on on account of emergency, should be admonished of the dutyof receiving fuller instruction later on. It may, however, bemixed with sorrow over sin or the delay of entrance into the presenceof God ( Rom. If we leave out of consideration their opposites(which, as just said, remove these virtues entirely), there is nothingelse that can act directly upon them. To us, all life is a series of accidents, to bemet with by improvisations To them, all life is purposive and should be metby precalculation.
, that noworks before justification are sinful --is not, however, defined, fortwo contraries can both be false. es and prophecies ofthe Old Testament, but rejected in their fulfillment and development inJesus and the New Testament. The great majority of Protestantsnowadays cannot be said to have faith, declares Cardinal Newman, sincethey deduce from scripture, instead of believing a teacher. Such laws are just, even when made byhuman authority, since it is the common good that makes them necessary,and the natural law itself requires that the common good be promoted.
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