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through diabolic agency. But the most painful is internal persecution, which proceeds from each man's own soul being vexed by im. pious lusts, and diverse pleasures, and babe hopes, and destructive dreams; when, always groeping at more, and maddened by brutish loves, and inflamed by the passions which beset it like goads and stings, it is covered with blood, (to drive it on) to insane pursuits, and to despair of life, and to contempt of God. More grievous and painful is this persecution which arises from within, which is ever with a man, and which the persecuted cannot escape; for he carries the enemy about everywhere in himself. Thus also burning which attack from without works trial, but that from within produces death. War also made on one is easily put an end to, but that wbich is in the soul continues till death."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xx. p. 203.
"For whenever the soul is sown by others, then it is forsaken by the Spirit, as guilty of fornication or adultery; and so the living body, the life-giving spirit being withdrawn, is dissolved into dust, and the rightful punishment of sin is suffered at the time of the judgment by the soul, after the dissolution of the body."-(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 69.
"But sentiments erroneous, and deviating from what is right, and certainly pernicious, have turned man, a creature of heavenly origin, away from the heavenly life, and stretched him on the earth, by inducing him to cleave to earthly objects."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 34."
" Every one who hateth his brother 18 a murderer. For in bim through unbelief Christ dies. Rightly, therefore, he continues, 'And ye know that no murderer and unbeliever hath eternal life abiding in him.' For the living Christ abides in the believing soul."- (Syriac. Documents) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 162.
“Repentance, then, becomes capable of wiping out every sin, when on the occurrence of the soul's fault it admits no delay, and does not let the impulse pass on to a long space of time. For it is in this way that evil will be unable to leave & trace in us, being plucked away at the moment of its assault like a newly planted plant."-Ibid. p. 164.
"... and shoes, not those perishable ones which he that hath Bet his foot on holy ground is bidden to take off, nor such as he who is sent to preach the kingdom of heaven is forbidden to put on....
