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 is a God of love and 
 of comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom He possesses, a 
 God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and His infinite 
 mercy, who unites Himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility 
 and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other 
 end than Himself. 
  
 All who seek God without Jesus Christ, and who rest in nature, either find 
 no light to satisfy them, or come to form for themselves a means of knowing 
 God and serving Him without a mediator. Thereby they fall either into 
 atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion abhors 
 almost equally. 
  
 Without Jesus Christ the world would not exist; for it should needs be 
 either that it would be destroyed or be a hell. 
  
 If the world existed to instruct man of God, His divinity would shine 
 through every part in it in an indisputable manner; but as it exists only by 
 Jesus Christ, and for Jesus Christ, and to teach men both their corruption 
 and their redemption, all displays the proofs of these two truths. 
  
 All appearance indicates neither a total exclusion nor a manifest presence 
 of divinity, but the presence of a God who hides himself. Everything bears 
 this character. 
  
 .. Shall he alone who knows his nature know it only to be miserable? Shall 
 he alone who knows it be alone unhappy? 
  
 .. He must not see nothing at all, nor must he see sufficient for him to 
 believe he possesses it; but he must see enough to know that he has lost it. 
 For to know of his loss, he must see and not see; and that is exactly the 
 state in which he naturally is. 
  
 .. Whatever part he takes, I shall not leave him at rest. 
  
 557.... It is, then, true that everything teaches man his condition, but 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)