ANTE-NICENE CHRISTIAN LIBRARY: _TRANSLATIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS DOWN TO A.D. 325._ EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER ROBERTS, D.D., AND JAMES DONALDSON, LL.D. VOL. XII. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET. MDCCCLXIX. MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. TRANSLATED BY THE REV. WILLIAM WILSON, M.A., MUSSELBURGH. VOLUME II. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET. LONDON: HAMILTON & CO. DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON & CO. MDCCCLXIX. CONTENTS. THE MISCELLANIES. BOOK II. CHAP. PAGE 1. Introductory, 1 2. The Knowledge of God can be attained only through Faith, 3 3. Faith not a product of Nature, 6 4. Faith the foundation of all Knowledge, 8 5. He proves by several examples that the Greeks drew from the Sacred Writers, 12 6. The Excellence and Utility of Faith, 16 7. The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered, 20 8. The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear being the Cause of Things, 22 9. The Connection of the Christian Virtues, 26 10. To what the Philosopher applies himself, 29 11. The Knowledge which comes through Faith the Surest of All, 30 12. Twofold Faith, 33 13. On First and Second Repentance, 35 14. How a Thing may be Involuntary, 37 15. On the different kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins thence proceeding, 38 16. How we are to explain the passages of Scripture which ascribe to God Human Affections, 43 17. On the various kinds of Knowledge, 45