This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... ANTHROPOLOGY Vol. EL, p. 6. Augustine argues against the doctrine of pre-existence, in Forgiveness and Baptism, i., 31. "Perhaps, however, the now exploded and rejected opinion must be resumed, that souls which once sinned in their heavenly abode descend by stages and degrees to bodies suited to their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... ANTHROPOLOGY Vol. EL, p. 6. Augustine argues against the doctrine of pre-existence, in Forgiveness and Baptism, i., 31. "Perhaps, however, the now exploded and rejected opinion must be resumed, that souls which once sinned in their heavenly abode descend by stages and degrees to bodies suited to their deserts, and as a penalty for their previous life are more or less tormented by corporeal punishments. They who entertain such an opinion are unable to escape the perplexities of this question: Whence does it come to pass that a person shall from his earliest boyhood show greater moderation, mental excellence, and temperance, and shall to a great extent conquer lust, and yet live in such a place as to be unable to hear the grace of Christ preached; while another man, although addicted to lust, and covered with crime, shall be so directed as to hear, and believe, and be baptized? Where, I say, did they acquire such diverse deserts? If they had indeed passed any part of their life in heaven, so as to be thrust down, or to sink down to this world, and to tenant such bodily receptacles as are congruous to their own former life, then, of course, that man ought to be supposed to have led the better life previous to his present mortal body, who did not much deserve to be burdened with it, so as both to have a good disposition and to be importuned by milder desires, which he could easity overcome; and yet he did not deserve to have that grace preached to him whereby he could be delivered from the ruin of the second death. "Whereas the other, who was hampered with a grosser body as a penalty, so they suppose, for worse deserts, and was accordingly possessed of obtuser affections, whilst he was in the ardor of his lust succumbing to the flesh and by...
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