tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77210279601310920932024-02-19T02:57:48.404-06:00A-Mayes-ing GraceTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.comBlogger1223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-76380330263464850932012-08-06T09:55:00.000-05:002012-08-06T09:56:27.217-05:00Ave atque valeDear visitors,<br />
<br />
Thank you for having visited with me over the past 15 months. It has certainly been the unique experience on my part, especially seeing the different countries that have come to view my blog. Unfortunately, I am running up against some time constraints – a publisher has asked me to translate a book and I am way behind schedule on the timetable I had set up for myself. That being the case, I'm afraid I'm giving up my blog as of today. Thank you for visiting with me, and I pray that God will bless you and yours in the months ahead.<br />
<br />
In Christ's name,<br />
Ted MayesTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-70640071794107522712012-08-05T07:01:00.000-05:002012-08-05T07:01:00.187-05:00Latin<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Quod non dedit Fortuna, non eripit.
(Seneca)</span></div>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fortune does not take away what she has not given.</span></pre>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-55595554120759989012012-08-05T07:00:00.000-05:002012-08-05T07:00:01.344-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<i><u>Italy</u></i></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Boniface VIII</b>, 1294-1303
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - 1300, Boniface decreed a “Great
Jubilee”, a big celebration in Rome where special </span><span style="font-size: large;">indulgences were offered, and so
much money came in that it had to be “raked” into baskets</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - 1302, the bull <i>Unam Sanctam</i>
in which Boniface decreed that he had the right to make and </span><span style="font-size: large;">unmake kings and emperors, “We,
moreover, proclaim, declare and pronounce that it is </span><span style="font-size: large;">altogether necessary to salvation
for every human being to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - 1303, Philip IV of France sent
people to arrest him; the French agents had to run for it, but </span><span style="font-size: large;">Boniface “died of humiliation”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“But
in things above (that is, with God), God has never allowed nor does
He now allow such activity. Rather, here, whatever is to be done
ought to be done only with the certain and express command of God,
because a human being, of himself, does not know the things that are
above him, that is, what God wills, unless He has revealed Himself by
His Word,....” Martin Luther, Preface to Breismann, <i>Response to
Schatzgeyer</i>, LW, AE, 59:30-31</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-77743496653833554682012-08-04T07:01:00.000-05:002012-08-04T07:01:00.046-05:00Latin proverbs<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nos ... beatam vitam in animi
securitate ponimus. (Cicero)</span></div>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my opinion, happiness lies in peace of mind.</span></pre>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-40043801819448356992012-08-04T07:00:00.000-05:002012-08-04T07:00:07.325-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Charles VI</b>, 1380-1422
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - young when he came to the throne, he
also suffered from periods of insanity, so Charles’ </span><span style="font-size: large;">uncles held the power - much unrest
because of the suffering of the people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-75797544273279444362012-08-03T07:02:00.000-05:002012-08-03T07:02:00.556-05:00Imitation of Christ<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fili, ego debeo esse finis tuus supremus. Ex hac intentione purificabitur affectus tuus, sæpius ad se ipsum, et ad creaturas male incurvatus. Nam si te ipsum in aliquo quæris, statim in te deficies et arescis. Omnia ergo ad me principaliter referas qui omnia sum, qui omnia dedi. Sic singula considera sicut ex summo bono manantia. Et ideo ad me tanquam ad originem suam cuncta sunt referenda.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My son, I must be your Supreme and final end, if you desires to <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">be
truly happy. Out of such purpose your affection shall be </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">purified,
which too often is sinfully bent upon itself and upon </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">created
things. For if you seek yourself in any matter, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">straightway you will fail within yourself and grow barren. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">Therefore
refer everything to Me first of all, for it is I who </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">gave
you all. So look upon each blessing as flowing from the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">Supreme
Good, and thus all things are to be attributed to Me as </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">their
source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Imitation of Christ</i>, III, 9:1</span></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-89494023326631295562012-08-03T07:01:00.000-05:002012-08-03T07:01:00.094-05:00Ecclesiasticus<span style="font-size: large;">"Have you heard a word? Let it die with you. Be brave! It will not make you burst!" Ecclesiasticus 19:10</span>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-37875291743519599372012-08-03T07:00:00.000-05:002012-08-03T07:00:11.899-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Charles V, “the Wise”,</b>
1364-1380</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - spent his time during a period of
peace to strengthen the country - the basic structure that he </span><span style="font-size: large;">set up lasted until the French
Revolution in 1789 - got the French parliament (“estates”) to </span><span style="font-size: large;">agree that as long as the old taxes
weren’t changed, they didn’t need to be renewed by the </span><span style="font-size: large;">estates, with the result that the
French parliament never developed much power over the king</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Now
is it not confessedly the greatest impiety, nay, the greatest
insults, to place the honor of the Deity at the will and pleasure of
human judgment, so that there cannot be a God except the senate
permit him?” Tertullian,<i> To the Nations</i>, 10, ANF 3:119</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-54465603780112886182012-08-02T10:20:00.004-05:002012-08-02T10:20:34.147-05:00Baier's axioms<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Si
humana natura Christi non potuit particeps fieri omnipotentiae
caeterarumque proprietatum Verbi propter illarum infinitatem, certe
propter eandem causam neque ipsius <span style="font-family: Greek, serif;">l</span><span style="font-family: Greek;">Ò</span><span style="font-family: Greek, serif;">gou</span>
potuit esse capax.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If the human nature of Christ
was not able to be a partner of the omnipotence and the other </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">properties of the Word on
account of their infinity, certainly on account of that cause the
same </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">is not able to be capable of the
Logos.</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-36730647833440492672012-08-02T10:18:00.000-05:002012-08-02T10:18:08.444-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>John II, “the Good Fellow”,</b>
1350-1364
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - “good knight and a mediocre king”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - 1355, England renews the war, defeats France at the </span><span style="font-size: large;">battle of Poitiers, captures John
and his son - they are taken hostage to England until a ransom </span><span style="font-size: large;">is paid - the huge rise in taxes and
absence of the king lead to civil chaos and peasant uprisings </span><span style="font-size: large;">in France </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- in 1360, John is
released on the partial payment of his ransom, but one of the other </span><span style="font-size: large;">hostages escaped and John returned
to captivity, dying there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“In
things below, God permits even those activities that He Himself does
not ordain in Holy Scripture, such as building, pasturing a flock,
buying, and, as Peter says [1 Peter 2:13 Vg], to make 'human
creatures,' that is, ordinances. In these things it is not necessary
that you wait for a word of God,....” Margin Luther, Preface to
Briesmann, <i>Response to Schatzgeyer</i>, LW, AE, 59:30</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-14115313173651969272012-08-01T07:01:00.000-05:002012-08-01T07:01:00.144-05:00Latin proverbs<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Effugere non potes nessitates; potes
vincere. (Seneca)</span></div>
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You cannot run away from what is necessary, but you can conquer it.</span></pre>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-80681768302457896452012-08-01T07:00:00.000-05:002012-08-01T07:00:11.714-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Philip VI</b>, 1328-1350
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - France had become one of the great
powers of Europe </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- 1338-1453, the Hundred Years War </span><span style="font-size: large;">(which lasted so long because
England was trying to conquer a country that had 5 times the </span><span style="font-size: large;">population and 10 times the wealth
of her own)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-11470128513111829222012-07-31T09:47:00.001-05:002012-07-31T09:47:30.462-05:00Imitation of Christ<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Benedictus sis Deus meus, quia licet ego omnibus bonis indignus sim, tua tamen nobilitas et infinita bonitas nunquam cessat benefacere etiam ingratis, et longe a te aversis. Converte nos ad te, ut simus grati, humiles, devoti, quia salus nostra es tu, virtus et fortitudo nostra.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blessed are You, O my God,
because though I be unworthy of all <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">Your benefits, Your bountiful and infinite goodness never ceases </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">to
do good even to ingrates and to those who are turned far from </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">You.
Turn us to yourself, that we may be grateful, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">humble,
and godly, for You art our salvation, our courage, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">our
strength.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Imitation of Christ</i>, III, 8:3</span></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-39336301991677798312012-07-31T09:28:00.001-05:002012-07-31T09:28:11.545-05:00Ecclesiasticus<span style="font-size: large;">"With friend or foe do not report it, and unless it would be a sin for you, do not disclose it; for someone has heard you and watched you, and when the time comes he will hate you." Ecclesiasticus 19:8-9</span>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-22765051328192125212012-07-31T09:24:00.000-05:002012-07-31T09:24:19.359-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Charles IV, “the Fair”,</b>
1322-1328
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - at his death, France passed a law
that no woman, or her son, could inherit the throne</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“If
the Tiber has overflows its banks, if the Nile has remained in its
bed, if the sky has been still, or the earth has been in commotion,
if death has made its devastations, or famine its afflictions, your
cry immediately is, 'This is the fault of the
Christians!'” Tertullian,<i> To the Nations</i>, 9, ANF 3:117</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-14047212895859966002012-07-30T09:16:00.000-05:002012-07-30T09:16:07.116-05:00Baier's axioms<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Quae
Scriptura Christum in tempore accepisse affirmat, ea non dicit
secundum divinitatem accepisse (secundum quam omnia ab aeterno
possidet), sed quod persona Christi, ratione et respectu humanae
naturae, ea in tempore acceperit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That which Scripture asserts
[of] Christ in time to be accepted, it is not said to be accepted </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">according to the divinity
(according to which he possess all things from eternity), but the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">person of Christ, by reason of
and in respect to the human nature, accepts it in time.</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-12356019535596969392012-07-30T07:00:00.000-05:002012-07-30T07:00:13.168-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Philip V, “the Tall”,</b>
1316-1322
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - passed a great number of laws</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“For
indeed, the Christian church on earth has no greater power or work
against everything that may oppose it then such common prayer. The evil
spirit knows this well and therefore he does all that he can to
prevent such prayer.” Martin Luther,<i> Treatise on Good Works</i>,
LW, AE, 44:66</span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-4288082816211940052012-07-29T07:01:00.000-05:002012-07-29T07:01:00.709-05:00Latin proverbs<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Animum debes mutare, non caelum.
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<pre><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You should change your spirit, not your environment.</span></pre>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-21382719219558807812012-07-29T07:00:00.000-05:002012-07-29T07:00:03.812-05:00Murphysboro Centuries, 14th secular<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Louis X, “The Quarrelsome”,</b>
1314-1316
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - when he died and his son died soon
afterwards as an infant, a great national council decreed </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">that in France no queen was to
reign, and the throne was given to his brother</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7721027960131092093.post-54403027744468853762012-07-28T09:23:00.002-05:002012-07-28T09:23:48.115-05:00Imitation of Christ<span style="font-size: large;"> Facit hoc amor tuus gratis præveniens me, et in tam multis subveniens necessitatibus, a gravibus quoque custodiens me periculis, et ab innumeris, ut ver dicam, eripiens malis. Me siquidem male amando perdidi; et te solum quærendo et pure amando me et te pariter inveni, atque ex amore profundius ad nihilum me redegi. Quia tu, o Dulcissime, facis mecum supra meritum omne et supra id quod audeo sperare vel rogare.
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the doing of Your love which freely goes before me and <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">helps me in so many necessities, which guards me also in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">great
dangers and snatches me, as I may truly say, from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">innumerable
evils. For truly, by loving myself amiss, I lost </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">myself,
and by seeking and sincerely loving You alone, I found </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">both
myself and You, and through love I have brought myself to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">yet
deeper nothingness: because You, O most sweet Lord, deal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">with
me beyond all merit, and above all which I dare ask or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 100%; orphans: 0; widows: 0;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Imitation of Christ</i>, III, 8:2</span></span></div>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07922368647009739606noreply@blogger.com0