{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030203.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030203.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030203.htm","text":"(Recognition of the Supreme God, cap. ii., p. 176.)\nThe passage referred to in the note, begins thus in Jowett\u2019s rendering: \u201cThe Ruler of the Universe has ordered all things with a view to the preservation and perfection of the whole etc.\u201d So, in the same book: \u201cSurely God must not be supposed to have a nature which he himself hates.\u201d Again: \u201cLet us not, then, deem God inferior to human workmen, who in proportion to their skill finish and perfect their works\u2026or that God, the wisest of beings, who is willing and able to extend his care to all things, etc.\u201d Now, it is a sublime plan which our author here takes up, (making only slight reference to the innumerable citations which were behind his apostrophe to the soul if any one should dispute it) to bid the soul stand forth and confess its consciousness of God.\np. 180 II.\nThose who would pursue the subject of Demonology, which Tertullian opens in this admirable treatise, should follow it up in a writer whom Tertullian greatly influenced, in many particulars, even when he presents a remarkable contrast. The Ninth Book of the City of God is devoted to inquiries which throw considerable light on some of the startling sayings of our author as to the heathen systems, and their testimony to the Soul\u2019s Consciousness of God and of the great enemy of God and the inferior spirit of Evil.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part I: Elucida...","type":"page"}