TERTULLIAN - AGAINST PRAXEAS

N WHICH HE DEFENDS, IN ALL ESSENTIAL POINTS, THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY TRINITY. [TRANSLATED BY DR. HOLMES.] CHAP. I.—SATAN’S WILES AGAINST THE TRUTH. HOW THEY TAKE THE FORM OF THE PRAXEAN HERESY. ACCOUNT OF THE pUBLICATION OF THIS HERESY.…

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TERTULLIAN - SCORPIACE

ANTIDOTE FOR THE SCORPION’S STING [TRANSLATED BY REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I. THE earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. The poisons are as many as are the kinds of it, the disasters as…

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TERTULLIAN - AGAINST ALL HERESIES

[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I.—EARLIEST HERETICS:2 SIMON MAGUS, MENANDER, SATURNINUS, BASILIDES, NICOLAUS. [THE WORK BEGINS AS A FRAGMENT.] Of which heretics I will (to pass by a good deal) summarize some few particulars. For of Judaism’s hereti…

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TERTULLIAN - ON REPENTANCE

[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I.—OF HEATHEN REPENTANCE. Repentance, men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust’ at some previously cherished worse sentiment: that kind of men I…

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TERTULLIAN - ON BAPTISM

[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTION. ORIGIN OF THE TREATISE. HAPPY iS our1 sacrament Of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise…

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TERTULLIAN - ON PRAYER

(BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.) CHAP. I.—GENERAL INTRODUCTION The Spirit of God, and the Word of God, and the Reason of God—Word of Reason, and Reason and Spirit of Word—Jesus Christ our Lord, namely, who is both the one and…

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TERTULLIAN - AD MARTYRAS

(TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.) CHAP. I. BLESSED Martyrs Designate, —Along with the provision which our lady mother the Church from her bountiful breasts, and each brother out of his private means, makes for your bodily wants in the…

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TERTULLIAN - OF PATIENCE

(TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.) CHAP. I.—OF PATIENCE GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN’S OWN UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT OF IT. I FULLY confess unto the Lord God that it has been rash enough, if not even impudent, in me to have dared…

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