Introduction:
For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.
Ch. 21:
Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time.


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