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The Mankhees. Sect. IV. 329
plains that ' some,*^ even christi'ins, did not believe the things
' said in the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.'
At the village Diodoris, Mani is represented speaking- to
Archelaus in this honest, and resolute, and truly christian
manner :
' If** you have a mind to persecute me, I submit
' if you would inflict punishments upon me, 1 do not decline
' them; if you would kill me, I am not afraid. For we
' ought to fear him alone, who is able to destroy both soul
' and body in hell :' see Matt. x. 28.
Faustus in his book usually proposeth difficulties and
objections against their scheme in the way of cjuestion
' Do*' you receive the gospel ? Yes certainly.' Afterwards:
' Do*^ you receive the g'ospel ; and do you ask me whether
' I receive the gospel, when in fact it appears that I receive
' it by doing what it commands'?' which he there proceeds
to show in a variety of particulars. Hes speaks ' of the
' wholesome, or saving words of the Lord, and his divine
' discourses.' And, according to him, Christ'' is light and
truth itself, and' a teacher and model of all virtue.
Faustus readily professeth himself and the rest of the
JManichees'' to be disciples of Christ and his apostles: nor'
will they be prevailed upon by any to forsake Jesus, the son
of God, their master. Our"' Lord, and our Saviour, are
characters and titles by which they continually speak of
Jesus Christ.
Titus of Bostra owns that" they honoured the nanie of
*^ Owrt yap toiq (tpr)fiEvotQ iv ivayyiKioiQ Trap' avrs m ffwTTjpoQ rjfxwv rai
KvpiH Irjas XpiTS Tri^tvuaiv. ib. p. 7.
** Si persequi volueris, paratus sum : et si inferre supplicia, non refugiam.
Si etiam interficere me vis, non reformido. &c. Arch. n. 47. p. 84.
' Accipis evangelium ? Et maxime. Faust. 1. 2. c. i.
^ Accipis evangelium ? Tu me interrogas, utrum accipiam evangelium, in
quo id ipsum accipere appavet, quia quae jubet observo— ? Ego patrem
dimisi— , et interrogas, utrum accipiam evangelium ? Nisi adhuc nescis, quid
sit quod evangelium nuncupatur. 1. 5. c. i.
B credimus, —tum prsecepta salutaria ejus, tum parabolus, cunctumque
sermonem deificum. Id. 1. 32. c. 7. ^ Christum lumen,
sanctimonium, divina omnia petentem. 1. 14. c. i. f.—veritatis auctori. 1. 16.
c. 2. ' Quid vero et de magistro ipso dicemus ac sanctimonii
totius auctore Jesu ? 1. 30. 3. 4.
^ ut lere Christo placet et ejusapostolis, et nobis profecto. 1. 24. c.
i. med.—neque id temere aut praesumtive, sed a Christo discentes et ejus apos-
tolis, &c. eod. cap. ad fin. ' Nos vero quamvis de hac sententia
nemo prorsus dejiciat, ex Deo accipiendi filium Dei. 1. 23. c. 3. in.
" Et merito dixisse Dominum nostrum. Fortunat. Disp. i. c. 14. Evasimus
igitur, quia spiritalem secuti sumus salvatorem. Nam illius tantum erupit
audacia, ut si noster Dominus carnalis foret, omnis nostra fuisset spes amputata.
Secundin. ad Aug. c. 4. " a\K' tirnSt} Tirturjmt to
ovofia TH \t](TH, Tit. 1. 3. in. p. 139.
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