Note 521 — Chapter XVIII
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See Ibid., 154, 160, 344. He mentions a good woman, who said to her wicked son, “Well, I shall one day rejoice that thou shalt be damned, and take part with the glory of God therein.” The conviction of so high a grace in her soul he declares was the means of breaking the man’s heart, and converting him.
Such things had been said by the schoolmen. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa (pt. iii. sup. quest. 94, art. i.), alludes to the bliss of the saved being increased by the sight of the lost.