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501 Text |            Presidents of Leon and of Mauritania persecute the Christians;
502 Text |            which followed soon after Mavilus of Adrumentum was by thee
503 Notes|             by Aelius Cordus, Marius Maximus, and by the Emperor Severus
504 Text |             what is to come. ---- We mean not to affright thee, whom
505 Notes|             they went too far in the means which they used for the
506      | meanwhile
507 Notes|       Emperor Severus himself in his memoirs.  Those accounts are, no
508 Notes|            to add one evidence more, mention is made of "Oratio  Severi
509 Pref |          TERTULLIAN to SCAPULA.  The merit of the original is well
510 Notes|              important point, not of metaphysics, but of practice.  Some
511 Text |   bosom-friends; when, perhaps, thou mightest see senators like thyself,
512 Text |          truth, we Christians do not mightily fear or dread aught which
513 Text |            God of gods, who alone is mighty." And thus, by the appellation
514 Notes|        absence of the emperor on his military expeditions.  And this,
515 Notes|         uxore deprehenderit.  De quo mimus in scena, praesente Antonino,
516 Text |             father of Antoninus, was mindful of us, for he sought out
517 Pref |         became more so by a fancy of mine, which, without pretending
518 Notes|            Christians of Africa were miserably divided on an important
519 Text |             no farther; but they who misunderstand such tokens shall feel,
520 Notes|              indigested collections, mixes up all the virtues and all
521 Text |  nevertheless, live in stillness and moderation, better known, perhaps,
522 Notes|             Utilium, et Orphitum, et Moderatum, ad varios honores: quum
523 Notes|          might sound better; but, in modern English at least, "to hire,"
524 Notes|             unsuccessful usurper.~We moderns have one art, among others,
525 Text |               for righteousness, for modesty, for faithfulness, for truth,
526 Notes|     vindicated the extravagancies of Montanus and his followers.~Keeping
527      | Mr
528      | myself
529 Text |        worship the One God, whom, by nature, ye all know, at whose lightnings
530 Text |           found false to the state.  Nay, at this very time, it is
531 Notes|        contrary to such liberty."  ["Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat
532 Text |          being so many, and reckoned nearly the most in every city,
533 Notes|            to compel religion," [sed nec religionis est cogere religionem]. "
534 Pref |             and Illustrations became necessary.  After I had availed myself
535 Text |            the world, standeth in no need of any sweet smells, or
536 Text |            many swords would then be needed, and what would Carthage
537 Text |          with our wards, we help the needy, and we never retort evil
538 Text |      PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque expavescimus ... [Latin
539 Text |             is fit for him, as a man nex to God, and having from
540 Text |          fellowship with Albinus, or Niger, or Cassius; while the man
541 Pref |         phrases rushed in, and well  nigh overwhelmed the Anglo-Saxon
542 Text |              Carthage throughout the night, they know who saw them;
543 Notes|           Gruter, Inscript. p. 1027. Nº. 4. the delineation of a
544 Notes|       Antonino, dixit, quum stupidus nomen adulteri uxories a fervo
545      | none
546 Notes|       Anonymi, published by Cardinal Noris, bear A.U.C. 948.  A.C.N.
547 Pref |        however, is certain, that the Norman conquest or acquisition
548 Pref |              Whether William Duke of Normandy conquered England as a kingdom,
549 Text |         AFRICAE PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque expavescimus ... [
550 Notes|             to it." [ut etiam animas nostras auctorati in has pugnas
551 Notes|             bestows them on the same object."~This criticism seems much
552 Text |            us was understood, became obnoxious to the insults of the soldiery,
553 Notes|              might easily retort the observation of Pamelius thus: "Lest
554 Notes|               and not enticed; their obstinacy ought to be vanquished,
555 Notes|           the times of Commodus; who obtained the dignity of Consul from
556 Pref |             up of those Notes, I had occasion to remark some strange inaccuracies
557 Pref |              Anglo-Saxon dialect.~It occurred to me that, between Anglo-Saxon
558 Pref |                            PREFACE~I Offer to the Public a Version
559 Notes|          Faustina to various eminent offices.  Tertullus stands first
560 Notes|       vanquished, not soothed;" ["ad officium haereticos compelli, non
561      | often
562 Text |       steward of Euhodus, and who by oil had formerly healed his
563 Text |              expavescimus ... [Latin omitted]~ ~
564      | once
565 Notes|              Tertullian espoused the opinions of the severer party, and
566 Pref |          learned reader will have an opportunity of comparing them, and of
567 Notes|            S.C. coire licet, Patrono optimo, P.P."  On the right side
568 Notes|            more, mention is made of "Oratio  Severi Augusti, in Senatu
569 Notes|            Tertullum, et Utilium, et Orphitum, et Moderatum, ad varios
570 Notes|     delineation of a stone dug up at Ostia, which bears the following
571 Notes|               Corpus fabrum navalium Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet,
572      | otherwise
573 Text |              dealt with, neither are outlaws, nor those, how many soever,
574 Text |              only abhor them, but we overcome and draw them forth daily,
575 Text |            the rewards "to him which overcometh;" and your bloody deeds
576 Text |           whom no evil hath hitherto overtaken.  Nevertheless we wish that
577 Text | acknowledgement. ---- In striving to overwhelm us, ye invade innocency
578 Pref |            rushed in, and well  nigh overwhelmed the Anglo-Saxon dialect.~
579 Text |             That could not have been owing to any eclipse, for he was
580 Notes|         coire licet, Patrono optimo, P.P."  On the right side of this
581 Pref |         Anglo-Saxon and Latin, a few pages might be composed without
582 Notes|              for having promoted the paramours of his wife Faustina to
583 Notes|             inquire for some further particulars of the history of a man
584 Notes|              opinions of the severer party, and undertook to confute
585 Notes|              in every cause which he patronized, would be won.  Hence in
586 Notes|          Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono optimo, P.P."  On the right
587 Text |          lies that goodness which is peculiar to us.  All men love those
588 Notes|             in view, we shall easily perceive the meaning of the phrase,
589 Notes|               Aug. Script. Salmasius peremptorily ascribes it to Spartian;
590 Notes|               who, living at a later period, had no knowledge of Albinus,
591 Text |         wonderful endurance, becomes perplext in his mind, and then is
592 Text |            of Leon and of Mauritania persecute the Christians; and such,
593 Text |              Antoninus was zealously persecuting the Christians in Asia,
594 Notes|           Some were of opinion, that persecution ought to be avoided; and
595 Text |             in this city amongst our persecutors, became blind; and, in Cappadocia,
596 Notes|             first in the list of the persons of promoted.  I subjoin
597 Notes|             words: "P. Martio. Quir. Philippo, ---- tribuno fabrum navalium
598 Notes|           The followers of different philosophers were called "philosophorum
599 Notes|            philosophers were called "philosophorum sectae, familiae, disciplinae."
600 Pref |          that aera, French words and phrases rushed in, and well  nigh
601 Notes|             what we are unwilling to place in the text, we huddle into
602 Notes|          Prosper Aquinas [Chronicon] places Tertullus and Clemens as
603 Text |      Christians.  But, wasted by the plague, forsaken of his friends
604 Text |             and, in truth, it may be plain enough to you, that we behave
605 Text |              the Germans, impetrated plentiful rain, in the great drought,
606 Text |              bear, or that we should plot aught to seek that retaliation
607 Text |        sacrilege; while those who do plunder temples, do also swear by
608 Notes|              divided on an important point, not of metaphysics, but
609 Pref |             have used the liberty of pointing them out.  Even  in the
610 Notes|              tribuno fabrum navalium Portens.  Corpus fabrum navalium
611 Text |        district of Utica, was indeed portentous.  That could not have been
612 Notes|              stay to examine all the portraits which have been drawn of
613 Notes|               De quo mimus in scena, praesente Antonino, dixit, quum stupidus
614 Text |          SCAPULAM TERTULLUM,~AFRICAE PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque
615 Notes|          Commodus, Scapulae Tertyllo Praesidi, l. 14. Dig. de officio
616 Notes|        honores: quum Tertullum etiam prandentem cum uxore deprehenderit. 
617 Pref |     inheritance, it is no part of my present business to inquire.  This
618 Notes|           disciples of Christ; and,  presently after, he calls their institutions "
619 Notes|             says, that this stone is preserved in the Farnese palace at
620 Pref |              of mine, which, without pretending to justify it, I must communicate
621 Notes|            not yet arrived, when the Princes of the earth, by wholesome
622 Pref |          enforced.As the original is printed along with the version,
623 Notes|    adversaries.  Full of confidence, probably brought by him from the
624 Notes|            speak with more accuracy, Proconsul of Africa.~One is naturally
625 Text |              things rightly unto the profane and unto his own; and, therefore,
626 Text |           vexatious, he tore it, and professed that, by the mandates of
627 Text |             for the reward which God proffers, but we also fear his threatenings
628 Notes|            est quod adulteros uxoris promoverit, Tertullum, et Utilium,
629 Notes|       contradicted himself."  Such a proposition cannot be found strange
630 Notes|         sententia earundem libertati prorsus contraria," p. 69. edit.
631 Notes|           reign of Marcus Antoninus.~Prosper Aquinas [Chronicon] places
632 Notes|         taken in general, might also prove, that Tertullian, when heated
633 Notes|           that Pamelius imagines, it proves, at most, that "Tertullian
634 Text |            Carthage, spare the whole Province, which, as soon as they
635 Pref |               PREFACE~I Offer to the Public a Version of the Address
636 Notes|            Fasti Consulares Anonymi, published by Cardinal Noris, bear
637 Text |           have fallen to my share."  Pudens too dismissed a Christian
638 Notes|             nostras auctorati in has pugnas accedamus].  This alludes
639 Notes|              just as best suited his purpose.  But this would have been
640 Notes|            an author unintentionally puts the change on himself, or
641 Text |       lightnings and thunders ye all quake, whose loving-kindnesses
642 Notes|               1. Dig. de Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c.  The discourse
643 Notes|             fabrum navalium Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono
644 Text |             PRAESIDEM,~LIBELLUS.~Nos quidem neque expavescimus ... [
645 Notes|         following words: "P. Martio. Quir. Philippo, ---- tribuno
646 Notes|              to such liberty."  ["Ne quis fortè locum hunc detorqueat
647 Notes|             uxore deprehenderit.  De quo mimus in scena, praesente
648 Notes| circumstances: "Crimini ei datum est quod adulteros uxoris promoverit,
649 Notes|           Officio Praesidis, already quoted, will serve to illustrate
650 Notes|      Capitolinus, or be he Spartian, quotes the accounts given of him
651 Text |     advocates, who, however they may rail against us, are much beholden
652 Notes|             be no anachronism in the ranking him among the favourites
653      | rather
654 Notes|                c.  The discourse was read in the Senate [in Senatu
655 Text |              this sect shall remain, reared into a more stately and
656 Notes|             in Senatu recitata]," by reason of the absence of the emperor
657 Notes|      Consulibus," l. 1. § 1. Dig. de Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c. 
658 Text |         undergo, when each one might recognise, in the croud, his kinsmen
659 Notes|         Scorpiace, as if it meant to recommend intolerance, it is proper
660 Notes|               Unacquainted with such refinements, the historian has set down
661 Notes|            every thing that he found related, either in praise or dispraise,
662 Text |           who by us have been either relieved from daemons, or healed
663 Notes|            nec religionis est cogere religionem]. "Lest," Pamelius says, "
664 Notes|           compel religion," [sed nec religionis est cogere religionem]. "
665 Text |             die; but this sect shall remain, reared into a more stately
666 Pref |          reckoned among the valuable Remains of Christian Antiquity.~
667 Pref |             Notes, I had occasion to remark some strange inaccuracies
668 Notes|         passage, which contains many remarkable circumstances: "Crimini
669 Text |              of thy station, and yet remember humanity, were it but for
670 Pref |          committed in the attempt to render Tertullian into English. 
671 Notes|         would have been expedient to repeat the word instead of varying
672 Text |              from us, that we should repine at what we wish to bear,
673 Notes|       whatever was favourable to the reputation of Albinus, or unfavourable,
674 Text |        matrons, and men of the first repute, and the kinsmen and friends
675 Text |             the faith, Asper did not require him to sacrifice; and he
676 Notes|        TERTULLUS.  There is extant a rescript addressed by Marcus Antoninus,
677 Ded  |           HEREFORD,~THIS TREATISE~IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED~BY ~DAV. DALRYMPLE.~
678 Pref |          contains many circumstances respecting the state of the Church
679 Notes|            adhuc stupidus quaereret, respondit, jam dixi ter Tullus  dicitur."
680 Notes|             the great trust which he resposed in Scapula Tertullus.~In
681 Text |            to death, he said uto the rest, "Wretches, if ye must needs
682 Text |              plot aught to seek that retaliation ourselves which we look
683 Ded  |                         TO~The RIGHT REVEREND~JOHN BUTLER, D.D.~BISHOP
684 Text |             We look not only for the reward which God proffers, but
685 Text |           fight, the greater are the rewards "to him which overcometh;"
686 Notes|             contraria," p. 69. edit. Rigalt.]~Licentia, in Latin, may
687 Text |              for such integrity, for righteousness, for modesty, for faithfulness,
688 Text |             true, dealeth all things rightly unto the profane and unto
689 Notes|             in the Farnese palace at Rome; and, to add one evidence
690 Text |           behave ourselves after the rules of heaven-taught forbearance,
691 Pref |             French words and phrases rushed in, and well  nigh overwhelmed
692      | s
693 Notes|          navalium Ostiens. Quibus ex S.C. coire licet, Patrono optimo,
694 Text |             and became bound to make sacrifices, and who had often doomed
695 Text |         looked for even from him who sacrificeth; and, therefore, should
696 Text |        guilty of theft, much less of sacrilege; while those who do plunder
697 Text |           they had sinned.  Vigilius Saturninus, foremost in this city amongst
698 Text |             the night, they know who saw them; and the former thunder,
699 Text |           who dismissed a Christian, saying, "Were I to yield to the
700 Notes|        translation of this chronique scandaleuse.~If we suppose Scapula Tertullus
701 Notes|     Antoninus, and his son Commodus, Scapulae Tertyllo Praesidi, l. 14.
702 Text |           SEPT. FLOR. TERTULLIANI~AD~SCAPULAM TERTULLUM,~AFRICAE PRAESIDEM,~
703 Notes|      deprehenderit.  De quo mimus in scena, praesente Antonino, dixit,
704 Text |         other ways all your gods are scoffed at, and made light of by
705 Notes|            applies the phrase, "haec secta," to the disciples of Christ;
706 Notes|           were called "philosophorum sectae, familiae, disciplinae."
707 Notes|             this sect," [cùm ad hanc sectam venerimus].  The followers
708 Notes|             locum hunc detorqueat ad sectarum licentiam, adnotata venit
709 Notes|            meant to admit license to sects, it is proper to take notice
710 Notes|        Marcus Antonius; who remained secure, if not distinguished, throughout
711 Notes|       religion to compel religion," [sed nec religionis est cogere
712 Text |            for the health of Caesar, seeing that we ask of Him who can
713 Text |              we should plot aught to seek that retaliation ourselves
714      | seem
715 Notes|            hypothesis, and then have selected whatever was favourable
716 Notes|            discourse was read in the Senate [in Senatu recitata]," by
717 Text |           perhaps, thou mightest see senators like thyself, and matrons,
718 Notes|              adnotata venit auctoris sententia earundem libertati prorsus
719 Notes|        appears harsh in language and sentiment.  But granting it to imply
720 Notes|      Praesidis, already quoted, will serve to illustrate each other.~
721 Notes|             criticism seems much too severe.  In the delineating of
722 Notes|         espoused the opinions of the severer party, and undertook to
723 Notes|          mention is made of "Oratio  Severi Augusti, in Senatu recitata,
724 Notes|              the earth, by wholesome severites, "compelled heretics to
725 Text |             should have fallen to my share."  Pudens too dismissed
726 Text |              that no city which hath shed our blood shall be held
727 Notes|                And this, by the way, shews the great trust which he
728 Text |             that we Christians could shield all men from evil, by admonishing
729 Text |   supplications?  Then the multitude shouted together, giving thanks
730 Text |        Nevertheless we wish that thy sickness, which followed soon after
731 Notes|          optimo, P.P."  On the right side of this stone there is added, "
732 Notes|              Licentia, in Latin, may signify the same thing as libertas;
733      | since
734 Text |          thee, whom we fear not.  My single wish is, that we Christians
735 Text |               better known, perhaps, singly than as a body, and no otherwise
736 Pref |           perhaps, loses more by the singularity of its style, than it gains
737 Text |             the Christians, they had sinned.  Vigilius Saturninus, foremost
738 Text |              laid aside their former sins.  But far be it from us,
739 Notes|              a man of sixty-three or sixty-four when Tertullian addressed
740 Notes|      Tertullus to have been a man of sixty-three or sixty-four when Tertullian
741 Text |               when a man having been slightly tortured, fell off from
742 Text |              in no need of any sweet smells, or of the blood of aught;
743 Text |         outlaws, nor those, how many soever, who have been found false
744 Text |      obnoxious to the insults of the soldiery, and each man in it to the
745 Pref |            it gains by the grave and solemn air produced from the blending
746 Notes|            Marcus Antoninus, and his son Commodus, Scapulae Tertyllo
747 Notes|          ought to be vanquished, not soothed;" ["ad officium haereticos
748 Text |           and he had said at first, "Sorry am I that such business
749 Text |            was mindful of us, for he sought out the Christian Proculus, (
750 Notes|            we hire our lives," might sound better; but, in modern English
751 Notes|              v. 1. p. 134. not. 17. "Spartianus," says he, "in his indigested
752 Text |       multitude called out together, speaking of the threshing-floors
753 Notes|             to Scorpiace, Tertullian speaks not of intolerance at all. 
754 Notes|      Tertyllus are different ways of spelling the same name.~Hence it
755 Text |   understanding the accusation to be spiteful and vexatious, he tore it,
756 Text |             so far from dreading, we spontaneously call for tortures.  While
757 Text |            their praise, and he also staid the multitude when maddemed
758 Text |              the maker of the world, standeth in no need of any sweet
759 Notes|          eminent offices.  Tertullus stands first in the list of the
760 Text |           remain, reared into a more stately and stronger building by
761 Notes|       historian of Albinus, I cannot stay to examine all the portraits
762 Text |             Christian Proculus, (the steward of Euhodus, and who by oil
763 Text |             we nevertheless, live in stillness and moderation, better known,
764 Notes|             may either tell the same story in two different ways, or
765 Text |        another way.  Furthermore, we strive against your utmost cruelty,
766 Text |             acknowledgement. ---- In striving to overwhelm us, ye invade
767 Text |              into a more stately and stronger building by what you think
768 Notes|            duritia vincenda est, non suadenda," p. 488.]~This expression
769 Notes|              Dig. de Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c.  The discourse
770 Notes|         colloquial term may be used, subdue his antagonists, and lead
771 Notes|              persons of promoted.  I subjoin the passage, which contains
772 Pref |           supply this deficiency, is submitted to the candour of the reader.~
773 Text |            as is their bounden duty, suggest all this unto thee, those
774 Notes|           unfavourable, just as best suited his purpose.  But this would
775 Text |            the last evil. Again, the sun, with his light almost put
776 Text |      invocating of him in the way of supplication only.  For He, the maker
777 Pref |    explanation.  The attempt made to supply this deficiency, is submitted
778 Text |         house, and, while yet alive, swarming with worms, he thus spake: "
779 Text |            your gods, for he beareth sway over them.  Furthermore,
780 Text |             plunder temples, do also swear by the gods and worship
781 Text |           standeth in no need of any sweet smells, or of the blood
782 Text |            very time, it is with the sword alone that the Presidents
783 Text |             great fires and how many swords would then be needed, and
784 Text |           the man who but yesterday, swore by the genius of the Caesars,
785 Notes|           lead them captives to  his system.~Indeed when the state of
786 Notes|             ourselves, we may either tell the same story in two different
787 Text |           while those who do plunder temples, do also swear by the gods
788 Notes|            argument, if a colloquial term may be used, subdue his
789 Notes|          varying it.  The varying of terms commonly happens, when an
790 Notes|        Clemente conss."  Pamelius ad Tertul. p. 68 (a) says, that this
791 Text |            THE TRUTH.~Q. SEPT. FLOR. TERTULLIANI~AD~SCAPULAM TERTULLUM,~AFRICAE
792 Notes|           his son Commodus, Scapulae Tertyllo Praesidi, l. 14. Dig. de
793 Notes|            knows, that Tertullus and Tertyllus are different ways of spelling
794 Text |      mandates of Caesar, and ye bear testimony that we are guiltless, whom
795 Notes|            unwilling to place in the text, we huddle into notes; and
796 Text |             shouted together, giving thanks unto "the God of gods, who
797 Text |             found us to be guilty of theft, much less of sacrilege;
798 Text |             Moreover, they whom thou thinkest to be thy lords are men,
799 Text |          every one may worship as he thinketh best; nor doth the religion
800 Text |           wouldst thou do to so many thousands, men and women, young and
801 Text |           men.  And what those fires threatened, which, not long ago, hung
802 Text |       proffers, but we also fear his threatenings against those who live after
803 Text |       amanuensis of one, having been thrown headlong by a daemon, was
804 Text |             saw them; and the former thunder, what tidings it brought,
805 Text |              at whose lightnings and thunders ye all quake, whose loving-kindnesses
806 Text |             the former thunder, what tidings it brought, they know whose
807 Notes|           April. Scapula Tertullo et Tineio Clemente conss."  Pamelius
808 Text |              Cincius Severus, who at Tisdra did himself shew a way whereby
809 Notes|             a doubtful or a decisive tone.~Not meaning to be the historian
810 Pref |            works of TERTULLIAN.  The topics which he uses, seem, in
811 Text |           spiteful and vexatious, he tore it, and professed that,
812 Text |            transgression, in that by torture he had made some to fall
813 Text |             man having been slightly tortured, fell off from the faith,
814 Pref |             Christian Antiquity.~The traces of a wild imagination are
815 Text |            And then, having seen his transgression, in that by torture he had
816 Notes|          seems unnecessary to give a translation of this chronique scandaleuse.~
817 Text |        themselves up uncalled at thy tribunal!  How great fires and how
818 Notes|         Martio. Quir. Philippo, ---- tribuno fabrum navalium Portens. 
819 Notes|              won.  Hence in the like triumphant style, he attacked the heresies
820 Notes|             the way, shews the great trust which he resposed in Scapula
821 Text |         mandates of Caesar, he could try no man without an accuser.~
822 Text |            less than the one and the tue God.  So also is he greater
823 Notes|               de Rebus eorum qui sub tutela, &c.  The discourse was
824 Notes|           history, not to write it.  Unacquainted with such refinements, the
825 Text |           times a flood came for the unbelief and evil deeds of men. 
826 Text |          they meaning towards us was understood, became obnoxious to the
827 Notes|            of the severer party, and undertook to confute its adversaries. 
828 Notes|            reputation of Albinus, or unfavourable, just as best suited his
829 Text |          would be too long for me to unfold in how many other ways all
830 Notes|              happens, when an author unintentionally puts the change on himself,
831 Notes|             Script. p. 34.  It seems unnecessary to give a translation of
832 Notes|              is considered, it seems unreasonable to suppose that Tertullian
833 Notes|          praise or dispraise, of the unsuccessful usurper.~We moderns have
834 Text |             for evil.  Let those who untruly give out that they are of
835 Text |            lest we, who undergo such unutterable hardships, should all of
836 Text |           the call of the multitude, uproar might arise."  Thus, when
837 Text |             who with-hold it?~So, by urging men to say what, of themselves,
838 Pref |     TERTULLIAN.  The topics which he uses, seem, in general, well
839 Notes|       dispraise, of the unsuccessful usurper.~We moderns have one art,
840 Notes|           warfare belonging to it." [ut etiam animas nostras auctorati
841 Text |              out, in the district of Utica, was indeed portentous. 
842 Notes|            promoverit, Tertullum, et Utilium, et Orphitum, et Moderatum,
843 Text |               we strive against your utmost cruelty, crowding uncalled
844 Text |            of them to death, he said uto the rest, "Wretches, if
845 Notes|       Tertullum etiam prandentem cum uxore deprehenderit.  De quo mimus
846 Notes|              stupidus nomen adulteri uxories a fervo quaereret, et ille
847 Notes|             datum est quod adulteros uxoris promoverit, Tertullum, et
848 Notes|        implicitly follows Salmasius, v. 1. p. 134. not. 17. "Spartianus,"
849 Pref |            may be reckoned among the valuable Remains of Christian Antiquity.~
850 Notes|          their obstinacy ought to be vanquished, not soothed;" ["ad officium
851 Notes|           Orphitum, et Moderatum, ad varios honores: quum Tertullum
852 Notes|              of his wife Faustina to various eminent offices.  Tertullus
853 Notes|           sect," [cùm ad hanc sectam venerimus].  The followers of different
854 Notes|         sectarum licentiam, adnotata venit auctoris sententia earundem
855 Text |           yet go free: such also was Vespronius Candidus, who dismissed
856 Text |        accusation to be spiteful and vexatious, he tore it, and professed
857 Notes|              the virtues and all the vices that enter into the human
858 Notes|           followers.~Keeping this in view, we shall easily perceive
859 Text |        Christians, they had sinned.  Vigilius Saturninus, foremost in
860 Notes|           inlici dignum est; duritia vincenda est, non suadenda," p. 488.]~
861 Notes|             heresies of Marcion, and vindicated the extravagancies of Montanus
862 Text |           deposited in our hands, we violate no one's marriage-bed, we
863 Pref |          conquest or acquisition had violent effects on the English language,
864 Notes|        collections, mixes up all the virtues and all the vices that enter
865 Pref |             out.  Even  in the first volume of the Decline and Fall
866 Text |           for I speak not now of the vulgar, who by us have been either
867 Text |              long ago, hung over the walls of Carthage throughout the
868 Text |        knowledge, who mourn over the wanderings of mankind, who foresee
869 Text |           them.  We, who bewail your want  to knowledge, who mourn
870 Text |            admonishing them, "not to war against God."  Thou mayest
871 Text |             conscientiously with our wards, we help the needy, and
872 Text |          lions, may have been only a warning; yet now, when, in a like
873 Text |               Marcus Aurelius, while warring with the Germans, impetrated
874 Text |             to the Christians.  But, wasted by the plague, forsaken
875 Text |          sacrifice, unless they were wayward.  God is not so; and He,
876 Text |           aught for ourselves or our well-wishers, but that we fear for you
877      | where
878      | whereby
879 Text |       friends of thine own friends!  Wherefore, if thou wilt not spare
880      | Whether
881      | whole
882 Notes|             Princes of the earth, by wholesome severites, "compelled heretics
883 Pref |          famous chapters, there is a wide field for literary and historical
884 Pref |           Antiquity.~The traces of a wild imagination are not so discernable
885 Text |         after that way which He hath willed, by the invocating of him
886 Pref |   communicate to my readers.~Whether William Duke of Normandy conquered
887 Text |              not against the will: a willing mind is looked for even
888 Text |           which ought to be taken up willingly, and not against the will:
889 Text |         friends!  Wherefore, if thou wilt not spare us, spare thyself,
890 Text |              was freed, and, in like wise, others had a kinsman and
891 Text |       acknowledgement from those who with-hold it?~So, by urging men to
892 Text |            of Jupiter, did they bear witness unto our God.~Furthermore,
893 Notes|              he patronized, would be won.  Hence in the like triumphant
894 Text |             every one beholding such wonderful endurance, becomes perplext
895 Text |             For He, the maker of the world, standeth in no need of
896 Text |             yet alive, swarming with worms, he thus spake: "Let no
897 Text |           and made light of by their worshippers themselves.~Again, we are
898 Text |          that, by the laws, they are worthy of death, and that thou
899 Text |             like those of Asia, what wouldst thou do to so many thousands,
900 Text |              tokens of the impending wrath of God, which it behoves
901 Text |               he said uto the rest, "Wretches, if ye must needs die, have
902 Text |               after this way, put in writing the things of which ye will
903 Text |           had gone over to our sect, wrought much ill to the Christians. 
904 Text |       Cassius; while the man who but yesterday, swore by the genius of
905 Text |        Christian, saying, "Were I to yield to the call of the multitude,
906 Text |           old, and of every station, yielding themselves up uncalled at
907      | yourselves
908 Notes|            they too, in their honest zeal, went to the other extreme.
909 Text |           While Arrius Antoninus was zealously persecuting the Christians