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Be it known to you therefore, of a certainty, that you cannot attain to the joys of heaven unless you become a Christian; for God hath said, whosoever believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be condemned." At this he modestly smiled, but the other Moals clapped their hands in derision; and my interpreter, who ought to have comforted me, was quite abashed.
"Nature," I thought, "does not demand that power should always be force. Power itself must repose. He that believeth shall not make haste, says the Bible. But it needs strength to be still. Is my faith not strong enough to be still?" I looked up to the heavens once more, and the quietness of the stars seemed to reproach me.
Hear God's words: `God so loved de world dat he gave his only-begotten Son, dat whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Oh, he is a kind, good, merciful God! Him hear de prayers of all who come unto him.
"In God's name," saith the hermit, "you speak according to the scripture, for he that honoureth not his father and mother neither believeth in God nor loveth Him." "All this know I well," saith Perceval, "And well pleased am I to be reminded thereof, and well know I also mine intent herein, albeit I tell it to none.
Getting out of bed, and putting their ears to the floor, they could distinguish the very words. Fervent and earnest was the prayer. It was addressed neither to the Virgin nor to saints, but to One always ready to hear prayer to One who "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
'We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen. And it was because this man could say so assuredly because the depths of his own conscience and the witness within him bore testimony to it 'He loved me and gave Himself for me, that he could also say, 'The power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. Go down into the depths, brother and friend; cry to Him out of the depths.
He who believeth that the Sole Vehicle of the Divine Promise, most perfect, most mighty, receiveth within itself the Greatest of Sinners, and this because it is its chief will so to do, will receive the depth of this essential teaching namely, that before the eyes of the Instructed, illusion and wisdom are in their Essence One.
Lazarus has come, who has so often welcomed the Lord to his home in Bethany; and with him are the sisters, of whom one has heard the Teacher say. "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." The other is a young vineyard keeper from the neighboring village of Nain, whom Christ has restored. His word to Quintus is: "Last year I sickened with a fever and passed through the door of death.
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. "Ye are accursed and apostate. Lift up your hearts, and look at Him who died on the cross to save you. Verily He will not let him perish who believeth in Him; but you! where is your faith?
They shall not be able to enter in who have not believed with the faith of God's operation; the faith that is most holy, even the faith of God's elect. "He that believeth on the Son of God hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." They shall not be able to enter in that have not gospel-holiness.
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