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282 CITY OF GOD
feels most, is to see us attack the followers of her Son;
because She loves them and is solicitous about them as a
Mother. Let us raise a general persecution against the
faithful, for we have at our service the whole of Juda
ism, now incensed against the new Church of the Cruci
fied;
through the priests and pharisees we may succeed
in all our attempts against the faithful and thus vent our
wrath against this hostile Woman." Lucifer approved
of this counsel and showed favors to the demons, who
had given
it. Thus agreed, they issued forth to destroy
the Church by the hands of others, just as they had at
tempted it through Saul. Thence resulted what I shall
relate further on, and also the battle of the most holy
Mary against the dragon and his hosts, wherein She
gained such great victories for the holy Church. To
this battle I referred in the sixth chapter of the first part,
and there stated, that I had reserved it for this place.
Of it I shall" speak in the next chapter.
INSTRUCTION WHICH THE GREAT MISTRESS OF THE
ANGELS GAVE ME.
300. My daughter, by no power of human words wilt
thou in this mortal life ever succeed in describing the
envy of Lucifer and his demons against men, or the
malice, astuteness, deceits and ruses, with which in his
wrath he seeks to bring them into sin and later on to the
eternal torments. He tries to hinder all
good works,
and such as are performed he tries to minimize, or to
destroy and pervert as to their merits. All the malice of
which his own mind is capable, he attempts to inject
into the souls.
mirable protection if men will only co-operate and corres
pond on their part. Hence the Apostle admonishes them
to walk carefully amid all these dangers and conflicts;
Against these attacks God provides ad
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