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Chapter
XXXIX.—Recapitulation of Yesterday’s Argument.
When Peter had thus spoken, immediately the crowd
began to make room for the old man.820
| 820 [The second
day’s discussion, in which Aquila is the main speaker, is also of
a high order. It is, as already indicated, peculiar to the
Recognitions, though with the usual incidental correspondences
in the Homilies.—R.] | And
when he had come forward, he thus began: “Although I do not
remember the words of the discourse which the young man delivered
yesterday, yet I recollect the purport and the order of it; and
therefore I think it necessary, for the sake of those who were not
present yesterday, to call up what was said, and to repeat everything
shortly, that, although something may have escaped me, I may be
reminded of it by him who delivered the discourse, who is now
present. This, then, was the purport of yesterday’s
discussion: that all things that we see, inasmuch as they consist
in a certain proportion, and art, and form, and species, must be
believed to have been made by intelligent power; but if it be mind and
reason that has formed them, it follows that the world is governed by
the providence of the same reason, although the things which are done
in the world may seem to us to be not quite rightly done. But it
follows, that if God and mind is the creator of all things, He must
also be just; but if He is
just, He necessarily judges. If He judges, it is of necessity
that men be judged with respect to their doings; and if every one is
judged in respect of his doings, there shall at some time be a
righteous separation between righteous men and sinners. This, I
think, was the substance of the whole discourse.
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