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Chapter XXX.—In the Great
Diversity of Opinions, It Becomes All to Unite Charity and Divine
Truth.
41. In this diversity of true opinions let
Truth itself beget concord;1162
| 1162 See p. 164, note 2, above. | and may our God have mercy upon
us, that we may use the law lawfully,1163
the end of the commandment, pure
charity.1164
| 1164 See p. 183, note, above; and on the supremacy of
this law of love, may be compared Jeremy Taylor’s curious story
(Works, iv. 477, Eden’s ed.): “St. Lewis, the king, having sent
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, on an embassy, the bishop met a woman on
the way, grave, sad, fantastic, and melancholy, with fire in one
hand, and water in the other. He asked what those symbols meant.
She answered, ‘My purpose is with fire to burn Paradise, and with
my water to quench the flames of hell, that men may serve God
without the incentives of hope and fear, and purely for the love of
God.’” | And by
this if any one asks of me, “Which of these was the meaning of
Thy servant Moses?” these were not the utterances of my
confessions, should I not confess unto Thee, “I know not;” and
yet I know that those opinions are true, with the exception of
those carnal ones concerning which I have spoken what I thought
well. However, these words of Thy Book affright not those little
ones of good hope, treating few of high things in a humble fashion,
and few things in varied ways.1165
| 1165 See end of note 17, p. 197, below. | But let all, whom I acknowledge to
see and speak the truth in these words, love one another, and
equally love Thee, our God, fountain of truth,—if we thirst not
for vain things, but for it; yea, let us so honour this servant of
Thine, the dispenser of this Scripture, full of Thy Spirit, as to
believe that when Thou revealedst Thyself to him, and he wrote
these things, he intended that which in them chiefly excels both
for light of truth and fruitfulness of profit.
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