Really lofty souls, when they are courted, get haughtier than ever.  If the Lord be propitious to us, what other thing do we need?  If the anger of the Lord lasts on, what help can come to us from the frown of the West?  Men who do not know the truth, and do not wish to learn it, but are prejudiced by false suspicions, are doing now as they did in the case of Marcellus, cf. Letter lxix. p. 165. when they quarrelled with men who told them the truth, and by their own action strengthened the cause of heresy.  Apart from the common document, I should like to have written to their Coryphæus—nothing, indeed, about ecclesiastical affairs except gently to suggest that they know nothing of what is going on here, and will not accept the only means whereby they might learn it.  I would say, generally, that they ought not to press hard on men who are crushed by trials.  They must not take dignity for pride.  Sin only avails to produce enmity against God.