Capitolo 54
friends, leaving them behind us. Not this way; we am sailing their verse;
they went in before, and now we am more neighbors to theirs that yesterday; and the
night has passed far; the day is to course of hand. If the life or some undue portion,
is spent in pain that disables us for the duty, we will see, in sky, as
very best you/he/she would have been had there had more faith, and you/he/she had lived more
as then us our friends sopravviventi should desire to live, it hastened and
strengthened by the sure hope of our being in sky, and from the
anticipation to satisfy there us.
But there is a kind of the pain and it desires for friends passed that,
in his/her consequences, greatly you/he/she will be deplored. Some refuse to become
Cristiano decided, because their friends, they thinks, it was not
believers in the faith what time these friends are convinced sopravviventi
it is the truth. To embrace this truth as main point to the salvation, is,
felt, will be to condemn these past friends; and some have, in this way
many put in words, it declared that they preferred to divide the fate of them
companions or children that didn't give any evidence to have accepted the
Gospel, as you/he/she is now seen by these survivors.
As sad it would be such catastrophe as this: The past friend, in the
secret exercises of his/her mind, and from the good Spirit of God, you/he/she can have
state, to the last time, prevailed above for accepting the offers of the salvation
from a crucified Savior. He didn't give any announcement of this, while owing, perhaps,
to the physical weakness, or to fear and to distrust of; but, through endless
mercy, he was saved by faith in the lamb of God. The friend sopravvivente,
convinced of the truth, it refuses to consent with loves and he the
friend passed more than Christ or the truth and the duty; and then, dying,
discovered that the past friend is saved, through that a lot of faith that
the other ones refused from the idolatrous affection to the past; and now
they is separate; while, it had the desolate survivor all for Christ