Treatise IV. On the Lord's Prayer.

Argument.-The Treatise of Cyprian on the Lord’s Prayer Comprises Three Portions, in Which Division He Imitates Tertullian in His Book on Prayer, in the First Portion, He Points Out that the Lord’s Prayer is the Most Excellent of All Prayers,…

Treatise V. An Address to Demetrianus.

Argument.-Cyprian, in Reply to Demetrianus the Proconsul of Africa, Who Contended that the Wars, and Famine, and Pestilence with Which the World Was Then Plagued Must Be Imputed to the Christians Because They Did Not Worship the Gods; Fairly Urges…

Treatise VI. On the Vanity of Idols

Showing that the Idols are Not Gods, and that God is One, and that Through Christ Salvation is Given to Believers. Argument.-This Heading Embraces the Three Leading Divisions of This Treatise. The Writer First of All Shows that They in…

Treatise VII. On the Mortality.

Argument.-The Deacon Pontius in a Few Words Unfolds the Burthen of This Treatise in His Life of Cyprian.2 First of All, Having Pointed Out that Afflictions of This Kind Had Been Foretold by Christ, He Tells Them that the Mortality…

Treatise VIII. On Works and Alms.

Argument.-He Powerfully Exhorts to the Manifestation of Faith by Works, and Enforces the Wisdom of Offerings to the Church and of Bounty to the Poor as the Best Investment of a Christian’s Estate. This He Proves Out of Many Scriptures.…

Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience.

Argument.-Cyprian Himself Briefly Sets Forth the Occasion of This Treatise at the Conclusion of His Epistle to Jubaianus as Follows: “Charity of Spirit, the Honour of Our College, the Bond of Faith, and Priestly Concord, are Maintained by Us with…

Treatise X. On Jealousy and Envy.

Argument.2 -After Pointing Out that Jealousy or Envy is a Sin All the More Heinous in Proportion as Its Wickedness is Hidden, and that Its Origin is to Be Traced to the Devil, He Gives Illustrations of Envy from the…

The Seventh Council of Carthage Under Cyprian.

Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. The Judgment of Eighty-Seven Bishops on the Baptism of Heretics. Prooemium.-When Stephen, Bishop of Rome, Had by His Letters Condemned the Decrees of the African Council on the Baptism of Heretics, Cyprian Lost No Time…

Cyprian - On the Public Shows.

Argument. -The Writer First of All Treats Against Those Who Endeavoured to Defend the Public Exhibitions of the Heathens by Scriptural Authority; And He Proves That, Although They are Never Prohibited by the Express Words of Scripture, Yet that They…

Cyprian - On the Glory of Martyrdom.

Argument.-The Glory of Martyrdom,-Namely, What Martyrdom Is, How Great It Is, and of What Advantage It is. By Similitudes, and by Argument Deduced from the Daily Deaths, the Author Exhorts to a Joyous Submission to Death for Christ’s Sake.2 Among…