[265] S. John iii. 4. The intention of this passage is to express not that the Spirit is lawless in His operations, but that He is beyond our control.
[266] Aug. de Spiritu et Littera, xxvii. 47, 'Grace is not the negation of nature, but its restoration.'
[267] Raymund of Sabunde, Theol. Nat. tit. 303.
[268] Basil, de Spiritu Sancto ix. 23 (Lewis' translation). Cf. Newman's Univ. Sermons, 'Personal Influence the means of propagating the truth.'
[269] Cyril, Catech. xvi. 12. The attention to the differences of individual character is very noticeable in S. Basil's monastic rule: see the Regulae fusius tractatae, resp. 19, and the Constit. Monast. 4. Also in the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus, Chrysostom, and Gregory the Great on the Pastoral Office.
[270] 1 Cor. ii. 15. 1 S. John ii. 20-27.
[271] Clement Alex. Strom. v. 13. 88.
[272] Republic, 401 D, 402 A.
[273] Caird's Hegel (Blackwood's Philosophical Classics), p. 72.
[274] Anselm, Proslog. 4; he adds, 'So that even if I were unwilling to believe that Thou art, I could not cease to understand it.' But the whole relation of authority and reason is most completely grasped and stated by S. Augustine: see Cunningham, S. Austin (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1886), pp. 9, 157 ff.