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Des Tombés

XXXII.

Voilà ce qu’ont fait ces âmes simples et innocentes pour se rendre Dieu favorable: et maintenant ceux qui l’ont renié refusent de le prier et de satisfaire à sa justice! Je vous en prie, mes frères, suivez nos conseils, profitez du remède salutaire. Unissez vos larmes à. nos larmes, vos gémissements à nos gémissements. Nous vous prions d’abord, afin que nos prières soient efficaces auprès de Dieu et qu’elles fléchissent sa justice en votre faveur. Faites pénitence; qu’on voie en vous la tristesse et les gémissements du repentir.

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On the Lapsed

32.

These things were done by men, meek, simple, innocent, in deserving well of the majesty of God; and now those who have denied the Lord refuse to make atonement to the Lord, and to entreat Him. I beg you, brethren, acquiesce in wholesome remedies, obey better counsels, associate your tears with our tears, join your groans with ours; we beseech you in order that we may beseech God for you: we turn our very prayers to you first; our prayers with which we pray ¹ God for you that He would pity you. Repent abundantly, prove the sorrow of a grieving and lamenting mind.