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204 conduct yourself as a faithful and generous warrior.

You then, beloved, following your Heavenly Captain, Who for you has overcome the world, and has willed to die Himself, give yourself with a courageous heart to this battle, and to the utter destruction of all your foes; for if you leave but one alive, he will be as a beam in your eye and a thorn in your side, which will retard you in the course of so glorious a victory.

LTHOUGH our whole life is a continual warfare on earth, yet the chief and most signal struggle is at the last hour of the great passage, since he who falls at that moment does not rise any more.

This is what you have to do now, that you may be found well prepared then; you must in the present time which is given you fight manfully, for he who fights well in life will, by the good habit which he has already formed, easily gain the victory in his last moments.

Besides this, think often on death with careful consideration, so, when it comes upon you, you