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SERENUS: Although your proposals would rob us of our whole night's
rest, so that we should not notice the approach of the rising dawn, and
should be tempted greedily to prolong our conference till sunrise, yet
since the solving of the question raised, if we began to trace it out,
would launch us on a wide and deep sea of questions, which the shortness of
the time at our disposal would not permit us to traverse, I think it will
be more convenient to reserve it for consideration another night, when by
the raising of this question I shall receive from your very ready converse
some spiritual joy and richer fruit, and we shall be able if the Holy
Spirit grants us a prosperous breeze to penetrate more freely into the
intricacies of the questions raised. Wherefore let us enjoy a little sleep,
and so shake off the drowsiness that steals over our eyes, as the dawn
approaches, and then we will go together to church, for the observance of
Sunday bids us do this, and after service will come back, and as you wish,
discuss with redoubled delight what the Lord may have given to us for our
common improvement.
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