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Several of those were preached
in the convent of the Paraclete of which Heloise became abbess,--
where, in his old age, her former lover, broken with the load of a
life of most extraordinary sorrows, went to die. These sermons do
not suggest the fire and force with which young Abelard appealed to
France, compelling its admiration even in exciting its alarm, but
they prevent him from being a mere name as an orator.
He was born near Nantes, A. D. 1079. At his death in 1142, he was
buried in the convent of the Paraclete, where the body of Heloise
was afterwards buried at his side.
The extracts from his sermons here given were translated by
Rev. J. M. Neale, of Sackville College, from the first collected
edition of the works of Abelard, published at Paris in 1616. There
are thirty-two such sermons extant. They were preached in Latin, or,
at least, they have come down to us in that language.

THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS
The Lord performed that miracle once for all in the body which much
more blessedly he performs every day in the souls of penitents. He
restored life to Lazarus, but it was a temporal life, one that would
die again. He bestows life on the penitent; life, but it is life
that will remain, world without end.
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