Against Praxeas1 Chapter I.-Satan's Wiles Against the Truth. How They Take the Form of the Praxean Heresy. Account of the Publication of This Heresy. Chapter II.-The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and Unity, Sometimes Called the Divine Economy, or Dispensation of the Personal Relations of the Godhead. Chapter III.-Sundry Popular Fears and Prejudices. The Doctrine of the Trinity in Unity ...
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Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: St.Perpetua: The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity 203 Vibia Perpetua, was executed in the arena in Carthage on 7 March 203. The account of her martyrdom - technically a Passion -is apparently historical and has special interest as much of it was written , in Latin by Perpetua herself before ...
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An Answer to the Jews.1 Chapter I.-Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated. Chapter II.-The Law Anterior to Moses. Chapter III.-Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law. Chapter IV.-Of the Observance of the Sabbath. Chapter V.-Of Sacrifices. Chapter VI.-Of the Abolition and the Abolisher of the Old Law. Chapter VII.-The Question Whether Christ Be Come ...
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VII. On Modesty.1 Chapter II.-God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy Must Not Be Indiscriminate. Chapter III.-An Objection Anticipated Before the Discussion Above Promised is Commenced. Chapter IV.-Adultery and Fornication Synonymous. Chapter V.-Of the Prohibition of Adultery in the Decalogue. Chapter VI.-Examples of Such Offences Under the Old Dispensation No Pattern for the Disciples ...
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On the Resurrection of the Flesh. Chapter I.-The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body Brought to Light by the Gospel. The Faintest Glimpses of Something Like It Occasionally Met with in Heathenism. Inconsistencies of Pagan Teaching. Chapter II.-The Jewish Sadducees a Link Between the Pagan Philosophers and the Heretics on This Doctrine. Its Fundamental Importance Asserted. The Soul Fares ...
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A Treatise on the Soul.1 Chapter I.-It is Not to the Philosophers that We Resort for Information About the Soul But to God.2 Chapter II.-The Christian Has Sure and Simple Knowledge Concerning the Subject Before Us. Chapter III.-The Soul's Origin Defined Out of the Simple Words of Scripture. Chapter IV.-In Opposition to Plato, the Soul Was Created and Originated at Birth. Chapter V.-Probable View ...
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On Baptism. Chapter I.-Introduction. Origin of the Treatise. Chapter II.-The Very Simplicity of God's Means of Working, a Stumbling-Block to the Carnal Mind. Chapter III.-Water Chosen as a Vehicle of Divine Operation and Wherefore. Its Prominence First of All in Creation. Chapter IV.-The Primeval Hovering of the Spirit of God Over the Waters Typical of Baptism. The Universal Element of Water ...
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On Idolatry. Chapter I.-Wide Scope of the Word Idolatry. Chapter II.-Idolatry in Its More Limited Sense. Its Copiousness. Chapter III.-Idolatry: Origin and Meaning of the Name. Chapter IV.-Idols Not to Be Made, Much Less Worshipped. Idols and Idol-Makers in the Same Category. Chapter V.23 -Sundry Objections or Excuses Dealt with. Chapter VI.-Idolatry Condemned by Baptism. To Make an Idol Is, in ...
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VI. On Monogamy.1 Chapter I.-Different Views in Regard to Marriage Held by Heretics, Psychic, and Spiritualists. Chapter II.-The Spiritualists Vindicated from the Charge of Novelty. Chapter III.-The Question of Novelty Further Considered in Connection with the Words of the Lord and His Apostles. Chapter IV.-Waiving Allusion to the Paraclete, Tertullian Comes to the Consideration of the Ancient ...
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IX. De Fuga in Persecutione.1 IX. De Fuga in Persecutione.1 1. My brother Fabius, you very lately asked, because some news or other were communicated, whether or not we ought to flee in persecution For my part, having on the spot made some observations in the negative suited to the place and time, I also, owing to the rudeness of some persons, took away with me the subject but half treated, ...
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On Prayer. Chapter I.-General Introduction.1 Chapter II.-The First Clause. Chapter III.-The Second Clause. Chapter IV.-The Third Clause. Chapter V.-The Fourth Clause. Chapter VI.-The Fifth Clause. Chapter VII.-The Sixth Clause. Chapter VIII.-The Seventh or Final Clause. Chapter IX.-Recapitulation.64 Chapter X.-We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord's Prayer. Chapter XI.-When Praying the ...
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On the Flesh of Christ.1 Chapter I.-The General Purport of This Work. The Heretics, Marcion, Apelles, and Valentinus, Wishing to Impugn the Doctrine of the Resurrection, Deprive Christ of All Capacity for Such a Change by Denying His Flesh. Chapter II.-Marcion, Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ's Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling a Heresy. Chapter III.-Christ's Nativity Both Possible ...
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III. On the Veiling of Virgins.1 Chapter I.-Truth Rather to Be Appealed to Than Custom, and Truth Progressive in Its Developments. Chapter II.-Before Proceeding Farther, Let the Question of Custom Itself Be Sifted. Chapter III.-Gradual Development of Custom, and Its Results. Passionate Appeal to Truth. Chapter IV.-Of the Argument Drawn from 1cor. XI. 5-16. Chapter V.-Of the Word Woman, ...
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The Prescription Against Heretics.1 Chapter I.-Introductory. Heresies Must Exist, and Even Abound; They are a Probation to Faith. Chapter II.-Analogy Between Fevers and Heresies. Heresies Not to Be Wondered At: Their Strength Derived from Weakness of Men's Faith. They Have Not the Truth. Simile of Pugilists and Gladiators in Illustration. Chapter III.-Weak People Fall an Easy Prey to Heresy, ...
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Against Hermogenes. Containing an Argument Against His Opinion that Matter is Eternal. Chapter I.-The Opinions of Hermogenes, by the Prescriptive Rule of Antiquity Shown to Be Heretical. Not Derived from Christianity, But from Heathen Philosophy. Some of the Tenets Mentioned. Chapter II.-Hermogenes, After a Perverse Induction from Mere Heretical Assumptions, Concludes that God Created All Things ...
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Against the Valentinians. Chapter I.-Introductory. Tertullian Compares the Heresy to the Old Eleusinian Mysteries. Both Systems Alike in Preferring Concealment of Error and Sin to Proclamation of Truth and Virtue. Chapter II.-These Heretics Brand the Christians as Simple Persons. The Charge Accepted, and Simplicity Eulogized Out of the Scriptures. Chapter III.-The Folly of This Heresy. It ...
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Ad Martyras.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. Ad Martyras.1 (Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.) -------- Chapter 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 prison, accept also from me some contribution to ...
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Scorpiace. Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. Chapter VII. Chapter VIII. Chapter IX. Chapter X. Chapter XI. Chapter XII. Chapter XIII. Chapter XIV. Chapter XV. Scorpiace. ------------ Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting.1 Chapter I. The earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. The ...
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The Apology.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. Chapter VII. Chapter VIII. Chapter IX. Chapter X. Chapter XI. Chapter XII. Chapter XIII. Chapter XIV. Chapter XV. Chapter XVI. Chapter XVII. Chapter XVIII. Chapter XIX. Chapter XX. Chapter XXI. Chapter XXII. Chapter XXIII. Chapter XXIV. Chapter XXV. Chapter XXVI. Chapter XXVII. Chapter XXVIII. Chapter XXIX.
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The Shows, or De Spectaculis.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. Chapter VII. Chapter VIII. Chapter IX. Chapter X. Chapter XI. Chapter XII. Chapter XIII. Chapter XIV. Chapter XV. Chapter XVI. Chapter XVII. Chapter XVIII. Chapter XIX. Chapter XX. Chapter XXI. Chapter XXII. Chapter XXIII. Chapter XXIV. Chapter XXV. Chapter XXVI. Chapter XXVII. Chapter XXVIII.
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Book I. Chapter I.-Design of the Treatise. Disavowal of Personal Motives in Writing It. Chapter II.-Marriage Lawful, But Not Polygamy. Chapter III.-Marriage Good: Celibacy Preferable. Chapter IV.-Of the Infirmity of the Flesh, and Similar Pleas. Chapter V.-Of the Love of Offspring as a Plea for Marriage. Chapter VI.-Examples of Heathens Urged as Commendatory of Widowhood and Celibacy. Chapter ...
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Of Patience.1 Chapter I.-Of Patience Generally; And Tertullian's Own Unworthiness to Treat of It. Chapter II.-God Himself an Example of Patience. Chapter III.-Jesus Christ in His Incarnation and Work a More Imitable Example Thereof. Chapter IV.-Duty of Imitating Our Master Taught Us by Slaves. Even by Beasts. Obedient Imitation is Founded on Patience. Chapter V.-As God is the Author of Patience ...
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I. On the Pallium.1 Chapter I.-Time Changes Nations' Dresses-And Fortunes, Chapter II.-The Law of Change, or Mutation, Universal. Chapter III.-Beasts Similarly Subject to the Law of Mutation. Chapter IV.-Change Not Always Improvement. Chapter V.-Virtues of the Mantle. It Pleads in Its Own Defence. Chapter VI.-Further Distinctions, and Crowning Glory, of the Pallium. I. ON THE PALLIUM.1 Chapter I.
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On Repentance.1 Chapter I.-Of Heathen Repentance. Chapter II.-True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws. Chapter III.-Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment14 Chapter IV.-Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It ...
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The Soul's Testimony.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. Chapter VI. The Soul's Testimony.1 -------- Chapter I. If, with the object of convicting the rivals and persecutors of Christian truth, from their own authorities, of the crime of at once being untrue to themselves and doing injustice to us, one is bent on gathering testimonies in its favour from the writings of ...
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VIII. On Fasting.1 In Opposition to the Psychics. Chapter I.-Connection of Gluttony and Lust. Grounds of Psychical Objections Against the Montanists. Chapter II.-Arguments of the Psychics, Drawn from the Law, the Gospel, the Acts, the Epistles, and Heathenish Practices. Chapter III.-The Principle of Fasting Traced Back to Its Earliest Source. Chapter IV.-The Objection is Raised, Why, Then, Was ...
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Book I. Chapter I.-Introduction. Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman. Chapter II.-The Origin of Female Ornamentation, Traced Back to the Angels Who Had Fallen.10 Chapter III.-Concerning the Genuineness of The Prophecy of Enoch. 22 Chapter IV.-Waiving the Question of the Authors, Tertullian Proposes to Consider the Things on ...
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The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas. Preface.1 Chapter I.-Argument.-When the Saints Were Apprehended, St. Perpetua Successfully Resisted Her Father's Pleading, Was Baptized with the Others, Was Thrust into a Filthy Dungeon. Anxious About Her Infant, by a Vision Granted to Her, She Understood that Her Martyrdom Would Take Place Very Shortly. Chapter II.-Argument. Perpetua, When ...
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To Scapula.1 Chapter I. Chapter II. Chapter III. Chapter IV. Chapter V. To Scapula.1 -------- Chapter I. We are not in any great perturbation or alarm about the persecutions we suffer from the ignorance of men; for we have attached ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms of its covenant, so that, as men whose very lives are not their own, we engage in these conflicts, our desire being ...
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The Five Books Against Marcion. The Five Books Against Marcion. -------- ...
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