this brother pointed out to him the meaning of faith, and of the words in the so-called Apostles’ Creed: “I believe in the forgiveness of sins,” explaining that we must not only believe in general that some persons are forgiven, which even the devils believe, or that David and Peter have attained forgiveness, but that it is God’s commandment that every one should believe in forgiveness for himself. His father confessor then directed his attention also to a passage in a sermon of St. Bernhard, in
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