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| Loose Company Preferred by Heretics. Ungodliness the Effect of Their Teaching the Very Opposite of Catholic Truth, Which Promotes the Fear of God, Both in Religious Ordinances and Practical Life.
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Chapter XLIII.—Loose
Company Preferred by Heretics. Ungodliness the Effect of Their Teaching
the Very Opposite of Catholic Truth, Which Promotes the Fear of God,
Both in Religious Ordinances and Practical Life.
It has also been a subject of remark, how
extremely frequent is the intercourse which heretics hold with
magicians, with mountebanks, with astrologers, with philosophers; and
the reason is,2293
that they are men
who devote themselves to curious questions. “Seek, and ye shall
find,” is everywhere in their minds. Thus, from the very nature
of their conduct, may be estimated the quality of their faith. In their
discipline we have an index of their doctrine. They say that God is not
to be feared; therefore all things are in their view free and
unchecked. Where, however is God not feared, except where He is
not? Where God is not, there truth also is not. Where there is no
truth, then, naturally enough, there is also such a discipline as
theirs. But where God is, there exists “the fear of God, which is
the beginning of wisdom.”2294
| 2294 Ps. cxi. 10; Prov. i. 7. | Where the fear
of God is, there is seriousness, an honourable and yet
thoughtful2295
| 2295 Attonita, as if in
fear that it might go wrong (Rigalt.). | diligence, as well
as an anxious carefulness and a well-considered admission (to the
sacred ministry)2296
| 2296 In contrast to the
opposite fault of the heresies exposed above. | and a
safely-guarded2297
| 2297 Deliberata,
where the character was well weighed previous to admission to
the eucharist. | communion, and
promotion after good service, and a scrupulous submission (to
authority), and a devout attendance,2298
| 2298 Apparitio, the
duty and office of an apparitor, or attendant on men of higher
rank, whether in church or state. | and a modest
gait, and a united church, and God in all
things.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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