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Excerpt from The Writings of Quintus Sept; Flor; Tertullianus, Vol. 3: With the Extant Works of Victorinus and Commodianus
These specimens must suffice, though it might be easy to add to them. There is, however, another classification of our author's writings which has been attempted. Finding the hopelessness of strict chronological accuracy, commen tators have seized on the idea that peradventure there might be found at all events some internal marks by which to determine which Of them were written before, which after, the writer's secession to Montanism. It may be confessed that this attempt has been somewhat more successful than the other. Yet even here there are two formidable Obstacles standing in our way. The first and greatest is, that the natural temper Of Tertullian was from the first SO akin to the spirit of Montanism, that, unless there occur distinct. Allusions to the New Prophecy, or expressions specially connected with Montanistic phraseology, the general tone Of any treatise is not a very safe guide. The second is, that the subject-matter of some of the treatises is not such as to afford much scope for the introduction of the peculiarities of a sect which professed to differ in discipline onlv not doc trine, from the church at large.
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