This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...not true for her? She cannot do so either. Has the warning not been severe enough? Must God repeat the lesson? She thinks so still less. Why then does she blindly enter the same path again, as if nothing had happened, and the rod of the avenging angel had not been felt? For this reason: for a punishment to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...not true for her? She cannot do so either. Has the warning not been severe enough? Must God repeat the lesson? She thinks so still less. Why then does she blindly enter the same path again, as if nothing had happened, and the rod of the avenging angel had not been felt? For this reason: for a punishment to be profitable, we must accept it as just. Now, they do not accept it. They boast of being martyrs when they have been chastised; and what Providence wished them to receive as a lesson of humility, they have fashioned into a lesson of pride. FIFTH LECTURE. THE ROMAN CHURCH AND HISTORY. VICO. May 15, 1844. After my last words, our adversaries uttered against me a cry of anger; I do not reproach them with it. I try to enter into their spirit and understand their violence. They have fixed themselves to the dead letter' of things, and whoever molests them in their possession drives them to despair. Something similar happened in another order of ideas about twenty years ago. A whole school identified poetry with versification, and as soon as ever it was shown what a fund of poetry escaped clear of that school, there was great offence. In like manner, the result of our discourses must be to show, to the offence of the dead letter, first, that a whole religious life is developed in modern times, separate from the clergy; secondly, that the living God is henceforth rather with the world of the laity than with the ecclesiastical world. They will accuse this instruction of impiety; the answer to that is too easy. I myself will tell my adversaries where I am without defence, and of what I ought to be really suspected; it is of aspiring, at least in thought, to an instruction more truly religious than the ecclesiastical. This is the crime they must impute to me, for t...
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