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~ UNITED. STATES, CATHOLIC: MISCELLANY.
VOL: 1X.
the
matters, of quéstion, and conjecturo, rather than objects of whore oe neni astonished
oe antes he a time ke an infallible criterion, | Fourteenth Louis,
all might ato know thern with certainty. -
tho rate oflimited: duration, the milliona that would
after the expiration of its directing influences would
reft of that iste which ho meant: s hould irradiate :
4 1 of
means of
indeed
with the same
instructed,
_ Tho tale of
that is-suitable to mankind
call
certain
of Groece and Rome, but he wished it
nations, whom they in thefride of
and acquirements, denominated
consequently design it for any particular
but whether the
or bo extinguished, he ‘ordained
still, direct the steps of mankind in
No class of men was peculiarly to
human opinions, or
Protestants |
of b
Shey whem that the belief of
f-
_ fairs, equally as ir those eho i in
make it the subjec
by its controlling influence, and
age .were to be solaced by ‘its pro
_ unsuited to abstruse disquisitions ond 1 researches, was
sans tified in its knowledge? whilst the laborious
would be wrapt in admiration
Sounding its awful profundit,
“by C prist, mest consequently be
city, conditions and apporvnitie ufmenkind,
of fatth must Itkew:se-be borane, or.
* cortaine sd; “ond recognized by thé generality of
Wero it difficult to discover it,
dofeated. To be uscful to all, it must bo
ible to all, and so clearly characterize ed, that
tion, faith would bo, impossible to all oring tho early
fa on account of the
never be
thin
ecnd of; general: instruction and
* complished.
Tho rulo of faith must bo clear an nd
moaning ambiguous, we would not know with certainty
revelation which it is meant to ascertain. 9.
necessary, that the doctrines themselves should
the
shrouded in an obscurity, which it id
ken to penetrate. But they must bo clearly and
proposed, so that without any. soniye man may
what God has revealed, and may render
his understanding, by” adoring what is ntl
abovo his comprehension.
: These qualities of the rule of faith lead us to
that the knowledge of revelation must bo had by
not by discussion. The criterion must be
in a mirror, the truths revealed, :
homage which infinite wisdom demands from finite
gence.
itself, would be totally unsuitable to
of man, and even in the mos'
not faith, but opinion; whilst instruction
adapted to the learned and talented
the dull, the young and the aged, andj is alone
or speculations on the mysteries of religion, as the
voted mind of the dull Ethiopian. This method oF inetrue:
tion by authority best beepeaks t
speaks through 2 medium
content with learning
notrable sublimity. the simplicity of
cons
infant is