You say that I am a heretic. Is that lawful? And if you do not
fear that men do justice, do you not fear that God does justice?

    You will feel the force of the truth, and you will yield to it...

    There is something supernatural in such a blindness. Digna
necessitas.* Mentiris impudentissime.*(2)

    Doctrina sua noscetur vir...*(3)

    * Wisd. of Sol. 19. 4. "Doom which they deserved."

    *(2) "Most impudent Liars." See Provincial Letter xvi.

    *(3) Prov. 12. 8. "A man shall be commended according to his
wisdom."

    False piety, a double sin.

    I am alone against thirty thousand. No. Protect you, the court;
protect, you, deception; let me protect the truth. It is all my
strength. If I lose it, I am undone. I shall not lack accusations, and
persecutions. But I possess the truth, and we shall see who will
take it away.

    I do not need to defend religion, but you do not need to defend
error and injustice. Let God, out of His compassion, having no
regard to the evil which is in me, and having regard to the good which
is in you, grant us all grace that truth may not be overcome in my
hands, and that falsehood...

    922. Probable.- Let us see if we seek God sincerely, by comparison
of the things which we love. It is probable that this food will not
poison me. It is probable that I shall not lose my action by not
prosecuting it...

    923. It is not absolution only which remits sins by the
sacrament of penance, but contrition, which is not real if it does not
seek the sacrament.

    924. People who do not keep their word, without faith, without
honour, without truth, deceitful in heart, deceitful in speech; for
which that amphibious animal in fable was once reproached, which
held itself in a doubtful position between the fish and the birds...

    It is important to kings and princes to be considered pious;
therefore they must confess themselves to you.

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