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1001 8 | but only if you heartily repent-if you compare your own hunger
1002 8 | all general monitions to repentance-under comminations, it is true;
1003 5 | ground on which you had repented of having sinned was that
1004 5 | afterward to be cancelled by repetition of sin. No pretext of ignorance
1005 8 | Ephesians "forsaken love; "71 reproaches the Thyatirenes with "fornication,"
1006 2 | giving His sanction to the reprobation of good deeds, inasmuch
1007 6(49) | i.e., repurchase.~
1008 7 | nothing of repentance, and require nothing of it. It is irksome
1009 6 | Presumptously Received, It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested
1010 5 | why have you preferred to rescind what you did for fear's
1011 2 | repentance in His own self, by rescinding the sentence of His first
1012 10 | exhorts the man, saying, "Respect not me; it is better that
1013 6 | knowing" Him make, while you rest in the same practises as
1014 12 | instituted by the Lord for his restoration, pass that by which restored
1015 5 | understanding-that is, to God's gift-by resuming what he understands ought
1016 3 | in life, in death, and in resurrection, are so intimate, that "
1017 6 | a gift to be permanently retained which he has granted unwillingly?
1018 6 | for all, and perpetually retaining it, does indeed bear upon
1019 2 | learn when we know the Lord, retains a definite form,-viz., that
1020 11 | some gardened or seaside retreat; let him enlarge his expenses;
1021 6 | Nothing hid which shall not be revealed." 52 Draw whatever (veil
1022 5 | not have God offended not revere Him at all, if fear44 is
1023 5(43) | using above for religious, reverential fear. ~
1024 4 | He invites by (offering) reward-salvation, to wit; even by an oath,
1025 8 | truly a Father; 83 no one so rich in paternal love. He, then,
1026 8 | Laodiceans for trusting to their riches; 75 and yet gives them all
1027 4 | divine power has the prior34 right; the authority of Him who
1028 1 | readily than a means of right-doing.~ ~
1029 8 | He who hath fallen shall rise again, and he who hath been
1030 12 | alone, ) by the backward roll of the waves:111 for repentance
1031 6(54) | Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3, 4, 8; Col. ii. 12,
1032 5(38) | to over strictness. The Roman casuists make attrition
1033 2 | His discipline, is there room for doubting that, just
1034 11 | sins as it were with a long rope." 103 ~ ~
1035 11 | spend their time in the roughness of sackcloth, and the horridness
1036 12 | small vent-holes105 of it rouse such blasts of flames that
1037 1 | course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not
1038 12 | long denied to their Lord, rushed into the battle110 -did,
1039 8 | and "eating of things sacrificed to idols; "72 accuses the
1040 8 | would have mercy rather than sacrifices." 77 The heavens, and the
1041 6 | baptism, do not feel more sadness to think that he has ceased
1042 2(5) | Saeculi dote. With which he had
1043 1(4) | Saeculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness
1044 10 | is turned into something salutary. Miserable it is to be cut,
1045 2 | For God, never giving His sanction to the reprobation of good
1046 6 | repentance, set up on the sands a house doomed to ruin.~ ~
1047 8 | to idols; "72 accuses the Sardians of "works not full; "73
1048 3 | that, even without fully sating its self-gratification,
1049 5 | But some say that "God is satisfied if He be looked up to with
1050 6 | other arrogance; the former satisfies, the latter neglects it;
1051 7 | You have One whom you may satisfy, and Him willing. 69 ~
1052 7 | indeed, he is then most savage when he fully feels that
1053 11 | supplicate for our sins in scarlet and purple? Hasten hither
1054 5 | comprehensible as He is even on the score of His heavenly benefits,
1055 2 | repentance should sweep and scrape away, and cast out of doors,
1056 6 | see whether it be cut, or scraped, or adulterated, 50 we believe
1057 2 | by means of the sign and seal of repentance, them whom
1058 6 | That baptismal washing is a sealing of faith, which faith is
1059 11 | temperature in some gardened or seaside retreat; let him enlarge
1060 7 | irksome to append mention of a second-nay, in that case, the last-hope; 62
1061 10 | it better to be damned in secret than absolved in public?
1062 6 | his due), being forsooth secure (of obtaining it), could
1063 11(101)| Quod securium virgarumque petitio sustinet.~
1064 5 | wont to sprout from the seed of hypocrites, whose friendship
1065 6 | irreverence; it inflates the seeker, it despises the Giver.
1066 8 | has lost a drachma, and seeks it and finds it, and invites
1067 4 | of the divine clemency. Seize the opportunity of unexpected
1068 2 | convicting themselves of perverse self-amendment. In short, they would regulate
1069 11 | offering to the offended Lord a self-chastisement in food and raiment, which102
1070 3 | without fully sating its self-gratification, it stands for a deed; as
1071 5(38) | Matt. xviii. 22. In our own self-indulgent day, we are more prone,
1072 6 | of repentance. If, then, sellers first examine the coin with
1073 1 | They execrate their own selves for having done good; and
1074 2 | exhorted them to repentance and sent out the voices of the universal
1075 2 | self, by rescinding the sentence of His first wrath, engaging
1076 1(2) | Offensa senteniae pejoris;" or possibly, "
1077 10 | if ever) its danger is serious, is when it is a butt for
1078 4 | to guard with the utmost seriousness; that, abiding permanently
1079 4 | to the utility of him who serves. "Is it good to repent,
1080 2 | is profitable to man does service to God. The rule of repentance,
1081 12(112)| abstract for the concrete: so "servitia" = slaves.~
1082 9 | confession satisfaction is settled, 87 of confession repentance
1083 12 | out his exomologesis by a seven years' squalor, with his
1084 | several
1085 12 | unkempt hair wearing the shagginess of a lion. Hard handling!
1086 11 | Subject~What if, besides the shame which they make the most
1087 8 | invites her female friends to share her joy, an example of a
1088 10 | In like manner, when they shed tears over you, it is Christ
1089 7 | thenceforward declare divorce with ship and sea; and by cherishing
1090 4 | hasten to, so embrace, as a shipwrecked man the protection24 of
1091 8 | and is borne back on the shoulders of the shepherd himself;
1092 12 | Induce to Exomologesis~If you shrink back from exomologesis,
1093 12 | handling! Him whom men were shuddering at, God was receiving back.
1094 7 | of forgiveness has been shut and fastened up with the
1095 7 | none be ashamed. Repeated sickness must have repeated medicine.
1096 2 | preparing, 8 by means of the sign and seal of repentance,
1097 8 | I will not pass over in silence, who calls his prodigal
1098 4 | obedience33 consists in similarity of minds.~ ~To reckon up
1099 1 | good faith, of love, of simple-heartedness, of patience, of mercy,
1100 8(70) | Evolve: perhaps simply = "read."~
1101 3 | set down under the head of sin-the occasion indeed demands
1102 5 | in repentance of (past) sins-you again betake you self to
1103 6 | He is forgiving. For what slave, after his position has
1104 4 | ourselves do not permit our slave-lads not to hate the things which
1105 6 | turn His liberality into slavery. But if it is of necessity
1106 12(112)| concrete: so "servitia" = slaves.~
1107 8 | repentant after his indigence, slays his best fatted calf, and
1108 8 | your return than over the sobriety of the other; 85 but only
1109 1 | has fallen on thankless soil. They execrate their own
1110 8(84) | Tertullian here is speaking solely of the "second repentance."~
1111 4 | permanently in (the faith of) the solemn pledge36 of divine grace,
1112 5(40) | Which is solemnly done in baptism.~
1113 7 | attained; they shun, with a solicitude which at all events is good,
1114 | something
1115 | sometime
1116 | sometimes
1117 9(88) | Sordibus.~
1118 11 | inconveniences; in that, unwashen, sordidly attired, estranged from
1119 9 | to lay his spirit low in sorrows, to exchange for severe
1120 8 | one: that one is earnestly sought; the one is longed for instead
1121 6 | understanding of the Lord faith is sound, the conscience having once
1122 3 | medicine of repentance. The source whence sins are named "spiritual"
1123 6 | beginning to turn into the sourness or bitterness of age, do
1124 2 | the fruit for which God sowed it; that is, man's salvation.
1125 4 | become that "tree which is sown beside28 the waters, is
1126 7 | pointing to a yet further space for sinning. Far be it that
1127 12 | will not agree that such sparks are but some few missiles
1128 2 | that no violent hands so to speak, be ever laid on good deeds
1129 8(84) | for Tertullian here is speaking solely of the "second repentance."~
1130 1 | having done good; and that species chiefly of repentance which
1131 10 | it is a butt for jeering speech in the presence of insulters,
1132 11 | from gladness, they must spend their time in the roughness
1133 9 | The narrower, then, the sphere of action of this second
1134 9 | usually expressed and commonly spoken of under a Greek name, is
1135 5(38) | turn absolution into a mere sponge, and an encouragement to
1136 12 | but some few missiles and sportive darts of some inestimably
1137 6 | faithless repentance, one single sprinkling of any water whatever? To
1138 5 | dispositions have been wont to sprout from the seed of hypocrites,
1139 12(109)| Dan. iv. 25 sqq. See de Pa. xiii. ~
1140 8 | back, even if you have squandered what you had received from
1141 12 | divinely assigned them. The stag, transfixed by the arrow,
1142 11 | hesitate, when eternity is at stake, to endure what the competitor
1143 3(14) | adopt this as the test of "a standing or falling church," viz. "
1144 3 | its self-gratification, it stands for a deed; as a deed, therefore,
1145 7 | In the vestibule He has stationed the second repentance for
1146 9 | the sinner, stand in the stead of God's indignation, and
1147 6 | whatever? To approach it by stealth, indeed, and to get the
1148 2 | sins being the preliminary step. This10 is the (final) cause
1149 9 | as is plain,-not for the stomach's sake, to wit, but the
1150 1 | at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all
1151 8 | much had she toiled80 in straying. 81 That most gentle father,
1152 8 | restored sinner? 79 There strays, withal, one little ewe
1153 1 | contrary, they lay lighter stress. In short, they make this
1154 5(38) | presumption than to over strictness. The Roman casuists make
1155 11 | Chapter XI.-Further Strictures on the Same Subject~What
1156 7 | able in some way either to strike his eyes with carnal concupiscence,
1157 11 | degrading nor irksome to struggle, in behalf of such their
1158 7 | But however, that most stubborn foe (of ours) never gives
1159 7 | he is never deficient in stumbling-blocks nor in temptations. These
1160 1(4) | comparative purity of its style. See Kaye, p. 42.]~
1161 9(91) | Suae," which looks as if the "
1162 4 | good, of repentance, the subject-matter is copious, and therefore
1163 5 | had under this appellation subjected him to the Lord, again upraises
1164 2 | ejection from paradise and subjection to death-when He had hasted
1165 7(63) | have here an element of his subsequent system, one which led him
1166 3 | difference between their substances, so as to esteem the one
1167 7 | enticements, or else to subvert his faith by fear of earthly
1168 5 | thing but contumacy which subverts fear. Since there is no
1169 8(80) | Or, "suffered."~
1170 10 | hope, fear, 94 joy, grief, suffering, because there is a common
1171 5(38) | casuists make attrition suffice, and so turn absolution
1172 6 | ability has attempted to suggest with reference to laying
1173 2 | that He appoints all the sum of His discipline, is there
1174 4 | will draw you forth when sunk in the waves of sins, and
1175 11 | horridness of ashes, and the sunkenness of face caused by fasting?
1176 12(106)| which is connected with "super" and "superus," as "haughty"
1177 12(106)| Superbissimi: perhaps a play on the word,
1178 3 | demonstrate Himself as adding a superstructure to the Law, except by interdicting
1179 12(106)| connected with "super" and "superus," as "haughty" with "high."~
1180 11 | then becoming for us to supplicate for our sins in scarlet
1181 9 | to bear his91 deprecatory supplication (before God). All this exomologesis (
1182 7(68) | See cap. vii. supra.]~
1183 6 | persons, if no one who has surrendered himself to the Lord is to
1184 11(101)| securium virgarumque petitio sustinet.~
1185 12 | himself with dittany. The swallow, if she blinds her young,
1186 12 | again by means of her own swallow-wort. 108 Shall the sinner, knowing
1187 2 | that repentance should sweep and scrape away, and cast
1188 8 | you leave behind you the swine, that unclean herd-if you
1189 6 | necessity that God grants us the symbol of death, 54 then He does
1190 6(54) | Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom.
1191 7(63) | element of his subsequent system, one which led him to accept
1192 12(113)| See c. iv. [Tabula was the word in cap. iv.
1193 4(24) | Ut naufragus alicuius tabulae fidem; this expression soon
1194 3 | desired it. Wherever you take your stand, you are fast
1195 6 | grace)? is not this gift taken away from many? These, no
1196 | taking
1197 8 | censures the Pergamenes for teaching perverse things; 74 upbraids
1198 10 | like manner, when they shed tears over you, it is Christ who
1199 4(24) | passed into Theological technology, and as "the plank after
1200 11 | powder for polishing the teeth, and some forked implement
1201 11 | out baths of more genial temperature in some gardened or seaside
1202 9 | God's indignation, and by temporal mortification (I will not
1203 7 | stumbling-blocks nor in temptations. These poisons of his, therefore,
1204 6 | kind of vicious delay and tergiversation with regard to repentance;
1205 3(14) | must all adopt this as the test of "a standing or falling
1206 7 | restoring what you had lost, be thankful for the benefit renewed,
1207 1 | these feelings has fallen on thankless soil. They execrate their
1208 6 | neither keep our hands from theft unless the hardness of bars
1209 6 | himself with his (past) thefts and desertions? What soldier,
1210 8 | meaning for us have those themes of the Lord's parables?
1211 12(113)| ever since, among Western theologians.]~
1212 3(14) | Without reference to Luthor's theory of justification, we must
1213 2 | pleasure introduce Himself there-into, together with His celestial
1214 | thereafter
1215 | thereby
1216 6 | sinning unless he be bound thereto by baptism. But if any entertain
1217 1(3) | Thesaurus.~
1218 | Thine
1219 3 | either of act or else of thought: so that what is in deed
1220 2 | ever laid on good deeds or thoughts. 11 For God, never giving
1221 6 | liberation; while God is threatening, not while He is forgiving.
1222 4 | bucket," 25 and "dust of the threshing-floor," 26 and "a potter's vessel," 27
1223 5 | will themselves withal be thrust down into hell without damage
1224 | Thy
1225 8 | love; "71 reproaches the Thyatirenes with "fornication," and "
1226 8(77) | Hosea in the LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (
1227 4(23) | Compare 1 Tim. i. 16.~
1228 5(43) | Timent," not "metuunt." "Metus"
1229 2 | grace which in the last times He was intending to pour
1230 6 | except one who is more timid, and on that account has
1231 2 | Of these blessings the title is briefly one the salvation
1232 8 | himself; for much had she toiled80 in straying. 81 That most
1233 2 | reach (a limit) in sinning too-by fearing God, I mean. But
1234 11 | drooping, and wasting and torturing myself, that I may reconcile
1235 3 | not be irksome briefly to touch upon the fact16 that, of
1236 3 | capable of being seen and touched; what is in the mind is "
1237 12 | Why should I add more touching these two planks113 (as
1238 | toward
1239 7 | the sure way by perverse traditions: he is never deficient in
1240 7 | mercy; they fear to seem to trample on the benefit which they
1241 12 | assigned them. The stag, transfixed by the arrow, knows that,
1242 7 | the last-hope; 62 lest, by treating of a remedial repenting
1243 9 | to exchange for severe treatment the sins which he has committed;
1244 4 | thenceforward become that "tree which is sown beside28 the
1245 7 | events is good, to make trial a second time of that which
1246 10 | cannot feel gladness at the trouble of any one member, 95 it
1247 8 | upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting to their riches; 75 and
1248 10 | misery ceases, because it is turned into something salutary.
1249 3 | of this combination of a two-fold substance, the sources of
1250 3 | its own Author, emerges unbidden into the knowledge of the
1251 6 | yet perfect, creep about uncertainly, and say indeed that they
1252 8 | behind you the swine, that unclean herd-if you again seek your
1253 7 | be forthwith cut down and undermined by despair. Let it by all
1254 5 | often an affront to his own understanding-that is, to God's gift-by resuming
1255 5 | gift-by resuming what he understands ought to be shunned, and
1256 5 | Lord, when once learned and undertaken by us ought never afterward
1257 6 | repentance; for, feeling sure of undoubted pardon of their sins, men
1258 4 | Seize the opportunity of unexpected felicity: that you, who
1259 12 | eagle's fashion, and his unkempt hair wearing the shagginess
1260 3 | to do so) may seem to be unnecessary. For when the Lord is known,
1261 10(96) | In uno et altero.~
1262 10 | the things which heal by unpleasant means do, by the benefit
1263 8 | Pardon~This if you doubt, unravel70 the meaning of "what the
1264 10 | Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking~Yet most
1265 8 | utter comminations to one unrepentant if He did not forgive the
1266 | unto
1267 11 | inconveniences; in that, unwashen, sordidly attired, estranged
1268 6 | retained which he has granted unwillingly? For do not many afterward
1269 8 | teaching perverse things; 74 upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting
1270 5 | subjected him to the Lord, again upraises him by his own return (to
1271 10 | neighbour's ruin, where there is upward clambering over the prostrate.
1272 6 | favour of God; but is chiefly urgent in the case of those young
1273 | used
1274 | using
1275 9 | This act, which is more usually expressed and commonly spoken
1276 6 | former takes, the latter usurps it. Whom would you judge
1277 4(24) | Comp. c. xii. sub fin. [Ut naufragus alicuius tabulae
1278 4 | commands is prior to the utility of him who serves. "Is it
1279 4 | approach, and to guard with the utmost seriousness; that, abiding
1280 3 | shall be punished. It is utterly vain to say, "I willed,
1281 12 | darts of some inestimably vast centre of fire?~ ~Therefore,
1282 6 | revealed." 52 Draw whatever (veil of) darkness you please
1283 12 | eternal fire to be, when small vent-holes105 of it rouse such blasts
1284 8(76) | passage meant. The Eng. Ver. is very different.~
1285 4(35) | as I live" in the English version.~
1286 4 | threshing-floor," 26 and "a potter's vessel," 27 may thenceforward become
1287 7 | somewhat open. 67 In the vestibule He has stationed the second
1288 6 | baptism introduces all kind of vicious delay and tergiversation
1289 2(12) | Viderit.~
1290 5 | faith: "that is, that they violate wedlock without damage to
1291 2 | definite form,-viz., that no violent hands so to speak, be ever
1292 11(101)| Quod securium virgarumque petitio sustinet.~
1293 1 | short, they make this same (virtue) a means of sinning more
1294 11 | beset with early and late visits?-bowing whenever they meet
1295 2 | repentance and sent out the voices of the universal company
1296 12(105)| Fumariola, i.e. the craters of volcanoes.~
1297 11 | in no entertainments, but voluntarily exiled from the felicity
1298 4 | us; for the principle of voluntary obedience33 consists in
1299 1 | to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course
1300 12 | battle110 -did, after so many warning plagues, perish in the parted
1301 6 | of repentance. We are not washed in order that we may cease
1302 6 | repentance? That baptismal washing is a sealing of faith, which
1303 11 | so now I am drooping, and wasting and torturing myself, that
1304 12 | fashion, and his unkempt hair wearing the shagginess of a lion.
1305 9 | on fastings, to groan, to weep and make outcries89 unto
1306 2 | reason also, they would first weigh well the importance of repentance,
1307 12(113)| formula, ever since, among Western theologians.]~
1308 3 | Nothing from whence any sin whatsoever proceeds is remote from
1309 6 | discourses, and who, as whelps in yet early infancy, and
1310 | whenever
1311 | Wherever
1312 3 | equally pertain to the Lord, whichever of them sins equally offends
1313 2 | goodness a duty proper to wickedness? Thus it comes to pass that,
1314 12 | squalor, with his nails wildly growing after the eagle'
1315 7 | you may satisfy, and Him willing. 69 ~
1316 8 | his prodigal son home, and willingly receives him repentant after
1317 8 | Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon~This if you doubt,
1318 11 | let him refine his old wine: and when any shall ask
1319 6 | fornication unless we be withdrawn by guardians of our persons,
1320 6 | unless the hardness of bars withstand us, nor refrain our eyes
1321 11 | Scripture makes mention: "Woe to them who bind their own
1322 5 | these dispositions have been wont to sprout from the seed
1323 12 | the Lord his repentance, working out his exomologesis by
1324 7 | to entangle his mind with worldly enticements, or else to
1325 1 | some previously cherished worse sentiment: that kind of
1326 6 | it. Whom would you judge worthier, except one who is more
1327 8 | I have sinned, nor am worthy any longer to be called
1328 2 | the sentence of His first wrath, engaging to grant pardon
1329 7 | earthly power, or else to wrest him from the sure way by
1330 1(1) | polemical class of our author's writings to those of a practical
1331 7(63) | When our author wrote to the Martyrs, (see cap.
1332 3 | are creatures of God; one wrought by His hand, one consummated
1333 4(25) | Isa. xl. 15.~
1334 6(55) | Jer. xxxi. (LXX. xxxviii.) 34; Heb.
1335 6(45) | Deut. xxxii. 2.~
1336 4(22) | of this is found in Ezek. xxxiii. 11.~
1337 9(89) | xxxviii. 8 (in the LXX. xxxvii. 9). Cf. Heb. v. 7.~
1338 11 | fleeting joy of a single year! Do we hesitate, when eternity
1339 12 | exomologesis by a seven years' squalor, with his nails
1340 | yes
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