NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine

NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian
Doctrine
That the One God is to Be Worshipped Not Only for the Sake of Eternal
Blessings, But Also in Connection with Temporal Prosperity, Because All
Things are Regulated by His Providence.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 276
Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence
of God.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 276
Whether Those Angels Who Demand that We Pay Them Divine Honor,
or Those Who Teach Us to Render Holy Service, Not to Themselves,
But to God, are to Be Trusted About the Way to Life Eternal.. . . . . . . p. 277
Concerning the Ark of the Covenant, and the Miraculous Signs Whereby
God Authenticated the Law and the Promise.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 279
Against Those Who Deny that the Books of the Church are to Be Believed
About the Miracles Whereby the People of God Were Educated.. . . . . p. 280
On the Reasonableness of Offering, as the True Religion Teaches, a
Visible Sacrifice to the One True and Invisible God.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 280
Of the Supreme and True Sacrifice Which Was Effected by the Mediator
Between God and Men.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 281
Of the Power Delegated to Demons for the Trial and Glorification of the
Saints, Who Conquer Not by Propitiating the Spirits of the Air, But by
Abiding in God.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 281
Whence the Saints Derive Power Against Demons and True Purification
of Heart.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 282
Of the Principles Which, According to the Platonists, Regulate the
Purification of the Soul.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 283
Of the One Only True Principle Which Alone Purifies and Renews Human
Nature.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 284
That All the Saints, Both Under the Law and Before It, Were Justified by
Faith in the Mystery of Christ’s Incarnation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 285
Of Porphyry’s Weakness in Wavering Between the Confession of the
True God and the Worship of Demons.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 286
Of the Impiety of Porphyry, Which is Worse Than Even the Mistake of
Apuleius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 287
How It is that Porphyry Has Been So Blind as Not to Recognize the True
Wisdom—Christ.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 288
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which the Platonists in Their
Impiety Blush to Acknowledge.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 289
Porphyry’s Emendations and Modifications of Platonism.. . . . . . . . . p. 291
Against the Arguments on Which the Platonists Ground Their Assertion
that the Human Soul is Co-Eternal with God.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 293
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Philip Schaff