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  Speaker 1: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis translated by
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  Speaker 1: the Reverend William Benham. The first book Admonitions Profitable for
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  Speaker 1: the Spiritual Life, chapters one to ten. Chapter one of
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  Speaker 1: the Imitation of Christ, and of contempt of the world
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  Speaker 1: and all its vanities. He that followeth me shall not
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  Speaker 1: walk in darkness, saith the Lord John Chapter eight, verse twelve.
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  Speaker 1: These are the words of Christ, and they teach us
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  Speaker 1: how far we must imitate His life and character. If
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  Speaker 1: we seek true illumination and deliverance from all blindness of heart.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be our most earnest study. Therefore, to dwell
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  Speaker 1: upon the life of Jesus Christ. His teaching surpasseth all
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  Speaker 1: teachings of holy men, and such as have his spirit
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  Speaker 1: find therein the hidden manner Revelations Chapter two, verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: But there are many who, though they frequently hear the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: yet feel but little longing after it, because they have
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  Speaker 1: not the mind of Christ. He therefore, that will fully
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  Speaker 1: and with true wisdom understand the words of Christ, let
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  Speaker 1: him strive to conform his whole life to that mind
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. What doth it profit thee to enter into
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  Speaker 1: deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility
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  Speaker 1: and be thus displeasing to the Trinity. For verily, it
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  Speaker 1: is not deep words that make a man holy and upright.
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  Speaker 1: It is a good life which maketh a man dear
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  Speaker 1: to God. I had rather feel contrition than be skillful
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  Speaker 1: in the definition thereof. If thou knewest the whole Bible
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  Speaker 1: and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all
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  Speaker 1: this profit thee without the love and grace of God.
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  Speaker 1: Vanity of vanities. All is vanity save to love God
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  Speaker 1: and him only to serve that is the highest wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: to cast the world behind us, and to reach forward
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  Speaker 1: to the heavenly kingdom. It is vanity, then, to seek
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  Speaker 1: after and to trust in the riches that shall perish.
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  Speaker 1: It is vanity, too to covet honors and to lift
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  Speaker 1: up ourselves on high. It is vanity to follow the
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  Speaker 1: desires of the flesh and be led by them, for
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  Speaker 1: this shall bring misery. At the last, it is vanity
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  Speaker 1: to desire a long life and to have little care
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  Speaker 1: for a good life. It is vanity to take thought
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  Speaker 1: only for the life which now is, and not to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to the things which shall be hereafter, it
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  Speaker 1: is vanity to love that which quickly passeth away, and
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  Speaker 1: not to hasten where eternal joy abideth be oft times
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  Speaker 1: mindful of the saying, the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
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  Speaker 1: nor the ear with hearing Ecclesiastes, Chapter one, verse eight.
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  Speaker 1: Strive therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love
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  Speaker 1: of the things that are seen, and to set it
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  Speaker 1: upon the things that are not seen. For they who
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  Speaker 1: follow after their own fleshly losts, defile the conscience and
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  Speaker 1: destroy the grace of God. Chapter two. Of thinking humbly
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  Speaker 1: of oneself. There is naturally in every man a desire
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  Speaker 1: to know. But what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?
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  Speaker 1: Better of a surety is a lowly peasant who serveth God,
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  Speaker 1: than a proud philosopher who watcheth the stars and neglecteth
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge of himself. He who knoweth himself well is
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  Speaker 1: vile in his own sight. Neither regardeth he the praises
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  Speaker 1: of men. If I knew all the things that are
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and were not in charity, what should
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  Speaker 1: it help me before God, who is to judge me
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  Speaker 1: according to my deeds. Rest from inordinate desire of knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: for therein is found much distraction and deceit. Those who
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  Speaker 1: have knowledge desire to appear learned and to be called wise.
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  Speaker 1: Many things there are to know which profiteth little or
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  Speaker 1: nothing to the soul, And foolish out of measure is
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  Speaker 1: he who attendeth upon other things rather than those which
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  Speaker 1: serve to his soul's health. Many words satisfy not the soul,
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  Speaker 1: but a good life refresheth the mind, and a pure
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  Speaker 1: conscience giveth great confidence towards God. The greater and more
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  Speaker 1: complete thy knowledge, the more severely shalt thou be judged
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  Speaker 1: unless thou hast lived holy. Therefore, be not lifted up
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  Speaker 1: by any skill or knowledge that thou hast, but rather
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  Speaker 1: fear concerning the knowledge which is given to THEE. If
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  Speaker 1: it seemeth to THEE that thou knowest many things and
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  Speaker 1: understandest them well, know also that there are many more
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  Speaker 1: things which thou knowest, not be not high minded, but
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  Speaker 1: rather confess thine ignorance. Why desirest thou to lift thyself
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  Speaker 1: above another, when there are found many more learned and
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  Speaker 1: more skilled in the scripture than thou. If thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: know and life earn anything with profit love, to be
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  Speaker 1: thyself unknown, and to be counted for nothing. That is
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  Speaker 1: the highest and most profitable lesson. When a man truly
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  Speaker 1: knoweth and judgeth lowly of himself, to account nothing of oneself,
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  Speaker 1: and to think always kindly and highly of others. This
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  Speaker 1: is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldst thou see thy
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  Speaker 1: neighbour sin openly or grievously. Yet thou oughtest not to
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  Speaker 1: reckon thyself better than he, For thou knowest not how
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  Speaker 1: long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are
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  Speaker 1: weak and frail, hold thou no man more frail than thyself.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three of the Knowledge of Truth. Happy is the
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  Speaker 1: man whom truth, by itself doth tell each, not by
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  Speaker 1: figures and transient words, but as it is in itself
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  Speaker 1: Psalm ninety four, verse twelve, numbers twelve, verse eight. Our
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  Speaker 1: own judgment and feelings often deceive us, and we discern
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  Speaker 1: but little of the truth. What doth it profit to
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  Speaker 1: argue about hidden and dark things concerning which we shall
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  Speaker 1: not be even reproved in the judgment because we knew them? Not, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: grievous folly, to neglect the things which are profitable and
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  Speaker 1: necessary and to give our minds to things which are
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  Speaker 1: curious and hurtful. Having eyes we see not, And what
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  Speaker 1: have we to do with talk about genus and species.
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  Speaker 1: He to whom the eternal word speaketh, is free from
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  Speaker 1: multiplied questionings. From this one word are all things, and
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  Speaker 1: all things speak of him. This is the beginning which
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  Speaker 1: also speaketh unto us. John chapter eight, verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: No man without him understandeth or rightly judgeth The man
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  Speaker 1: to whom all things are one who bringeth all things,
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  Speaker 1: to one who seeth all things in one, he is
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  Speaker 1: able to remain steadfast of spirit and addrest in God. O, God,
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  Speaker 1: who art the Truth, Make me one with THEE in
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  Speaker 1: everlasting love. It wearieth me oftentimes to read and listen
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  Speaker 1: to many things in THEE is all that I wish
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  Speaker 1: for and desire. Let all the doctors hold their peace,
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  Speaker 1: Let all creation keep silence before THEE. Speak Thou alone
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  Speaker 1: to me. The more a man hath unity and simplicity
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  Speaker 1: in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth,
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  Speaker 1: And that without labor, because he receiveth the light of
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  Speaker 1: understanding from above. The spirit, which is pure, sincere and steadfast,
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  Speaker 1: is not distracted, though it hath many works to do,
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  Speaker 1: because it doth all things to the honor of God,
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  Speaker 1: and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self seeking.
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  Speaker 1: Who is so full of hindrance and annoyance to thee
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  Speaker 1: has thine own undisciplined heart. A man who is good
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  Speaker 1: and devout arrangeth beforehand within his own heart the works
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  Speaker 1: which he hath to do abroad, and so is not
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  Speaker 1: drawn away by the desires of his evil will, but
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  Speaker 1: subjecteth everything to the judgment of right reason. Who hath
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  Speaker 1: a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for
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  Speaker 1: self mastery? And this should be our endeavour, even to
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  Speaker 1: master self, And thus daily to grow stronger than self,
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  Speaker 1: and go on unto perfection. All perfection hath some imperfection
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  Speaker 1: joined to it in this life, and all our power
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  Speaker 1: of sight is not without some darkness. A lowly knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of thyself is a shururer way to God than the
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  Speaker 1: deep searching of man's learning. Not that learning is to
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  Speaker 1: be blamed, nor the taking account of anything that is good.
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  Speaker 1: But a good conscience and a holy life are better
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  Speaker 1: than all. And because many seek knowledge rather than good living,
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  Speaker 1: therefore they go astray and bear little or no fruit. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if they would give that diligence to the rooting out
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  Speaker 1: of vice and the planting of virtue, which they give
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  Speaker 1: unto vain questionings, there had not been so many evil
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  Speaker 1: doings and stumbling blocks among the laity, nor such ill
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  Speaker 1: living among houses of religion. Of a surety, At the
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  Speaker 1: day of judgment, it will be demanded of us, not
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  Speaker 1: what we have read, but what we have done. Not
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  Speaker 1: how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me where now are all those masters and teachers
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  Speaker 1: whom thou knewest well whilst they were yet with you
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  Speaker 1: and flourished in learning. Their stalls are now filled by
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  Speaker 1: others who perhaps never have one thought concerning them. Whilst
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  Speaker 1: they lived, they seemed to be somewhat but now no
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  Speaker 1: one speaks of them. Oh, how quickly passeth the glory
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  Speaker 1: of the world away? Would that their life and knowledge
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  Speaker 1: had agreed together, For then would they have read and
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  Speaker 1: inquired unto good purpose. How many perish through empty learning
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  Speaker 1: in this world who care little for serving God, and
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  Speaker 1: because they love to be great more than to be humble.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore they have become vain in their imaginations. He only
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  Speaker 1: is truly great, who hath great charity. He is truly great,
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  Speaker 1: who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honor
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  Speaker 1: as nothing. He is the truly wise man who counteth
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  Speaker 1: all earthly things as dung, that he may win Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And he is the truly learned man who doeth the
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  Speaker 1: will of God and forsaketh his own will, Chapter four
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  Speaker 1: of Prudence. In action, we must not trust every word
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  Speaker 1: of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently
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  Speaker 1: try the matter, whether it be of God. Unhappily, we
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  Speaker 1: are so weak that we find it easier to believe
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  Speaker 1: and speak evil of others rather than good. But they
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  Speaker 1: that are perfect do not give ready heed to every newsbearer,
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  Speaker 1: for they know man's weakness, that it is prone to
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  Speaker 1: evil and unstable in words. This is great wisdom, not
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  Speaker 1: to be hasty in action or stubborn in our own opinions.
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  Speaker 1: A part of this wisdom also is not to believe
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  Speaker 1: every word we hear, nor to tell others all that
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  Speaker 1: we hear, even though we believe it. Take counsel with
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  Speaker 1: a man who is wise and of a good conscience,
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  Speaker 1: and seek to be instructed by one better than thyself,
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  Speaker 1: rather than to follow thine own inventions. A good life
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  Speaker 1: maketh a man wise toward God, and giveth him experience
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  Speaker 1: in many things. The more humbler man is in himself,
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  Speaker 1: and the more obedient towards God, the wiser he will
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  Speaker 1: be in all things, and the more shall his soul
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  Speaker 1: be at peace. Chapter five of the Reading of Holy Scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: It is truth which we must look for in Holy writ,
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  Speaker 1: not cunning of words. All scripture ought to be read
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit in which it was written. We must
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  Speaker 1: rather seek for what is profitable in scripture than for
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  Speaker 1: what ministers to subtlety in discourse. Therefore we ought to
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  Speaker 1: read books which are devotional and simple, as well as
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  Speaker 1: those which are deep and difficult. And let not the
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  Speaker 1: weight of the writer be a stumbling block to thee,
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  Speaker 1: whether he be of little or much learning. But let
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  Speaker 1: the love of the pure truth draw thee to read.
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  Speaker 1: Ask not who hath said this or that, but look
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  Speaker 1: to what he says. Men pass away, but the truth
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord endureth forever, without respect of persons. God
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  Speaker 1: speaketh to us in diverse manners. Our own curiosity often
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  Speaker 1: hindereth us. In the reading of Holy writings. When we
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  Speaker 1: seek to understand and discuss where we should pass simply on,
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  Speaker 1: if thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: and not desiring to win a character for learning, ask
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  Speaker 1: freely and here in silence the words of holy men.
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  Speaker 1: Nor be displeased at the hard sayings of alder men
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  Speaker 1: than thou, for they are not uttered without cause. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: six of inordinate affections. Whensoever a man desireth aught above measure,
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  Speaker 1: immediately he becometh restless. The proud and the avaricious man
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  Speaker 1: are never at rest, while the poor and lonely of
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  Speaker 1: heart abide in the multitude of peace. The man who
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  Speaker 1: is not yet wholly dead to self is soon tempted
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  Speaker 1: and is overcome in small and trifling matters. It is
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  Speaker 1: hard for him, who is weak in spirit and still
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  Speaker 1: impart carnal and inclined to the pleasures of sense, to
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  Speaker 1: withdraw himself altogether from earthly desires. And therefore when he
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  Speaker 1: withdraweth himself from these, he is often sad and easily
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  Speaker 1: angered too, if any oppose his will. But if on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, he yield to his inclination, immediately he
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  Speaker 1: is weighed down by the condemnation of his conscience, for
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  Speaker 1: that he hath followed his own desire, and yet in
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  Speaker 1: no way attained the peace which he hoped for. The
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  Speaker 1: true peace of heart to be found in resisting passion,
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  Speaker 1: not in yielding to it. And therefore there is no
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  Speaker 1: peace in the heart of a man who is carnal,
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  Speaker 1: nor in him who is given up to the things
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  Speaker 1: that are without him, but only in him who is
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  Speaker 1: fervent towards God and living the life of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Fleeing from vain, hope and pride. Vain
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  Speaker 1: is the life of that man who putteth his trust
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  Speaker 1: in men or in any created thing. Be not ashamed
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  Speaker 1: to be the servant of others for the love of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, and to be reckoned poor in this life.
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  Speaker 1: Rest not upon thyself, but build thy hope in God.
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  Speaker 1: Do what lieth in thy power, and God will help
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  Speaker 1: thy good intent. Trust not in thy learning, nor in
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  Speaker 1: the cleverness of any that lives, but rather trust in
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  Speaker 1: the favor of God, who resisteth the proud, and giveth
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  Speaker 1: grace to the humble. Boast not thyself in thy riches,
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  Speaker 1: if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they
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  Speaker 1: be powerful. But in God, who giveth all things, and
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  Speaker 1: in addition to all things, desireth to give even himself.
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  Speaker 1: Be not lifted up because of thy strength or beauty
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  Speaker 1: of body, for with only a slight sickness it will
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  Speaker 1: fail and wither away. Be not vain of thy skillfulness
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  Speaker 1: or ability, lest thou displease God, from whom cometh every
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  Speaker 1: good gift which we have. Count not thyself better than others,
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  Speaker 1: lest perchance thou appear worse in the sight of God,
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  Speaker 1: who knoweth what is in man. Be not proud of
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  Speaker 1: thy good works. For God's judgments are of another sort
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  Speaker 1: than the judgments of man, And what pleaseth man is
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  Speaker 1: ofttimes displeasing to him. If thou hast any good, believe
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  Speaker 1: that others have more, and so thou mayest preserve thy humility.
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  Speaker 1: It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself
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  Speaker 1: below all others, but it is great harm if thou
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  Speaker 1: place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the
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  Speaker 1: humble man, But in the heart of the proud there
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  Speaker 1: is envy and continual wrath. Chapter eight of the danger
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  Speaker 1: of too much familiarity. Open not thine heart to every man,
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  Speaker 1: but deal with one who is wise and feareth God.
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  Speaker 1: Be seldom with the young and with strangers. Be not
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  Speaker 1: a flatterer of the rich, nor willingly seek the society
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  Speaker 1: of the great. Let thy company be the humble and
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  Speaker 1: the simple, the devout and the gentle. And let thy
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  Speaker 1: discourse be concerning things which edify. Be not familiar with
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  Speaker 1: any woman, but commend all good women alike unto God.
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  Speaker 1: Choose for thy companions God and his angels only, and
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  Speaker 1: flee from the notice of men. We must love all men,
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  Speaker 1: but not make close companions of all. It sometimes falleth
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  Speaker 1: out that one who is unknown to us is highly
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  Speaker 1: regarded through good report of him, whose actual person is
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  Speaker 1: nevertheless unpleasing to those who behold it. We sometimes think
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  Speaker 1: to please others by our intimacy, and forthwith displease them
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  Speaker 1: the more by the faultiness of character which they perceive.
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  Speaker 1: In Us Chapter nine of Obedience and Subjection. It is
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  Speaker 1: verily a great thing to live in obedience, to be
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  Speaker 1: under authority, and not to be at our own disposal.
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  Speaker 1: Far safer is it to live in subjection than in
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  Speaker 1: a place of authority. Many are in obedience from necessity
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  Speaker 1: rather than from love. These take it amiss and repine
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  Speaker 1: for small cause. Nor will they gain freedom of spirit
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  Speaker 1: unless with all their heart they submit themselves for the
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  Speaker 1: love of God. Though thou run hither and thither thou
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  Speaker 1: wilt not find peace save in humble subjection to the
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  Speaker 1: authority of Him who is set over thee Fancies about
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  Speaker 1: places and change of them have disa many True it
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  Speaker 1: is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and
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  Speaker 1: is the more inclined to those who agree with him.
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  Speaker 1: But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary
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  Speaker 1: that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have
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  Speaker 1: perfect knowledge of all things. Therefore, trust not too much
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  Speaker 1: to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear
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  Speaker 1: the opinions of others. Though thine own opinion be good,
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  Speaker 1: Yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it
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  Speaker 1: and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.
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  Speaker 1: Oftentimes I have heard that it is safer to hearken
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  Speaker 1: and to receive counsel than to give it. It may
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  Speaker 1: also come to pass that each opinion may be good,
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  Speaker 1: but to refuse to hearken to others when reason or
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  Speaker 1: occasion requires. It is a mark of pride or wilfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, of the Danger of superfluity of words, Avoid,
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  Speaker 1: as far as thou canst the tumult of men. For
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  Speaker 1: talk concerning worldly things, though it be innocently undertaken, is
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  Speaker 1: a hindrance. So quickly are we led captive and defiled
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  Speaker 1: by vanity. Many a time I wish that I had
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  Speaker 1: held my peace and had not gone amongst men. But
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  Speaker 1: why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that
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  Speaker 1: we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done
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  Speaker 1: to our conscience. We like talking so much because we hope,
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  Speaker 1: by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because
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  Speaker 1: we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: And we very willingly talk and think of those things
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  Speaker 1: which we love or desire, or else of those which
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  Speaker 1: we most dislike. But alas it is often to no
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  Speaker 1: purpose and in vain. For this outward consolation is no
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  Speaker 1: small hindrance to the inner comfort which cometh from God.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore must we watch and pray that time pass not
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  Speaker 1: idly away. If it be right and desirable for THEE
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  Speaker 1: to speak, speak things which are to edification, evil custom,
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  Speaker 1: and neglect of our real prophet tend much to make
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  Speaker 1: us heedless of watching over our lips. Nevertheless, devout conversation
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  Speaker 1: on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress,
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  Speaker 1: most of all, where those of kindred mind and spirit
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  Speaker 1: find their ground or fellowship in God. End of Chapter ten,