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The enemy may rage; he may assail me; he may prepare his snares; he may afflict my heart; still I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever. The Church shall not be overcome; it shall not be rooted up; nor shall it give way to any temptations: it shall endure to the end of the world, when we shall be translated from this temporal to an eternal habitation. If the duration of the Church were of a few days, the time of temptation would soon have an end. But how then would she draw to her all the children of the earth? She must be here long; she must continue to the end.” Enarrat. in Psal. lx. T. iv. p. 587. “Some, who are not in the Church, are heard to say, her Unity is gone, the Church of all nations has disappeared. What insolence! Is she no longer, because thou art not a member? She shall be, though thou be not. This presumptuous saying, resting on no truth, upheld by no wisdom, full of vanity and rashness, the spirit of God foresaw. But the way and the truth has announced (Matt. xxviii. 20.) Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.” Ibid. Ser. ii. In Psal. ci. p. 1105.—“Let us contemplate the things within our reach, and from these learn to praise and to love God. He has laid the foundations of the earth, the prophet says, by which I understand the Church. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof : (Psal. xxii.) here again I see the Church, but what is the foundation on which the Church is laid? The Apostle says: other foundation no man can lay but that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. (1 Cor. iïi. 11.) On this we are fixed, and we shall not be moved for ever. Than that foundation nothing is more firm. Thou art weak, but thou restest upon a rock; from which if thou