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--No sign has ever happened on the part of the devil without a
stronger sign on the part of God, or even without it having been foretold
that such would happen.

852. Unjust persecutors of those whom God visibly protects. If they reproach
you with your excesses, "they speak as the heretics." If they say that the
grace of Jesus Christ distinguishes us, "they are heretics." If they do
miracles, "it is the mark of their heresy."

Ezekiel. They say: These are the people of God who speak thus.

It is said, "Believe in the Church"; but it is not said, "Believe in
miracles"; because the last is natural, and not the first. The one had need
of a precept, not the other. Hezekiah.

The synagogue was only a type, and thus it did not perish; and it was only a
type, and so it is decayed. It was a type which contained the truth, and
thus it has lasted until it no longer contained the truth.

My reverend father, all this happened in types. Other religions perish; this
one perishes not.

Miracles are more important than you think. They have served for the
foundation, and will serve for the continuation of the Church till
Antichrist, till the end.

The two witnesses.

In the Old Testament and the New, miracles are performed in connection with
types. Salvation, or a useless thing, if not to show that we must submit to
the Scriptures: type of the sacrament.

853. We must judge soberly of divine ordinances, my father. Saint Paul in
the isle of Malta.

854. The hardness of the Jesuits, then, surpasses that of the Jews, since
those refused to believe Jesus Christ innocent only because they doubted if
His miracles were of God. Whereas the Jesuits, though unable to doubt that
the miracles of Port-Royal are of God, do not cease to doubt still the
innocence of that house.

855. I suppose that men believe miracles. You corrupt religion either in
favour of your friends or against your enemies. You arrange it at your will.

856. On the miracle.--As God has made no family m