Letter, Par.

 1  I, 1    |          man who does the will of God is better than ten thousand
 2  I, 1    |         impossible to men, yet to God all things are possible.
 3  I, 1    |        evil doing, much more will God be able to draw thee up
 4  I, 1    |       eyes look unto the Lord our God until He have mercy upon
 5  I, 1    |         desist from looking up to God, neither shall we cease
 6  I, 2    |         the hope which is towards God, the safe anchor, the foundation
 7  I, 4    |          as were well pleasing to God, but afterwards has become
 8  I, 4    |   wickedness. For if the wrath of God were a passion, one might
 9  I, 4    |      himself. And for this reason God threatens us with punishments,
10  I, 4    |          state of health. Even so God when we fall into the very
11  I, 5    |          such great experience of God's power as to make obeisance
12  I, 5    |         not honour himself before God. Nevertheless this man who
13  I, 5    |         beast than a human being, God invited to repentance, and
14  I, 5    |       received distinct tokens of God's wisdom and foreknowledge,
15  I, 5    |     unpardonable in him to ignore God, much more so was it after
16  I, 5    |         that He was the only true God he would not have shown
17  I, 5    |       obeisance to the servant of God, broke out into such a pitch
18  I, 5    |           furnace the servants of God who did not make obeisance
19  I, 5    |           himself. What then? did God visit the apostate, as he
20  I, 5    |     wickedness. And yet even then God did not punish him, but
21  I, 5    |        these things, then at last God inflicted punishment upon
22  I, 5    |           firm hold upon faith in God, and repentance on account
23  I, 6    |         is the loving-kindness of God; He never turns his face
24  I, 6    |       towards the path of virtue, God accepts and welcomes, and
25  I, 6    |          for himself the mercy of God, as to be released from
26  I, 6    |           impending over him. For God said to Elias "Seest thou
27  I, 6    |     ranked amongst the friends of God. Now if, looking to the
28  I, 6    |           to the boundlessness of God's tender mercy instead of
29  I, 6    |         words of the prophet does God destroy the counsels of
30  I, 7    |       path with as much energy as God desires and commands, we
31  I, 7    |       them gratification: even so God conducts to virtue those
32  I, 8    |           and let us draw nigh to God. For He Himself never turns
33  I, 8    |    ourselves far off: for "I am a God" we read "at hand and not
34  I, 8    |           read "at hand and not a God afar off."20 And again,
35  I, 8(20)|         is interrogatory, "Am I a God at hand and not?" etc.,
36  I, 8(20)|         to elude the vigilance of God, so that it is not quite
37  I, 8    |      cause which puts us far from God, let us remove this obnoxious
38  I, 9    |           and execute the will of God. For He created us and brought
39  I, 10   |          but when by the grace of God you have been released from
40  I, 10   |         of the loving-kindness of God, that our struggles are
41  I, 12   |       tell to men: for one saith "God shall come openly, even
42  I, 12   |       shall come openly, even our God and shall not keep silence:
43  I, 12   |         waxed mighty therein. And God shall set His hand upon
44  I, 12   |        might not see the glory of God, ("For let the ungodly"
45  I, 13   |        archangels minister to the God of all. I pray thee then,
46  I, 13   |           corporeal beauty indeed God has confined within the
47  I, 13   |        ourselves and the grace of God. For our Master, being merciful
48  I, 13   |          neglect. For this reason God, having delivered us from
49  I, 13   |          who is the sovereign and God of all, even as the Psalmist
50  I, 13   |        more is this the case with God, and those souls which,
51  I, 13   |       fornication in this fashion God calls back again. For the
52  I, 13   | conversion and amendment since if God had wished to punish them
53  I, 13   |      exceed the former."53 Now if God did not exclude from repentance
54  I, 13   |           love of his mistress as God longs after the salvation
55  I, 13   |        the Corinthians said "that God was in Christ reconciling
56  I, 13   |       behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us; we
57  I, 13   |        Christ be ye reconciled to God."55 Consider that this has
58  I, 13   |           read "is enmity against God."56 Let us then break down
59  I, 13   |       again the fondly beloved of God.~
60  I, 14   |        deserved countless deaths, God said that He would leave
61  I, 14   |           he was a righteous man, God said that He would succour
62  I, 14   |          impossible to propitiate God, and if he had said within
63  I, 14   |         had said within himself: "God has honoured me with great
64  I, 15   |      saying: "Who knoweth whether God will repent and be entreated,
65  I, 15   |           that we perish not? And God say their works that they
66  I, 15   |         from their evil ways, and God repented of the evil which
67  I, 15   |       than before; much more does God act thus. For if God had
68  I, 15   |         does God act thus. For if God had made us in order to
69  I, 15   |         devilish. For observe how God by the mouth of His prophet
70  I, 15   |            what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to
71  I, 15   |          but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all His
72  I, 17   |        who are armed with hope in God ought not to despair at
73  I, 17   |         And then, by the grace of God having gradually rescued
74  I, 19   |       shouldst continue provoking God by thy deeds, thou wilt
75  I, 19   |          and that by the grace of God thou art again become more
76 II, 1    |         or rather by the grace of God thou wilt crush the head
77 II, 2    |        these means he propitiated God, insomuch that he was restored
78 II, 2    |          women fell away from the God of his fathers. Thou seest
79 II, 2    |    kingdom on account of his sin, God permitted to keep the sixth
80 II, 3    |        fornicators and adulterers God will judge;" but it is no
81 II, 3    |         adultery in proportion as God is greater than man. Let
82 II, 3    |         one deceive thee saying: "God hath not forbidden to marry;"
83 II, 3    |         if it were adultery, when God is disregarded? Slaughter
84 II, 3    |          according to the mind of God but the former has been
85 II, 3    |         but Samuel, that saint of God although he wept and mourned
86 II, 3    |       from the condemnation which God issued against him, because
87 II, 3    |         contrary to the design of God the king of the allen tribes
88 II, 3    |       more than slaughter because God was disobeyed, what wonder
89 II, 4    |         Thou hast by the grace of God many and great men who sympathize
90 II, 4    |          Valerius the holy man of God, Florentius who is in every
91 II, 5    |         which is, disobedience to God; but all the other things,
92 II, 5    |            How he ought to please God?" Hast thou seen the shipwrecks,
93 II, 5    |          to break by the grace of God. I know that I have exceeded
94 II, 5    |       hope I said to myself that, God willing, my letter will
95 II, 5    |        trust that by the grace of God you also will do your part,