Excerpt from The Writings of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Vol. 2: Containing the Remainder of the Treatises; Together With the Writings of Novatian, Minucius Felix, Etc Any and great, beloved brethren, are the divine benefits wherewith the large and abundant mercy of God the Father and Christ both has laboured and is always labouring for our sal vation that the Father sent the Son to preserve us and give life, in order that He might restore us and that the Son was willing1 to be sent and to become the Son of man, that He might make us sons of God; humbled Himself, that He might raise up the people who before were prostrate; was wounded that He might heal our wounds; served, that He might draw out to liberty those who were in bondage; under went death, that He might set forth immortality to mortals. These are many and great boons of divine compassion. But, moreover, what is that providence, and how great the ele mency, that by a plan of salvation it is provided for us, that more abundant care should be taken for preserving man after he is already redeemed For when the Lord at His advent had cured those wounds which Adam had borne,2 and had healed the old poisons of the serpent,3 He gave a law to the sound man, and bade him sin no more, lest a worse thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.