XXVI. PROLEGOMENA. 



by a timely tribunal ; with St. Francis of Sales, 

 who gave advice available in mixed life ; and 

 above all, with the great and benevolent St. 

 Ignatius of Loyola, who left his prayers and the 

 delights of retreat to teach others to pray, who, 

 identifying himself with his fellow creatures, and 

 merging individual exigency into the common 

 stock of human want, became a prodigy of the 

 perfection of Charity ; while his followers, walking 

 in the Evangelical Councils over the earth, from 

 the equator to the poles, have enlarged the one 

 fold of the one shepherd a thousand fold, and 

 added hundreds to the souls in Heaven, now 

 blessed by a reunion with God by the merit of 

 Jesus Christ crucified : and now in the actual 

 fruition of the unspeakable pleasure, for which 

 they had toiled all their lives, and which 

 they now inherit for ever ! All this holy 

 company, would the dupe of heresy in question 

 reflect that he had exchanged, for ever, for the 

 society of devils and the victims of justice, 

 amidst all sorts of deformity of vice and of 

 wretchedness ; surrounded by monstrosities of 

 inconceivable horror ; burning in flames amidst 

 the stench of brimstone, in the pit of despair, 

 called bottomless, because there is no end to 

 its tortures, and the everlasting consciousness 

 of loss I 



Now this doctrine of the bliss of Heaven, and 



