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And so he loses no time in at once applying a suitable remedy to the
incentive to so many faults, and laying aside that apostolic power of his
which he had made use of a little before, he adopts once more the tender
character of a good father, or of a kind physician, and, as if they were
his children or his patients, applies by his healing counsel remedies to
cure them, saying: "Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by
the Lord Jesus, that working with silence they would eat their own bread."
The cause of all these ulcers, which spring from the root of idleness, he
heals like some well-skilled physician by a single salutary charge to work;
as he knows that all the other bad symptoms, which spring as it were from
the same clump, will at once diappear when the cause of the chief malady
has been removed.
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