The Provincial Letters of Blaise PascalRobert Carter & brothers, 1850 - 392 pages |
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Page 279 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 338 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 144 - Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an High Priest became us, Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Page 210 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them; Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 216 - ... godly sorrow, which worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of (2 Cor.
Page vii - LES PROVINCIALES : or, The Mysterie of Jesuitisme, discover'd in certain Letters, written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January, 1656, to March, 1657. SN Displaying the corrupt Maximes and Politicks of that Society, faithfully rendered into English.
Page 158 - and I shall give up the point: but I will not believe that he has written it, unless I see it in print." "Read it yourself, then," he replied: and, to be sure, I read the following extract from the Moral Theology of Sanchez: "It is perfectly reasonable to hold that a man may fight a duel to save his life, his honour, or any considerable portion of his property, when it is apparent that there is a design to deprive him of these unjustly, by law-suits and chicanery, and when there is no other way of...
Page 226 - There is a great difference between laughing at religion and laughing at those who profane it by their extravagant opinions.
Page xxiii - God given them that measure of grace, that is essentially necessary to render them capable of such obedience : 2. That no person, in this corrupt state of nature, can resist the influence of divine grace, when it operates upon the mind : 3.
Page 132 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.