The City of GodAeterna Press, 1950 - Всего страниц: 117 The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,—a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until “righteousness shall return unto judgment,” and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an arduous; but God is my helper. Aeterna Press |
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... Wicked. Men. Will some onesay, Why,then,was this divine compassion extended even tothe ungodly and ungrateful? Why, but because it was the mercy ofHim who daily “maketh His sun to riseon the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the ...
... wicked. And thus it is that in the same afflictionthe wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good prayand praise.So material adifference does it make, not what ills are suffered,but what kind ofman suffers them. For, stirred up with ...
... wicked, immoral, andungodly men, yet they do not judge themselves so clean removed from allfaults as to be too good to suffer for these even temporalills. For everyman, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some pointsto the lust of ...
... wicked, andlive inquite anotherfashion, yetspare those faults inother menwhich they ought to reprehend and wean themfrom; and spare them because they fear to give offence, lest they shouldinjure their interests inthose things which good ...
... wicked, though not equally with them, love thispresentlife; while theyought tohold itcheap, thatthe wicked, being admonished and reformed by theirexample, might lay hold oflife eternal.And ifthey will notbe the companionsof the good in ...