Part of the Spiritual Works, and Some of the Letters, of Francis Fenelon, Tr. [And Ed. by M. Bradburn]. - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ... will soon arrive; let us hasten to prevent it; let us love the everlasting beauty which never decays, nor will suffer such as love it to decay. Have we not seen within these few years, persons in the most exalted stations, surprised by death) and sunk into the everlasting abyss? This world to which we are so much attached we are just on the point of leaving; and what is it in itself, but misery, vanity, and folly; it is a phantom, and "the fashion of it," as St. Paul says, " passeth away." CHAP. XX. On the True Light. Jesus Christ is " the light of every man that cometh into the world." As there is but one sun that illuminates all bodies in the universe, so there is but one light that enlighteneth all souls. This light is Jesus Christ, the eternal word of God. He is come to shine in the midst of all, and we are only so far truly enlightened as we are so by him. Every other light is false, it is a deceitful brightness, and not a true light. O how miserably blind are all who imagine themselves wise, while they continue destitute of that wisdom which Jesus Christ inspires. They walk in darkness in chase of phantoms. They feel themselves not happy; and hope to become so by the means of those very things which cause their wretchedness. They lament and afflict themselves for what they have not; what they possess does not satisfy them. Their troubles are real; their pleasures fleeting, vain, and embittered. They cost them more than they are worth; their whole life is a sad experience of their o2 continual blindness, yet nothing reclaims them. They are obstinate in their opinions, their fallacious maxim are as oracles to them; and they treat as fools, those children of God who refuse to follow them. Revelation appears to them like a dream, and in this they resembl...