For who would deny that first man in paradise took part in blessedness too, before sinning against God?
And even in the present we call blessed, whom we see leading a righteous and holy life, in hope of immortality, who have no harrowing remorse of conscience, but obtain readily divine remission of the sins of their present infirmity. They are blessed because they live in hope of the outcome of their life that is sure, being informed by revelation, in a just and secret judgement that deceives nobody. Although they are less happy in their present life they are even more blessed than first man in paradise, because they are not ignorant or unsure of the outcome.
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