Re: (IVÁN): ALABANDO A DIOS en ORACIÓN
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from it. God heals them there. It is said that it is the arsenal of hell.
God makes of it the sanctuary of His grace. Lastly, they are threatened with
all the fury and vengeance of heaven; and God overwhelms them with favours.
A man would need to have lost his senses to conclude from this that they are
therefore in the way of perdition.
(We have without doubt the same signs as Saint Athanasius.)
842. Si tu es Christus, dic nobis.193
Opera quae ego facio in nomine patris mei, haec testimonium perhibent de me.
Sed vos non creditis quia non estis ex ovibus meis. Oves meae vocem meam
audiunt.194
John 6:30. Quod ergo tu facis signum ut videamus et credamus tibi? (Non
dicunt: Quam doctrinam praedicas?)[195]
Nemo potest facere signa quae tu facis nisi Deus.196
II Macc. 14:15. Deus qui signis evidentibus suam portionem protegit.[197]
Volumus signum videre de coelo, tentantes eum.198 Luke 11:16.
Generatio prava signum quaerit; et non dabitur.199
Et ingemiscens ait: Quid generatio ista signum quaerit?200 (Mark 8:12.) They
asked a sign with an evil intention.
Et non poterat facere.201 And yet he promises them the sign of Jonah, the
great and wonderful miracle of his resurrection.
Nisi videritis, non creditis.202 He does not blame them for not believing
unless there are miracles, but for not believing unless they are themselves
spectators of them.
Antichrist in signis mendacibus,203 says Saint Paul, II Thess. 2.
Secundum operationem Satanae, in seductione iis qui pereunt eo quod
charitatem veritatis non receperunt ut salvi fierent, ideo mittet illis Deus
optationes erroris ut credant mendacio.204
As in the passage of Moses: Tentat enim vos Deus, utrum diligatis eum.205
Ecce praedixi vobis: vos ergo videte.206
843. Here is not the country of truth.
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authority; and thus, if they are more just, they will be more reasonable,
but not more holy. They take after the wild stem on which they are grafted.
If what I say does not serve to enlighten you, it will be of use to the
people.
If these are silent, the stones will speak.
Silence is the greatest persecution; the saints were never silent. It is
true that a call is necessary; but it is not from the decrees of the Council
that we must learn whether we are called, it is from the necessity of
speaking. Now, after Rome has spoken, and we think that she has condemned
the truth, and that they have written it, and after the books which have
said the contrary are censured; we must cry out so much the louder, the more
unjustly we are censured, and the more violently they would stifle speech,
until there come a Pope who hears both parties, and who consults antiquity
to do justice. So the good Popes will find the Church still in outcry.
The Inquisition and the Society are the two scourges of the truth.
Why do you not accuse them of Arianism? For, though they have said that
Jesus Christ is God, perhaps they mean by it not the natural interpretation,
but, as it is said, Dii estis.229
If my Letters are condemned at Rome, that which I condemn in them is
condemned in heaven. Ad tuum, Domine Jesu, tribunal appello.[230]
You yourselves are corruptible.
I feared that I had written ill, seeing myself condemned; but the example of
so many pious writings makes me believe the contrary. It is no longer
allowable to write well, so corrupt or ignorant is the Inquisition!
"It is better to obey God than men."
I fear
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she felt all day a constant sweetness in her soul. She had a repetition
of the same discoveries of Christ three mornings together, and much in
the same manner, at each time, waking a little before day; but brighter
and brighter every day.
At the last time, on Wednesday morning, while in the enjoyment of a
spiritual view of Christ's glory and fullness, her soul was filled with
distress for Christless persons, to consider what a miserable condition
they were in. She felt a strong inclination immediately to go forth to
warn sinners; and proposed it the next day to her brother to assist her
in going from house to house; but her brother restrained her, by telling
her of the unsuitableness of such a method. She told one of her sisters
that day, that she loved all mankind, but especially the people of God.
Her sister asked her why she loved all mankind. She replied, Because God
has made them. After this, there happened to come into the shop where
she was at work, three persons who were thought to have been lately
converted: her seeing of them, as they stepped in one after another, so
affected her, and so drew forth her love to them, that it overcame her,
and she almost fainted. When they began to talk of the things of
religion, it was more than she could bear; they were obliged to cease on
that account. It was a very frequent thing with her to be overcome with
the flow of affection to them whom she thought godly, in conversation
with them, and sometimes only at the sight of them.
She had many extraordinary discoveries of the glory of God and Christ;
sometimes, in some particular attributes, and sometimes in many. She
gave an account, that once, as those four words passed through her mind,
wisdom, justice, goodness, and truth, her soul was filled with a sense
of the glory of each of these divine attributes, but especially the
last. Truth, said she, sunk the deepest! And, therefore, as these words
passed, this was repeated,
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> make it quite easy! On Monday
> she felt all day a constant sweetness in her soul. She had a repetition
> of the same discoveries of Christ three mornings together, and much in
> the same manner, at each time, waking a little before day; but brighter
> and brighter every day.
>
> At the last time, on Wednesday morning, while in the enjoyment of a
> spiritual view of Christ's glory and fullness,
Help me, Jebus!
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