injuries which you do them, should not affect them, those which the Church fuffers I think certainly ought to occafion them to complain: befides I do not think ecclefiaftical perfons should abandon their reputation to calumny, especially in matters of faith. Nevertheless they let you fay what you please; insomuch that if the opportunity had not happened, which by chance you have given me, perhaps nothing would have been opposed to the scandalous impreffions you propagate on all fides. Therefore their forbearance aftonishes me, and the more fo as I cannot fufpect it can proceed from timidity or want of ability, as I know very well they neither want arguments for their juftification, nor zeal for the truth. I find nevertheless that they obftinately carry their religious filence even to an excess. For my own part, Father, I do not think that I fhall be able to be fo filent. Leave you the Church in peace, and I will leave you fo with all my heart. But as long as you make it your business to foment war in the Church, fear not but that we fhall find out children of peace, who will think themselves obliged to employ their utmost efforts to preserve it's tranquillity. * P. S. P. S. to the eighth Letter. I always forget to tell you that there are different editions of ESCOBAR's works. If you buy any buy thofe printed at Lyons, in which at the beginning there is a figure of a lamb upon a book fealed with feven feals; or else buy thofe of the Bruffels edition of 1651: as they are the last published they are better and larger than the preceding editions printed at Lyons in 1644 and 1646. *P. S. to the ninth Letter: Since I wrote this letter I have feen fa ther BARRY's book, called, PARADISE OPEN BY A HUNDRED DEVOTIONS EASILY PRACTISED: and father BINET's, called, THE SIGN OF PREDESTINATION. These pieces are worth looking into. * P. S. to the eleventh Letter. As I was finishing this letter I faw a writing you have published, in which you accuse me of an imposture relating to fix of your maxims, and of holding intelligence with Heretics. I hope, Fathers, you will foon foon fee an exact answer to this, after which I imagine you will have no inclination to any more accufations of that nature. *P. S. to the feventeenth Letter. In the copy printed at Ofnabrug the following paffage is added. I am Rev. Father, if you find any difficulty in reading this letter from it's being fo ill printed, you may thank yourself for it. deftitute of those privileges you enjoy. You have a license to encounter even with miracles, but I am not permitted to defend myfelf. The prefs is perpetually haraffed. Under this difficulty you yourself would not advise me to write to you any more: for it is too perplexing an affair to have to do only with the Ofnabrug impreffion. こ 1 FINI S. 278 71 313 A A A 30 |