Chapter VIII.
That if we have improved our character it is possible
for us to get on with everybody.
We
must then do our best
to endeavour to amend our faults and correct our manners. And if we
succeed in correcting them we shall certainly be at peace, I will not
say with men, but even with beasts and the brute creation, according to
what is said in the book of the blessed Job: “For the beasts of
the field will be at peace with thee;”
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for
we shall not fear offences coming from without, nor will any occasion
of falling trouble us from outside, if the roots of such are not
admitted and implanted within in our own selves: for “they have
great peace who love thy law, O God; and they have no occasion of
falling.”
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Job v. 23
.
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Ps. cxviii.
(cxix.) 165
.