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WHEREFORE if we want to obey the gospel precept, and to show ourselves
the followers of the Apostle and the whole primitive church, or of the
fathers who in our own days succeeded to their virtues and perfection, we
should not acquiesce in our own prescriptions, promising ourselves
perfection from this wretched and lukewarm condition of ours: but following
their footsteps, we should by no means aim at looking after our own
interests, but should seek out the discipline and system of a monastery,
that we may in very truth renounce this world; preserving nothing of those
things which we have despised through the temptation of want of faith; and
should look for our daily food, not from any store of money of our own, but
from our own labours.
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