those who
depart
from God
have not
this first
effect
without
which they
are not
estranged
from God,
and those
who do not
depart
from God
have this
first
effect.
Therefore,
those whom
we have
seen
possessed
for some
time of
grace by
this first
effect,
cease to
pray, for
want of
this first
effect.
Then God
abandons
the first
in this
sense.
515. The
elect will
be
ignorant
of their
virtues,
and the
outcast of
the
greatness
of their
sins:
