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Good Master, and St. Peter introduces him to the first Gentile converts as one who
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and in these last times we can refer to the testimony even of unbelievers in behalf of an argument as simple as it is constraining.
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Si la vie et la mort de Socrate sont d'un sage, says Rousseau,
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And he clenches the argument by observing, that, were the picture a mere conception of the sacred writers,
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Its especial force lies in its directness; it comes to the point at once, and concentrates in itself evidence, doctrine, and devotion. In theological language, it is the _motivum credibilitatis_, the _objectum materiale_ and the _formale_, all in one; it unites human reason and supernatural faith in one complex act; and it comes home to all men, educated and ignorant, young and old. And it is the point to which, after all {620} and in fact, all religious minds tend, and in which they ultimately rest, even if they do not start from it. Without an intimate apprehension of the personal character of our Saviour, what professes to be faith is little more than an act of ratiocination. If faith is to live, it must love; it must lovingly live in the author of faith as a true and living being, _in Deo vivo et vero_; according to the saying of the Samaritans to their towns-woman:
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We now believe, not for thy saying, for we ourselves have heard him.