Apologetic and Practical Treatises Author:Tertullian General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Original Publisher: Parker Subjects: Apologetics Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you... more » buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: One supreme God owned by Heathens. 61 even with the blood of Christians. If then it were possible for them to speak falsely under the hands of a Christian desiring to prove the truth unto you, they would be unwilling to lose you, so profitable and so serviceable to them, even from the fear of being driven out one day by yourselves perhaps, made Christians. XXIV. All this confession of theirs whereby they deny themselves to be gods, and whereby they make answer that there is no other God, save this One, Whose servants we are, is quite sufficient to refute the charge of sinning against the public, and ' especially the Roman, Religion. For if they be "public! certainly no gods, neither certainly is the Religion aught; and j if the Religion be nought, because the gods are nought, neither certainly are we guilty of sinning against Religion. But on the contrary your reproach hath really recoiled upon your-re isu selves, who worshipping a lie, not only by neglecting, butaddtd moreover by warring against, the true Religion of the true God, commit against the True One the crime of true irreligion. Now3 then although it were allowed that theseJNunc were gods, do ye not grant, according to the common belief, that there is some One higher and mightier, as the King of the universe, of perfect power and majesty ? For the most part of men also do so apportion the Divine Nature, that they will have the power of chief dominion to belong to One, its offices to many : even as Plato d de...« less