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A56539	Monsieur Pascall's thoughts, meditations, and prayers, touching matters moral and divine as they were found in his papers after his death : together with a discourse upon Monsieur Pascall's, Thoughts ... as also another discourse on the proofs of the truth of the books of Moses : and a treatise, wherein is made appear that there are demonstrations of a different nature but as certain as those of geometry, and that such may be given of the Christian religion / done into English by Jos. Walker.; Pensées. English	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Walker, Joseph.; Perier, Madame (Gilberte), 1620-1685. Vie de M. Pascal. English.; Filleau de la Chaise, Jean, 1631-1688. Discours sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. English.	1688 (1688)	Wing P645; ESTC R23135	228,739	434

two Natures and one Person We believe the substance of Bread being changed into the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ makes him Really present in the Sacrament this is one Truth Another is That this Sacrament also is a Figure of the Cross and of Glory and a Comemmoration of both this is the Catholick Faith which comprehends these two Truths which seem to be opposite to each other The Heresie of this time not conceiving that this Sacrament contains at once the Presence of Jesus Christ and his Figure and that he is both a Sacrifice and the Commemoration of a Sacrifice thinks one of these Truths can't be admitted without excluding the other For this Reason they hold that this Sacrament is Figurative and therein they are not Hereticks They think we exclude this Truth and therefore 't is they make so many Objections upon the passages of the Fathers that say it To conclude they deny the Real Presence and therein they are Hereticks Therefore the readiest way to hinder Heresies is to instruct all things that are true and the surest way of refuting them is to make them all manifest 5. * Grace and Nature will always be in the World there will still be Pelagians and Catholicks because the first Birth produces the one and the second Birth the other 6. * The Church doth merit with Jesus Christ as being inseparable from him the Conversion of all those which are not in the true Religion And afterwards 't is these Converts that do succour the Mother which deliver'd them 7. * The Body can no more live without the Head than the Head can without the Body whoever separates from one or the other is no longer of the Body and belongs not to Jesus Christ all kind of Virtue Martyrdom Fasting and all manner of good Works avail nothing out of the Church and the Communion of the Head of the Church which is the Pope 8. * It will be one of the Torments of the Damned to see that they shall be condemned by their own Reason whereby they pretended to condemn Christian Religion 9. * There is this of common betwixt the Life of the generality of Men and of Saints that they all aspire to Felicity and they differ only in the Object wherein they place it both one and the others call those their Enemies that hinder them from attaining to it 10. * We should judg of what is Good and Evil by the Will of God which can be neither unjust nor ignorant and not by our own Will which is always full of Error and Malice 11. * Jesus Christ has in the Gospel given this Mark to know those that have true Faith which is that they shall speak with new Tongues and indeed the renewing of the Thoughts and the Desires doth cause that of the Discourse for these new things which cannot be displeasing to God as the Old Man cannot be pleasing to him are different from the new things of the Earth inasmuch as the new things of the World how new soever they be do soon decay whereas this new Spirit the longer it continues is so much the more strengthened and renewed Our Old Man dieth saith St. Paul and we are renewed day by day and we shall not be fully renew'd until we enter into Eternity where we shall for ever sing the new Song spoken of by David in the Psalms that is to say the new Song of the Spirit proceeding from Love. 12. * When St. Peter and the Apostles abolished Circumcision where there was any thing to be done against the Law of God they consulted not the Prophets but the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Persons of those that were Circumcised they judged it surer that God had approved those whom he had filled with his Spirit than that heed should be given to the keeping the Law they knew the end of the Law was but the receiving the Holy Ghost and so seeing it was received without Circumcision it was no longer necessary 13. * Two Laws may suffice to rule the whole Christian Republick better than all the Polliticks in the World To Love God and our Neighbour 14. * Religion is proportion'd to all sorts of Men the ordinary sort stop at the State and Establishment it is in and this Religion is such that its only Establishment is sufficient to prove the Truth of it Others ascend to the Apostles the most refin'd go farther even to the beginning of the World Angels see it yet plainer and farther off for they see it in God himself 15. * Those to whom God has given a feeling Sense of Religion in the Heart are very happy and fully convinced but as for those that have it not we cannot procure it for them but by Reasoning until such time as God himself imprints it in their Hearts without which Faith is not profitable to Salvation 16. * God to reserve to himself the power of instructing us and to shew us the difficulty of our unintelligible Being has hid the Mystery of it so far from our sight that we were incapable of attaining to it So that 't is not by the force of our Reason but by the meer submitting of our Reason that we can come rightly to understand our selves 17. * The Wicked that make Profession of following Reason had need be strangely fortify'd with Reason What is 't they say Don't we see say they Beasts live and dye as well as Men and the Turks as well as Christians They have their Ceremonies their Prophets their Doctors their Saints their Religious Orders as well as we Is this contrary to the Scripture Don't it speak of all this If you are indifferent of searching out the Truth here 's room enough you may lye down in ease but if you desire with all your Heart to know and find it 't is not enough to seek it by Halves that may serve for a vain Question of Philosophy but hear your All lyes at stake nevertheless after a slight Reflection of this Nature c. 18. * It is a horrible thing to find all one possesses to wast continually and yet to set ones Heart upon it without seeking if there be not something that is more permanent 19. * We should live otherwise in the World according to these divers suppositions if one could abide there still if it be certain we shall not bide there long and uncertain if it shall be one Hour this last supposition is ours 20. * Let us imagin to see a great many Men in Chains and all condemned to Death some of which are daily executed in sight of the rest those that remain see their own Condition in that of their Companions and looking upon each other with sorrow and without hope expect when it will be their turn This is the representation of the Condition of Men. 21. * By the parts you should concern your self in seeking the Truth for if you dye without seeking the true Good you are ruin'd But you will

't is to thee it appertains as a Tribute I owe unto thee for thy Image is stamped upon it Thou didst there ingrave it Lord at the instant of my Baptism which is my second Birth but 't is quite blotted out the Idea of the World is so ingraven in it that thine cannot be seen Thou alone hadst power to make my Soul and thou only art able to renew it thou only wert able to stamp thine Image upon it thou only art able to restore it and to renew thy decayed Image that is to say Jesus Christ my Saviour who is thy Image and the Character of thy Glory V. O my God how happy is the Heart that can love so charming an Object that don't dishonour it but in whom 't is so safe to trust I find I cannot love the World without displeasing thee without hurting and dishonouring my self and nevertheless the World is the Object of my delight O my God how happy is that Soul of whom thou art the delight because it can willingly love thee not only without scruple but also with pleasure How firm and durable is her Happiness seeing her expectation shall not be frustrated because thou shalt never be destroy'd and that because neither Death nor Life shall ever separate her from the Object of her delight and that the same moment that shall plunge the wicked with their Idols into common Misery shall unite the Righteous with thee in a common Glory and as the one shall be destroyed with the perishable Objects which they delighted in so the others shall abide for ever in the Object that Eternally subsists of himself whereunto they were strictly united O how happy are those that with free Liberty and full bent of their Will do freely and perfectly love that which they are necessarily obliged unto VI. Accomplish O my God the good Desires thou art pleas'd to give me be thou the End as thou art the Beginning Crown thy own Gifts for I confess they are from thee Yes my God and very far from thinking there is any Merit in my Prayers that should oblige thee of necessity to grant them I most humbly confess that having given my Heart to the Creatures which thou madest only for thy self and not for the World nor for me I can expect no Grace but meerly from thy Mercy seeing there is nothing in me might invite thee to it and that all the natural Motions of my Heart being inclin'd to the Creatures or to my self cannot but displease thee I therefore give thee Thanks my God for the good Motions thou givest me and even for that which thou givest me that I give thee Thanks VII Touch my Heart with Repentance of my Sins seeing that without this inward Grief the outward Evils thou layest on my Body will be a farther occasion of making me transgress make me fully understand that bodily Pains are nothing else but the Punishment and Figure both together of the Evils of the Soul. But Lord grant that they may also prove the Remedy in making me consider in the Punishments I feel those which I did not feel in my Soul although I was sick and over-run with Ulcers For Lord the greatest of these Evils is this insensibleness and extream weakness that had deprived the Soul of all Sense and feeling of its own Miseries Make me to feel them sharply and that the residue of my Life may be a continual Repentance for the Offences which I have committed VIII Lord though my Life past has been exempt from heinous Crimes from which thou hast put from me all occasions yet it has been very odious in thy sight by my continual negligence in thy Service by the ill use of thy Holy Sacraments by dispising thy Holy Word and Motions of thy Spirit by the Sloath and unprofitableness of my Thoughts and Words by the loss of my time which thou gavest me only to adore and serve thee and seek in all my Businesses the means to please thee and to be sorrowful for the Sins are daily committed and which the best Men are subject unto so that their Life should be a continual course of Repentance without which they are in danger of falling from their Righteousness So O my God I have always been contrary to thee IX Yea Lord even to this Day I have been deaf unto thy Holy Inspirations I have despised thy Oracles I have judged contrary to what thou judgest I have opposed the Holy Maxims which thou didst bring into the World from the bosom of thine Everlasting Father and according to which thou wilt Judge the World. Thou sayest Blessed are those that weep and Woe be to those that laugh but I have said Wretched are they that are sorrowful and Happy are those that rejoice I have said Happy are those that enjoy a large Fortune and a glorious Reputation and full State of Health and wherefore have I esteemed them Happy but only because these advantages should give them the greater opportunity with ease to enjoy the things of this World that is to say to displease thee Yea Lord I confess I have accounted Health a Blessing not because 't is a Means the better of serving thee to spend the more Days and Nights in thy Service and to do good to Neighbours but because by means thereof I could with the greater Freedom and Liberty give my self up to the enjoyment of the abundance of the things of this Life and the better enjoy the dangerous Pleasures of Sin do me the favour Lord to rectifie my depraved Reason and to conform my Thoughts unto thine Let me count my self Happy in Affliction and that in my being unable to act outwardly thou mayest in such manner purifie my Thoughts that they may no longer oppose thy Will that so I may feel thee within me because I cannot seek thee outwardly by reason of my weakness For Lord thy Kingdom is within thy Children and I shall find it within me if I there find thy Spirit and thy Will. X. But Lord what shall I do to prevail with thee to shed forth thy Spirit on this miserable Clay all that I am is odious unto thee and I can find nothing in me that may be acceptable in thy sight I see nothing in me Lord but only my Sorrows that have any resemblance with thine consider therefore O Lord the Evils that I suffer and those that hang over my Head. Look with an Eye of pity on the Wounds that thy hand has made in me O my Saviour thou didst love thy suffering in Death O God who becamest Man only to suffer more than any Man for the Salvation of Men O God who wast not Incarnate till after the Sin of Man and that tookest not a Body but therein to suffer all the Evils that our Sins deserved O God who so lovest the Bodies that suffer that thou didst choose for thy self the Body the most loaden with suffering that ever was in the World accept my Body not for