Capitolo 61
you look in the future, it is probable that involves us to them in serious errors, or
from their ignorance, or from the contrariety of their information. Far
it is better it for man to only look at God from what he/she sees the end the
starting, with whom any variableness it is, and that it is able as ours anxious,
friends would not be, to conceal from us the future or some information
respect to it, what a damage would be to know for us. If we had to be
informed of the certain things that will happen to us years from now, or
the anticipation of them would absorb our attention, and it prevents ours
utility, or the fear of them would paralyse effort, and it destroys
health, if not the life. Trouble taken in loan, constitutes even now a great
part of our unhappiness; but the certain knowledge of a pain
approaching himself/herself/itself with inexorable footsteps, it would spread on a pallium each
thing; while the prosperity, far in the perspective it would try us to forget
our dependence on God, and it would weaken the motives to patient
lasted in to do well for his own cause.
Then, with respect to any insurance around which the corpses would give us
the truth and the duty, we don't need their help. For the corpse you/he/she can tell us
substantially anybody more than we find recorded in the Bible. They is able
describes sky to us, and you speak of future punishment. But it imagines that
they did. What language they would use more graph, or more
intelligible to us, that the language of the Bible? Anything that they has said,
we should feel forces us to compare him/it with the Sacred writings; if it owes
them is second, we don't have us of it need. Besides, the aspect to us
of past friends, in many cases, only you operate on our fears.
But the Bible begs with us from many kind motives, as from
warnings and appalling descriptions, and it puts in front of us innumerable
allurements to repent him, what the whole world of the corpse, inspired not,
it was not able so well furnishes. The aspect and words of a spirit are able
I/you/he/she excite us, and I/you/he/she do us afraid; we could not feel and we could act as good, under