Doña Blanca of Navarre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF NAVARRE. 17 Mosen Pierres de Peralta who is excommunicated for the murder of Bishop Chavarri and, moreover, so many Jews as there are in Navarre, so many Moors, and above all so many lepers as infest us Nevertheless, Esther and Judith were poor women. Enough, sir, I know by your language that you are...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF NAVARRE. 17 Mosen Pierres de Peralta who is excommunicated for the murder of Bishop Chavarri and, moreover, so many Jews as there are in Navarre, so many Moors, and above all so many lepers as infest us Nevertheless, Esther and Judith were poor women. Enough, sir, I know by your language that you are some holy prelate, and that you are sent by God. You speak rather fast. How do I know whether it is God or the devil? Gracious powers exclaimed the horrified monk, who by a transition not less natural than sudden in his present confusion of mind, began to think that he whom he had supposed to have descended from heaven, had just risen out of hell. As I told you before, reverend father, neither so high nor so low; take me always to be a man and I shall thank you. Reveal yourself, I entreat you, sir?I know not how to call you Tell me first, ?you who have studied without being either canon or abbot?you who are good, pure, and single-hearted?you who will doubtless receive the rays of Divine inspiration without their being adulterated in passing through the unclean pool of a corrupted conscience, ?tell me if man can second the designs of Divine Providence, assist it, and Who doubts it? If mail, pursued the Unknown, with warmth and agitation, -' if man may prevent a partial and momentary good in order to attain one more solid and enduring ? To prevent good is to do evil, and this And if the object is to chastise the evil-doer, to prevent him from obtaining the fruit of his crimes ? The evil-doer should be chastised only by God in heaven, and the authorities which represent God on earth. But let us suppose a person so high as to have no superior on earth; let us suppose a king, reverend father; who chastise...