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| Faustus the bishop.
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Chapter LXXXVI.
Faustus,2724
| 2724 Abbot of Lerins 433–4, bishop of Riez 462, exiled
477–84, died 490. | first abbot of
the monastery at Lerins, and then made bishop2725
of Riez in Gaul, a man studious of the
Divine Scriptures, taking his text from the historic creed of the
church, composed a book On the Holy Spirit, in which he shows
from the belief of the fathers, that the Holy Spirit is consubstantial
and coeternal with the Father and the Son, the fulness of the Trinity
and therefore God.2726
| 2726 and therefore God T 25 31 a e 21 [31
A?;] obtaining Fabr. Her.; Bamb and ed. 1512 read and
therefore but join to next sentence. | He published
also an excellent work, On the grace of God, through which we are
saved,2727
| 2727 savedA T 25; add and the free will
of the human mind in which we are saved 30 31 a e. | in which he teaches that the
grace of God always invites, precedes and helps our will, and
whatever gain that freedom of will may attain for its pious effect, is
not its own desert, but the gift of grace. I have read also a little
book of his Against the Arians and Macedonians, in which he
posits a coëssential Trinity, and another against those who say
that there is anything incorporeal in created things, in which he
maintains from the testimony of Scriptures, and by quotations from the
fathers, that nothing is to be regarded as incorporeal but God. There
is also a letter of his, written in the form of a little book, and
addressed to a certain deacon, named Graecus, who, leaving the Catholic
faith, had gone over to the Nestorian impiety.
In this epistle he admonishes
him to believe that the holy Virgin Mary did not bring forth a mere
human being, who afterwards should receive divinity, but true God in
true man. There are still other works by him, but as I have not read, I
do not care to mention them. This excellent doctor is enthusiastically
believed in and admired. He wrote afterwards also to Felix, the
Prætonian prefect, and a man of Patrician rank, son of Magnus the
consul, a very pious letter, exhorting to the fear of God, a work well
fitted to induce one to repent with his whole heart. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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