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their own wretchedness, but not the Redeemer.
And, as it is alike necessary to man to know these two points, so is it
alike merciful of God to have made us know them. The Christian religion does
this; it is in this that it consists.
Let us herein examine the order of the world and see if all things do not
tend to establish these two chief points of this religion: Jesus Christ is
end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the
reason of everything.
Those who fall into error err only through failure to see one of these two
things. We can, then, have an excellent knowledge of God without that of our
own wretchedness and of our own wretchedness without that of God. But we
cannot know Jesus Christ without knowing at the same time both God and our
own wretchedness.
Therefore I shall not undertake here to prove by natural reasons either the
existence of God, or the Trinity, or the immortality of the soul, or
anything of that nature; not only because I should not feel myself
sufficiently able to find in nature arguments to convince hardened atheists,
but also because such knowledge without Jesus Christ is useless and barren.
Though a man should be convinced that numerica
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which are not a people... and with a foolish nation." Isaiah 65:1.
That temporal goods are false, and that the true good is to be united to
God. Psalm 143:15.
That their feasts are displeasing to God. Amos 5:21.
That the sacrifices of the Jews displeased God. Isaiah 66:1-3; 1:11; Jer.
6:20; David, Miserere.105 Even on the part of the good, Expectavi.106 Psalm
49:8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
That He has established them only for their hardness. Micah, admirably, 6; 1
Kings 15:22; Hosea 6:6.
That the sacrifices of the Gentiles will be accepted of God, and that God
will take no pleasure in the sacrifices of the Jews. Malachi 1:11.
That God will make a new covenant with the Messiah, and the old will be
annulled. Jer. 31:31. Mandata non bona.107
That the old things will be forgotten. Isaiah 43:18, 19; 65:17, 10
That the Ark will no longer be remembered. Jer. 3:15, 16
That the temple should be rejected. Jer 7:12, 13, 14.
That the sacrifices should be rejected, and other pure sacrifices
established. Malachi 1:11.
That the order of Aaron's priesthood should be rejected, and that of
Melchizedek introduced by the Messiah. Ps. Dixit Dominus.
That this priesthood should be eternal. Ibid.
That Jerusalem should be rejected, and Rome admitted, Ibid.
That the name of the Jews should be rejected, and a new name given. Isaiah
65:15.
That this last name should be more excellent than that of the Jews, and
eternal. Isaiah 56:5.
That the Jews should be without prophets (Amos), without a king, without
princes, without sacrifice, without an idol.
That the Jews should, nevertheless, always remain a people. Jer. 31:36
611. Republic.--The Christian republic--and even the Jewish--has only had
God for ruler, as Philo the Jew notices, On Monarchy.
When they fought, it was for God only; their chief hope was in God only;
they consi
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the latter will call them ridiculous names and will beat them with a stick.
Let no one, then, boast of his subtlety, or let him keep his complacency to
himself.
303. Might is the sovereign of the world, and not opinion. But opinion makes
use of might. It is might that makes opinion. Gentleness is beautiful in our
opinion. Why? Because he who will dance on a rope will be alone, and I win
gather a stronger mob of people who will say that it is unbecoming.
304. The cords which bind the respect of men to each other are in general
cords of necessity; for there must be different degrees, all men wishing to
rule, and not all being able to do so, but some being able.
Let us, then, imagine we see society in the process of formation. Men will
doubtless fight till the stronger party overcomes the weaker, and a dominant
party is established. But when this is once determined, the masters, who do
not desire the continuation of strife, then decree that the power which is
in their hands shall be transmitted as they please. Some place it in
election by the people, others in hereditary succession, etc.
And this is the point where imagination begins to play its part. Till now
power makes fact; now power is sustained by imagination in a certain party,
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