Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 1: And the Different Sins Against God and Our Neighbor Which Flow Therefrom, Adapted to All the Sundays and Holydays of the Year
Bad Christians assail the Church by their sins: for, 1. She is a most holy Church, whose good name they disgrace and calumniate. 2. She is the only Church in which salvation can be found; but her efforts to save souls arc frustrated by bad Christians, who force her to help them to a deeper damnation. - Preached on the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul.
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Port inferi non pr vulebunt adversus eam. - Matth. xvi. 18.
"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Introduction.
In vain, oh, heathen tyrants, do ye rage and storm against the Christian Church, with your torments and persecutions! The religion you tried to destroy has been confirmed and spread throughout the world by the very means you used to destroy it; the blood of the martyrs was a fruitful seed, from which many Christians sprung. In vain, oh, perjured heretics, have you whetted your teeth against the Church; in vain do you calumniate her still in your writings; you have thereby only made her truth more evident and clear to the whole world! Vain, oh, infernal powers, is your wrath! it has been, is now, and always will be true, according to the promise of Christ: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against" the Church that is built upon Peter.
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