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Rh Then all vain imaginations, evil perturbations, and superfluous cares shall fly from thee.

Then also immoderate fear shall leave thee, and inordinate love shall die.

Y son, thou oughtest to endeavour with all diligence, that, in every place, and in all outward business, thou be inwardly free, and thoroughly master of thyself; and that all things be under thee, and not thou under them.

Thou must be lord and master of thine own actions, not a servant or a hireling.

Rather shouldst thou be as a freed man and a true Hebrew, passing over into the lot and freedom of the sons of God.

For they stand above present things, and contemplate the eternal things.

They look on transitory things with the left eye, and do behold the things of heaven with the right.

Temporal things cannot draw them; rather do they draw temporal things to serve them, and this in such way as God hath ordained, and are appointed by the great Work-master, who hath left nothing in His creation without due order.