Clement XI, 1700-1721

1410. 60. If fear of punishment alone animates penance, the more intense this is, the more it leads to despair.

1411. 61. Fear restrains nothing but the hand, but the heart is addicted to the sin as long as it is not guided by a love of justice.

1412. 62. He who does not refrain from evil except through fear of punishment, commits that evil in his heart, and is already guilty before God.

1413. 63. A baptized person is still under the law as a Jew, if he does not fulfill the law, or if he fulfills it from fear alone.

1414. 64. Good is never done under the condemnation of the law, because one sins either by doing evil or by avoiding it only through fear.

1415. 65. Moses, the prophets, priests, and doctors of the Law died without having given any son to God, since they produced only slaves through fear.

1416. 66. He who wishes to approach to God, should not come to Him with brutal passions, nor be led to Him by natural instinct, or through fear as animals, but through faith and love, as sons.

1417. 67. Servile fear does not represent God to itself except as a stern, imperious, unjust, unyielding master.

1418. 68. The goodness of God has shortened the road to salvation, by enclosing all in faith and in prayers.

1419. 69. Faith, practice of it, increase, and reward of faith, all are a gift of the pure liberality of God.

1420. 70. Never does God afflict the innocent; and afflictions always serve either to punish the sin or to purify the sinner.

1421. 71. For the preservation of himself man can dispense himself from that law which God established for his use.

1422. 72. A mark of the Christian Church is that it is catholic, embracing all the angels of heaven, all the elect and the just on earth, and of all times.

1423. 73. What is the Church except an assembly of the sons of God abiding in His bosom, adopted in Christ, subsisting in His person, redeemed by His blood, living in His spirit, acting through His grace, and awaiting the grace of the future life?

1424. 74. The Church or the whole Christ has the Incarnate Word as head, but all the saints as members.

1425. 75. The Church is one single man composed of many members, of which Christ is the head, the life, the subsistence and the person; it is one single Christ composed of many saints, of whom He is the sanctifier.

1426. 76. There is nothing more spacious than the Church of God; because all the elect and the just of all ages comprise it.

1427. 77. He who does not lead a life worthy of a son of God and a member of Christ, ceases interiorly to have God as a Father and Christ as a head.

1428. 78. One is separated from the chosen people, whose figure was the