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one, to whom she bids us reveal the innermost recesses of our
heart and show ourselves as we are. There is only this one man in the world
whom she orders us to undeceive, and she binds him to an inviolable secrecy,
which makes this knowledge to him as if it were not. Can we imagine anything
more charitable and pleasant? And yet the corruption of man is such that he
finds even this law harsh; and it is one of the main reasons which has
caused a great part of Europe to rebel against the Church.
How unjust and unreasonable is the heart of man, which feels it disagreeable
to be obliged to do in regard to one man what in some measure it were right
to do to all men! For is it right that we should deceive men?
There are different degrees in this aversion to truth; but all may perhaps
be said to have it in some degree, because it is inseparable from self-love.
It is this false delicacy which makes those who are under the necessity of
reproving others choose so many windings and middle courses to avoid
offence. They must lessen our faults, appear to excuse them, intersperse
praises and evidence of love and esteem. Despite all this, the medicine does
not cease to be bitter to self-love. It takes as little as it can, always
with disgust, and often with a secret spite against those who administer it.
Hence it happens that, if any have some interest in being loved by us, they
are averse to render us a service which they know to be disagreeable. They
treat us as we wish to be treated. We hate the truth, and they hide it from
us. We desire flattery, and they flatter us. We like to be deceived, and
they deceive us.
So each degree of good fortune which raises us in the world removes us
farther from truth, because we are most afraid of wounding those whose
affection is most useful and whose dislike is most dangerous. A prince may
be the byword of all Europe, and he alone will know nothing of it. I am not
astonished. To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is

signis, sed plenum sapientia; vos autem Christum
non crucifixum et religionem sine miraculis et sine sapientia.)[186]
What makes us not believe in the true miracles is want of love. John: Sed
vos non creditis, quia non estis ex ovibus.187 What makes us believe the
false is want of love. Thess. 2.
The foundation of religion. It is the miracles. What then? Does God speak
against miracles, against the foundations of the faith which we have in Him?
If there is a God, faith in God must exist on earth. Now the miracles of
Jesus Christ are not foretold by Antichrist, but the miracles of Antichrist
are foretold by Jesus Christ. And so, if Jesus Christ were not the Messiah,
He would have indeed led into error. When Jesus Christ foretold the miracles
of Antichrist, did He think of destroying faith in His own miracles?
Moses foretold Jesus Christ and bade to follow Him. Jesus Christ foretold
Antichrist and forbade to follow him.
It was impossible that in the time of Moses men should keep their faith for
Antichrist, who was unknown to them. But it is quite easy, in the time of
Antichrist, to believe in Jesus Christ, already known.
There is no reason for believing in Antichrist, which there is not for
believing in Jesus Christ. But there are reasons for believing in Jesus
Christ, which there are not for believing in the other.
827. Judges 13:23: "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, He would not have
shewed us all these things."
Hezekiah, Sennacherib.
Jeremiah. Hananiah, the false prophet, dies in seven months.
II Macc. 3. The temple, ready for pillage, miraculously succoured.--II Macc.
15.
I Kings 17. The widow to Elijah, who had restored her son, "By this I know
that thy words are true."
I Kings 18. Elijah with the prophets of Baal.
In the dispu

She replied, Because God
has made them. After this, there happened to come into the shop where
she was at work, three persons who were thought to have been lately
converted: her seeing of them, as they stepped in one after another, so
affected her, and so drew forth her love to them, that it overcame her,
and she almost fainted. When they began to talk of the things of
religion, it was more than she could bear; they were obliged to cease on
that account. It was a very frequent thing with her to be overcome with
the flow of affection to them whom she thought godly, in conversation
with them, and sometimes only at the sight of them.
She had many extraordinary discoveries of the glory of God and Christ;
sometimes, in some particular attributes, and sometimes in many. She
gave an account, that once, as those four words passed through her mind,
wisdom, justice, goodness, and truth, her soul was filled with a sense
of the glory of each of these divine attributes, but especially the
last. Truth, said she, sunk the deepest! And, therefore, as these words
passed, this was repeated, truth, truth! Her mind was so swallowed up
with a sense of the glory of God's truth and other perfections, that she
said, it seemed as though her life was going, and that she saw it was
easy with God to take away her life by discoveries of Himself. Soon
after this she went to a private religious meeting, and her mind was
full of a sense and view of the glory of God all the time. When the
exercise was ended, some asked her concerning what she had experienced,
and she began to give an account, but as she was relating it, it revived
such a sense of the same things, that her strength failed, and they were
oblig

or miracles. It is not strange to be saved
by yieldings, and this is not strictly self-preservation; besides, in the
end they perish entirely. None has endured a thousand years. But the fact
that this religion has always maintained itself, inflexible as it is, proves
its divinity.
615. Whatever may be said, it must be admitted that the Christian religion
has something astonishing in it. Some will say, "This is because you were
born in it." Far from it; I stiffen myself against it for this very reason,
for fear this prejudice bias me. But, although I am born in it, I cannot
help finding it so.
616. Perpetuity.--The Messiah has always been believed in. The tradition
from Adam was fresh in Noah and in Moses. Since then the prophets have
foretold him, while at the same time foretelling other things, which, being
from time to time fulfilled in the sight of men, showed the truth of their
mission, and consequently that of their promises touching the Messiah. Jesus
Christ performed miracles, and the Apostles also, who converted all the
heathen; and all the prophecies being thereby fulfilled, the Messiah is for
ever proved.
617. Perpetuity.--Le