Quesnel: Moral Reflections on the Gospels Vol 1

CHAPTER XI.
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" 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking,
and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber,
a friend of publicans and sinners : but Wisdom
is justified of her children.''
Whatever measures good men take, they will
never escape the censures of the world :
the best way
is not to be concerned at them. Iniquity, being
always ready to oppose and contradict the divine
conduct, often contradicts itself. God still finds his
glory, not only in the faithfulness of the righteous,
but even in the hardness of the wicked, bringing
good out of evil itself. \V'isdom, which does all
for the sake of the elect, knows thereby how to find
the justification of her diiFerent ways in their salva-
tion, to which she makes every thing subservient.
We discover in all things sufficient cause to adore
the wisdom and goodness of God, when we are of
the number of the true children of this incarnate
Wisdom.
Sect. IV.— The Impenitent Cities worse than
Sodom.
" 20. ^ Then began he to upbraid the cities
wherein most of his mighty works were done, be-
cause they repented not.''
Happy he, who, by a speedy conversion and a true
repentance, prevents the reproaches which his con-
science would otherwise cast upon him at the hour
of death. The more effects of his power God has
employed to draw us to himself, the more inexcus-
able are we. We cannot complain that we have
seen no miracles, since all those of our Creator are
exposed to the eyes of our mind and of our body,
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