{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010510.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010510.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010510.htm","text":"p. 516 Chapter LXV.\u2014His Continual Anxiety for Peace.\n\u201cMy design then was, first, to bring the diverse judgments formed by all nations respecting the Deity to a condition, as it were, of settled uniformity; and, secondly, to restore to health the system of the world, then suffering under the malignant power of a grievous distemper. Keeping these objects in view, I sought to accomplish the one by the secret eye of thought, while the other I tried to rectify by the power of military authority. For I was aware that, if I should succeed in establishing, according to my hopes, a common harmony of sentiment among all the servants of God, the general course of affairs would also experience a change correspondent to the pious desires of them all.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life ...","type":"page"}