Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4669

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4669. WHENCE PROFANE THINGS ARE. From a profane hell, or a profane siren, about whom I have spoken previously, it could be known whence profanation is: that, namely, she had known, and acknowledged, and believed holy things, because she was instructed, in her previous life, and had learnt about them through writings, and so was accustomed to them; and, afterwards, she had never rejected faith in eternal life, even going so far that she had believed in the resurrection; but, yet, she perpetrated frightful enormities with an infant, was a sorceress and an adulteress, [cherishing] hatred within, and feigning friendship outwardly, and such things: hence is the profanation of holiness.


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