Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II "For hereby," pre-eminently, "the elders obtained a good report. But without faith it is impossible to please God."[21] Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II oes not spring from a sound conscience: why therefore excite toward yourself that evil (passion)? why invite (that) to which you profess yourself a stranger? secondly, because we ought not to open a way to temptations, which, by their instancy, sometimes achieve (a wickedness) which God expels from them who are His; at all events, put the spirit into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (to it). We ought indeed to walk so holily, and with so entire substantiality[9]