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 can no more Apostatiſe or depart from that good.

7. And let this, O Son, be the end of Religion and Piety; whereunto when thou art once arrived, thou shalt both live well, and die blessedly, whilist thy soul is not ignorant whether it must return, and flie back again

8. In this only, O Son, is the way to the Truth, which our Progenitors travelled in; and by which, making their journey, they at length attained to the good. It is a Venerable way, and plain, but hard and difficult for the Soul to go in that is in the Body.

9. For first must it war against its own self, and after much Strife and Dissention, it must be overcome of one part, for the Contention is of one against two, whilist it flies away, and they shine to hold and attain it

10. But the victory of both is not like; for