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Testing Clause (Scotch law the clause)

in Scotch law, the clause in a formal written deed or essentially of the name and designation according to the form of law. It consists of the writer, the number of pages of TERTULLIANUS ties and postulates of human nature.

The treatise "Against the Jews" is to prove that prophecy is fulfilled in Christ. (2) Against heretics. He formulates this position juristically in his "Against the Proscription of Heretics." Against the gnostic attempts to volatilize Christhe gnostic attempts tianity in gnostic spiritualism he maintained its reality as a practical form of life in his "Concerning Baptism," "Against Hermogenes," "Against Valentinians," "Concerning the Soul" (in which he contends that even the soul is material), "Concerning the Body of Christ" (against Docetism), "Concerning the Resurrection of the Body," and the five books "Against Marcio." Against the Patripassian heresy he wrote the book "Against Praxeas." (3) Practical and ascetic treatises. It is especially in these writings relating to Christian life and discipline that we can trace Tertullian's increasing hostility to the Church and adoption of the Montanist views, which had great influence among African Christians. He hailed the testimony of "free prophecy" as God's the TESCHEN dialectic stamp; it does not philosophize; it reasons, using now the argument, ex auctoritate, now the argument e ratione.

He shows striking power of psychological observation. Finally, his writings have a strong practical evangelic tendency; with their vivid appeal to the reader's will, and their simple concrete expression of the Gospel, they appealed not to theologians only, but to all. In these characteristics and their union. Tertullian became the type of the Christianity of the Western Church.

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