[107] Let not then our good God be grieved, the compassionate, the merciful, the holy, the pure, the undefiled, the immaterial, the only, the one, the unchangeable, the simple, the guileless, the unwrathful, even our God Jesus Christ, who is above every name that we can utter or conceive, and more exalted Let him rejoice with us because we walk aright, let him be glad because we live purely, let him be refreshed because our conversation is sober Let him be without care because we live continently, let him be pleased because we communicate one with another, let him smile because we are chaste, let him be merry because we love him These things I now speak unto you, brethren, because I am hasting unto the work set before me, and already being perfected by the Lord For what else could I have to say unto you? Ye have the pledge of our God, ye have the earnest of ħis goodness, ye have his presence that cannot be shunned If, then, ye sin no more, he forgiveth you that ye did in ignorance: but if after that ye have known him and he hath had mercy on you, ye walk again in the like deeds, both the former will be laid to your charge, and also ye will not have a part nor mercy before him
Acta Joannis. Anonymous. Oxford. 1924.
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