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13 Ascetic Discourses — Discourse 1 Prologue
Philoxenus of Mabbug — [Page 3], THE DISCOURSES UPON DISCIPLINE OF LIFE AND CHARACTER WHICH WERE DELIVERED BY THE BLESSED MAR PHILOXENUS, BISHOP OF MABBOGH, IN WHICH IS SET FORTH THE WHOLE ORDER OF INSTRUCTION ---- HOW A MAN SHOULD BEGIN THE DISCIPLESHIP OF CHRIST, AND IN WHAT LAWS AND MANNER OF LIFE HE SHOULD WALK UNTIL HE ARRIVETH AT SPIRITUAL LOVE, FROM WHICH IS BORN PERFECTION, AND IN WHICH WE BECOME CHILDREN OF THE LIKENESS OF CHRIST,
13 Ascetic Discourses — Discourse 11 On Abstinence
Philoxenus of Mabbug — [P. 420] THE ELEVENTH DISCOURSE: ON ABSTINENCE AND THE SUBJECTION OF THE BODY, WHICH SHEWETH THAT A MAN IS, THROUGH TRIBULATIONS, ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE SPIRITUAL COUNTRY OF THE ENJOYMENTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST.
13 Ascetic Discourses — Discourse 3 On Faith
Philoxenus of Mabbug — And again come, O disciple, and hearken unto the triumphs of faith which are much to be desired. Come and incline thine ear to the voice of thy mother who giveth thee life by the sweet music of her voice. Come and suck the sweet milk of doctrine from the living breast of the mother who bore thee. Come and stand by the fountain which watereth nations and tribes, for whosoever drinketh not from her his thirst is not qu
13 Ascetic Discourses — Discourse 4 On Faith First Discourse on Simplicity
Philoxenus of Mabbug — Philoxenus of Mabbug gives instruction in the ascetic life in Discourse 4 On Faith First Discourse on Simplicity, considering the habits and convictions involved in following Christ. The opening subject is “[p. 74] the fourth discourse: on faith, and how by simplicity a man may receive the commandments of Christ.” Topics include faith, the soul, and anger.
13 Ascetic Discourses — Introduction List of Works of Philoxenus
Philoxenus of Mabbug — The following is a list of the works of Philoxenus preserved in London, Paris, Rome, and Oxford.
13 Ascetic Discourses — Introduction Summary of the Discourses
Philoxenus of Mabbug — Philoxenus of Mabbug gives instruction in the ascetic life in Introduction Summary of the Discourses, considering the habits and convictions involved in following Christ. The opening subject is “the discourses of philoxenus.” Topics include the soul, faith, and baptism.
13 Ascetic Discourses — Introduction Table of Manuscripts & List of Material Omitted from Online Edition
Philoxenus of Mabbug — Philoxenus of Mabbug gives instruction in the ascetic life in Introduction Table of manuscripts & List of material omitted from online edition, considering the habits and convictions involved in following Christ. Topics include faith.
13 Ascetic Discourses — Introduction The Life of Philoxenus
Philoxenus of Mabbug — Akhsénâyâ, later named Philoxenus, was born in the third quarter of the Vth century at a village called Tahal 1 , which was situated in Beth Garmai, probably on the confines of Persia 2 ; of his parents and their rank and condition we know nothing, but as he was baptized it may be assumed that they were Christians or, at any rate, that they had leanings towards Christianity. His brother Addai is mentioned together wi
13 Ascetic Discourses — Title Page, Preface, Contents
Philoxenus of Mabbug — The present volume contains an English translation of the complete Syriac text of the Discourses of Philoxenus upon Christian Life and Character which was published early this year as Volume I of this work.1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
Confessional document — A confession from the Baptist tradition, setting out its teaching, worship, discipline, or church order in an organized historical document.40 Homilies on the Gospels
Gregory the Dialogist — Gregory the Dialogist interprets 40 Homilies on the Gospels, relating the biblical passage to Christian teaching and practice. The opening subject is “delivered to the people in the basilica of saint Peter the apostle, on the second sunday of advent of the lord.” Topics include love, sin, and the soul.A Body of Divinity
Thomas Ridgley — Thomas Ridgley’s four-volume exposition of the Westminster Larger Catechism, presenting a connected system of Reformed doctrine and Christian practice.A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments
James Oscar Boyd; J. Gresham Machen — A survey of biblical history written for teacher training and popular reading, in thirty-eight short lessons: fifteen tracing the development of the church in Old Testament times from the beginnings in Genesis to the return from exile, and twenty-three on the life of Christ and the apostolic church from the intertestamental preparation to the close of the apostolic age, each lesson ending with review questions.A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live
Richard Baxter — Baxter's evangelistic sermons on Ezekiel 33:11, urging the unconverted to turn to God and live, prefaced by a short account of Baxter's life from a later reprint.A Christian Directory — Part 1: Christian Ethics
Richard Baxter — Baxter gives practical counsel on personal Christian conduct, addressing habits, temptations, conscience, and the ordering of daily life.A Christian Directory — Part 2: Christian Economics
Richard Baxter — Small capitals have been rendered in full capitals. Italics are indicated by underscores. Sidenotes refer to the following paragraph.A Christian Directory — Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics
Richard Baxter — Baxter examines church life and ministry, offering guidance on worship, pastoral duties, church membership, and questions of conscience.A Christian Directory — Part 4: Christian Politics
Richard Baxter — Baxter considers Christian conduct in public life, including authority, obedience, justice, and responsibilities toward neighbors and rulers.A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
Tyrannius Rufinus — A brief profession of Christian faith in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, confessing Christ’s life and resurrection, the church, forgiveness, and the life to come.A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes
Dionysius of Alexandria — For what man is there who, although he may have become rich by toiling after the objects of this earth, has been able to make himself three cubits in stature, if he is naturally only of two cubits in stature? Or who, if blind, has by these means recovered his sight? Therefore we ought to direct our toils to a goal beyond the sun: for thither, too, do the exertions of the virtues reach.A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius
Augustine of Hippo — On Augustin's Forwarding to Him What He Calls His First Book "On Marriage and Concupiscence."
A Letter from Origen to Africanus
Origen of Alexandria — Origen to Africanus, a beloved brother in God the Father, through Jesus Christ, His holy Child, greeting. Your letter, from which I learn what you think of the Susanna in the Book of Daniel, which is used in the Churches, although apparently somewhat short, presents in its few words many problems, each of which demands no common treatment, but such as oversteps the character of a letter, and reaches the limits of a dA Letter from Origen to Gregory
Origen of Alexandria — 1. Greeting in God, my most excellent sir, and venerable son Gregory, from Origen. A natural readiness of comprehension, as you well know, may, if practice be added, contribute somewhat to the contingent end, if I may so call it, of that which any one wishes to practise. Thus, your natural good parts might make of you a finished Roman lawyer or a Greek philosopher, so to speak, of one of the schools in high reputatioA Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley in Answer to His Sermon Entitled 'Free Grace'
George Whitefield — Whitefield's open letter answering John Wesley's sermon Free Grace, defending election and final perseverance against Wesley's attack on predestination while pleading for continued love between the two evangelists; the classic statement of the Calvinist side of the Methodist controversy.A Manual of the Book of Psalms
Martin Luther — Luther introduces the Psalms as prayers and teaching for the church, explaining their themes and their use in faith, worship, suffering, and thanksgiving.
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
John Wesley — Wesley's account, in its final 1777 form, of how his teaching on Christian perfection developed from 1725 onward, with extracts from his sermons, hymns, conference minutes and answers to objections, followed by his Brief Thoughts on Christian Perfection.A Priest to the Temple, or, The Countrey Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life
George Herbert — Herbert's portrait of the country parson in thirty-seven short chapters: his life, knowledge, praying and preaching, his Sundays, household, charity and church, his visiting, catechizing and administering of the sacraments, his dealings with church-wardens, his library and his way of applying remedies to the souls of his parish.
A Retrospect
Hudson Taylor — Hudson Taylor's account of his conversion, call to China, medical training, first years of missionary work and the experiences of answered prayer and faith that led to the founding of the China Inland Mission in 1865.A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies
Hudson Taylor — Eight short Bible studies by Hudson Taylor, beginning with the 'ribband of blue' on the borders of Israel's garments in Numbers 15 and continuing with meditations on Psalm 1, Job, the Queen of Sheba, Ruth and the Shepherd's care.
A Summary of the Christian Faith
Henry Eyster Jacobs — Jacobs's systematic summary of Christian doctrine on the basis of the Lutheran Confessions.A Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 1
Augustine of Hippo — Augustin replies to a letter sent by Julian, as it was said, to Rome; and first of all vindicates the catholic doctrine from his calumnies; then discovers and confutes the heretical sense of the Pelagians hidden in that profession of faith which the author of the letter opposed to the catholics.A Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 3
Augustine of Hippo — Augustin goes on to refute other matters which are calumniously objected by the Pelagians in the same letter sent to Thessalonica; and expounds, in opposition to their heresy, what those who are truly Catholic say concerning the utility of the law; what they teach of the effect and virtue of baptism; what of the discrepancy between the two testaments, the old and the new; what concerning the righteousness and perfectA Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 4
Augustine of Hippo — After having set aside in the former books the Calumnies hurled against the Catholics, Augustin here proceeds to open up the snares which lie hidden in the remaining part of the second epistle of the Pelagians, in the five heads of their doctrine-In the praise, to wit, of the creature, the praise of marriage, the praise of the law, the praise of free will, and the praise of the saints; in connection with which heads
A Treatise concerning the Correction of the Donatists
Augustine of Hippo — A letter of Augustin 2 to Boniface, who, as we learn from Epistle 220, was Tribune, and afterwards Count in Africa. In it Augustin shows that the heresy of the Donatists has nothing in common with that of Arius; and points out the moderation with which it was possible to recall the heretics to the communion of the Church through awe of the imperial laws. He adds remarks concerning the savage conduct of the Donatists
A Treatise of Novatian concerning the Trinity
Novatian — Novatian's treatise concerning the Trinity is divided into thirty-one chapters. He first of all, from chapter first to the eighth, considers those words of the Rule of Truth or Faith, 1 which bid us believe on God the Father and Lord Almighty, the absolutely perfect Creator of all things. Wherein among the other divine attributes he moreover ascribes to Him, partly from reason and partly from the Holy Scriptures, immA Treatise of the Covenant of Grace
John Ball — John Ball's posthumous treatise on covenant theology, tracing the covenant of grace from Adam through the patriarchs, Moses and the prophets to Christ, contrasting it with the covenant of works and answering Arminian positions. A key source for the Westminster divines. Seventeenth-century spelling retained.
A Treatise on Faith and the Creed
Augustine of Hippo — The occasion and date of the composition of this treatise are indicated in a statement which Augustin makes in the seventeenth chapter of the First Book of his Retractations .
A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
Augustine of Hippo — Augustine examines how God’s grace and human willing belong together. He reads biblical commands and promises to explain why obedience depends on divine help without making human choices meaningless.A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin — Book 2
Augustine of Hippo — Wherein Augustin shows that Pelagius really differs in no respect, on the question of original sin and the baptism of infants, from his follower Coelestius, who, refusing to acknowledge original sin and even daring to deny the doctrine in public, was condemned in trials before the bishops - first at carthage, and afterwards at rome; for this question is not, as these heretics would have it, one wherein persons mightA Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints — Book 1
Augustine of Hippo — Wherein the truth of predestination and grace is defended against the semi-Pelagians,-those people to wit, who by no means withdraw altogether from the Pelagian heresy, in that they contend that the beginning of salvation and of faith is of ourselves; so that in virtue, as it were, of this precedent merit, the other good gifts of God are attained. Augustin shows that not only the increase, but the very beginning also
A Treatise on the Soul
Tertullian — Having discussed with Hermogenes the single point of the origin of the soul, so far as his assumption led me, that the soul consisted rather in an adaptation 3 of matter than of the inspiration 4 of God, I now turn to the other questions incidental to the subject; and (in my treatment of these) I shall evidently have mostly to contend with the philosophers. In the very prison of Socrates they skirmished about the staA Vindication of the Doctrine That the Sacrifice of the Mass Is Idolatry
John Knox — Knox's defence, delivered at Newcastle on 4 April 1550 before the Council of the North and Bishop Tunstall, of his teaching that the Mass is idolatry, argued by two syllogisms from Scripture against worship devised by human beings.
Aaron's Rod Blossoming
George Gillespie — OR, The Divine Ordinance of Church-Government VINDICATED, So as the present Erastian Controversie concerning the distinction of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Government, Excommunication, and Suspension, is fully debated and discussed, from the holy Scripture, from the Jewish and Christian Antiquities, from the consent of latter Writers, from the true nature and rights of Migistracy, and from the groundlesnesse of the chAbandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence
Jean-Pierre de Caussade — The treatise on abandonment to divine providence, in three books, on the virtue of abandonment, on finding the divine action in the duties and events of each present moment, and on how God guides and sustains the soul wholly abandoned to him, with Ramière's preface distinguishing true abandonment from the error of the Quietists and an appendix of short pieces and acts of abandonment.Abstract of Principles of 1858
Confessional document — The authors discusses the Holy Spirit, sin, and divine grace in Abstract of Principles of 1858. The opening subject is “God is revealed to us as father, son and Holy spirit each with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence or being.”Acta Archelai
Hegemonius — Source : Please note that this is the public domain, 19th century translation by S. D. F. Salmond. A new translation by Mark Vermes, based on the improved Beeson critical edition of the text, was published by Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium) in 2001.
Acts of Peter and Paul
Acts of Peter and Paul — It came to pass, after Paul went out of the island Gaudomeleta, 1 that he came to Italy; and it was heard of by the Jews who were in Rome, the elder of the cities, that Paul demanded to come to Caesar. Having fallen, therefore, into great grief and much despondency, they said among themselves: It does not please him that he alone has afflicted all our brethren and parents in Judaea and Samaria, and in all Palestine;Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus — Disputation of the Second Day
Augustine of Hippo — The next day, a notary having again been summoned, the discussion was conducted as follows:Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Martin Luther — Martin Luther discusses the soul, care for the poor, and faith in Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation. The opening subject is “to the respected and worthy nicolaus von amsdorff, licentiate in the holy scriptures and canon of wittenberg, my particular and affectionate friend.”
Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
Basil of Caesarea — Frederick Morgan PADELFORD, Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and Basil the Great. Yale Studies in English 15 (1902) pp. 99-120. Address to young men on the right use of Greek literature.Admonitions to the Monks
Rabbula — Rabbula discusses martyrdom, divine grace, and care for the poor in Admonitions to the monks. The opening subject is “some early rules for syrian monks.”
Against Celsus — Book 1
Origen of Alexandria — 1. When false witnesses testified against our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He remained silent; and when unfounded charges were brought against Him, He returned no answer, believing that His whole life and conduct among the Jews were a better refutation than any answer to the false testimony, or than any formal defence against the accusations. And I know not, my pious Ambrosius, 1 why you wished me to write a reply
Against Celsus — Book 2
Origen of Alexandria — The first book of our answer to the treatise of Celsus, entitled A True Discourse , which concluded with the representation of the Jew addressing Jesus, having now extended to a sufficient length, we intend the present part as a reply to the charges brought by him against those who have been converted from Judaism to Christianity. 1 And we call attention, in the first place, to this special question, viz., why Celsus
Against Celsus — Book 3
Origen of Alexandria — In the first book of our answer to the work of Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed against us A True Discourse , we have gone through, as you enjoined, my faithful Ambrosius, to the best of our ability, his preface, and the parts immediately following it, testing each one of his assertions as we went along, until we finished with the tirade 1 of this Jew of his, feigned. to have bee
Against Celsus — Book 4
Origen of Alexandria — Having, in the three preceding books, fully stated what occurred to us by way of answer to the treatise of Celsus, we now, reverend Ambrosius, with prayer to God through Christ, offer this fourth book as a reply to what follows. And we pray that words may be given us, as it is written in the book of Jeremiah that the Lord said to the prophet: "Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth as fire. See, I have set thee thi
Against Celsus — Book 5
Origen of Alexandria — It is not, my reverend Ambrosius, because we seek after many words-a thing which is forbidden, and in the indulgence of which it is impossible to avoid sin 1 -that we now begin the fifth book of our reply to the treatise of Celsus, but with the endeavour, so far as may be within our power, to leave none of his statements without examination, and especially those in which it might appear to some that he had skilfully
Against Celsus — Book 6
Origen of Alexandria — In beginning this our sixth book, we desire, my reverend Ambrosius, to answer in it those accusations which Celsus brings against the Christians , not, as might be supposed, those objections which he has adduced from writers on philosophy . For he has quoted a considerable number of passages, chiefly from Plato, and has placed alongside of these such declarations of holy Scripture as are fitted to impress even the in
Against Celsus — Book 7
Origen of Alexandria — In the six former books we have endeavoured, reverend brother Ambrosius, according to our ability to meet the charges brought by Celsus against the Christians, and have as far as possible passed over nothing without first subjecting it to a full and close examination. And now, while we enter upon the seventh book, we call upon God through Jesus Christ, whom Celsus accuses, that He who is the truth of God would shed l
Against Celsus — Book 8
Origen of Alexandria — Having completed seven books, I now propose to begin the eighth. And may God and His Only-begotten Son the Word be with us, to enable us effectively to refute the falsehoods which Celsus has published under the delusive title of A True Discourse , and at the same time to unfold the truths of Christianity with such fulness as our purpose requires. And as Paul said, "We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did besAgainst Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia — Fragments of Book 1 against Diodore
Cyril of Alexandria — Surviving excerpts from Cyril of Alexandria’s writings, collected here as Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, Fragments of Book 1 Against Diodore. Readers can examine passages preserved apart from their original complete works. The opening subject is “from his treatise against diodore bishop of tarsus 1.” Topics include the soul, truth, and the incarnation.Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia — Fragments of Book 2 against Theodore
Cyril of Alexandria — Surviving excerpts from Cyril of Alexandria’s writings, collected here as Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, Fragments of Book 2 Against Theodore. Readers can examine passages preserved apart from their original complete works. The opening subject is “from his second book against the words of theodore 1.” Topics include divine grace, the incarnation, and suffering.Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia — Fragments of Book 3 against Theodore
Cyril of Alexandria — Surviving excerpts from Cyril of Alexandria’s writings, collected here as Against Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, Fragments of Book 3 Against Theodore. Readers can examine passages preserved apart from their original complete works. The opening subject is “from the third book against theodore bishop of mopsuestia.” Topics include the incarnation, baptism, and divine grace.Against Eunomius — Book 10
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses eternal life, faith, and knowledge in Against Eunomius, Book 10.Against Eunomius — Book 11
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, baptism, and truth in Against Eunomius, Book 11.Against Eunomius — Book 12
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses the incarnation, divine grace, and truth in Against Eunomius, Book 12. The opening subject is “§1. this twelfth book gives a notable interpretation of the words of the lord to Mary, "touch me not, for i am not yet ascended to my father.”Against Eunomius — Book 2
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses the Holy Spirit, creation, and the soul in Against Eunomius, Book 2. The opening subject is “§2. gregory then makes an explanation at length touching the eternal father, the son, and the Holy spirit.”Against Eunomius — Book 3
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, truth, and knowledge in Against Eunomius, Book 3. The opening subject is “§2. he then once more excellently, approximately, and clearly examines and expounds the passage, "the lord created me.”Against Eunomius — Book 4
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, idolatry, and truth in Against Eunomius, Book 4. The opening subject is “§3. he then again admirably discussed the term prwtotokoz as it is four times employed apostle.”Against Eunomius — Book 5
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, the incarnation, and suffering in Against Eunomius, Book 5.Against Eunomius — Book 6
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses suffering, sin, and creation in Against Eunomius, Book 6.Against Eunomius — Book 7
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, the Holy Spirit, and truth in Against Eunomius, Book 7.Against Eunomius — Book 8
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, truth, and the soul in Against Eunomius, Book 8.Against Eunomius — Book 9
Gregory of Nyssa — Gregory of Nyssa discusses creation, truth, and the soul in Against Eunomius, Book 9.
Against Hermogenes
Tertullian — Tertullian discusses creation, the soul, and truth in Against Hermogenes. The opening subject is “hermogenes, after a perverse induction from mere heretical assumptions, concludes that God created all things out of pre-existing matter.”Against Jovinianus — Book 1
Jerome — Jerome discusses marriage, virginity, and the law in Against Jovinianus, Book 1. The opening subject is “a denunciation of jovinianus (c. 40), and the praises of virginity and of jingle marriages derived from examples in the heathen world.”Against Jovinianus — Book 2
Jerome — Jerome discusses sin, fasting, and baptism in Against Jovinianus, Book 2.Against Julian — Book 2 (Start)
Cyril of Alexandria — Cyril of Alexandria discusses creation, the soul, and truth in Against Julian, Book 2 (start).Against Julian — Prefatory Address to the Emperor Theodosius
Cyril of Alexandria — Cyril of Alexandria discusses faith in Against Julian, Prefatory address to the Emperor Theodosius. The opening subject is “address of the blessed cyril, archbishop of alexandria,.”
Against Lying
Augustine of Hippo — Augustine of Hippo discusses truth, sin, and the soul in Against Lying. The opening subject is “against lying.”Against Marcion 1
Ephrem the Syrian — Ephrem the Syrian discusses prayer, divine grace, and the soul in Against Marcion 1. The opening subject is “against marcion i.”Against Marcion 2
Ephrem the Syrian — Ephrem the Syrian discusses baptism, humility, and the law in Against Marcion 2. The opening subject is “against marcion ii.”
Against Praxeas
Tertullian — Tertullian discusses church unity, suffering, and the Holy Spirit in Against Praxeas. The opening subject is “the catholic doctrine of the Trinity and unity, sometimes called the divine economy, or dispensation of the personal relations of the godhead.”Against the Donatists — Appendix 1. The Trial of Felix, Bishop of Aptunga
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses prayer, the law, and truth in Against the Donatists, Appendix 1. The trial of Felix, Bishop of Aptunga. The opening subject is “acta purgationis felicis episcopi autumnitani.”Against the Donatists — Appendix 2. The Trial before Zenophilus
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses care for the poor, the soul, and martyrdom in Against the Donatists, Appendix 2. The trial before Zenophilus. The opening subject is “appendix----ii.”Against the Donatists — Book 3
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses church unity, baptism, and care for the poor in Against the Donatists, Book 3. The opening subject is “i. the severities against the donatists were provoked by themselves, and catholics ought not to be blamed for them.”Against the Donatists — Book 4
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses baptism, sin, and prayer in Against the Donatists, Book 4. The opening subject is “book the fourth.”Against the Donatists — Book 5
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses baptism, the Trinity, and divine grace in Against the Donatists, Book 5. The opening subject is “i. from parmenian's own principles it follows that baptism is one.”Against the Donatists — Book 7
Optatus of Milevis — Optatus of Milevis discusses church unity, the law, and sin in Against the Donatists, Book 7. The opening subject is “i. that the donatists can be received back into the communion of the church more easily than could have been their fathers who were guilty of betrayal.”Against the Donatists — Preface to the Online Edition
Optatus of Milevis — Introductory material for Against the Donatists by Optatus of Milevis, providing context for the edition and the work that follows. The opening subject is “what statements, agreed by all sides, do we have about caecilian?.” Topics include church unity.Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental
Augustine of Hippo — Correspondence from the collected letters of Augustine of Hippo: Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental. Topics include the Holy Spirit, truth, and the soul.Against the Frauds of the Apollinarists — English Translation
Leontius of Byzantium — Leontius of Byzantium discusses the incarnation, creation, and truth in Against the frauds of the Apollinarists, English translation. The opening subject is “against the forgeries of the apollinarists [4].”