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Philip. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. Disc. Ch. x. section 1, and ch. xviii. section 16. See Inner Fortress, v. ch. i. section 11. The Effects of This Fourth State of Prayer. Earnest Exhortations to Those Who Have Attained to It Not to Go Back, Nor to Cease from Prayer, Even if They Fall. The Great Calamity of Going Back.

Alex.: Exhortation to Heathen, XI; Instructor, I, 12; Stromata, I, 5, 19; II, 2; V, 1, 6, 11-13; VII, 1; VI, 5; Tertullian: Against Marcion, V, 16; Against Praxeas, XIV; Origen: De Principiis I, iii, 1; Against Celsus, VII, 42, 44; Novatian: De Trinitate, VIII; Arnobius: Against the Heathen, I, 38.

May our Lord grant that I may have pleased His Majesty a little herein; for I am sure that they pleased Him who condemned and rebuked me, and that it was all for my great good. Ch. xxvii. section 3. Philipp. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog.

E.g., Minucius Felix: Octavius, XVII, XVIII; Novatian: De Trinitate VIII; Dionysius the Great: Fragments, II, 1. E.g., "Justin, in Philosopher's garb, preached the word of God." Eusebius, IV, 11. The mere list of Greek authors quoted by St. Clement of Alexandria occupies over fourteen quarto pages in Fabricius' Bibliotheka Graeca. Divine Institutes, V. 4. Acts, XVII, 23. Stromata, I, 13.

Ch. x. section 1. St. Luke xviii. 13: "Nolebat nec oculos ad coelum levare." Ch. xii. section 5. "Firmeza en la verdad." Francisco de St. Thoma, in his Medulla Mystica, p. 204, quoting this passage, has, "firmeza en la voluntad." Philip a SS. Trinitate, Theolog. Mystic. p. 354, and his Abbreviator, Anton. a Sp. Sancto, Direct.

It sees this, as it were, with the naked eye; for, whether it will or not, its eyes are shut against the things of this world, and open to see the truth. See Inner Fortress, vi. ch. v.; Philippus a SS. Trinitate, Theolog.

The Soul's Testimony, I. Of the Resurrection of the Flesh, III. Octavius, XVIII. Against Celsus, II, 40. De Trinitate, VIII. Divine Institutes, I, 2. E.g., Irenaeus: Against Heresy, II, 9, 1; Tertullian: Against Marcion, I, 10; Origen: De Principiis, I, 3, 1; Tertullian: Apology, XVII; Lactantius: Divine Institutes, I, 2.

Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me! Philip. a SS. Trinitate, Theolog.