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 before His teaching; all human pride must bow the head.

May God preserve you from a timid teacher, who dares not tell you plain truths, or who flatters your defects like the Scribes and Pharisees, who thought only of pleasing the people and not of correcting them! Beg of God to give you a teacher who will speak powerfully and with effect, and not spare your vices: — for on this your conversion depends.

Amen, Amen.