Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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CORPORATE RE-UNION.
BY AMBROSE L. M. PHILLIPPS DE LISLE, ESQ.
IT is a common observation of spiritual
writers, that one of the most certain signs
that a work is from GOD and according to His
and even
Spirit, is when it is opposed by men,
by good men. S. Theresa used to say, that
she mistrusted every work that lacked this
sign : and S. Vincent of Pan],
when he heard
any design of his was thus opposed, used to
rejoice,
success.
and felt additional confidence of its
And what was this
principle but the
expression
of what our LORD Himself had laid
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down, when He said Blessed are ve, when
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men shall revile you and persecute ? you
But the saints thought it was an additional
sign that a thing came from GOD, when its
opponents were good men and pious men, when
even they were invested with the authority of
the Church of GOD. Of course thev were
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only speaking of works and things which were
not evidently evil, and which claimed to be
directed to a good purpose. How immensely
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