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  1 Notes|    illustrate each other.~P.1. l. 9. 10~"When we became of this
  2 Notes|              in Gruter, Inscript. p. 1027. Nº. 4. the delineation
  3 Notes|          follows Salmasius, v. 1. p. 134. not. 17. "Spartianus,"
  4 Notes|              of him.  [...more, to p.139....]~
  5 Notes|             bear A.U.C. 948.  A.C.N. 195. "Tertullo et Clemente Coss." 
  6 Notes|        institutions "disciplina."~P. 2. l. 1~"We thereby bound
  7 Notes|                Hist. Aug. Script. p. 34.  It seems unnecessary to
  8 Notes|               Inscript. p. 1027. Nº. 4. the delineation of a stone
  9 Notes|      vincenda est, non suadenda," p. 488.]~This expression appears
 10 Notes|       executioner for the Church.~P. 5. l. 7.~"Albinus."  An account
 11 Notes|               Pamelius ad Tertul. p. 68 (a) says, that this stone
 12 Notes|     libertati prorsus contraria," p. 69. edit. Rigalt.]~Licentia,
 13 Notes|             for the Church.~P. 5. l. 7.~"Albinus."  An account
 14 Notes|       illustrate each other.~P.1. l. 9. 10~"When we became of this
 15 Notes|          Cardinal Noris, bear A.U.C. 948.  A.C.N. 195. "Tertullo
 16 Notes|              by Cardinal Noris, bear A.U.C. 948.  A.C.N. 195. "Tertullo
 17 Text |             for daemons, we not only abhor them, but we overcome and
 18 Notes|         capricious African, as to be able to write commentaries on
 19 Notes|         recitata]," by reason of the absence of the emperor on his military
 20 Notes|              auctorati in has pugnas accedamus].  This alludes to the practice
 21 Notes|              5. l. 7.~"Albinus."  An account of him, ascribed to Julius
 22 Notes|               or, to speak with more accuracy, Proconsul of Africa.~One
 23 Text |           him; and understanding the accusation to be spiteful and vexatious,
 24 Text |          could try no man without an accuser.~Thine advocates, SCAPULA,
 25 Text |              doom to death those who acknowledge that, by the laws, they
 26 Notes|            to any one who is so well acquainted with the works of that learned
 27 Pref |        England as a kingdom, or only acquired it as an inheritance, it
 28 Pref |          that the Norman conquest or acquisition had violent effects on the
 29 Text |           Should the Christians here act like those of Asia, what
 30 Notes|              palace at Rome; and, to add one evidence more, mention
 31 Notes|          side of this stone there is added, "Dedicata iii. Idus April.
 32 Notes|          ille diceret ter Tullus, et adhuc stupidus quaereret, respondit,
 33 Notes|           passage, as if it meant to admit license to sects, it is
 34 Text |         shield all men from evil, by admonishing them, "not to war against
 35 Notes|    detorqueat ad sectarum licentiam, adnotata venit auctoris sententia
 36 Text |       followed soon after Mavilus of Adrumentum was by thee doomed to fight
 37 Notes|           dixit, quum stupidus nomen adulteri uxories a fervo quaereret,
 38 Notes|            Crimini ei datum est quod adulteros uxoris promoverit, Tertullum,
 39 Notes|             undertook to confute its adversaries.  Full of confidence, probably
 40 Notes|             accounts given of him by Aelius Cordus, Marius Maximus,
 41 Pref |       English language, for, at that aera, French words and phrases
 42 Text |       beseech God to bless those who afflict us; and herein lies that
 43 Text |              to know, that, in their afflicting of the Christians, they
 44 Text |            come. ---- We mean not to affright thee, whom we fear not. 
 45 Text |   TERTULLIANI~AD~SCAPULAM TERTULLUM,~AFRICAE PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos
 46 Notes|          that learned and capricious African, as to be able to write
 47 Notes|             Christian church in that age is considered, it seems
 48 Text |          threatened, which, not long ago, hung over the walls of
 49 Pref |              by the grave and solemn air produced from the blending
 50 Text |            own house, and, while yet alive, swarming with worms, he
 51      | along
 52 Notes|            in two different ways, or alternately assume a doubtful or a decisive
 53      | although
 54 Text |               for he was then in his altitude and house.  Ye have astrologers,
 55      | am
 56 Text |              the Christians; for the amanuensis of one, having been thrown
 57 Notes|          life," is an aukward and an ambiguous phrase; "we hire our lives,"
 58      | amongst
 59 Notes|      addressed him, there will be no anachronism in the ranking him among
 60 Notes|              among others, which the ancients knew not: what we are unwilling
 61 Text |          Claudius Herminianus, being angry that his wife had gone over
 62 Notes|          belonging to it." [ut etiam animas nostras auctorati in has
 63 Notes|      Idatiani.  The Fasti Consulares Anonymi, published by Cardinal Noris,
 64 Notes|              may be used, subdue his antagonists, and lead them captives
 65 Notes|            officio Praesidis.  Every antiquary knows, that Tertullus and
 66 Pref |        valuable Remains of Christian Antiquity.~The traces of a wild imagination
 67 Notes|            mimus in scena, praesente Antonino, dixit, quum stupidus nomen
 68 Text |            mighty." And thus, by the appellation of Jupiter, did they bear
 69 Notes|           Capitolinus, which appears applicable to Scapula Tertullus.  The
 70 Notes|        imitation of this, Tertullian applies the phrase, "haec secta,"
 71 Notes|           added, "Dedicata iii. Idus April. Scapula Tertullo et Tineio
 72 Notes|            Marcus Antoninus.~Prosper Aquinas [Chronicon] places Tertullus
 73 Notes|           that he should, by dint of argument, if a colloquial term may
 74 Notes|              the efficacy of his own arguments. The times had not yet arrived,
 75 Text |              multitude, uproar might arise."  Thus, when a man having
 76 Text |            call for tortures.  While Arrius Antoninus was zealously
 77 Notes|     arguments. The times had not yet arrived, when the Princes of the
 78 Notes|        Albinus."  An account of him, ascribed to Julius Capitolinus, is
 79 Notes|               Salmasius peremptorily ascribes it to Spartian; and Mr Gibbon
 80 Text |            than as men who have laid aside their former sins.  But
 81 Text |             fell off from the faith, Asper did not require him to sacrifice;
 82 Notes|       different ways, or alternately assume a doubtful or a decisive
 83 Text |         altitude and house.  Ye have astrologers, ask of them!~We might also
 84 Notes|            like triumphant style, he attacked the heresies of Marcion,
 85 Notes|              ut etiam animas nostras auctorati in has pugnas accedamus]. 
 86 Notes|            licentiam, adnotata venit auctoris sententia earundem libertati
 87 Notes|              made of "Oratio  Severi Augusti, in Senatu recitata, Tertullo
 88 Notes|              To let out life," is an aukward and an ambiguous phrase; "
 89 Text |         against us.~Moreover, Marcus Aurelius, while warring with the
 90 Pref |            without the aid of French auxiliaries, and this produced the following
 91 Pref |              necessary.  After I had availed myself of the aid of former
 92 Notes|              persecution ought to be avoided; and perhaps they went too
 93 Notes|              which they used for the avoiding of it: Others again were
 94 Notes|            it is generally used in a bad sense, it would have been
 95 Notes|              brought by him from the bar into the church, he imagined
 96 Text |       greater than your gods, for he beareth sway over them.  Furthermore,
 97 Notes|         stone dug up at Ostia, which bears the following words: "P.
 98      | becomes
 99 Text |       mankind, who foresee what will befal, and see daily its tokens,
100 Text |            it was seen what ought to befall mankind, as in old times
101 Text |         plain enough to you, that we behave ourselves after the rules
102 Text |             defiled with blood.  For behaviour thus harmless, and for such
103 Text |            rail against us, are much beholden to the Christians; for the
104 Text |         overthrow it.  For every one beholding such wonderful endurance,
105 Text |     impending wrath of God, which it behoves us, in whatever way we can,
106 Text |        Others also there are whom ye believe to be gods, and whom we
107 Text |          know to be daemons.  But it belongeth of right unto mankind, that
108      | Besides
109 Text |           that we ask of Him who can bestow it; and, in truth, it may
110 Notes|           the human composition, and bestows them on the same object."~
111      | between
112 Text |              who hate them.  We, who bewail your want  to knowledge,
113 Ded  |           REVEREND~JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP of HEREFORD,~THIS TREATISE~
114 Notes|             that Marcus Antonius was blamed for having promoted the
115 Pref |         solemn air produced from the blending of old English and Latin.~
116 Text |           and that we beseech God to bless those who afflict us; and
117 Text |              our persecutors, became blind; and, in Cappadocia, Claudius
118 Text |            sent unto you this little book, not that we fear aught
119 Notes|             the history of a man who bore a high office under Marcus
120 Text |           croud, his kinsmen and his bosom-friends; when, perhaps, thou mightest
121 Text |          SCAPULA, could, as is their bounden duty, suggest all this unto
122 Text |            themselves.~Again, we are branded with the name of men untrue
123 Text |            more stately and stronger building by what you think will overthrow
124 Text |           for the living God, are we burnt.  The sacrilegious are not
125 Text |            threshing-floors where we bury our dead, "No threshing-floors;"
126 Ded  |              The RIGHT REVEREND~JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP of HEREFORD,~
127 Text |         Capella, at the overthrow of Byzantium, called out, "Now, Christians,
128 Notes|         Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c.  The discourse was read
129 Notes|           Noris, bear A.U.C. 948.  A.C.N. 195. "Tertullo et Clemente
130 Text |              almost a Christian; and Caecilius Capella, at the overthrow
131 Notes|            and,  presently after, he calls their institutions "disciplina."~
132 Text |             such also was Vespronius Candidus, who dismissed a Christian,
133 Pref |      deficiency, is submitted to the candour of the reader.~While engaged
134 Text |            hid; but against him thou canst not do aught.  Moreover,
135 Notes|             or to employ expressions capable of being so interpreted. 
136 Text |             Christian; and Caecilius Capella, at the overthrow of Byzantium,
137 Text |   persecutors, became blind; and, in Cappadocia, Claudius Herminianus, being
138 Notes|            works of that learned and capricious African, as to be able to
139 Notes|           antagonists, and lead them captives to  his system.~Indeed when
140 Notes|     Consulares Anonymi, published by Cardinal Noris, bear A.U.C. 948. 
141 Text |           with Albinus, or Niger, or Cassius; while the man who but yesterday,
142 Notes|            he imagined that in every cause which he patronized, would
143 Pref |        inaccuracies in the work of a celebrated Historian; and I have used
144 Pref |            commencement of the third century, and therefore may be reckoned
145 Pref |               This much, however, is certain, that the Norman conquest
146 Notes|             unintentionally puts the change on himself, or intentionally
147 Pref |      independently of the two famous chapters, there is a wide field for
148 Pref |               seem, in general, well chosen, and judiciously enforced.
149 Notes|          secta," to the disciples of Christ; and,  presently after,
150 Text |              eagerly to inquire what Christianity is; and on his finding out,
151 Notes|          Antoninus.~Prosper Aquinas [Chronicon] places Tertullus and Clemens
152 Notes|           give a translation of this chronique scandaleuse.~If we suppose
153 Text |            connived at us?  Such was Cincius Severus, who at Tisdra did
154 Text |            not blood have put in its claim?  Think, however, of what
155 Text |           blind; and, in Cappadocia, Claudius Herminianus, being angry
156 Notes|      Chronicon] places Tertullus and Clemens as Consuls in the third
157 Notes|               sed nec religionis est cogere religionem]. "Lest," Pamelius
158 Notes|              Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono optimo, P.P." 
159 Notes|          says he, "in his indigested collections, mixes up all the virtues
160 Notes|            by dint of argument, if a colloquial term may be used, subdue
161 Pref |            the Church soon after the commencement of the third century, and
162 Notes|         martydom, grew lavish in the commendations of every martyr.~Tertullian
163 Notes|               as to be able to write commentaries on them.~The words, taken
164 Pref |          myself of the aid of former commentators, I found that much, especially
165 Pref |           errors which may have been committed in the attempt to render
166 Notes|            it.  The varying of terms commonly happens, when an author
167 Pref |     pretending to justify it, I must communicate to my readers.~Whether William
168 Pref |          will have an opportunity of comparing them, and of detecting the
169 Notes|               ad officium haereticos compelli, non inlici dignum est;
170 Pref |          Latin, a few pages might be composed without the aid of French
171 Notes|            that enter into the human composition, and bestows them on the
172 Notes|          reign; and who, even at its conclusion, held the government of
173 Notes|             at least, "to hire," is "conducere," and not "locare."~P. 3.
174 Notes|            its adversaries.  Full of confidence, probably brought by him
175 Notes|              party, and undertook to confute its adversaries.  Full of
176 Text |   heard-hearted and bloody than you, connived at us?  Such was Cincius
177 Pref |             William Duke of Normandy conquered England as a kingdom, or
178 Pref |             certain, that the Norman conquest or acquisition had violent
179 Text |              s marriage-bed, we deal conscientiously with our wards, we help
180 Notes|             of Tertullian, now under consideration, we find Scapula Tertullus
181 Notes|      Christian church in that age is considered, it seems unreasonable to
182 Notes|          Tertullo et Tineio Clemente conss."  Pamelius ad Tertul. p.
183 Notes|              obtained the dignity of Consul from Severus in the early
184 Notes|           Fasti Idatiani.  The Fasti Consulares Anonymi, published by Cardinal
185 Notes|       recitata, Tertullo et Clemente Consulibus," l. 1. § 1. Dig. de Rebus
186 Notes|             Tertullus and Clemens as Consuls in the third or fourth year
187 Notes|          practice of gladiators, who contracted to fight.  The version does
188 Notes|            at most, that "Tertullian contradicted himself."  Such a proposition
189 Notes|           earundem libertati prorsus contraria," p. 69. edit. Rigalt.]~
190 Notes|           Tertullian, when heated in controversy, spake a language different
191 Notes|      accounts given of him by Aelius Cordus, Marius Maximus, and by
192 Notes|            fabrum navalium Portens.  Corpus fabrum navalium Ostiens.
193 Notes|           195. "Tertullo et Clemente Coss."  There is extant in Gruter,
194 Text |         PRESIDENT OF AFRICA,~And His COUNCIL.~OF a truth, we Christians
195 Notes|           that it ought rather to be courted; and perhaps they too, in
196 Text |              needs die, have you not crags and halters!"  Should the
197 Notes|           remarkable circumstances: "Crimini ei datum est quod adulteros
198 Text |              might recognise, in the croud, his kinsmen and his bosom-friends;
199 Text |         against your utmost cruelty, crowding uncalled before you, and
200 Text |           strive against your utmost cruelty, crowding uncalled before
201 Notes|           Tertullum etiam prandentem cum uxore deprehenderit.  De
202 Notes|            we became of this sect," [cùm ad hanc sectam venerimus]. 
203 Notes|              Capitolinus, and l. 14. D. de Officio Praesidis, already
204 Ded  |          RIGHT REVEREND~JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP of HEREFORD,~THIS
205 Text |            been thrown headlong by a daemon, was freed, and, in like
206 Ded  |      RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED~BY ~DAV. DALRYMPLE.~
207 Notes|           circumstances: "Crimini ei datum est quod adulteros uxoris
208 Ded  |           RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED~BY ~DAV. DALRYMPLE.~
209 Text |             therefore, hath he set a day of doom everlasting for
210 Text |   threshing-floors where we bury our dead, "No threshing-floors;"
211 Text |            no one's marriage-bed, we deal conscientiously with our
212 Text |             so; and He, who is true, dealeth all things rightly unto
213 Text |              sacrilegious are not so dealt with, neither are outlaws,
214 Text |              Carthage herself, to be decimated by thee, then  undergo,
215 Notes|   alternately assume a doubtful or a decisive tone.~Not meaning to be
216 Pref |              the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
217 Notes|          this stone there is added, "Dedicata iii. Idus April. Scapula
218 Pref |          attempt made to supply this deficiency, is submitted to the candour
219 Text |         evinced to be incestuous, or defiled with blood.  For behaviour
220 Notes|             much too severe.  In the delineating of the manners of Albinus,
221 Notes|        Inscript. p. 1027. Nº. 4. the delineation of a stone dug up at Ostia,
222 Text |             Caesar, was the doom for delinquents of this kind.  But the more
223 Text |             back that which has been deposited in our hands, we violate
224 Notes|         former were naturally led to depreciate martyrdom, or to employ
225 Notes|           etiam prandentem cum uxore deprehenderit.  De quo mimus in scena,
226 Text |             this kind.  But the more desperate the fight, the greater are
227 Pref |            of comparing them, and of detecting the errors which may have
228 Notes|             Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat ad sectarum licentiam, adnotata
229 Pref |          overwhelmed the Anglo-Saxon dialect.~It occurred to me that,
230 Notes|             fervo quaereret, et ille diceret ter Tullus, et adhuc stupidus
231 Notes|      respondit, jam dixi ter Tullus  dicitur." Hist. Aug. Script. p.
232 Text |          fall off from the faith, he died almost a Christian; and
233 Pref |              attempt, in itself, was difficult, and became more so by a
234 Notes|           Commodus; who obtained the dignity of Consul from Severus in
235 Notes|      haereticos compelli, non inlici dignum est; duritia vincenda est,
236 Notes|            doubt, that he should, by dint of argument, if a colloquial
237 Pref |          wild imagination are not so discernable in the Address to SCAPULA,
238 Notes|         phrase, "haec secta," to the disciples of Christ; and,  presently
239 Notes|            calls their institutions "disciplina."~P. 2. l. 1~"We thereby
240 Notes|      philosophorum sectae, familiae, disciplinae." In imitation of this,
241 Notes|             qui sub tutela, &c.  The discourse was read in the Senate [
242 Notes|         notes; and thus, without any disparagement to ourselves, we may either
243 Notes|         related, either in praise or dispraise, of the unsuccessful usurper.~
244 Text |           from daemons, or healed of distempers?~Severus himself, the father
245 Notes|              remained secure, if not distinguished, throughout the times of
246 Text |         light almost put out, in the district of Utica, was indeed portentous. 
247 Notes|             of Africa were miserably divided on an important point, not
248 Notes|            quaereret, respondit, jam dixi ter Tullus  dicitur." Hist.
249 Notes|           scena, praesente Antonino, dixit, quum stupidus nomen adulteri
250      | does
251 Text |             as he thinketh best; nor doth the religion of any man
252 Notes|              or alternately assume a doubtful or a decisive tone.~Not
253      | down
254 Text |            them, but we overcome and draw them forth daily, and we
255 Pref |         reader.~While engaged in the drawing up of those Notes, I had
256 Notes|            portraits which have been drawn of him.  [...more, to p.
257 Text |              do not mightily fear or dread aught which we undergo from
258 Text |           and shew, that so far from dreading, we spontaneously call for
259 Text |             them forth daily, and we drive them out of men, as is known
260 Text |         plentiful rain, in the great drought, through the supplications
261 Text |             what time have not great droughts given way to our fastings
262 Notes|           the delineation of a stone dug up at Ostia, which bears
263 Pref |             readers.~Whether William Duke of Normandy conquered England
264 Notes|               non inlici dignum est; duritia vincenda est, non suadenda,"
265 Text |            God."  Thou mayest do the duties of thy station, and yet
266 Text |            his mind, and then is led eagerly to inquire what Christianity
267 Notes|              when the Princes of the earth, by wholesome severites, "
268 Notes|             venit auctoris sententia earundem libertati prorsus contraria,"
269 Text |           not have been owing to any eclipse, for he was then in his
270 Notes|           prorsus contraria," p. 69. edit. Rigalt.]~Licentia, in Latin,
271 Pref |              acquisition had violent effects on the English language,
272 Notes|              any thing else than the efficacy of his own arguments. The
273 Notes|              circumstances: "Crimini ei datum est quod adulteros
274 Text |         should'st, through tortures, elicite a like acknowledgement from
275 Notes|             wife Faustina to various eminent offices.  Tertullus stands
276 Pref |        Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and independently of the
277 Notes|          depreciate martyrdom, or to employ expressions capable of being
278 Text |             beholding such wonderful endurance, becomes perplext in his
279 Notes|         version does not express the energy of the original: "To let
280 Pref |              chosen, and judiciously enforced.As the original is printed
281 Pref |         candour of the reader.~While engaged in the drawing up of those
282 Pref |           Duke of Normandy conquered England as a kingdom, or only acquired
283      | enough
284 Notes|       virtues and all the vices that enter into the human composition,
285 Notes|     compelled to their duty, and not enticed; their obstinacy ought to
286 Notes|             l. 1. § 1. Dig. de Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c.  The
287 Pref |           them, and of detecting the errors which may have been committed
288 Pref |     commentators, I found that much, especially as to the historical part,
289 Notes|             every martyr.~Tertullian espoused the opinions of the severer
290 Text |            Proculus, (the steward of Euhodus, and who by oil had formerly
291 Text |            hath he set a day of doom everlasting for those whom he loveth,
292 Notes|             at Rome; and, to add one evidence more, mention is made of "
293 Text |             and inquiry, no man hath evinced to be incestuous, or defiled
294 Notes|             navalium Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono
295 Notes|            Albinus, I cannot stay to examine all the portraits which
296 Notes|              and the State became an executioner for the Church.~P. 5. l.
297 Text |           LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque expavescimus ... [Latin omitted]~ ~
298 Notes|            sense, it would have been expedient to repeat the word instead
299 Notes|              emperor on his military expeditions.  And this, by the way,
300 Pref |    historical part, remained without explanation.  The attempt made to supply
301 Notes|         fight.  The version does not express the energy of the original: "
302 Notes|             suadenda," p. 488.]~This expression appears harsh in language
303 Notes|      interpreted.  The latter, while extolling martydom, grew lavish in
304 Notes|          Marcion, and vindicated the extravagancies of Montanus and his followers.~
305 Notes|              zeal, went to the other extreme. The former were naturally
306 Text |            alone; he is before thine eyes, neither can he be hid;
307 Text |      righteousness, for modesty, for faithfulness, for truth, for the living
308 Text |            such business should have fallen to my share."  Pudens too
309 Text |          soever, who have been found false to the state.  Nay, at this
310 Notes|        called "philosophorum sectae, familiae, disciplinae." In imitation
311 Pref |             independently of the two famous chapters, there is a wide
312 Pref |              and became more so by a fancy of mine, which, without
313 Notes|            stone is preserved in the Farnese palace at Rome; and, to
314 Text |           that the evil may reach no farther; but they who misunderstand
315 Text |            droughts given way to our fastings and supplications?  Then
316 Text |     distempers?~Severus himself, the father of Antoninus, was mindful
317 Notes|           have selected whatever was favourable to the reputation of Albinus,
318 Notes|            the ranking him among the favourites of Faustina; and thus the
319 Text |      misunderstand such tokens shall feel, in fit time, that it will
320 Text |              been slightly tortured, fell off from the faith, Asper
321 Text |             was at any time found in fellowship with Albinus, or Niger,
322 Notes|             nomen adulteri uxories a fervo quaereret, et ille diceret
323 Pref |            chapters, there is a wide field for literary and historical
324 Text |          Christianity is; and on his finding out, he follows THE TRUTH.~
325 Text |              We, of all others, most fitly beseech God for the health
326 Text |           mankind, as in old times a flood came for the unbelief and
327 Text |          follows THE TRUTH.~Q. SEPT. FLOR. TERTULLIANI~AD~SCAPULAM
328 Text |             that thy sickness, which followed soon after Mavilus of Adrumentum
329 Text |              of aught; these are the food of daemons.  As for daemons,
330 Text |          from those who know us not; forasmuch as when we became of this
331 Text |           the rules of heaven-taught forbearance, since being so many, and
332 Text |        sinned.  Vigilius Saturninus, foremost in this city amongst our
333 Text |           wanderings of mankind, who foresee what will befal, and see
334 Text |             we can, to set forth and foretel, and meanwhile to beseech
335 Notes|             that he might have first formed an hypothesis, and then
336      | formerly
337 Text |           But, wasted by the plague, forsaken of his friends in his own
338 Notes|            such liberty."  ["Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat ad
339 Text |          Palace.  Antoninus, himself fostered by a Christian, knew Proculus
340 Notes|              Consuls in the third or fourth year of the Emperor Severus,
341 Text |              make answer, and yet go free: such also was Vespronius
342 Text |            headlong by a daemon, was freed, and, in like wise, others
343 Notes|            confute its adversaries.  Full of confidence, probably
344      | further
345 Pref |    singularity of its style, than it gains by the grave and solemn
346 Notes|              libertas; but, as it is generally used in a bad sense, it
347 Text |              yesterday, swore by the genius of the Caesars, who, for
348 Text |               while warring with the Germans, impetrated plentiful rain,
349 Notes|      ascribes it to Spartian; and Mr Gibbon implicitly follows Salmasius,
350 Text |          multitude shouted together, giving thanks unto "the God of
351 Text |              whose loving-kindnesses gladden you all.  Others also there
352 Notes|           alludes to the practice of gladiators, who contracted to fight. 
353 Text |           your bloody deeds work our glory.~Take heed, SCAPULA, lest
354 Text |           might make answer, and yet go free: such also was Vespronius
355 Text |              angry that his wife had gone over to our sect, wrought
356 Text |            and how many are there of good station, for I speak not
357 Text |             us; and herein lies that goodness which is peculiar to us. 
358 Notes|             its conclusion, held the government of Africa.  ~There is a
359 Notes|       Christians at large to a Roman governor.~One might easily retort
360 Notes|         language and sentiment.  But granting it to imply all that Pamelius
361 Pref |          style, than it gains by the grave and solemn air produced
362 Notes|            while extolling martydom, grew lavish in the commendations
363 Notes|           Coss."  There is extant in Gruter, Inscript. p. 1027. Nº.
364 Notes|      Tertullian applies the phrase, "haec secta," to the disciples
365 Notes|              soothed;" ["ad officium haereticos compelli, non inlici dignum
366 Text |               have you not crags and halters!"  Should the Christians
367 Notes|        became of this sect," [cùm ad hanc sectam venerimus].  The
368 Text |            has been deposited in our hands, we violate no one's marriage-bed,
369 Notes|            varying of terms commonly happens, when an author unintentionally
370 Text |             uncalled before you, and happier on being found guilty than
371 Text |            whose hearts were thereby hardened.  All these are the tokens
372 Text |             undergo such unutterable hardships, should all of us at once
373 Text |              the religion of any man harm or help another.  Neither
374 Text |              Severus was so far from harming the women and the men of
375 Text |           blood.  For behaviour thus harmless, and for such integrity,
376 Notes|              This expression appears harsh in language and sentiment. 
377 Text |             there were none, for the harvest was never brought in!  Moreover,
378 Text |         Caesars.  Christians have no hatred or ill-will at any man,
379 Text |              one, having been thrown headlong by a daemon, was freed,
380 Text |            Presidents, although more heard-hearted and bloody than you, connived
381 Text |             brought, they know whose hearts were thereby hardened. 
382 Notes|         prove, that Tertullian, when heated in controversy, spake a
383 Text |             and meanwhile to beseech Heaven that the evil may reach
384 Text |         ourselves after the rules of heaven-taught forbearance, since being
385 Text |           deeds work our glory.~Take heed, SCAPULA, lest we, who undergo
386      | here
387 Ded  |          JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP of HEREFORD,~THIS TREATISE~IS RESPECTFULLY
388      | herein
389 Notes|    triumphant style, he attacked the heresies of Marcion, and vindicated
390 Text |              in Cappadocia, Claudius Herminianus, being angry that his wife
391      | herself
392 Text |              eyes, neither can he be hid; but against him thou canst
393 Text |              guiltless.  Thus, while Hilarion was President, the multitude
394 Notes|              learned from more early historians?  It is true, that he might
395 Text |              kind, whom no evil hath hitherto overtaken.  Nevertheless
396 Notes|           perhaps they too, in their honest zeal, went to the other
397 Notes|              et Moderatum, ad varios honores: quum Tertullum etiam prandentem
398 Text |          which the Christians of his host made unto God; and indeed
399 Notes|             to place in the text, we huddle into notes; and thus, without
400 Notes|            vices that enter into the human composition, and bestows
401 Text |            station, and yet remember humanity, were it but for this, that
402 Notes|                  Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat ad sectarum licentiam,
403 Text |     threatened, which, not long ago, hung over the walls of Carthage
404 Notes|           might have first formed an hypothesis, and then have selected
405 Notes|       Severus, and so also the Fasti Idatiani.  The Fasti Consulares Anonymi,
406 Notes|             is added, "Dedicata iii. Idus April. Scapula Tertullo
407 Notes|            there is added, "Dedicata iii. Idus April. Scapula Tertullo
408 Text |            to our sect, wrought much ill to the Christians.  But,
409 Text |         Christians have no hatred or ill-will at any man, and least of
410 Notes|        uxories a fervo quaereret, et ille diceret ter Tullus, et adhuc
411 Notes|        already quoted, will serve to illustrate each other.~P.1. l. 9. 10~"
412 Pref |      Antiquity.~The traces of a wild imagination are not so discernable in
413 Notes|              bar into the church, he imagined that in every cause which
414 Notes|              imply all that Pamelius imagines, it proves, at most, that "
415 Notes|           familiae, disciplinae." In imitation of this, Tertullian applies
416 Text |          these are the tokens of the impending wrath of God, which it behoves
417 Text |            warring with the Germans, impetrated plentiful rain, in the great
418 Notes|              Spartian; and Mr Gibbon implicitly follows Salmasius, v. 1.
419 Notes|       sentiment.  But granting it to imply all that Pamelius imagines,
420 Notes|              miserably divided on an important point, not of metaphysics,
421 Pref |      occasion to remark some strange inaccuracies in the work of a celebrated
422 Text |            no man hath evinced to be incestuous, or defiled with blood. 
423 Notes|              accounts are, no doubt, inconsistent; but what could an author
424 Pref |             of the Roman Empire, and independently of the two famous chapters,
425 Notes|        Spartianus," says he, "in his indigested collections, mixes up all
426 Pref |            or only acquired it as an inheritance, it is no part of my present
427 Notes|             haereticos compelli, non inlici dignum est; duritia vincenda
428 Text |              overwhelm us, ye invade innocency itself.  But have not many
429 Text |               after so long time and inquiry, no man hath evinced to
430 Ded  |             TREATISE~IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED~BY ~DAV. DALRYMPLE.~
431 Notes|           There is extant in Gruter, Inscript. p. 1027. Nº. 4. the delineation
432      | instead
433 Notes|      presently after, he calls their institutions "disciplina."~P. 2. l. 1~"
434 Text |              became obnoxious to the insults of the soldiery, and each
435 Text |          thus harmless, and for such integrity, for righteousness, for
436 Notes|            the change on himself, or intentionally on his readers.~The Antidote
437 Notes|      expressions capable of being so interpreted.  The latter, while extolling
438 Text |         striving to overwhelm us, ye invade innocency itself.  But have
439 Text |         which He hath willed, by the invocating of him in the way of supplication
440 Notes|       stupidus quaereret, respondit, jam dixi ter Tullus  dicitur."
441 Ded  |                TO~The RIGHT REVEREND~JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP of HEREFORD,~
442 Pref |            general, well chosen, and judiciously enforced.As the original
443 Text |          thus, by the appellation of Jupiter, did they bear witness unto
444 Notes|            Albinus, or unfavourable, just as best suited his purpose. 
445 Pref |         which, without pretending to justify it, I must communicate to
446 Text |             our God.~Furthermore, we keep not back that which has
447 Notes|          Montanus and his followers.~Keeping this in view, we shall easily
448 Text |              healed his master), and kept him while he lived in the
449 Pref |      Normandy conquered England as a kingdom, or only acquired it as
450 Text |              like wise, others had a kinsman and a young lad healed;
451 Text |          least of all at Caesar; for knowing him to be set up by their
452 Notes|          Praesidis.  Every antiquary knows, that Tertullus and Tertyllus
453 Text |            had a kinsman and a young lad healed; and how many are
454 Text |            all, than as men who have laid aside their former sins. 
455 Notes|        address for the Christians at large to a Roman governor.~One
456      | later
457 Notes|             extolling martydom, grew lavish in the commendations of
458 Text |        Christian called to answer at law, unless for his religion? 
459 Text |              and in such a way as is lawful for us and is fit for him,
460 Text |             acknowledge that, by the laws, they are worthy of death,
461 Text |           ask of them!~We might also lay before you the end of some
462 Notes|          subdue his antagonists, and lead them captives to  his system.~
463 Text |            which ye will not give us leave to speak before you.~We
464 Text |         alone that the Presidents of Leon and of Mauritania persecute
465 Text |        TERTULLUM,~AFRICAE PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque expavescimus ... [
466 Notes|            signify the same thing as libertas; but, as it is generally
467 Notes|          auctoris sententia earundem libertati prorsus contraria," p. 69.
468 Notes|              as if it meant to admit license to sects, it is proper to
469 Notes|                p. 69. edit. Rigalt.]~Licentia, in Latin, may signify the
470 Notes|          hunc detorqueat ad sectarum licentiam, adnotata venit auctoris
471 Notes|        Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono optimo, P.P." 
472 Text |           who afflict us; and herein lies that goodness which is peculiar
473 Notes|            the original: "To let out life," is an aukward and an ambiguous
474 Text |        nature, ye all know, at whose lightnings and thunders ye all quake,
475 Text |            thee doomed to fight with lions, may have been only a warning;
476 Notes|        Tertullus stands first in the list of the persons of promoted. 
477 Pref |            there is a wide field for literary and historical criticism.~
478 Text |           have we sent unto you this little book, not that we fear aught
479 Text |                and kept him while he lived in the Palace.  Antoninus,
480 Notes|             is "conducere," and not "locare."~P. 3. l. 17~"Neither indeed
481 Notes|           liberty."  ["Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat ad sectarum
482 Notes|              duty," and of the other lofty expressions to which Pamelius
483 Text |              will: a willing mind is looked for even from him who sacrificeth;
484 Text |             of his foes.  We have no Lord but God alone; he is before
485 Text |              thou thinkest to be thy lords are men, and, at some time,
486 Pref |              version which, perhaps, loses more by the singularity
487 Text |         thunders ye all quake, whose loving-kindnesses gladden you all.  Others
488 Text |             staid the multitude when maddemed against us.~Moreover, Marcus
489 Text |      supplication only.  For He, the maker of the world, standeth in
490 Text |            and each man in it to the malevolence of his foes.  We have no
491 Notes|            In the delineating of the manners of Albinus, the author,
492 Notes|             attacked the heresies of Marcion, and vindicated the extravagancies
493 Notes|             of him by Aelius Cordus, Marius Maximus, and by the Emperor
494 Text |           hands, we violate no one's marriage-bed, we deal conscientiously
495 Notes|             the following words: "P. Martio. Quir. Philippo, ---- tribuno
496 Notes|              latter, while extolling martydom, grew lavish in the commendations
497 Notes|           the commendations of every martyr.~Tertullian espoused the
498 Notes|          naturally led to depreciate martyrdom, or to employ expressions
499 Text |              had formerly healed his master), and kept him while he
500 Text |           senators like thyself, and matrons, and men of the first repute,