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202 much about them, because of the risk, almost inevitable, of at least some hidden motive of vain-glory and pride.

Then leave all that is behind, whatever it may be, to the mercy of God, and consider how much yet remains for you to do.

Then, in a strain of thankfulness for the gifts and favours which the Lord has bestowed on you during that day, acknowledge Him as the Doer of all good, and return thanks to Him for having rescued you from so many open enemies, and from so many more hidden ones; for having given you good thoughts, and occasions of virtue, and for all other benefits which you may not have known though you received them.

MONGST other things which are in request in this combat, one is the perseverance with which we ought to mortify incessantly our passions, which are never dead in this life; but, on the contrary, like evil weeds, spring up hourly.

And this is a battle which only ends when life