Book V.Book V.Wherein Tertullian proves, with respect to St. Paul's epistles, what he had proved in the preceding book with respect to St. Luke's gosp...
Book X.Book X.------------Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
Book IBook I------------Argument-Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed tile calamities of the world, and especially the recent sack of Rome by ...
XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph.XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph.On Making Promises. Chapter I. Of the vigils which we endured...
Homily XIX.Homily XIX. On the Sunday called Episozomenes, to those who had come to Antioch from the country-also on the subject of avoiding oaths.1. Y...
Book XXIIBook XXII------------Argument-This book treats of the end of the city of God, that is to say, of the eternal happiness of the saints; the fai...
Chapter?119This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than an...
Book VII.Book VII. Chapter I.In the six former books we have endeavoured, reverend brother Ambrosius, according to our ability to meet the charges bro...
Book III.Book III. Chapter I.In the first book of our answer to the work of Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed aga...
Chapter?12In this and the two following chapters we have Job?s answer to Zophar?s discourse, in which, as before, he first reasons with his friends se...
SERMON LXXVIII. PREACHED AT ST. PAUL'S, JUNE 21, 1626. 1 Corinthians xv. 29. Else, what shall they do which are baptized for the dead? if the dead ...
Book III.Book III.1. The words of the Lord, I in the Father, and the Father in Me(1) , confuse many minds, and not unnaturally, for the powers of huma...
Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of CyrusLetters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus I. To an Unknown Correspondent.In the words of the ...
VIII. The Second Conference of Abbot Serenus.VIII. The Second Conference of Abbot Serenus.On Principalities. Chapter I. Of the hospitality of Abbot S...
In my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and Countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous Continent of Universe; a very large and s...
In my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and Countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous Continent of Universe; a very large and s...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL James Russell Lowell is our chief poetical moralist . Not our greatest poet; for, in simplicity and range of sentiment, Longfell...
Oration XXVIII.Oration XXVIII.The Second Theological Oration.I. In the former Discourse we laid down clearly with respect to the Theologian, both what...