The Life of Mr. Paschal: With His Letters Relating to the Jesuits ...

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J. Bettenham, 1744 - Jansenists - 2 pages
 

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Page 77 - All wicked men are ignorant of what they ought to do, and what they ought to avoid; and it is this very ignorance which makes them wicked and vicious. Accordingly, a man cannot be said to act involuntarily merely because he is ignorant of what it is proper for him to do in order to fulfil his duty. This ignorance in the choice of good and evil...
Page xvii - He proved by his arguments that the body of Jesus Christ was not formed of the blood of the Virgin and several other things of a similar nature.
Page 137 - But when the person is not of such a wretched disposition as this, we try to put in practice our method of directing the intention, which simply consists in his proposing to himself, as the end of his actions, some allowable object. Not that we do not...
Page 144 - And when he 1 c can do fo, and get quit of him, it is better " than to fight a DUEL, for then he neither " expofes his own life to danger, nor par" takes of his enemy's crime, which he muft
Page lvii - ... he might meet death in a place which had been most agreeable to him all his life. 7. When Mr. Paschal observed any of his friends to be afflicted at seeing the sickness and pain he underwent, he would say — " Do not be so concerned
Page 221 - When, or at what time, is a man obliged to have an actual love or affection for God? Suarez says, it is enough to love him a little before we die, without fixing any time. Vasquez, that it is enough to love him at the point of death.
Page 88 - In them hath he fet a tabernacle for the fun: which cometh forth as a bride-groom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his courfe.
Page 72 - ... that no man knows whether he is worthy of love or hatred ?" " I do not like the Presbyterians — they are so self-righteous,
Page 222 - ... baptism ; some, at the seasons of contrition ; others, upon festivals. But our Father Castro Palao opposes, and justly too, every one of these opinions. Hurtado de Mendoza pretends to say, that we are obliged to love him once every year, and that we are well off, in not being obliged to love him oftener. But Father Conink believes that we are bound to do it once in three or four years. Henriquez, every five years. And Filiutius says, it is probable that we are not rigorously obliged to do it...
Page vii - The boy once asked his father what mathematics treated of, and was answered, in general, "that it was the method of making figures with exactness, and of finding out what proportions they relatively had to one another.

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