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For the same reason I have not taken notice of another species of irrationality, and which seems to answer more exactly to the Arabic notion of the fomes peccati, the black drop of blood at the bottom of the heart. We act from motives apprehended by the judgment; but we do not stop at them. Once set in motion, it will not seldom happen that we proceed beyond our original mark.
The truth is, that both first and last the scandal of the ceremonies is active and given; for an active scandal is dictum vel factum vere malum, aut mali speciem habens, quo auctor aliis peccandi occasionem praebet, say our divines. An active scandal is ever a sin in him who offendeth, quia vel ipsum opus quod facit est peccatum, vel etiam si habeat speciem peccati, &c., say the schoolmen.
"SENECTUTI DNT MARS. P. AN. XV." Mars governs manhood for fifteen years. Sixth side. A very graceful and serene figure, in the pendent cap, reading. "SENICIE DNT JUPITER, P. ANN. XII." Jupiter governs age for twelve years. Seventh side. An old man in a skull-cap, praying. Eighth side. The dead body lying on a mattress. "ULTIMA EST MORS PENA PECCATI." Last comes death, the penalty of sin.
Austin and Calvin descanted. Certain Arabic writers seem to have had this in their minds, when they tell us, that there is a black drop of blood in the heart of every man, in which is contained the fomes peccati, and add that, when Mahomet was in the fourth year of his age, the angel Gabriel caught him up from among his playfellows, and taking his heart from his bosom, squeezed out of it this first principle of frailty, in consequence of which he for ever after remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men .
Then the owners of stools sat down on them, some leant on adjacent pillars, others curled themselves on the floor, but most remained on their feet as unwilling to miss a word, and of these were Tibble Steelman and his companion. Omnis qui facit peccatum, servus est peccati, followed by the rendering in English, "Whosoever doeth sin is sin's bond thrall."
However, when the bishop, growing more composed, remained still silent, he could not forbear offering him a trifle of consolation. 'Don't grieve so, Pendle! he said, laying his hand on the other's shoulder; 'it is not your fault that you are in this position. The bishop sighed, and murmured with a shake of his head, 'Omnis qui facit peccatum, servus est peccati!
Humana autem anima rationalis est, quae mortalibus peccati poena tenebatur, ad hoc diminutionis redacta ut per conjecturas rerum visibilium ad intelligenda invisibilia niteretur; that is, "The human soul is still rational, but in such a manner that, being by the punishment of sin detained in the bonds of death, it is so far reduced that it can only endeavour to arrive at the knowledge of things invisible through the visible."
The devout Catholic sees all the world sub specie peccati. The flesh seems to him always ready to fall the devil always at hand. Little restless proud creature! What a riddle she has been to him all the time flitting about the house so pale and inaccessible, so silent, too, in general, since that night when he had wrestled with her in the drawing-room.
Then the owners of stools sat down on them, some leant on adjacent pillars, others curled themselves on the floor, but most remained on their feet as unwilling to miss a word, and of these were Tibble Steelman and his companion. Omnis qui facit peccattum, servus est peccati, followed by the rendering in English, "Whosoever doeth sin is sin's bond thrall."
The nature of an action, wherein a ceremony is used, cannot be the cause of the abuse of that ceremony; neither can the abuse of a ceremony proceed from the nature of the action wherein it is used, as one effect from the cause, for nihil potest esse homini causa sufficiens peccati, except only propria voluntas . 5.