Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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work of God is analogous to other circumstances of it. God has so
ordered the manner of the work in many respects, as very signally and
remarkably to show it to be His own peculiar and immediate work; and to
secure the glory of it wholly to His almighty power, and sovereign
grace. And whatever the circumstances and means have been, and though we
are so unworthy, yet so hath it pleased God to work! And we are
evidently a people blessed of the Lord! For here, in this corner of the
world, God dwells, and manifests His glory.
Thus, Reverend Sir, 1 have given a large and particular account of this
remarkable affair; and yet, considering how manifold God's works have
been amongst us, it is but a very brief one. I should have sent it much
sooner, had I not been greatly hindered by illness in my family, and
also in my own person. It is probably much larger than you expected,
and, it may be, than you would have chosen. I thought that the
extraordinary nature of the thing, and the innumerable
misrepresentations which have gone abroad of it, many of which,
doubtless, have reached your ears, made it necessary that I should be
particular. But I would leave it entirely with your wisdom to make what
use of it you think best, to send a part of it to England, or all, or
none, if you think it not worthy; or otherwise to dispose of it as you
may think most for God's glory, and th