| Book II.
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| Chap.
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| 1. |
Introductory, |
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| 2. |
The Knowledge of God can be attained only through Faith, |
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| 3. |
Faith not a product of Nature, |
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| 4. |
Faith the foundation of all Knowledge, |
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| 5. |
He proves by several examples that the Greeks drew from the Sacred Writers, |
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| 6. |
The Excellence and Utility of Faith, |
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| 7. |
The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered, |
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| 8. |
The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear being the Cause of Things, |
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| 9. |
The Connection of the Christian Virtues, |
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| 10. |
To what the Philosopher applies himself, |
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| 11. |
The Knowledge which comes through Faith the Surest of All, |
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| 12. |
Twofold Faith, |
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| 13. |
On First and Second Repentance, |
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| 14. |
How a Thing may be Involuntary, |
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| 15. |
On the different kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins thence proceeding, |
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| 16. |
How we are to explain the passages of Scripture which ascribe to God Human Affections, |
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| 17. |
On the various kinds of Knowledge, |
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| 18. |
The Mosaic Law the fountain of all Ethics, and the source from which the Greeks drew theirs, |
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| 19. |
The true Gnostic is an imitator of God, especially in Beneficence, |
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| 20. |
The true Gnostic exercises Patience and Self-restraint, |
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| 21. |
Opinions of various Philosophers on the Chief Good, |
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| 22. |
Plato's Opinion, that the Chief Good consists in assimilation to God, and its agreement with Scripture, |
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| 23. |
On Marriage, |
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| Book III.
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| 1. |
Basilidis Sententiam de Continentia et Nuptiis refutat, |
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| 2. |
Carpocratis et Epiphanis Sententiam de Feminarum Communitate refutat, |
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| 3. |
Quatenus Plato aliique e veteribus præiverint Marcionitis aliisque Hæreticis, qui a Nuptiis ideo abstinent quia Creaturam malam existimant et nasci Homines in Pœnam opinantur, |
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| 4. |
Quibus prætextibus utantur Hæretici ad omnis generis licentiam et libidinem exercendam, |
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