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Fathers Bretteville, Faber,  Nouet,  and St. Gregory.

" With  him  that  feareth  the  Lord,  it  shall  go  well  in  the  latter  end,  and  in  the day  of  his  death  he  shall  be  blessed."— Eccles. i. 13.

[L'Abbe de  Bretteville,  born  in  the  year  1630  at  Bretteville, near  Caen  in  Normandy. In the  year  1667  he  entered  the  Society  of Jesus,  which  order  he,  however,  abandoned  in  1678. He died  in  1688.]

The fear  of  the  terrible  judgment  of  God  is  necessary  to lead  a  sinner  back  to  repentance,  but  love  must  be  added to fear  to  make  this  repentance  perfect.

It seems  to  me  that  there  is  implanted  in  the  heart  of man  two  natures;  both  combined  will  contribute  to  his conversion, and  make  it  perfect  and  secure. In toto corde vestro.

There is  in  the  heart  an  inferior  nature,  which  is  more worldly, and  which  can  only  be  moved  by  sensible  things; fear is  for  this  portion  of  the  heart;  for  it  is  by  the  contemplation of  hell  and  the  fearful  consequences  of  vice that seizes  the  heart  of  man  and  turns  it  away  from  sin.

But there  is  in  this  same  heart  a  superior  celestial  nature, which is  only  susceptible  of  the  dawn  of  grace. This is love;  this  is  that  divine  charity  which  moves  that  portion of the  heart,  and  which  makes  it  seek  God  for  God's  sake alone.

The conversion  of  the  heart  begins  with  fear  and  finishes with love.

To return  to  God  simply  through  fear  is,  so  to  say,  only