from her single title of Mother, how useful, nay, how necessary the knowledge of her

is, since there is no other means of entering into life unless she conceive us in the

womb and give us birth, unless she nourish us at her breasts, and, in short, keep us

under her charge and government, until, divested of mortal flesh, we become like the

angels (Mt. 22:30). For our weakness does not permit us to leave the school until we

have spent our whole lives as scholars. Moreover, beyond the pale of the Church no

forgiveness of sins, no salvation, can be hoped for, as Isaiah and Joel testify (Isa.

37:32; Joel 2:32).… By these words the paternal favour of God and the special

evidence of spiritual life are confined to his peculiar people, and hence the