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 evil. (2 Cor. v. 10.) Take care, that you carry not with you to the judgment of God wood nor stubble, which the fire may consume. Take care, lest, having one or two things that may be approved, you, at the same time, have much that may give offence. If any man's works burn, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. (1 Cor. iii. 15.) Whence it may be collected, that the same man is saved in part, and is condemned in part. Conscious therefore that there are many judgments, let us examine all our actions. In a man that is just, loss is suffered; grievous is the burning of some work; in the wicked man wretched is the punishment." Serm. xx. in Psal. cxviii. T. i. p. 1238. — “If any man's work burn, he shall suffer loss. False doctrine, which shall perish, is the work that is said to burn; for all bad things must perish. To suffer loss, is to suffer pain. And who, that is in pain, does not suffer loss? But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire. He will be saved, the Apostle said, because his substance shall remain, while his bad doctrine shall perish. Therefore he said, yet so as by fire; in order that his salvation be not understood to be without pain. He shews, that he shall be saved indeed, but that he shall undergo the pain of fire, and be thus purified; not like the unbelieving and wicked man who shall be punished in everlasting fire.” Comment. in 1 Ep. ad. Cor. T. ii. in App.p. 122. See note, p. 44.—In his funeral oration on the two Emperors, Valentinians, he says: “Blessed shall you both be, if my prayers can avail any thing. No day shall pass, in which I will not make honourable mention of you; no night, in which you shall not partake of my prayers. In all my oblations I will remember you.” In obitu Va-