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Epistle
XIII.
To Columbus.
Gregory to Columbus, Bishop of Numidia1736
.
How we may presume on your Charity we gather from the
disposition of our own mind with regard to you. Nor do we think
that you love the Apostolic See otherwise than as it loves you.
Whence it must needs be that we should more peculiarly commend those
whom we know to be, as they should be, devoted in the Church of the
blessed Peter, Prince of the apostles, to you whose life the action as
well as the dignity of a priest adorns, and of whose sincerity we
already hold proof from past experience.
As to our brother, therefore, and fellow-bishop
Paul1737
, the bearer of these presents, with
what billows and adversities he is tossed in your parts he tells us is
not unknown to your Holiness. And seeing that he asserts that the
complaints against him which you have told us have come to your ears
are not true, but raised against him at the instigation of his
adversaries, and that he trusts to be able by the help of the
Lord to surmount them all, with the truth to
support him and with you to take cognizance, we exhort you, most
beloved brother, that, in whatever points considerations of justice are
clearly on his side, you afford him becomingly the hand of succour, and
aid him with priestly sympathy. Let, then, no
circumstance,
no
influence of any persons, deflect you from studious regard to
equity. But, leaning on the Lord’s
precepts, set at naught whatever is opposed to rectitude. In
defending one party or the other insist constantly on justice.
Shrink not from incurring ill-will, if such there be, in behalf of
truth; that thou mayest find in the advent of our Redeemer so much the
greater fruit of reward as, not neglecting His commands, thou shalt
have devoted thyself to the countenance and defence of justice.
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