CHAPTER XIV.

You, however, for whom it is enough to be serviceable
out of curiosity to any ordinance, or who are dazzled by
the glistering of gold, or who, though now upright, might

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be led away by such unexpected great riches into an effemin-
ate, idle, luxurious, and pompous life, do not disturb our
sacred silence by your clamour, but think, that although
there be a medicine which might fully cure all diseases, yet
those whom God wishes to try or to chastise shall not be
abetted by such an opportunity, so that if we were able to
enrich and instruct the whole world, and liberate it from
innumerable hardships, yet shall we never be manifested
unto any man unless God should favour it, yea, it shall be
so far from him who thinks to be partaker of our riches
against the will of God that he shall sooner lose his life in
seeking us, then attain happiness by finding us.

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