On that July morning, when Madame Guyon embarked on the Seine secretly, for fear of the interference of her half-brother, she was really embarking on the chief business of her life, the work of spreading the doctrine of inward holiness.

I send the imperial letter in order that your Holiness may decide, if it become necessary.

She was, likewise, willing to listen to the doctrines and precepts of the Gospel, and to admit their beauty and their holiness, although it was longvery longere

Line 4: the hypocritical priest makes profit by preaching for holiness what is really hurtful to the soul.

And St. Gregory recounteth in his dialogues that, in the church of St. Peter, where his bones rest, was a man of great holiness and of meekness named Gentian, and there came a maid into the church which was cripple, and drew her body and legs after her with her hands, and when she had long required and prayed St. Peter for health, he appeared to her in a vision, and said to her: Go to Gentian, my servant, and he shall restore thy health.

In some place it is said that Paul is less than Peter, otherwhile more, and sometimes equal and like, for in dignity he is less, in preaching greater, and in holiness they be equal.

"It is well to know the qualities we have to fear," said Andrea Morosini, "and we have listened in the Senate to letters from our ambassador at Rome which bespeak his Holiness of a presence and a dignitysave for over-quickness of temperwhich befit a Pope; and that he hath reserved himself from promises, to the displeasure and surprise of some of those who created him.

Also the rare and beautiful ivory crucifix had its history; the malachite basin for holy water had been a gift to the infant Giustinian from his eminence the cardinal-sponsor on the day of his baptism; there were other treasures, more rare and sacred still, within the shrine of the oratory, and there was a gift from his Holiness Pope Clement VIII.

The punctilious Signoria might give no audience in the days that intervened between Doge and Doge, except to receive that message of condolence which it had not entered the heart of his Holiness to frame, and the nuncio appealed in vain to other authorities in Venice to win him audience for the delivery of his sovereign's mandate.

"To the Most Reverend the Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Bishops of our Venetian Dominions," said this "Protest," "and to the Vicars, Abbots, Priors, Rectors of Parochial Churches, and other Ecclesiastical Prelates, greeting:" forthwith proceeding to declare that "the Interdict which his Holiness was 'said' to have published was null and void, and forbidden to be observednot having been incurred by any fault of Venice.

his words would make me wrathful if I held the views of his Holiness, who may well fear the incontrovertibility of his wit.

"For he hath the special blessing of his Holiness Pope Clement, and our Holy Father cannot reach him with this curse of Venice!" "We cannot keep her mind from it," said Santorio, aside to Marcantonio; "it is essential to calm it with the right viewno argument, it might induce the most dangerous excitement.

And if it belong to his Holiness to judge which laws shall be revoked and what may be legislated to replace the old laws, ultimately but one power should everywhere reignand that an ecclesiastical power.

Now it was a barefooted friar to be watched for at Mantua, coming with powers plenipotentiary from his Holiness over all the prelates of the rebellious realm; or it might be this same friar, in lay disguise, still armed with those ghostly and secret powers, for whom the trusted servants of Venice were to be on guard.

His Holiness had wished that Venice, as a first step, should cancel the "Protest" which she had widely published, declaring the interdict invalid.

But his Holiness might rest assured that they would be used in moderation and Christian piety onlyas they had ever been.

The real concessionthe only onewas in the case of the ecclesiastical prisonersthe Abbot of Nervessa and the Canon of Vicenzawhom his Holiness persisted in claiming.

His Holiness would have us on our knees, weeping like naughty infants, and abjectly craving his pardon for daring to make our own laws and uphold our prince!" "Giustinian, there is more to it than that.

"I thank the Lord our God that his Holiness hath assured himself of the purity of our intentions and the sincerity of our deeds.

Well, good my lord, I will do what I may To let your holiness escape away.

In this man giv'st thou holiness and honour.

Cannot your holiness unbind the bonds?

calling him away in 1581, he sent him, with others, the same year into the mission of England, and the rather because the brethren there told his holiness, that the harvest was great, and the labourers few .

This circumstance made it appear plain enough to his Holiness, that he weakened his power by exceeding it; and being alarmed lest a revolution should happen, offered the Venetians absolution upon very easy terms, which the Republic still slighting, did at last obtain it, by that which was scarce so much as a shew of desiring it.

Her study is holiness, her exercise goodness, her grace humility, and her love is charity.