Note 484 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.

: Thou, therefore, that sitst in light and glory inapprochable, Parent of Angels and Men! Next, Thee I implore, Omnipotent King, redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature Thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love! and Thou, the third substance of Divine infinitude, illuminating Spirit; the joy and solace of created thing! look upon this Thy poor and almost spent, and expiring Church.... O let them not bring about their damned designs,... to reinvolve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness, where we shall never more see the sun of Thy truth again, never hope for the cheerful dawn, never more hear the bird of the morning sing....