“O remember how short my time is: Wherefore hast thou made all men for nought?" Ps. lxxxix. 46. “ τοιοῦδε μόχθου τέρμα μή τι προσδόκα, φανῇ, θελήσῃ τ ̓ εἰς ἀναύγητον. μολεῖν “Αιδην κνεφαῖά τ ̓ ἀμφὶ Ταρτάρου βάθη. πρὸς ταῦτα βούλευ”.” ESCH. Prom. v. 1026. Δίφιλος ὁ κώμικος τοιαῦτά τινα περὶ τῆς κρίσεως διαλέγεται, * καὶ γὰρ καθ' “Αιδην δύο τρίβους νομιζομεν μίαν δικαίων χατέραν ἀσεβῶν ὁδόν * συνάδει δὲ τούτοις ἡ τραγῳδία ἐπὰν δ ̓ ἄρ ̓ ἐκλίπῃ τὸ πᾶν φροῦδος μὲν ἔσται κυμάτων ἅπας βυθός . κάπειτα σώσει πάνθ ̓ ἅ προσθ ̓ ἀπώλεσεν.” CLEM. ALEX. Strom. v. 14, § 123. viii "Facta resurrectione mortuorum non deerunt quibus post poenas, quas patiuntur spiritus mortuorum, impertiatur misericordia, ut in ignem non mittantur aeternum."-AUG. De Civ. Dei, xxi. 24. "Deus non exigit ab ullo peccatore plus quam debet, sed quoniam nullus potest reddere quantum debet, solus Christus reddidit pro omnibus plus quam debetur."-ST. ANSELM. non "Deus cognitionem sui docuit potius quam exegit. requirit coactam confessionem. Nostrâ potius quam suâ causâ venerandus est ... charitate amandus est."-HILARY, | Adv. Constant. i. 6. "God forbid that I should limit the time of acquiring faith to the present life! In the depths of the divine mercy there may be opportunity to win it in the future state."-LUTHER, Letter to Hansen von Rechenberg, 1522. "Esto cavernoso, quia sic pro labe necesse est PRUDENT. Harmartigeneia, ad fin. "E vederai color, che son contenti DANTE, Inferno, i. 118. ix "Through sins of sense, perversities of will, Through doubt and pain, through guilt and shame, and ill, Thy pitying Eye is on Thy creature still. "Wilt Thou not make, eternal Source and Goal! In Thy long years life's broken circle whole, And change to praise the cry of a lost soul?" WHITTIER. "Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them then in being merciful!" "Rabbi Ishmael Ben Elisha said, Once, I entered into the Holy of Holies [as High Priest] to burn incense, when I saw Aktriel [the Divine Crown] Jah, Lord of Hosts, sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, who said unto me, 'Ishmael, my son, bless me.' I answered, May it please Thee to make Thy compassion prevail over Thine anger; may it be revealed above Thy other attributes; mayest Thou deal with Thy children according to it, and not according to the strict measure of judgment. It seemed to me that he bowed His head, as though to answer Amen to my blessing."-Talmud (Berachôth, i. f. 6. b.). "God's power never produces what His goodness cannot embrace."-SOUTH. "To the eternity of Hell-torments there is and ever must be ... a tacit repugnance."-DEAN MILMAN, Latin Christianity, vi. 428. "St. John uses a very broad expression. 'Jesus Christ,' he says, 'is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 'The whole world.'-'Ah!' some would say, 'that is dangerous language.' It is God's language – John speaking as he was moved by the Holy Ghost. It throws X a zone of mercy around the world. Perish the hand that would narrow it by a hairsbreadth."-Rev. Dr. GUTHRIE, Life, p. 511. "My belief is that in the end there will be a vastly larger number saved than we have any conception of. What sort of earthly government would that be where more than half the subjects were in prison? I cannot believe that the government of God will be like that."-Id. p. 773. "Let no one take offence at the opening of this mystery as though it brought anything new into religion; for it has nothing new in it; it alters no point of gospel doctrine, but only sets each article of the old Christian faith upon its true ground."-W. LAW, Way to Divine Knowledge, p. 255. "There will often be, and often appear to be, danger from remov. ing a mistake; the danger that those who have been long used to act rightly from erroneous principles may fail of the desired conclusion when undeceived. In such cases it requires a thorough love of truth, and a firm reliance on divine support, to adhere steadily to the straight course. If we give way to a dread of danger from the inculcation of any truth. . . . we manifest a want of faith.... There may be danger attendant on every truth, since there is none that may not be perverted by some, or that may not give offence to others but in case of anything which plainly appears to be truth, every danger must be braved. We must maintain the truth . . Truth to prosper and defend it."ARCHBISHOP WHATELY (Bacon's Essays, i. p. 14). .... and trust to Him who is the "Melius est ut scandalum oriatur quam ut veritas relinquatur.”S. GREGOR. Homil. 7, in Ezech. |