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WE must then do our best to endeavour to amend our faults and correct
our manners. And if we succeed in correcting them we shall certainly be at
peace, I will not say with men, but even with beasts and the brute
creation, according to what is said in the book of the blessed Job: "For
the beasts of the field will be at peace with thee;" for we shall not
fear offences coming from without, nor will any occasion of falling trouble
us from outside, if the roots of such are not admitted and implanted within
in our own selves: for "they have great peace who love thy law, O God; and
they have no occasion of falling."
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