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The Journal of Sacred Literature (Volume 8)

The Journal of Sacred Literature (Volume 8)

Kitto, John
General Books

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General World History

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ISBN10: 115424069X
ISBN13: 9781154240696
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.48 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. He told Alypius all. For him also there was a word of encouragement and guidance: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye. From that hour the hearts of both were fixed. Once more the Kingdom of heaven was like a merchantman seeking goodly pearls, who, when he has found one pearl of great price, sells all that he has and buys it. So, too, was the word of the Lord by His pious bishop to Monnica fulfilled: It is not possible that a son of such tears should be lost! He now prepared himself for baptism. The great week was drawing nigh, and the joyous Easter tide--holy seasons of the Christian year, celebrated not, as now, with lazy indifference, or treated with utter scorn or contempt. Even in his Manichseism, Augustine's soul had been stirred within him by the crowds which flocked round the altars to die with Christ in Passionweek, and hail His resurrection on the Easter morning. For these holy festivals were witnesses to those actual historical facts which lie at the very foundation of the Gospel, and which all heretics more or less deny. On Easter sabbath he was baptized by St. Ambrose, with his son, Adeodatus, and Alypius. The hymns and Canticles sank deep into his soul. He had found his home at last: Domine, fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Te. And now why should Monnica be any longer at home in the body and absent from her Lord? Her eyes had seen His salvation. Her prayers had been answered, and her son given her again, after deeper sorrow, with a fuller joy. She was on her way with him on...

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