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What was promised in the second book of the Institutes on continual
and unceasing perseverance in prayer, shall be by the Lord's help fulfilled
by the Conferences of this Elder, whom we will now bring forward; viz.,
Abbot Isaac: and when these have been propounded I think that I shall
have satisfied the commands of Pope Castor of blessed memory, and your
wishes, O blessed Pope Leontius and holy brother Helladius, and the length
of the book in its earlier part may be excused, though, in spite of our
endeavour not only to compress what had to be told into a brief discourse,
but also to pass over very many points in silence, it has been extended to
a greater length than we intended. For having commenced with a full
discourse on various regulations which we have thought it well to curtail
for the sake of brevity, at the close the blessed Isaac spoke these words.
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