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ment far more portentous and terrible than
that which has to summon the dead! Ju-
dicium durissimum his qui prwsunt fiet;
exiguo enim conceditur misericordia ; potentes
autem potenter tormenta patientur: A sharp
judgement shall be to them that be in high
places. For mercy will pardon the mean;
but mighty men shall be mightily tormented.
The Judgement with which God will judge
those who rule and govern is to be a sharp
Judgement, because mercy will be granted
to the mean; but the mighty shall be
mightily tormented,potentespotenter tormenta
patientur. See here in what that power is
to end which is so greatly desired, which is
so panted after, which is so highly esteemed,
which is so much envied! The mighty fear
no other power now, because the power is in
their own hands, but when the sharp Judge-
ment comes they will then see whose Power
is greater than theirs; potentes potenter
patientur."
This was a discourse which might have
made Felix tremble.
CHAPTER CLXIII.
AN OPINION OF EL VENERABLE PADRE
MAESTRO FRAY LUIS DE GRANADA, AND
A PASSAGE QUOTED FROM HIS WORKS,
BECAUSE OF THE PECULIAR BENEFIT TO
WHICH PERSONS OF A CERTAIN DENOMI-
NATION WILL FIND THEMSELVES ENTITLED
UPON READING OR REARING IT READ.
Chacun tourne en r~alites,
Autant qu'il pent, ses propres songes;
L'homnme est de glace aux ve'ritis,
II est de feu pour les menisonges.
LA FONTAINE.
THE translated extract in the preceding
Chapter from the most eloquent of the
Portuguese preachers, el mismissimo Vieyra,
en su mesma mesmedad, as he is called in
Fray Gerundio, brings to my mind the most
eloquent and the most popular of the Spanish
divines, P. M. Luis de Granada. He held
an opinion wherein, (as willappear hereafter,)
the Philosopher of Doncaster did not agree
with him, that everything under the sky
was created for man directly or indirectly,
either for his own use, or for the use of
those creatures which minister to it; for,
says the Spaniard, if he does not eat mosqui-
toes he eats the birds that eat them; if he
does not eat the grass of the field, the cattle
graze there that are necessary for his use.
I have a very particular reason for giving
the famous and Venerable Dominican's
opinion in his own words.
Todo quanto ay debaxo del Cielo, 6 es para
el hombre, 6 para cosas de que se ha de servir
el hombre; porque si el no come el mosquito
que buela por el ayre, come lo el pajaro de que
el se mantiene; y si el no pace la yerva del
campo, pacela el ganado, de que el tiene
necessidad.
My reason for transcribing this sentence
in its original language, is that by so doing I
might confer a great act of kindness upon
every Roman Catholic who reads the present
Chapter. For be it known unto every such
reader, that by perusing it, he becomes
entitled to an indulgence of an hundred
days, granted by D. Pasqual Aragon, Car-
dinal by the Title of Santa Balbina, and
Archbishop of Toledo; and moreover to
eighteen several indulgences of forty days
each, granted by eighteen most illustrious
and most reverend Lords Archbishops and
Bishops; such indulgences having been pro-
claimed, para los que leyeren, 6 oyeren leer
qualquier capitulo,parrafo, o6periodo de lo que
escrivio el dicho V. P. M. Fray Luis de
Granada.
It might be a question for the casuists
whether a good papist reading the paragraph
here presented to him, and not assenting to
the opinion expressed therein, would be
entitled to this discount of eight hundred
and twenty . days from his time due in
Purgatory.  But if he accords with the
Venerable Dominican, he can no more doubt
his own right to participate in the Episcopal
and Archiepiscopal grants, than he can call
in question the validity of the grants them-
selves.
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