vultis ex animae ipsius testimonio conprobemus? Quae licet carcere corporis pressa, licet institutionibus pravis circumscripta, licet libidinibus et concupiscentiis evigorata, licet falsis deis exancillata, cum tamen resipiscit, ut ex crapula, ut ex somno, ut ex aliqua valitudine, et sanitatem suam patitur, deum nominat, hoc solo, quia proprie verus hic unus.
Would you have us prove Him to you from the witness of the human soul itself? Yes! the soul, be it cabined and cribbed by the body, be it confined by evil nurture, be it robbed of its strength by lusts and desires, be it enslaved to false gods,'none the less, when it recovers its senses, as after surfeit, as after sleep, as after some illness, when it recapturesa its proper health, the soul names GOD, and for this reason and no other, because, if language be used aright, He is the one true God.
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