S. Augustine Brief Passages from His Writings. (Church Lamps) (Paperback)

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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God--our reasonable service--and not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed in the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is the will of God, what is good, acceptable, and perfect; all which sacrifice we are: for, says he, 'as we have many members in one body, so we, being many, are one body in Christ'--this is the Christian's sacrifice: we, who are many, are one body in Christ. This the Church celebrates in the Sacrament of the Altar, so well known to the faithful, wherein is shown to her that, in the oblation which she makes, she herself is offered.--City of God, x. c. 6. XXXV. T Y rising and coming forth from their graves, not all will go to life eternal, but they that have done well: they that have done ill, to judgment. For here He has put judgment for punishment. There will be a sundering, and it will be not such as there now is. For now also we are severed, not by place, but by characters, affections, desires, faith, hope, charity. We live along with the unjust; yet we do not all live one and the same life: in secret we are sundered, in secret severed; as grain on the threshing-floor, not as grain in the barn. There is both a severing of the grain on the floor, and a mingling: a severing, when it is stripped of the husk; a mingling, because it is not yet winnowed. Then, there will be an open severing, as of characters, so also of life; as of wisdom, so also of bodies. They that have done well will go to live with the angels of God: they that have done ill, to be tormented with the devil and his angels. And then will pass away the Form of a Servant. For unto this end He presented Himself, that He should execute judgment; after judgment He will go hence, will take...