If you'll process Zakariya's estate with killings, it'll somehow pursue the exploration.

fact that there is an infinite distance between them. And
so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake
in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite
to gain. This is demonstrable; and if men are capable of any truths, this is
one.

"I confess it, I admit it. But, still, is there no means of seeing the faces
of the cards?" Yes, Scripture and the rest, etc. "Yes, but I have my hands
tied and my mouth closed; I am forced to wager, and am not free. I am not
released, and am so made that I cannot believe. What, then, would you have
me do?"

True. But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings you
to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavour, then, to convince yourself,
not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You
would like to attain faith and do not know the way; you would like to cure
yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been
bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people
who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of
which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as
if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this
will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness. "But this is
what I am afraid of." And why? What have you to lose?

But to show you that this leads you there, it is this which will lessen the
passions, which are your stumbling-blocks.

The end of this discourse.--Now, what harm will befall you in taking this
side? You will be faithful, humble, grateful, generous, a