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  • SECTION I: THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
  1: "Abstain and uphold." Stoic maxim.
  2: Petronius, 90. "You have spoken more as a poet than as a man."
  3: "Nothing in excess."
  4: Horace, Epistle to the pisos, 447. "They curtailed pretentious ornaments."



  • SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD
  5: Title given by Pico della Mirandola to one of his proposed nine hundred theses, in 1486.
  6: Tacitus, Annals, iv. "Kindnesses are agreeable so long as one thinks them possible to render; furt[...]
  7: St. Augustine, City of God, xxi. 10. "The manner in which the spirit is united to the body can not[...]
  8: Virgil, Georgics, ii. "Happy is he who is able to know the causes of things."
  9: Horace, Epistles, I. vi. 1. " To be astonished at nothing is nearly the only thing which can give [...]
  10: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, i, ii Harum sententiarum quae vera sit, Deus aliquis viderit. "W[...]
  11: Montaigne, Essays, ii.
  12: Montaigne, Essays, ii.
  13: Treatise on the Vacuum.
  14: Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, III. v. 8. "There is one who will say great foolishness with great e[...]
  15: Montaigne, Essays, ii.
  16: Pliny, ii. "As though there were anyone more unhappy than a man dominated by his imagination." [...]
  17: Cicero, De Divinatione ii. 22. "A common happening does not astonish, even though the cause is unk[...]
  18: Allusion to Gen. 7. 14. Ipsi et omne animal secundus genus suum. "And every beast after his kind.[...]
  19: Homer, Odyssey, xviii.
  20: Livy, xxxiv. 17. "A brutal people, for whom, when they have not armour, there is not life."
  21: Ecclus. 24:11. "With all these I have sought rest."



  • SECTION III: OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER
  22: "Terror which is more powerful than religion."
  23: "From fear that they are being led by terror, without guidance, domination appears tyrannical." [...]
  24: “What will become of men who mistake small things and do not believe in greater?"
  25: Is. 45:15. "Thou art a God that hidest thyself."
  26: Wisd. of Sol. 4:12. "Bewitching of naughtiness."
  27: Wisd. of Sol. 5:15. "The remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day."
  28: 1 Cor. 1:21.
  29: "They have seen the thing; they have not seen the cause." St. Augustine, Contra Pelagium, iv.



  • SECTION IV: OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
  30: Matt. 11:27 "Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will r[...]
  31: Is. 45:15. "Verily, thou art a God that hidest thyself."
  32: 1 Cor. 1:17. "Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect."
  33: Rom. 1:17. "The just shall live by faith."
  34: Rom. 10:17. "Faith cometh by hearing."
  35: "I know." "I believe."
  36: Ps. 119. 36. "Incline my heart, O Lord."
  37: Wisd. of Sol. 15:8, 16. "He moulds a God... like unto himself."
  38: Matt. 18:3. "Except ye become as little children."
  39: Ps. 119:36. "Incline my heart, O Lord, unto thy testimonies."



  • SECTION V: JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
  40: Cicero, De finibus, V. 21. "There is no longer anything which is ours; what I call ours is convent[...]
  41: Seneca, Epistles, xcv. "It is by virtue of senatus-consultes and plebiscites that one commits crim[...]
  42: Tacitus, Annals, iii. 25. "Once we suffered from our vices; today we suffer from our laws."
  43: Saint Augustine, City of God, iv. 27. "As he has ignored the truth which frees, it is right he is [...]
  44: Cicero, De officiis, iii, 17. "Concerning true law."
  45: Eccles. 3:19. "for all is vanity."
  46: Rom. 8:20-21. "It shall be delivered."



  • SECTION VI: THE PHILOSOPHERS
  47: Horace, Odes, III. xxix. 13. "Changes nearly always please the great."
  48: Seneca, Epistles, xx. 8. "In order that you are satisfied with yourself and the good that is born [...]
  49: Montaigne, Essays, ii. 12.
  50: Cicero, De Divinatione, ii. 58. "There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some phi[...]
  51: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, ii. 2. "Devoted to certain fixed opinions, they are forced to de[...]
  52: Seneca, Epistles, cvi. "We suffer from an excess of literature as from an excess of anything." [...]
  53: Cicero, De officiis, i. 31. "What suits each one best is what is to him the most natural."
  54: Virgil, The Georgics, ii. "Nature gave them first these limits."
  55: Seneca, Epistles, cvi. "Wisdom does not demand much teaching."
  56: Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. "What is not shameful begins to become so when it is approv[...]
  57: Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, I. i. 21. "That is how I use it; you must do as you wish."
  58: Quintillian, x. 7. "It is rare that one sufficiently respects one's self."
  59: Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, i. 4. "So many gods are busy around a single head."
  60: Cicero, Academica, i. 45. "Nothing is more shameful than to affirm before knowing."
  61: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, i. 25. "I have not shame, as they do, to admit that I know not w[...]
  62: Seneca, Epistles, lxxii. "It is easier not to begin....
  63: Lam. 3:1. "I am the man that hath seen."



  • SECTION VII: MORALITY AND DOCTRINE
  64: "What you seek without knowing, religion will announce to you." Pascal misquotes Acts 17:23. "Whom[...]
  65: Prov. 8:31. "And my delights were with the sons of men."
  66: Joel 2:28. "I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh."
  67: Ps. 82:6. "Ye are gods."
  68: Is. 40:6. "All flesh is grass."
  69: Ps. 49:12, 13. "He is like the beasts that perish; this their way is their folly."
  70: Eccles. 3:18. "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men."
  71: 1 Cor. 1:25 "The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than me[...]
  72: Ovid, Metamorphoses, iii. "No one is happy before death."
  73: 1 John 2:16.
  74: 1 Cor. 1:31. "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
  75: John 14:6. "I am the way, the truth, and the life."
  76: 1 Cor. 6:17. "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."
  77: Gen. 4:7. "Unto thee shall be his desire."
  78: Office for Holy Saturday. "Which won for us a Saviour."
  79: Office for Good Friday. "Which won for us God's hallowed members to embrace."
  80: Hymn Vexilla regis. "Worthy God's hallowed members to embrace."
  81: Luke 7:6 "I am not worthy."
  82: 1 Cor. 11:29. "Who eateth unworthily."
  83: Rev. 4:11. "Thou art worthy to receive."
  84: Office of the Holy Virgin. "Make me worthy."
  85: Matthew, 7:7, "Ask and it shall be given you."
  86: Is. 45:15.
  87: John 8:30-33. "Many believed on him. Then Jesus said: 'If ye continue... then ye are my disciples [...]
  88: Rev. 22:11. "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still."
  89: Circumcidentes cor. Rom. 2. "Circumcision is that of the heart."
  90: 1 Cor. 15:33. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."
  91: "What they have found by their curiosity, they have lost by their pride." Quod curiositate invener[...]
  92: 1 Cor. 1:21. "Which... by wisdom knew not... it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to sav[...]
  93: St. Bernard, Sermones in Cantica Canticorum, lxxxiv. "The better one is, the worse one becomes, if[...]
  94: Ibid. "Meriting blows more than kisses, I fear not, because I love."
  95: John 11:33. Et turbarit seipsum. "And he troubled himself."
  96: Matt. 26:46. "Let us be going."
  97: Matt. 18:2. "Jesus went forth."
  98: Gen. 3:5. "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
  99: John 20:17. "Touch me not."



  • SECTION VIII: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
  100: Allusion to John 6:56; 1:47; 8:36; 6:32. "True disciple; an Israelite indeed; free indeed; true br[...]
  101: In discipulis meis.Isaiah 8:16. "Seal the law among my disciples."
  102: Is. 45:15.
  103: 1 Cor. 1:17. "Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect."



  • SECTION IX: PERPETUITY
  104: "Rend your heart."
  105: Ps. 9:14. "Have mercy."
  106: Is. 5:7. "He has looked for."
  107: Ezek. 20:25. Praecepta non bona. "Statutes that were not good."
  108: "I will establish my covenant between me and Thee for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto Th[...]
  109: Gen. 17:9. "Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore."
  110: Gen. 49:18. "I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord."
  111: Essays, 1. 22.
  112: Num. 11:29. Quis tribuat ut omnis populus prophetet. "Would God that all the Lord's people were p[...]
  113: De cultu feminarum, i-3. "He could equally have renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after [...]
  114: Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, V. viii. 14. "God was glorified, and the Scriptures were recogni[...]
  115: "Each time that."



  • SECTION X: TYPOLOGY
  116: Mark 2:10, 11. "But that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins... I [...]
  117: Rom. 5:14. "The figure of him that was to come."
  118: Ps. 75. 5. "They have slept their sleep."
  119: 1 Cor. 7:31 "The fashion of this world."
  120: Deut. 8:9. "Bread without scarceness."
  121: Luke 11:3. "Our daily bread."
  122: Ps. 71:9. "The enemies of the Lord shall lick the dust."
  123: Exod. 12:8. Cum lacticibus agrestibus. "With bitter herbs."
  124: Ps. 140:10. "Whilst that I withal escape."
  125: Ps. 44:4 "O most mighty."
  126: Exod. 25:40. "Make them after their pattern, which was showed thee on the mount."
  127: Mark 2:10, 11. "That ye may know... I say unto thee: Arise."
  128: John 4:23. "True worshippers."
  129: John 1:29. "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
  130: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
  131: Is. 44:24. "I am the Lord."
  132: "I will do unto this house."
  133: "For I spoke not unto your fathers."
  134: "According to the number."
  135: Rev. 13:8. "The Lambs slain from the foundation of the world."
  136: Ps. 109:1. " Sit then at my right hand."
  137: Ps. 147:13. Quoniam not quia. "For he hath strengthened the bars."



  • SECTION XI: THE PROPHECIES
  138: Acts 17:11. "They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily,[...]
  139: "Read what has been announced. See what has been accomplished. Meditate on what is to be done." [...]
  140: John 19:15. "We have no king but Caesar."
  141: Is. 65:2. "Arebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good."
  142: "They have pierced."
  143: Ps. 130:8. "from all his iniquities."



  • SECTION XII: PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
  144: Deut. 28:29. Et palpes in meridie. "And thou shalt grope at noonday."
  145: Is. 29:11. Quem (librum) cum dederint scienti litteras et respondebit: Non possum. "Which men del[...]
  146: Job 19:23-25. "for I know that my redeemer liveth."
  147: Luke 22:32, 61. "And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brother." "And the Lord turned, and l[...]
  148: Is. 6:10. "Shut their eyes."
  149: "The man who exists makes you God."
  150: "It is written: 'You are Gods'( Ps. 80:6), and the Scripture cannot be made naught of."
  151: "This weakness is not for life; it is for death."
  152: John 11:11, 14. "'Lazarus sleeps,' and later it says: 'Lazarus is dead.'"
  153: Ps. 44:4. Gladio tuo - "Thy sword, O most mighty."
  154: Heb. 10:5. "When he cometh into the world."
  155: Joel. 2:28. "I will pour out my spirit."
  156: Ps. 21:28. "All peoples shall come and worship him."
  157: Is. 49:6. "It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant," etc.
  158: Ps. 2:8. "Ask of me."
  159: Ps. 71:11. "All kings shall fall down before him."
  160: Ps. 34:11. "Witnesses rise up."
  161: Lam. 3:30. "He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him."
  162: Ps. 68:22. Dederunt in escam meam fel. "They gave me also gall for my meat."
  163: Is. 49:6. "It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant," etc.
  164: Luke 2:32. "A light to lighten the Gentiles."
  165: Ps. 167:20. "He hath not dealt so with any nation."
  166: Matt. 26:27. "Drink ye all of it."
  167: Rom. 5:12. "for that all have sinned."
  168: Luke 12:32. "Fear not little flock."
  169: Phil. 2:12. "With fear and trembling."
  170: Mark 9:37. "Whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me."
  171: Mark 13:32. "No one knows, neither the Son, but the Father."
  172: "Clouds shadowed over the light."
  173: Mark 1:5. "All the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him."
  174: Mark 4:12. "Lest they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."
  175: Matt. 26:50. "Friend, wherefore art thou come?"
  176: Ps. 2:1, 2. "Why do the heathen rage... and the rulers of the earth... against the Lord."
  177: Is. 8:14. "For a sanctuary and for a rock of offence."



  • SECTION XIII: THE MIRACLES
  178: John 3:2. "We know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no man can do these miracles that th[...]
  179: John. 15:24 "If I had not done... they had not had sin."
  180: Matt. 12:25; Luke 11:17. "Every kingdom divided against itself."
  181: Luke 11:20. "If with the finger of God... the kingdom of God is come upon you."
  182: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica.
  183: "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: that the sayin[...]
  184: John 12:41. "These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him."
  185: 1 Cor. 1:22, 23. "For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Chr[...]
  186: "But full of signs, full of wisdom; you the Jesuits, what you wish is a Christ not crucified, a re[...]
  187: 10:26 "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep."
  188: "Not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye... were filled."
  189: 16. "This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said: How can a man th[...]
  190: John 9:17, 33. "What sayest thou of him? He said, He is a prophet. If this man were not of God, he[...]
  191: Mark 9:39. Nemo est enim qui faciat. "There is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that ca[...]
  192: Ps. 138:24. "And see if there be any wicked way in me."
  193: Luke 22:66. "Art thou the Christ? tell us."
  194: John 5:36. "The works which the father hath given me to finish... bear witness of me." John 10:26-[...]
  195: "What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee. (They do not say: What doctrine d[...]
  196: John 3:2. "No man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him."
  197: "The Lord, making manifest his presence, upholdeth them that are his own portion."
  198: "And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven."
  199: Matt. 12:39. "An evil generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it." [...]
  200: "And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, why doth this generation seek after a sign?"
  201: Mark 6:5. "And he could there do no mighty work."
  202: John 4:48. "Except ye see... ye will not believe."
  203: 9. "In signs and lying wonders."
  204: 2 Thess. 2:9-11 "After the working of Satan... and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in t[...]
  205: Deut. 13:3. "for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord."
  206: Matt. 24:25-26. "Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold." [...]
  207: Is. 5:4. Quis est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae, et non faci ei? "What could have been done [...]
  208: Gal. 1:8. "But though an angel."
  209: Ps. 41:4. "Where is thy God?"
  210: Ps. 111:4. "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness."
  211: "The yes and the no."
  212: Is. 10:1. "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees."
  213: John 15:24. "If he had not done."
  214: John 15:24. "If he had not done among them the works which none other man did."



  • SECTION XIV: APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS
  215: Prov. 26. 4-5. "Answer... Answer not."
  216: Epistle 63. "Priest of the Lord."
  217: Luke 22:26. "But ye shall not be so."
  218: John 10:30. "I and my father are one."
  219: John 5:7. "And these three agree in one.”
  220: "The strictest law is the greatest injustice." Terrence, Heauton Timorumenus, iv. 5. 47; and Cicer[...]
  221: John 21:17. "Feed my sheep." Not "yours."
  222: "The Church will never be reformed."
  223: Jas. 4:6. "God giveth grace unto the humble."
  224: "But did he not give them humility?"
  225: John 1:11-12. "The world knew him not; and his own received him not."
  226: "And were they not his?"
  227: Rom. 12:2 "But overcome evil with good."
  228: 2 Tim. 4:3. "Shall they heap to themselves teachers."
  229: Ps. 81:6. "Ye are gods."
  230: "To your tribunal, Lord Jesus, I call."
  231: Wisd. of Sol. 19:4. "Doom which they deserved."
  232: "Most impudent Liars." See Provincial Letter xvi.
  233: Prov. 12:8. "A man shall be commended according to his wisdom."



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