“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”
Mt. 5:10-12
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Quotes
Blaise Pascal
Pensees, section 14, Appendix: ‘Polemical Fragments’ in Pensees – The Provincial Letters in The Modern Library (NY: Modern Library, 1941), p. 304
“There is a pleasure in being in a ship beaten about by a storm, when we are sure that it will not founder. The persecutions which harass the Church are of this nature.”
“In addition to so many other signs of piety, they are also persecuted, which is the best sign of piety.”
“The Church is in an excellent state, when it is sustained by God only”
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Latin
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – Ecclesiastical Politics (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663), vol. 4, pt. 3
bk. 2, Considerations on the Governing and Ordering of the Church Respecting its being Erected, Tract 3, Of the Government of the Churches Less Conspicuous
1. Of Hidden Churches 390
2. Of Churches Secretly Convening and Bearing up Under Toleration 401
bk. 3, Of the Government of the Church with Respect to a State of Turbulence, Tract 1, Of the Dispersion and Regathering of the Church
1. Of the Scattering or Dispersion of the Church 424
2. Of the Regathering and Reinstatement of Scattered Churches 426
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“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Mt. 24:13
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