Letter Xliii a Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey. Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and hath for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred. 27 of 37 9/29/2016 ( THU) ID 919161452389 RADIO BROADCAST Blog -This . GOD ACCURATELY AND EXHAUSTIVELY KNOWS ALL THAT MAN MIGHT, BUT DOES NOT, KNOW OF HIMSELF. vi. And though we thought that we had suffered loss from the tardiness of their coming, yet we find gain from their more abundant charity; seeing that from this delay in point Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatThe Coming Revival"Wilt Thou not revive us again: that Thy people may rejoice in Thee?"--PS. 23, 24). 1, 2. S. Augustine, Of the Perfection of Human Righteousness, viii. I. We become unconscious of everything by long use. Justice, in this reference, is out of the question. )God and ourselvesW. Ps. Take heed unto me and hear me; how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed.--Psalm iv. Why should not we have like confidence? Is the Contemplative Life wholly confined to the Intellect, or does the Will enter into it? He may be an uncommonly thoughtful person, and little of what is done within his soul may escape his notice; nay, we will make the extreme supposition that he arrests every thought as it rises, and looks at it; that he analyzes every sentiment as it swells his heart; that he scrutinizes every purpose as it determines his will; even if he should have such a thorough and profound self-knowledge as this, God knows him equally profoundly and equally thoroughly. As Romans 8:28-30 says: And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 1, 2. GOD ACCURATELY AND EXHAUSTIVELY KNOWS ALL THAT MAN KNOWS OF HIMSELF. 23, 24). Decision # 5: Choose Daily to Serve the Lord. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. It constitutes the response of the Church to the divine demands of prophecy, and, in a less degree, of law; or, rather, it expresses those emotions and aspirations of the universal heart which lie deeper than any formal demand. 18, 19. The proposals of that Covenant include its promises and its duties. It is a simple question of time; a simple question whether it shall come here in this world, where the blood of Christ "freely" flows, or in the future world, where "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. ", 2. The proposals of that Covenant include its promises and its duties. Nor did God create these each by himself, and join them together as alien by birth: but He created the one St. He has suffered thus, partly from a certain obscurity in his style of writing, partly from the difficulty of the thoughts which he attempted to convey. Now, in this condition of things, God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life. Take heed unto me and hear me; how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed.--Psalm iv. OURSELVES. able characteristics of a rational being is the power of self-inspection. Nay, more, this process of self-inspection may go on indefinitely, and the man grow more and more thoughtful, and obtain an everlastingly augmenting knowledge of what he is and what he does, so that it shall seem to him that he is penetrating so deeply into those dim and shadowy regions of consciousness where the external life takes its very first start, and then he may be sure that God understands the thought that is afar off, and deep down, and that at this lowest range and plane in his experience he besets him behind and before.II. --The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. The Promise of Peace You keep him in perfect peace You keep him in perfect peace. It is easy for us to talk to God when there is a problem or issue and more often than not, God hears us. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage [1454] . St. Hilary of Poitiers is one of the greatest, yet least studied, of the Fathers of the Western Church. 19 III. vi. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. Chapter i. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. : The fact that God is always present and knows every minute trifle in our lives, and that His unerring judgment will assuredly take count of every detail of our character and our conduct, neither exaggerating nor omitting, but applying absolute justice; this truth is one of those which lose force from their very universality. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. 7 ad 3m II. Those who are always hearing pure and high principles set forth as the guides of life learn to value and to know them even faster than they can learn to live by them. And lest the presence of God should be too much for us, Christ has taken human nature on Him, and has provided that He will be always with us as long as the world shall last. The Lord Shall Perfect That Which Concerns You | Phaneroo Service 240 Sermon Preview by Apostle Grace Lubega Listen to the full sermon here: https://soundcl. Hear my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my petition. The thought will flash across us that God sees us. Hear my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my petition. "(Archbishop Temple. We cannot live long with men without catching something of their manner, of their mode of thought, of their character, of their government of themselves. That of siding with Him against evil (vers. Those who are always hearing pure and high principles set forth as the guides of life learn to value and to know them even faster than they can learn to live by them. )God all-seeing:In the mythology of the heathen, Momus, the god of fault-finding, is represented as blaming Vulcan, because in the human form, which he had made of clay, he had not placed a window in the breast, by which whatever was done or thought there might easily be brought to light. (1)Innumerable.(2)Constant.II. (Isa. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. xviii. Therefore the first natural bond of human society is man and wife. said Collins, the infidel, to a poor but pious man. There is, therefore, nothing wrong in our forgetting that we are in the presence of God any more than there is anything foolish in our forgetting that we need air to breathe or light to see by, or that if we fall we may hurt ourselves: just in the same way as we very often, and quite rightly, forget that we are in the company of men who will take notice of our faults. The separate, personal thinking of God toward every one of us.(1)Innumerable.(2)Constant.II. "Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us. That act whereby another being knows my secret thoughts and inmost feelings is most certainly inexplicable.I. The worst has been seen, and that too by the holiest of beings, and yet eternal glory is offered to us! He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. Does the Contemplative Life comprise many Acts? If that Being has gone down into these depths of human depravity, and seen it with a more abhorring glance than could ever shoot from a finite eye, and yet has returned with a cordial offer to forgive it all, and a hearty proffer to cleanse it all away, then we can lift up the eye in adoration and in hope. Hence Paul Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatSense in Which, and End for which all Things were Delivered to the Incarnate Son. The proposals of that Covenant include its promises and its duties. To reveal the supreme interest of human life. 15. Take heed unto me and hear me; how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed.--Psalm iv. iii. Said Milton, speaking of his travels abroad when a young man: "I again take God to witness that in all places where so many things are considered lawful, I lived sound and untouched from all profligacy and vice, having this thought perpetually with me, that though I might escape the eyes of men, I certainly could not the eyes of God."4. My Prophetic Prayer Points for Today (My PPP) O God, I thank You for being my Shepherd in the previous months. Our hearts will put us in mind of God's eye being upon us every now and then involuntarily. How shall we learn to walk by His side? To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.". This is the communion with Him, and with Christ, which unquestionably helps the struggling, the penitent, the praying, more than anything else. II. The duties of that Covenant are God's law; and the demands of the law are all made John CunninghamThe Ordinance of CovenantingIntroduction. Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage [1454] . But there are other reasons for the comparative neglect into which he has fallen. (2)Unseen world.(3)Everywhere. So that whenever we are on the point of doing or saying anything cowardly, or mean, or false, or impure, or proud, or conceited, or unkind, the remembrance that God is looking on shall instantly flash across us and help us to beat down our enemy. v. 14), the earth was cursed, Hades was opened, Paradise shut, Heaven offended, man, lastly, corrupted and brutalised (cf. "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me." The word, "me," in the text, cannot be appropriated by any man, unless he, in some respects, resembles the character of David, who penned this psalm. [2105] And these without all controversy we take to be humble. Letter Xliii a Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey. Hilary of PoitiersThe Life and Writings of St. Hilary of PoitiersPsalmsThe piety of the Old Testament Church is reflected with more clearness and variety in the Psalter than in any other book of the Old Testament. Those who live much in a court acquire courtly manners. Though the transgressor is ignorant of much of his sin, because, at the time of its commission, he sins blindly as well as wilfully, and unreflectingly as well as freely; and though the transgressor has forgotten much of that small amount of sin, of which he was conscious, and by which he was pained, at the time of its perpetration; though, on the side of man, the powers of self-inspection and memory have accomplished so little towards this preservation of man's sin, yet God knows it all, and remembers it all. "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me: Thy right hand shall save me."--PS. We become unconscious of everything by long use. "Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Being rich he becomes richer; being already high born, of still nobler lineage; being illustrious, he gains greater renown; and--what is more than all--once a sinner he is now a saint. Now, in this condition of things, God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life. One of these, borrowed from the Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria,48 was based on the universal right conferred by the 'law of nations' (ius gentium) to freedom of trade and communication. GOD ACCURATELY AND EXHAUSTIVELY KNOWS ALL THAT MAN KNOWS OF HIMSELF. This is the communion with Him, and with Christ, which unquestionably helps the struggling, the penitent, the praying, more than anything else. xlix. Do the Moral Virtues pertain to the Contemplative Life? Though the transgressor is ignorant of much of his sin, because, at the time of its commission, he sins blindly as well as wilfully, and unreflectingly as well as freely; and though the transgressor has forgotten much of that small amount of sin, of which he was conscious, and by which he was pained, at the time of its perpetration; though, on the side of man, the powers of self-inspection and memory have accomplished so little towards this preservation of man's sin, yet God knows it all, and remembers it all.