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| After We Have Believed, Search Should Cease; Otherwise It Must End in a Denial of What We Have Believed. No Other Object Proposed for Our Faith.
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Chapter XI.—After
We Have Believed, Search Should Cease; Otherwise It Must End in a
Denial of What We Have Believed. No Other Object Proposed for Our
Faith.
There is impunity in erring, if there is no
delinquency; although indeed to err it is itself an act of
delinquency.1981
| 1981 Quamvis et errare
delinquere est. | With impunity, I
repeat, does a man ramble,1982
when he (purposely)
deserts nothing. But yet, if I have believed what I was bound to
believe, and then afterwards think that there is something new to be
sought after, I of course expect that there is something else to be
found, although I should by no means entertain such expectation, unless it were because I
either had not believed, although I apparently had become a believer,
or else have ceased to believe. If I thus desert my faith, I am found
to be a denier thereof. Once for all I would say, No man seeks, except
him who either never possessed, or else has lost (what he sought). The
old woman (in the Gospel)1983
had lost one of her
ten pieces of silver, and therefore she sought it;1984
when, however, she found it, she ceased to
look for it. The neighbour was without bread, and therefore he knocked;
but as soon as the door was opened to him, and he received the bread,
he discontinued knocking.1985
The widow kept
asking to be heard by the judge, because she was not admitted; but when
her suit was heard, thenceforth she was silent.1986
So
that there is a limit both to seeking, and to knocking, and to asking.
“For to every one that asketh,” says He, “it shall be
given, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened, and by him that
seeketh it shall be found.”1987
Away with the
man1988
who is ever seeking because he never finds;
for he seeks there where nothing can be found. Away with him who is
always knocking because it will never be opened to him; for he knocks
where there is none (to open). Away with him who is always asking
because he will never be heard; for he asks of one who does not
hear.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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