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501 2 | prophesy. By and by, promising freely the grace which in the last
502 11 | meet any high personage, frequenting no banquets, associating
503 8 | and invites her female friends to share her joy, an example
504 6 | their former deeds; just as fruits, when they are already beginning
505 9 | mortification (I will not say frustrate, but) expunge eternal punishments.
506 12(105)| Fumariola, i.e. the craters of volcanoes.~
507 6(48) | Commeatus," a military word = "furlough," hence "holiday-time."~
508 6 | due; whereby He who is to furnish the gift is ever offended.~ ~
509 11 | lips or cheeks. Let him furthermore seek out baths of more genial
510 10 | bashfulness when I am a gainer by its loss; when itself
511 11 | genial temperature in some gardened or seaside retreat; let
512 7 | foreseeing, although the gate of forgiveness has been
513 2 | work and image. 6 And so He gathered together a people for Himself,
514 3 | the concupiscence of his gaze? 20 Accordingly it is dangerous
515 6 | Him; as soon as you have gazed on Him, you should reverence
516 12(104)| Gehennam. Comp. ad Ux. ii. c. vi.
517 3 | inasmuch as, since it is generally agreed that God is some
518 11 | furthermore seek out baths of more genial temperature in some gardened
519 11 | food and raiment, which102 Gentiles lay upon themselves when
520 8 | in straying. 81 That most gentle father, likewise, I will
521 1(4) | Saeculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness of this treatise, partly
522 6 | stealth, indeed, and to get the minister appointed over
523 9 | Greek name, is e0comolo/ghsij, 86 whereby we confess our
524 5 | understanding-that is, to God's gift-by resuming what he understands
525 8 | angels who are there, are glad at a man's repentance. 78
526 11 | offended."~ ~Why, they who go about canvassing for the
527 2 | is, man's salvation. For God-after so many and so great sins
528 1 | we ourselves were in days gone by-blind, without the Lord'
529 8 | his best fatted calf, and graces his joy with a banquet. 82
530 10 | ever easily obtained.~ ~Grand indeed is the reward of
531 2 | gain if you do good to a grateful man! or your loss if to
532 7 | amplified; for restoring is a greater thing than giving, inasmuch
533 7 | fast becoming extinguished. Grieve and groan he must of necessity
534 7 | formerly was his own erased. He grieves that that sinner, (now)
535 12 | squalor, with his nails wildly growing after the eagle's fashion,
536 4 | course to approach, and to guard with the utmost seriousness;
537 6 | unless we be withdrawn by guardians of our persons, if no one
538 8(77) | are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\ ou0 qusi/
539 5(38) | purifying the heart from habitual sin. But, the church refused
540 12 | for repentance and her handmaid112 exomologesis he had cast
541 2 | promise. To Him John, as His harbinger, directed the repentance (
542 12 | the shagginess of a lion. Hard handling! Him whom men were
543 6 | hands from theft unless the hardness of bars withstand us, nor
544 2 | subjection to death-when He had hasted back to His own mercy, did
545 4 | permit our slave-lads not to hate the things which are offensive
546 5 | devil, and will be the more hateful to God in proportion as
547 12 | expectation of the same fate? The haughtiest106 mountains start asunder
548 12(106)| super" and "superus," as "haughty" with "high."~
549 3 | therefore, is withal the healing medicine of repentance.
550 12 | to approach what you know heals you? Even dumb irrational
551 7 | blessing of learning or hearing concerning the discipline
552 8 | other; 85 but only if you heartily repent-if you compare your
553 1 | Chapter I.-Of Heathen Repentance1.~Repentance,
554 5 | even on the score of His heavenly benefits, is not possible42 -
555 8 | than sacrifices." 77 The heavens, and the angels who are
556 3 | the one lighter, or else heavier, than the other: if it be
557 5 | after attaining by His help to an understanding of things
558 | hence
559 8 | the swine, that unclean herd-if you again seek your Father,
560 6 | fact, does He say? "Nothing hid which shall not be revealed." 52
561 10 | promises us! to wit, if we do hide somewhat from the knowledge
562 4 | What, therefore, God so highly commends, what He even (
563 8 | plenty of your Father's "hired servants"-if you leave behind
564 11 | scarlet and purple? Hasten hither with the pin for panning
565 8 | at a man's repentance. 78 Ho! you sinner, be of good
566 2 | surely made to Abraham. John holds not his peace, saying, "
567 2 | making it clean, for the Holy Spirit, who was about to
568 10 | salvation! Truly you are honourable in your modesty; bearing
569 5 | denies the Benefactor in not honouring the benefit. How can he
570 6 | for he who desires it, honours it; he who hastily receives
571 9(87) | meaning of "satisfaction," see Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. 5, where
572 11 | roughness of sackcloth, and the horridness of ashes, and the sunkenness
573 8(77) | Hos. vi. 6; Matt. ix. 13. The
574 8(77) | Matt. ix. 13. The words in Hosea in the LXX. are, dio/ti
575 3(17) | phrase "that day and that hour" in Scripture.~
576 6 | repentance, set up on the sands a house doomed to ruin.~ ~Let no
577 11 | do they not affect? what houses do they not beset with early
578 9 | for man's prostration and humiliation, enjoining a demeanor calculated
579 8 | repent-if you compare your own hunger with the plenty of your
580 1 | know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over
581 5 | sprout from the seed of hypocrites, whose friendship with the
582 8 | of things sacrificed to idols; "72 accuses the Sardians
583 2 | pardon to His own work and image. 6 And so He gathered together
584 12 | extinguish for you; and imagine first the magnitude of the
585 2 | defilement inveterate error had imparted, whatever contamination
586 1 | shun the hurricane which is impending over the world. 4 Moreover,
587 12 | judgment which menaces the impenitent? Who will not agree that
588 7 | again be irksome: irksome to imperil one's self again, but not
589 11 | the teeth, and some forked implement of steel or brass for cleaning
590 2 | would first weigh well the importance of repentance, and would
591 6 | the very end of desiring importunes them to desire somewhat
592 2 | such as do err? Why does he impose on his goodness a duty proper
593 8 | saith to the churches." He imputes to the Ephesians "forsaken
594 2 | did from that time onward inaugurate repentance in His own self,
595 2 | desire of earning it be the incentive to well-doing: earthly and
596 6 | not to sin. Further, how inconsistent is it to expect pardon of
597 11 | dread likewise the bodily inconveniences; in that, unwashen, sordidly
598 4 | to our narrow abilities, inculcate one point,-that what God
599 3 | necessity for repentance is incumbent on either part of man, if
600 7 | all. However, if any do incur the debt of a second repentance,
601 9 | God by its fear of the (incurred) danger; may, by itself
602 8 | him repentant after his indigence, slays his best fatted calf,
603 9 | stand in the stead of God's indignation, and by temporal mortification (
604 5 | friendship with the devil is indivisible, whose repentance never
605 12 | Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis~If you shrink
606 7 | received. If the Lord's indulgence grants you the means of
607 6(54) | Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3, 4, 8;
608 12 | and sportive darts of some inestimably vast centre of fire?~ ~Therefore,
609 12 | force out the steel, and its inextricable lingerings, he must heal
610 6 | as whelps in yet early infancy, and with eyes not yet perfect,
611 6 | portion of irreverence; it inflates the seeker, it despises
612 12 | these occasional punishments inflicted on the mountains as examples
613 7(62) | Elucidation I. See infra, this chapter, sub fine.]~
614 2 | rewarder. Let, then, the ingratitude of men see to it, 12 if
615 2 | calling, through grace, to (inherit) the promise surely made
616 10 | offensiveness, and make present injury bearable for the sake100
617 12 | the birth-throes of their inly-gendered fire; and-which proves to
618 6 | free-will, that we put on innocence. Who, then, is pre-eminent
619 3 | equally either sinned or lived innocently?~ ~This we would (once for
620 | instead
621 12 | that exomologesis has been instituted by the Lord for his restoration,
622 6 | even of eternal life, first institutes a probation of our repentance.~ ~"
623 3 | precepts, is by them forthwith instructed that "that from which God
624 6 | either, because he lacked the instrumental agent of repentance, that
625 10 | speech in the presence of insulters, where one man raises himself
626 6(58) | Metus integer.~
627 2 | in the last times He was intending to pour as a flood of light
628 3 | superstructure to the Law, except by interdicting sins of the will as well (
629 3 | Nor, if some difficulty interferes with its full accomplishment,
630 7 | Far be it that any one so interpret our meaning, as if, because
631 6 | men meanwhile steal the intervening time, and make it for themselves
632 3 | in resurrection, are so intimate, that "at that time"17 they
633 10 | their own bashfulness. It is intolerable, forsooth, to modesty to
634 2 | that He might with pleasure introduce Himself there-into, together
635 6 | presumptuous confidence in baptism introduces all kind of vicious delay
636 2 | does not err, why does he invade (the province of) repentance,
637 3 | the man who had actually invaded another's wedlock to be
638 3 | to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment14 ~What things,
639 2 | that whatever defilement inveterate error had imparted, whatever
640 12 | know heals you? Even dumb irrational animals recognise in their
641 1 | the world. 4 Moreover, how irrationally they behave in the practice
642 6 | reception is the portion of irreverence; it inflates the seeker,
643 9(91) | above should be "suum." [St. James, v. 16.]~
644 10 | is when it is a butt for jeering speech in the presence of
645 10 | it must necessarily join with one consent in the
646 3 | common; common, too, is the Judge-God to wit; common, therefore,
647 3 | For if human finitude18 judges only sins of deed, because
648 3(17) | i.e., in the judgment-day. Compare the phrase "that
649 12 | us the perpetuity of the judgment-though they start asunder, though
650 5 | known each; and to have judicially pronounced him to be the
651 3(14) | reference to Luthor's theory of justification, we must all adopt this
652 8(77) | leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\ ou0 qusi/an).~
653 1(4) | purity of its style. See Kaye, p. 42.]~
654 6 | crime? Let us, then, neither keep our hands from theft unless
655 12 | restored the Babylonian king109 to his realms? Long time
656 9 | feet of the presbyters, and kneel to God's dear ones; to enjoin
657 10 | yourself at the brethren's knees, you are handling Christ,
658 6 | in days bygone, when you knew Him not? What, moreover,
659 7 | repentance for opening to such as knock: but now once for all, because
660 9 | remaining) repentance, the more laborious is its probation; in order
661 6 | water; but what we have to labour for is, that it may be granted
662 10 | consent in the grief, and in labouring for the remedy. In a company
663 6 | repentance either, because he lacked the instrumental agent of
664 2 | of necessity vain, for it lacks the fruit for which God
665 2 | hands so to speak, be ever laid on good deeds or thoughts. 11
666 8 | things; 74 upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting to their riches; 75
667 7 | the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism~So long, Lord
668 7 | second-nay, in that case, the last-hope; 62 lest, by treating of
669 11 | not beset with early and late visits?-bowing whenever
670 11 | ask him, "On whom are you lavishing all this? "let him say, "
671 3 | a superstructure to the Law, except by interdicting
672 5(42) | 17: "licet" here may = "lawful," "permissible," "excusable."~
673 2 | God, and Subject to His Laws.~But if they acted as men
674 6 | suggest with reference to laying hold of repentance once
675 2 | the baptism of repentance lead the way, with the view of
676 2 | repentance, however, which we learn when we know the Lord, retains
677 6 | For the first baptism of a learner is this, a perfect fear; 58
678 8 | hired servants"-if you leave behind you the swine, that
679 4 | waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own
680 7(63) | subsequent system, one which led him to accept the discipline
681 7 | never gives his malice leisure; indeed, he is then most
682 8 | for instead of all; and at length she is found, and is borne
683 8(77) | in the LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\
684 5 | exception which defends from liability to penalty even such as
685 2 | fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty,
686 6 | give); and they turn His liberality into slavery. But if it
687 6 | far as merit we can-his liberation; while God is threatening,
688 5(42) | Acts xiv. 15-17: "licet" here may = "lawful," "permissible," "
689 9 | commands (the penitent) to lie in sackcloth and ashes,
690 8 | Thine." Confession of sins lightens, as much as dissimulation
691 | likely
692 12 | steel, and its inextricable lingerings, he must heal himself with
693 12(108)| chelidonia" ("Chelidonia major," Linn.).~
694 12 | wearing the shagginess of a lion. Hard handling! Him whom
695 11 | diligently apply it to his lips or cheeks. Let him furthermore
696 12(115)| Lit. "of all brands." Comp.
697 8 | There strays, withal, one little ewe of the shepherd's; but
698 3 | equally either sinned or lived innocently?~ ~This we would (
699 8 | earnestly sought; the one is longed for instead of all; and
700 8 | sinned, nor am worthy any longer to be called Thine." Confession
701 9(91) | Suae," which looks as if the "tuum" above should
702 5 | such as are ignorant of the Lord-because ignorance of God, openly
703 4 | errors; repent of having loved what God loves not: even
704 6 | part flatter47 their own loveliness.~ ~Moreover, a presumptuous
705 4 | of having loved what God loves not: even we ourselves do
706 9 | mourning, 88 to lay his spirit low in sorrows, to exchange
707 3 | equal to (piercing) the lurking-places of the will, let us not
708 3(14) | Without reference to Luthor's theory of justification,
709 8(77) | LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\ ou0
710 12 | you; and imagine first the magnitude of the penalty, that you
711 2 | presides over the exacting and maintaining13 of justice, which to Him
712 4 | rendering of obedience the majesty of divine power has the
713 12(108)| chelidonia" ("Chelidonia major," Linn.).~
714 1 | is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided,
715 10 | having contracted some malady in the more private parts
716 7 | of ours) never gives his malice leisure; indeed, he is then
717 2 | briefly one the salvation of man-the abolition of former sins
718 9 | Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance
719 2(9) | Comp. Matt. iii. 1, 2; Mark i. 4; Luke iii. 4-6.~
720 7 | been overthrown, so many marks of the condemnation which
721 7(63) | our author wrote to the Martyrs, (see cap. 1.) he was less
722 6 | putting away of sins, I mean-is in every way sure to such
723 11 | contumelies of all kinds. What meannesses of dress do they not affect?
724 8(76) | appears to be the passage meant. The Eng. Ver. is very different.~
725 10 | with the pungency of some (medicinal) powder: still, the things
726 12 | in their time of need the medicines which have been divinely
727 3(18) | Mediocritas.~
728 11 | visits?-bowing whenever they meet any high personage, frequenting
729 10 | at the trouble of any one member, 95 it must necessarily
730 7 | sea; and by cherishing the memory of the danger, honour the
731 12 | examples of the judgment which menaces the impenitent? Who will
732 5(38) | so turn absolution into a mere sponge, and an encouragement
733 6 | the penitent does not yet merit-so far as merit we can-his
734 5(43) | Timent," not "metuunt." "Metus" is the word Tertullian
735 7(65) | works:" cf. de Idol. c. iv. (mid.), "perdition of blood,"
736 | might
737 6(48) | Commeatus," a military word = "furlough," hence "
738 10 | presume (as being) more mindful of modesty than of salvation;
739 4 | sins I acknowledge to be mine23 ), do you so hasten to,
740 5 | to their chastity; they mingle poison for their parent
741 6 | indeed, and to get the minister appointed over this business
742 12(112)| Ministerium," the abstract for the concrete:
743 10 | the partners of your own mischances, as from such as will derisively
744 6 | appointed over this business misled by your asseverations, is
745 9(90) | unless Oehler's "tuum" be a misprint for "suum."~
746 12 | sparks are but some few missiles and sportive darts of some
747 8 | yet gives them all general monitions to repentance-under comminations,
748 7(63) | accept the discipline of Montanism. On this general subject,
749 2 | well-doing: earthly and mortal are they each. For how small
750 9 | indignation, and by temporal mortification (I will not say frustrate,
751 9 | ashes, to cover his body in mourning, 88 to lay his spirit low
752 9 | a demeanor calculated to move mercy. With regard also
753 | my
754 8 | Him, even if you return naked-just because you have returned;
755 9 | spoken of under a Greek name, is e0comolo/ghsij, 86 whereby
756 3 | The source whence sins are named "spiritual" and "corporeal"
757 | namely
758 4 | however, in proportion to our narrow abilities, inculcate one
759 9 | is to Be Accompanied~The narrower, then, the sphere of action
760 2 | shall salvation approach the nations"9 -the Lord, that is, bringing
761 1 | men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion
762 12(113)| planca, and planca post naufragium is the theological formula,
763 4(24) | Comp. c. xii. sub fin. [Ut naufragus alicuius tabulae fidem;
764 12 | recognise in their time of need the medicines which have
765 6 | profession of) repentance, but neglect to complete it. 46 For the
766 2 | there, where it ought, it is neglected.~ ~
767 6 | former satisfies, the latter neglects it; the former covets to
768 10 | man raises himself on his neighbour's ruin, where there is upward
769 12 | such blasts of flames that neighbouring cities either are already
770 11(102)| Quae," neut. pl.~
771 5 | against the Lord. Does he not-what is perilous even to say,
772 7(63) | when we come to Cyprian and Novatian.]~
773 6 | the case of those young novices who are only just beginning
774 4 | death." That repentance, O sinner, like myself (nay,
775 4 | is good which binds us to obey, but the fact that God has
776 4(33) | Obsequii.~
777 7 | his angels. 66 And so he observes, assaults, besieges him,
778 10 | son99 asks is ever easily obtained.~ ~Grand indeed is the reward
779 3 | under the head of sin-the occasion indeed demands that I should
780 12 | Who will not account these occasional punishments inflicted on
781 9(87) | to the present treatise occur. [Elucidation II.]~
782 12 | human race, and of human offence, Adam, restored by exomologesis
783 5 | if fear44 is the plea for offending But these dispositions have
784 3 | whichever of them sins equally offends the Lord. Is it for you
785 1(2) | Offensa senteniae pejoris;" or possibly, "
786 4 | hate the things which are offensive to us; for the principle
787 10 | the cure, excuse their own offensiveness, and make present injury
788 12 | realms? Long time had he offered to the Lord his repentance,
789 7 | not refusing what the Lord offers you. You have offended,
790 11 | for the obtaining of civil office, feel it neither degrading
791 11 | fowls; let him refine his old wine: and when any shall
792 3 | neither ignorant, nor does He omit to decree it to judgment.
793 3 | because the two make up one-lest any make the distinction
794 9 | and kneel to God's dear ones; to enjoin on all the brethren
795 2 | mercy, did from that time onward inaugurate repentance in
796 5 | Lord-because ignorance of God, openly as He is set before men,
797 7(65) | Mortis opera," or "deadly works:" cf.
798 4 | divine clemency. Seize the opportunity of unexpected felicity:
799 2(7) | Orbi. ~
800 1 | not provided, disposed, ordained by reason-nothing which
801 2 | Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His
802 8(77) | lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\ ou0 qusi/an).~
803 | ours
804 9 | groan, to weep and make outcries89 unto the Lord your90 God;
805 7 | death65 in man have been overthrown, so many marks of the condemnation
806 1(4) | of its style. See Kaye, p. 42.]~
807 12(109)| Dan. iv. 25 sqq. See de Pa. xiii. ~
808 4(35) | ref. 1 on the preceding page. The phrase is "as I live"
809 11 | hither with the pin for panning the hair, and the powder
810 10 | knowledge of God so put upon a par? Is it better to be damned
811 8 | those themes of the Lord's parables? Is not the fact that a
812 4(34) | Or, "paramount."~
813 5 | mingle poison for their parent without damage to their
814 12 | warning plagues, perish in the parted sea, (which was permitted
815 1(4) | genuineness of this treatise, partly because of the comparative
816 10 | yourself? Why flee from the partners of your own mischances,
817 10 | malady in the more private parts of the body, avoid the privity
818 12 | which was permitted to be passable to "the People" alone, )
819 8(76) | LXX.) appears to be the passage meant. The Eng. Ver. is
820 4(24) | fidem; this expression soon passed into Theological technology,
821 8 | Father; 83 no one so rich in paternal love. He, then, will receive
822 1 | of simple-heartedness, of patience, of mercy, just in proportion
823 2 | Abraham. John holds not his peace, saying, "Enter upon repentance,
824 1(2) | Offensa senteniae pejoris;" or possibly, "the miscarriage
825 12 | for the business of the pen114 than the duty of my conscience?
826 4(28) | Penes.~
827 1(1) | character. This treatise on Penitence is the product of our author'
828 7(65) | de Idol. c. iv. (mid.), "perdition of blood," and the note
829 4 | beside28 the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at
830 6 | distinguishes you from a perfected56 servant of God? Is there
831 3 | what it is forbidden to perform, and rashly through the
832 8 | not full; "73 censures the Pergamenes for teaching perverse things; 74
833 7 | let us commit ourselves to perils, even if we seem likely
834 11 | am in peril of eternally perishing: and so now I am drooping,
835 5(42) | licet" here may = "lawful," "permissible," "excusable."~
836 4 | even we ourselves do not permit our slave-lads not to hate
837 6 | does so unwilling. But who permits a gift to be permanently
838 5(38) | and an encouragement to perpetual sinning and formal confession.]~
839 6 | repentance once for all, and perpetually retaining it, does indeed
840 12 | and-which proves to us the perpetuity of the judgment-though they
841 4(36) | word, as compared with "perseverare," which follows.~
842 4 | we may be able also to persevere in like manner in its fruit37
843 9(90) | changes here to the second person, unless Oehler's "tuum"
844 11 | whenever they meet any high personage, frequenting no banquets,
845 6 | withdrawn by guardians of our persons, if no one who has surrendered
846 3 | Since, then, they equally pertain to the Lord, whichever of
847 5 | is a primary example of perversity: they sin, because they
848 11(101)| Quod securium virgarumque petitio sustinet.~
849 10 | body, avoid the privity of physicians, and so perish with their
850 3 | because it is not equal to (piercing) the lurking-places of the
851 11 | Hasten hither with the pin for panning the hair, and
852 11(102)| Quae," neut. pl.~
853 10 | for deprecating! I give no place to bashfulness when I am
854 12 | did, after so many warning plagues, perish in the parted sea, (
855 9 | and drink but such as is plain,-not for the stomach's sake,
856 12 | more touching these two planks113 (as it were) of human
857 5 | at all, if fear44 is the plea for offending But these
858 5 | ignorance now remains to plead on your behalf; in that,
859 6 | whatever (veil of) darkness you please over your deeds, "God is
860 5 | the benefit. How can he be pleasing to Him, whose gift is displeasing
861 4 | the faith of) the solemn pledge36 of divine grace, we may
862 8 | your own hunger with the plenty of your Father's "hired
863 7 | in reserve, we seem to be pointing to a yet further space for
864 5 | their chastity; they mingle poison for their parent without
865 7 | nor in temptations. These poisons of his, therefore, God foreseeing,
866 9(87) | satisfaction," see Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. 5, where several references
867 1(1) | We pass from the polemical class of our author's writings
868 11 | hair, and the powder for polishing the teeth, and some forked
869 4 | repent, or no? "Why do you ponder? God enjoins; nay, He not
870 6 | Life~Whatever, then, our poor ability has attempted to
871 4 | bear you forward into the port of the divine clemency.
872 6 | Hasty reception is the portion of irreverence; it inflates
873 6 | For what slave, after his position has been changed by reception
874 5 | heavenly benefits, is not possible42 -how perilous is it for
875 1(2) | Offensa senteniae pejoris;" or possibly, "the miscarriage of some,"
876 12(113)| becomes planca, and planca post naufragium is the theological
877 4 | threshing-floor," 26 and "a potter's vessel," 27 may thenceforward
878 2 | times He was intending to pour as a flood of light on the
879 1(1) | s writings to those of a practical and ethical character. This
880 1 | irrationally they behave in the practice of repentance, it will be
881 4 | the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for
882 6 | while you rest in the same practises as in days bygone, when
883 11 | competitor for consulship or praetorship puts up with? 101 and shall
884 3(19) | Praevaricatorem: comp. ad Ux. b. ii. c.
885 7 | their deliverance, namely. I praise their fear, I love their
886 9 | most part, however, to feed prayers on fastings, to groan, to
887 10 | who suffers, Christ who prays the Father for mercy. What
888 4 | rather, less than myself, for pre-eminence in sins I acknowledge to
889 6 | innocence. Who, then, is pre-eminent in goodness? he who is not
890 2 | the repentance (which he preached), whose province was the
891 4 | about the "good" of a divine precept; for, indeed, it is not
892 2 | of former sins being the preliminary step. This10 is the (final)
893 3 | we would (once for all) premise, in order that we may understand
894 2 | cast out of doors, and thus prepare the home of the heart, by
895 2 | with the view of first preparing, 8 by means of the sign
896 9 | bow before the feet of the presbyters, and kneel to God's dear
897 10 | for jeering speech in the presence of insulters, where one
898 2 | Well, since, God as Judge presides over the exacting and maintaining13
899 5(38) | But, the church refused to press it against St. Matt. xviii.
900 10 | defer it from day to day. I presume (as being) more mindful
901 5(38) | are more prone, I fear, to presumption than to over strictness.
902 6 | Chapter VI.-Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received, It Requires Preceding
903 6 | loveliness.~ ~Moreover, a presumptuous confidence in baptism introduces
904 5 | by repetition of sin. No pretext of ignorance now remains
905 1 | arising from disgust2 at some previously cherished worse sentiment:
906 5 | that the Evil One, with his prey recovered, rejoices anew
907 5 | to their fear! Here is a primary example of perversity: they
908 10 | parts of the body, avoid the privity of physicians, and so perish
909 3 | whence any sin whatsoever proceeds is remote from His sight;
910 10(92) | Prodactae.~
911 8 | in silence, who calls his prodigal son home, and willingly
912 6 | for merchandise, but not produce the price. For repentance
913 1(1) | treatise on Penitence is the product of our author's best days,
914 12(110)| Proelium.~
915 6 | former deed, and assume (the profession of) repentance, but neglect
916 2 | of divine mercy. What is profitable to man does service to God.
917 8 | elsewhere demonstrated this profusion of His clemency. Saith He
918 6 | receiver, inasmuch as he promised it himself (as his due),
919 2 | to prophesy. By and by, promising freely the grace which in
920 1 | in proportion as any deed prompted by these feelings has fallen
921 5(38) | self-indulgent day, we are more prone, I fear, to presumption
922 3 | your consciousness, you pronounce your own condemnation. For
923 5 | and to have judicially pronounced him to be the better whose (
924 9 | danger; may, by itself pronouncing against the sinner, stand
925 2 | impose on his goodness a duty proper to wickedness? Thus it comes
926 2 | company of the prophets to prophesy. By and by, promising freely
927 2 | universal company of the prophets to prophesy. By and by,
928 3 | distinction between their sins proportionate to the difference between
929 6 | determined to award pardon: He proposes the redemption49 of release
930 10(93) | used by Tertullian as = "propter" -on your account, for your
931 6 | abeyance, there is still a prospect of penalty; while the penitent
932 10 | upward clambering over the prostrate. But among. brethren and
933 9 | is a discipline for man's prostration and humiliation, enjoining
934 4 | as a shipwrecked man the protection24 of some plank. This will
935 8 | Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to
936 12 | inly-gendered fire; and-which proves to us the perpetuity of
937 1 | the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason-nothing
938 8(84) | Publicly enrolled as such in baptism;
939 10 | cauterized, and racked with the pungency of some (medicinal) powder:
940 3 | therefore, it shall be punished. It is utterly vain to say, "
941 3 | Divine Investigation and Punishment14 ~What things, then, they
942 3 | shunned, and by repentance purged. For if human finitude18
943 2 | whose province was the purging of men's minds, that whatever
944 5(38) | adherence to this principle of purifying the heart from habitual
945 1(4) | because of the comparative purity of its style. See Kaye,
946 11 | our sins in scarlet and purple? Hasten hither with the
947 12 | Egyptian emperor-who, after pursuing the once afflicted people
948 11 | consulship or praetorship puts up with? 101 and shall we
949 6 | that the divine benefit-the putting away of sins, I mean-is
950 8(77) | LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. kai\
951 11(102)| Quae," neut. pl.~
952 9 | condemns, it absolves. The less quarter you give yourself, the more (
953 11(101)| Quod securium virgarumque petitio
954 10 | cut, and cauterized, and racked with the pungency of some (
955 11 | self-chastisement in food and raiment, which102 Gentiles lay upon
956 3 | time"17 they are equally raised up either for life or else
957 11 | let him carefully seek the rarest delicacy of fatted fowls;
958 3 | forbidden to perform, and rashly through the will to perfect
959 2 | repentance, because they would reach (a limit) in sinning too-by
960 8(70) | Evolve: perhaps simply = "read."~
961 1 | a means of sinning more readily than a means of right-doing.~ ~
962 6 | meanwhile let us defer the reality of our repentance: it will
963 12 | Babylonian king109 to his realms? Long time had he offered
964 1 | provided, disposed, ordained by reason-nothing which He has not willed
965 5 | us through God's grace, recalls us to grace39 with the Lord,
966 6 | of baptism. But the hasty receiver, inasmuch as he promised
967 6(60) | disappoints," i.e., the hasty recipient himself.~
968 4 | similarity of minds.~ ~To reckon up the good, of repentance,
969 12 | dumb irrational animals recognise in their time of need the
970 11 | torturing myself, that I may reconcile God to myself, whom by sinning
971 7 | offended, but can still be reconciled. You have One whom you may
972 5 | Evil One, with his prey recovered, rejoices anew against the
973 6 | of being assigned to the "recruit-classes" of learners, as if on that
974 6 | pardon: He proposes the redemption49 of release from penalty
975 11 | brilliance, whatever of feigned redness, is to be had, let him diligently
976 7 | for sinning; and as if the redundance of celestial clemency constituted
977 4(35) | See ref. 1 on the preceding page.
978 9(87) | Pol. vi. 5, where several references to the present treatise
979 11 | of fatted fowls; let him refine his old wine: and when any
980 6 | of bars withstand us, nor refrain our eyes from the concupiscence
981 5(38) | habitual sin. But, the church refused to press it against St.
982 7 | gratitude to the Lord by not refusing what the Lord offers you.
983 2 | self-amendment. In short, they would regulate the limit of their repentance,
984 5 | has already shunned: he rejects the Giver in abandoning
985 5 | with his prey recovered, rejoices anew against the Lord. Does
986 6 | proposes the redemption49 of release from penalty at this compensating
987 5(43) | has been using above for religious, reverential fear. ~
988 9 | of this second and only (remaining) repentance, the more laborious
989 7 | lest, by treating of a remedial repenting yet in reserve,
990 1 | making it their care to remember never again to do a good
991 7(63) | was less disposed to such remorseless discipline: and perhaps
992 3 | sin whatsoever proceeds is remote from His sight; because
993 5 | Thus, in as far as you are removed from ignorance, in so far
994 2 | repentance, justice must be rendered to God?-which duty can indeed
995 4 | enjoined it. To exact the rendering of obedience the majesty
996 9 | covers him with squalor, it renders him more clean; while it
997 7 | thankful for the benefit renewed, not to say amplified; for
998 6 | and say indeed that they renounce their former deed, and assume (
999 5 | after he had by repentance renounced His rival the devil, and
1000 7 | because God is more so, by repeating his sin as often as he is
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