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Treatise on Faith and the Creed
The work constitutes an exposition of the several clauses of the so-called Apostles' Creed. The questions concerning the mutual relations of the three Persons in the Godhead are …
On Baptism
Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life A treatise on this matter will not be …
On Monogamy
As for what pertains to antiquity, what more ancient formal type can be brought forward, than the very original fount of the human race? One female did God fashion for the male, …
An Answer to the Jews
"It happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the day until evening. By the …
Concerning Faith and Things Unseen
This tract was thought spurious by some, but is known to be St. Augustin's by his mention of it in Ep. ccxxxi. ad Darium Comitem. It seems to have been written after 399, from what …
On Repentance
And so He gathered together a people for Himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever exhorted …
To Scapula
This is a letter to Scapula, Proconsul of Africa, who had begun persecuting Christians, during 212 AD (an eclipse visible in Utica is referred to). Tertullian exhorts the Proconsul …
To His Wife
"We do not indeed forbid the union of man and woman, blest by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world, …
de Spectaculis
The Shows or De Spectaculis, also known as On the Spectacles, is a treatise by Tertullian. Written somewhere between 197-202, the work comments on issues and consequences related …
On the Pallium
Speaking of the Greek priests of Korfou, the erudite Bishop of Lincoln, lately deceased, has remarked, "There is something very picturesque in the appearance of these persons, with …