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"It is not the outward act which others have done, but something else indicated by it, greater, more godlike, more perfect, the stripping off of the passions from the soul itself and from the disposi. tion, and the cutting up by the roots and casting out of what is alien to the mind. For this is the lesson peculiar to the believer, and the instruction worthy of the Saviour."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xxii. p. 194.
“For salvation is the privilege of pure and passionless souls ... Nor does the kingdom of heaven belong to sleepers and sluggards,
but the violent take it by force' (Matt. xi. 12). For this alone 18 commendable violence, to force God, and take life from God by. force. And He, knowing those who persevere firmly, or rather violently, yields and grants. For God delights in being vanquished in such things."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xxii. pp. 200-201.
7. (All things are to be given up including clothes and everything foreign to the soul's own nature):
"'Will you be so good as to explain this matter also?' I re. member Clement saying to me, that we suffer injuries and tions for the forgiveness of our sins.' Peter said : This is quite correct. For we, who have chosen the future things, in so far as we possess more goods than these, whether they be clothing, or food or drink, or any other thing, po88888 sins, because we ought not to have anything, as I explained to you a little ago. To all of us posBessions are sine ... The deprivation of these, in whatever way it may take place, is the removal of sins,'"-(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 240.
8. (The Rugged Path):
"Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh, they may open unto him immediately."-Luke xii. 35-36.
"In this one thing alone can we be happy in this life, if we appear to be unhappy; if, avoiding the enticements of pleasure, and giving ourselves to service of virtue only, we live in all labours and miseries, which are the means of exercising and strengthening virtue; if, in short, we keep to that rugged and difficult path which has
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