danger of not arriving there
by it, but that which leads there without danger of going out of that road.

921.... The saints indulge in subtleties in order to think themselves
criminals and impeach their better actions. And these indulge in subtleties
in order to excuse the most wicked.

The heathen sages erected a structure equally fine outside, but upon a bad
foundation; and the devil deceived men by this apparent resemblance based
upon the most different foundation.

Man never had so good a cause as I; and others have never furnished so good
a capture as you...

The more they point out weakness in my person, the more they authorise my
cause.

You say that I am a heretic. Is that lawful? And if you do not fear that men
do justice, do you not fear that God does justice?

You will feel the force of the truth, and you will yield to it...

There is something supernatural in such a blindness. Digna necessitas.231
Mentiris impudentissime.232

Doctrina sua noscetur vir...[233]

False piety, a double sin.

I am alone against thirty thousand. No. Protect you, the court; protect,
you, deception; let me protect the truth. It is all my strength. If I lose
it, I am undone. I shall not lack accusations, and persecutions. But I
possess the truth, and

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