A philosophical amusement upon the language of beasts / Written originally in French. By Father Bougeant ... , now confined at La Fleche on account of this work.
- Bougeant, père, 1690-1743. Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bêtes
- Date:
- 1739
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A philosophical amusement upon the language of beasts / Written originally in French. By Father Bougeant ... , now confined at La Fleche on account of this work. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![- [*3] I voûr us/ He fills our Minds with wicked S'ug- i geftions : He feizes upon Bodies, and when he has I once made himfelf Matter of them, he does not t always betray his Prefence by Fits of Madnels* :i He fometimes Laughs, he Sings, and delights in j puzzling the Minifters of the Church who attempt | to conjure him forth. He argues with the ut- I molt Coolnefs, as when he tempted Je fus Chrift f in the Defart, and feduced Eve in the earthly Paradife. Now imagine to yourfelf fome Body in Hell, fuch as Scripture reprefents it, penetrated through his whole Subftance, devoured and con- fumed by a Fire, whofe Violence is beyond every I thing ; and then confider if a Man or a Spirit in that Condition can pofiibly be taken up with any other Thought than that of the horrid Tor¬ ture he endures. If you tell me that he is tranfe ported with Fury, and that all his Moments are conftantly filled by new Fits of Rage and Defpair, I fhall necefifarily conceive it. But that he fhould have leifere enough to think of tempting and fhifting with us, is altogether incomprehenfible, and we fhould be obliged to conclude that the Devils do not tempt us, or that the Tortures of Hell are not fi> very great as they are reprefented *, two Conferences equally oppofite to Faith. Let us then conclude, that the Devils do not as yet undergo their Torments. What our Divines fay that the Devils carry their Hell along with them every where, I know very well and confefs, I even think it is not to be queftioned. But let us explain ourfelves. That it may be truly faid that the Devils carry their Hell with them every where, is it neceffary that they fhould actually undergo the Tortures of it ? No. It is enough that they be condemned to it by an irrevoable Decree, of which they every ' where](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30376166_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
