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"Dr.Neuraxis®" > wrote in message
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> that men are in darkness and estranged from God, that He
> has hidden Himself from their knowledge, that this is in fact the name
which
> He gives Himself in the Scriptures, Deus absconditus;25 and finally, if it
> endeavours equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in
the
> Church visible signs to make Himself known to those who should seek Him
> sincerely, and that He has nevertheless so disguised them that He will
only
> be perceived by those who seek Him with all their heart; what advantage
can
> they obtain, when, in the negligence with which they make profession of
> being in search of the truth, they cry out that nothing reveals it to
them;
> and since that darkness in which they are, and with which they upbraid the
> Church, establishes only one of the things which she affirms, without
> touching the other, and, very far from destroying, proves her doctrine?
>
> In order to attack it, they should have protested that they had made every
> effort to seek Him everywhere, and even in that which the Church proposes
> for their instruction, but without satisfaction. If they talked in this
> manner, they would in truth be attacking one of her pretensions. But I
hope
> here to show that no reasonable person can speak thus, and I venture even
to
> say that no one has ever done so. We know well enough how those who are of
> this mind behave. They believe they have made great efforts for their
> instruction when they have spent a few hours in reading some book of
> Scripture and have questioned some priests on the truths of the faith.
After
> that, they boast of having made vain search in books and among men. But,
> verily, I will tell them what I have often said, that this negligence is
> insufferable. We ar
>
>

"Dr.Neuraxis®" > wrote in message
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> death; so that she died very full of
> comfort, in a most earnest and moving manner warning and counselling
> others. This seemed to contribute to render solemn the spirits of many
> young persons; and there began evidently to appear more of a religious
> concern on people's minds.
>
> In the fall of the year I proposed it to the young people, that they
> should agree among themselves to spend the evenings after lectures in
> social religion, and to that end divide themselves into several
> companies to meet in various parts of the town; which was accordingly
> done, and those meetings have been since continued, and the example
> imitated by elder people. This was followed with the death of an elderly
> person, which was attended with many unusual circumstances, by which
> many were much moved and affected.
>
> About this time began the great noise, in this part of the country,
> about Arminianism, which seemed to appear with a very threatening aspect
> upon the interest of religion here. The friends of vital piety trembled
> for fear of the issue; but it seemed, contrary to their fear, strongly
> to be overruled for the promoting of religion. Many who looked on
> themselves as in a Christless condition, seemed to be awakened by it,
> with fear that God was about to withdraw from the land, and that we
> should be given up to heterodoxy and corrupt principles; and that then
> their opportunity for obtaining salvation would be past. Many who were
> brought a little to doubt about the truth of the doctrines they had
> hitherto been taught, seemed to have a kind of trembling fear with their
> doubts, lest they should be led into bypaths, to their eternal undoing;
> and they seemed, with much concern and engagedness of mind, to inquire
> what was indeed the way in which they must come to be accepted with God.
> There were some things said publicly on that occasion, concerning
> justification by faith alone.
>
> Although great fault was found with meddli
>
>

"Dr.Neuraxis®" > wrote in message
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> remembered, and the oftenest
> quoted, because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common
> talk of life. As when we speak of the common error which exists among men
> that the moon is the cause of everything, we never fail to say that
Salomon
> de Tultie says that, when we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of
> advantage that there should exist a common error, etc.; which is the
thought
> above.
>
> 19. The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in
> first.
>
> 20. Order.--Why should I undertake to divide my virtues into four rather
> than into six? Why should I rather establish virtue in four, in two, in
one?
> Why into Abstine et sustine[1] rather than into "Follow Nature," or,
> "Conduct your private affairs without injustice," as Plato, or anything
> else? But there, you will say, everything is contained in one word. Yes,
but
> it is useless without explanation, and when we come to explain it, as soon
> as we unfold this maxim which contains all the rest, they emerge in that
> first confusion which you desired to avoid. So, when they are all included
> in one, they are hidden and useless, as in a chest, and never appear save
in
> their natural confusion. Nature has established them all without including
> one in the other.
>
> 21. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art
makes
> one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own
> place.
>
> 22. Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the
> subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but
> one of us places it better.
>
> I had as soon it said
>
>