Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230031330
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Book Synopsis A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West Volume 27 by : Anonymous
Download or read book A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West Volume 27 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...the mildest of all, even though requiring greater strictness, is plain from hence. For the temporal ruler, if he catch an adnlterer, straightway punishes him. And yet Civil rule cuts om this cures, a sinner, Efiects on the world. 191 what is the advantage of this? For this is not to destroy the 2 Con passion, but to send away the soul with its wound upon it. But this ruler, when he hath detected, considers not how he shall avenge, but how extirpate the passion. For thou indeed dost the same thing, as if, when there was a disease of the head, thou shouldest not stay the disease, but cut ofl' the head. But I do not thus: but I cut off the disease. And I exclude him indeed from mysteries, and hallowed precincts; but when I have restored him, I receive him back again, at once delivered from that viciousness, and amended by his repentance. 'And how is it possible, ' saith one, ' to extirpate adultery?' It is possible, yea, very possible, if a man comes under these laws. For the Church is a spiritual bath, which wipeth away not filth of body, but stains of soul, by its many methods of repentance. For thou, indeed, both if thou let a man go unpunished, hast made him worse, and if thou punish, hast sent him away uncured: but I neither let him go unpunished, nor punish him, as thou, but both exact a satisfaction which becomes me, and set that right which hath been done. Wilt thou learn in yet another way, how that thou indeed, though baring swords and displaying flames to them that offend, workest not any considerable cure; whilst I, without these things, have conducted them to perfect health? But no need have I of arguments, or words, but I bring forth earth and sea, and human nature itself, for witnesses And inquire, ...
