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without excluding the other for this reason.
They fasten to this point alone, that this Sacrament is typical; and in this
they are not heretics. They think that we exclude this truth; hence it comes
that they raise so many objections to us out of the passages of the Fathers
which assert it. Finally, they deny the presence; and in this they are
heretics.
3rd example: Indulgences.
The shortest way, therefore, to prevent heresies is to instruct in all
truths; and the surest way to refute them is to declare them all. For what
will the heretics say?
In order to know whether an opinion is a Father's...
863. All err the more dangerously, as they each follow a truth. Their fault
is not in following a falsehood, but in not following another truth.
864. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
865. If there is ever a time in which we must make profession of two
opposite truths, it is when we are reproached for omitting one. Therefore
the Jesuits and Jansenists are wrong in concealing them, but the Jansenists
more so, for the Jesuits have better made profession of the two.
866. Two kinds of people make things equal to one another, as fe
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