not be exhibited in the conscience alone,
426 2 | them most ungrateful, ever exhorted them to repentance and sent
427 11 | entertainments, but voluntarily exiled from the felicity of freedom
428 3 | is it even in that ease exonerated; for it is itself imputed
429 6 | how inconsistent is it to expect pardon of sins (to be granted)
430 12 | no more, or are in daily expectation of the same fate? The haughtiest106
431 11 | retreat; let him enlarge his expenses; let him carefully seek
432 10 | work, as being a public exposure of themselves, or else defer
433 9 | act, which is more usually expressed and commonly spoken of under
434 4(24) | alicuius tabulae fidem; this expression soon passed into Theological
435 9 | not say frustrate, but) expunge eternal punishments. Therefore,
436 9 | be carried out in some (external) act. This act, which is
437 12 | which exomologesis will extinguish for you; and imagine first
438 7 | while he is fast becoming extinguished. Grieve and groan he must
439 5 | makes himself a ground of exultation to him; so that the Evil
440 2 | and since it is with an eye to justice that He appoints
441 11 | ashes, and the sunkenness of face caused by fasting? Is it
442 5 | whose repentance never faithful.~ ~
443 6 | grant to you, a man of so faithless repentance, one single sprinkling
444 6 | For do not many afterward fall out of (grace)? is not this
445 3(14) | the test of "a standing or falling church," viz. "How does
446 11 | cleaning the nails. Whatever of false brilliance, whatever of
447 7 | escaped once: thus far and no farther let us commit ourselves
448 7 | forgiveness has been shut and fastened up with the bar of baptism,
449 11 | sunkenness of face caused by fasting? Is it then becoming for
450 9 | however, to feed prayers on fastings, to groan, to weep and make
451 12 | expectation of the same fate? The haughtiest106 mountains
452 10 | which the concealment of our fault promises us! to wit, if
453 2 | limit) in sinning too-by fearing God, I mean. But where there
454 9 | the most part, however, to feed prayers on fastings, to
455 6 | regard to repentance; for, feeling sure of undoubted pardon
456 1 | any deed prompted by these feelings has fallen on thankless
457 7 | most savage when he fully feels that a man is freed from
458 9 | God; to bow before the feet of the presbyters, and kneel
459 11 | brilliance, whatever of feigned redness, is to be had, let
460 10 | But among. brethren and fellow-servants, where there is common hope,
461 8 | whom he had lost; he had felt him to be all the dearer
462 8 | finds it, and invites her female friends to share her joy,
463 11 | felicity of freedom and festivity: and all that for the sake
464 | few
465 4(24) | naufragus alicuius tabulae fidem; this expression soon passed
466 7 | clutches; he then flames fiercest while he is fast becoming
467 5 | without damage to their filial duty! Thus, then, they will
468 2 | bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever
469 8 | drachma, and seeks it and finds it, and invites her female
470 7(62) | infra, this chapter, sub fine.]~
471 3 | repentance purged. For if human finitude18 judges only sins of deed,
472 1 | applied to the best works they fix in their heart, making it
473 10 | other than yourself? Why flee from the partners of your
474 11 | that for the sake of the fleeting joy of a single year! Do
475 8 | the shepherd's; but the flock was not more dear than the
476 2 | was intending to pour as a flood of light on the universal
477 7 | however, that most stubborn foe (of ours) never gives his
478 4(36) | with "perseverare," which follows.~
479 3 | before itself what it is forbidden to perform, and rashly through
480 12 | the arrow, knows that, to force out the steel, and its inextricable
481 10 | modesty; bearing an open forehead for sinning, but an abashed
482 7 | poisons of his, therefore, God foreseeing, although the gate of forgiveness
483 6 | is easy; but God takes foresight for His own treasure, and
484 10 | Lord! to be restored to its forfeited92 salvation! Truly you are
485 8 | unrepentant if He did not forgive the repentant. The matter
486 7 | his sin as often as he is forgiven. Otherwise be sure he will
487 7 | foreseeing, although the gate of forgiveness has been shut and fastened
488 6 | threatening, not while He is forgiving. For what slave, after his
489 11 | polishing the teeth, and some forked implement of steel or brass
490 5(38) | to perpetual sinning and formal confession.]~
491 | formerly
492 5(38) | The formidable doctrine of I. John iii.
493 12(113)| naufragium is the theological formula, ever since, among Western
494 8 | imputes to the Ephesians "forsaken love; "71 reproaches the
495 4 | plank. This will draw you forth when sunk in the waves of
496 2 | people for Himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions
497 12 | which also the very head and fount of the human race, and of
498 11 | rarest delicacy of fatted fowls; let him refine his old
499 6 | is of necessity, not of free-will, that we put on innocence.
500 7 | fully feels that a man is freed from his clutches; he then
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