Excerpt from Steps of Ascension to God: Written Originally in Latin by the Famous Cardinal Bellarmine
Don"t Imagine, good Reader, when thou seest the Name of Cardinal Bellarmine, the great Champion of the Roman Cause, that thou art going to be disputed out of thy Religion; assure thy self here is not in this whole Manual, so much as one Argument to beget in thee a Dislike of that which thou prosessest, and consequently, no Design to carry thee over to any distant Communion: Thou hast not here to do with Bellamine the Polemick, and Controversial, but with Bellarmine the Practical Divine. Thou findest him not in the Consistory, but retir"d to his Closet, stripp"d of his Cardinal robes, and appearing in the mean Habit of a Christian Pilgrim. Thou wilt discover no other Aim or Intention, but to make thee a true, zealous, and a sincere Christian: To take off thy affections from this vain, and perishing World, and to fix "em where Felicity can only be found.
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