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 1 Pre|         persons.~CERTAIN brethren have often and earnestly entreated
 2 Pre|        with my ability, that they have prescribed such a form for
 3 Pre|          occur to me.~This task I have long refused to undertake.
 4 Pre|       reflecting on the matter, I have tried on many grounds to
 5 Pre|           so far as I was able, I have prosecuted this work within
 6 Pre|          know that in this book I have not so much satisfied those
 7 Pre|         frequent consideration, I have not been able to find that
 8 Pre|          been able to find that I have made in it any statement
 9 Pre|          appear to any man that I have offered in this work any
10 Pre|    consist of three substances, I have followed the Greeks, who
11 Pre|           word person.~Whatever I have said on that point, however,
12 1  |      since the reasoning which we have observed is in no wise refutable,
13 4  |      essence itself, just as they have not more than one essence,
14 4  |           single essence, so they have not more than one nature,
15 5  |       Nature, and all things that have any existence, derive existence
16 6  |   inferred? For that which cannot have come into existence by any
17 6  |           with the observations I have already made, in the light
18 6  |           up to this point, I may have the better assured strength
19 6  |          But if it is supposed to have derived existence from some
20 7  |         this very material that I have mentioned, the material
21 8  |            whatever I supposed to have been ascertained regarding
22 8  |        the term nothing? -- For I have already determined not to
23 8  |  understood, that what is said to have been created from nothing
24 8  |       that if anything is said to have been created from nothing,
25 8  |          which a thing is said to have been created from nothing,
26 8  |          supreme Being all things have been created by that Being
27 9  |       were created may be said to have been nothing before their
28 10 |       kind of expression, which I have put third and last, when
29 10 |         and exists, now that they have been created, that they
30 13 |           the existence that they have. For, by a like course of
31 13 |           that those things which have been created live through
32 13 |            and that by which they have been created lives through
33 15 |          greater than those which have been created by it; or any
34 16 |          Moreover, what we see to have been proved in the case
35 18 |      nothing.~Moreover, it cannot have inception from or through
36 18 |          all. But neither will it have an end. For, if it is to
37 18 |          an end. For, if it is to have end, it is not supremely
38 18 |   supremely incorruptible. But we have proved that it is supremely
39 18 |            Therefore, it will not have an end.~Furthermore, if
40 18 |          Furthermore, if it is to have an end, it will perish either
41 18 |          the supreme Nature is to have an end, in no way will it
42 18 |         an end, in no way will it have an end.~Again, if the supreme
43 18 |         had a beginning, or shall have an end; before it began
44 18 |            then, truth is said to have, or understood not to have,
45 18 |        have, or understood not to have, beginning or end, it cannot
46 19 | propositions duly set forth above have been confirmed by the fortification
47 19 |         something or nothing must have preceded it; and either
48 22 |      change by the same times.~We have sufficient evidence, then,
49 24 |      substance which alone, as we have proved, was not created,
50 24 |           very fact that all such have been created from nothing.~ ~
51 25 |          him, as soon as he shall have been born, according as
52 26 |           it is. ~BUT, if what we have ascertained concerning the
53 27 |         others, as individual men have in common with individual
54 28 |       accordance with some cause, have at some time been, or will
55 28 |         than this Spirit himself, have come from non-existence
56 28 |         in no way be conceived to have taken inception from non-existence,
57 28 |           exists absolutely, they have been made something from
58 29 |         the supreme Nature, which have occurred to me in following
59 30 |        Word. ~WHY, then, should I have any further doubt regarding
60 31 |       likeness of the things that have been created through itself?
61 32 | corresponding to the objects that have been created through it,
62 32 |           if the human mind could have no memory or concept of
63 33 |          forms such an image as I have acquired in memory through
64 34 |         which are all things that have been created; just as a
65 34 |        created, and now that they have been created, and after
66 37 |     beginning of all things which have been created. For this Essence,
67 39 |          as do those beings which have been created by him; but
68 42 |     because in these natures that have a difference of sex, it
69 43 |      important properties of each have been discovered, whereby
70 43 |         of both I perceive that I have spoken of two; and yet so
71 43 |        why they are two of whom I have spoken.~For, although the
72 44 |         the Father, since he must have from the Father this very
73 45 |          although, for reasons we have noted, this is true, it
74 45 |          appropriately be said to have the essence of his Father.~
75 45 |        appropriately conceived to have the essence of the Father
76 45 |         Father than the Father to have the essence of the Son,
77 46 |         that of the Father, as we have already seen; but in this
78 48 |          of an object of which we have remembrance, this is to
79 57 |          demanding that it should have a name proper to itself.
80 62 |     another --for each one, as we have already seen, exists in
81 63 |        reasons already considered have shown most convincingly
82 64 |           if this reasoning shall have brought him far enough to
83 64 |            if these truths, which have thus far been debated in
84 64 |           with the supreme Being, have been declared on cogent
85 65 |           natures.~For what sense have I conceived of, in all these
86 65 |         in all these words that I have thought of, except the common
87 65 |         to that Being, whatever I have inferred to be attributable
88 67 |         any rational creature can have been naturally endowed with
89 68 |          fact that it is known to have no power so important as
90 69 |          creature. Hence, it must have been created for this end,
91 69 |        Being. It must, therefore, have been created either for
92 75 |         except that whoever shall have come to it by striving for (
93 77 |          but also he who ought to have sight and has it not, why
94 77 |          which it ought always to have? As that faith, then, which