They say, these are the people of God who thus speak.
Hezekiah,
My reverend father, all this was done in figures. Other religions perish, this one perishes not.
Miracles are more important than you think, they have served for the foundation, and will serve for the continuance of the Church till the coming of Antichrist, till the end.
The two witnesses.
In the Old Testament and the New, miracles are wrought in connection with types. Salvation or an useless thing, if not to show that we must submit to the creature.—Figure of the sacraments.
The synagogue was a figure and so it perished not, and it was only the figure and so it has perished. It was a figure which contained the truth, and so it subsisted till it contained the truth no longer.
The exaggerated notion which you have of the importance of your society has made you establish these horrible ways. It is very plain that it has made you follow the way of slander, since you blame in me as horrible the same impostures which you excuse in yourselves, because you regard me as a private person, and yourselves as imago.
It plainly appears that your praises are follies, by those which are crazy, as the privilege of the uncondemned.
Is this giving courage to your children to condemn them when they serve the Church?