have too much faith in you; it will not harm them and may serve
you. It should, therefore, be made known. Pasce oves meas, not tuas.221 You
owe me pasturage.
880. Men like certainty. They like the Pope to be infallible in faith, and
grave doctors to be infallible in morals, so as to have certainty.
881. The Church teaches, and God inspires, both infallibly. The work of the
Church is of use only as a preparation for grace or condemnation. What it
does is enough for condemnation, not for inspiration.
882. Every time the Jesuits may impose upon the Pope, they will make all
Christendom perjured.
The Pope is very easily imposed upon, because of his occupations, and the
confidence which he has in the Jesuits; and the Jesuits are very capable of
imposing upon him by means of calumny.
883. The wretches who have obliged me to speak of the basis of religion.
884. Sinners purified without penitence; the righteous justified without
love; all Christians without the grace of Jesus Christ; God without power
over the will of men; a predestination without mystery; a redemption without
certitude!
885. Any one is made a priest, who wants to be so, as under Jeroboam.
It is a horrible thing that they propound to us the discipline of the Church
of to-day as so good that it is made a crime to desire to change it.
Formerly it was
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