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Excerpt from The Religious State, Vol. 2: A Digest of the Doctrine of Suarez, Contained in His Treatise "De Statû Religionis"Offering. By means of this vow a man subjects to God and Offers all his riches, his pleasures and other actions, nay, and his whole self with them, to His perpetual worship and service. Hence St. Augustine calls obedi ence the greatest of virtues, and the origin and mother of them all.It is evident that the mode of the Apostles' following of Christ included a special Obedience over and above the general Obedience of the precepts, for how could they have been aggregated with Him into one body, unless there had been on their part subordination and Obedience, without which there must have been confa sion and anarchy This is manifest from their very name Of disciples, and, moreover, Jesus said to them, You call Me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so I am (st. John xiii. They recognised Him as in a peculiar manner their superior, and He sent them on mis sions, and gave them special precepts. He called them to follow Him by a special manner Of life and institute, in which He was to command and they were to obey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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