obligation, when we shall also have a reward. But he does not choose to submit himself to
thee? However do thou submit thyself; not simply yield, but submit thyself. Entertain this
feeling towards all, as if all were thy masters. For thus shalt thou soon have all as thy slaves,
enslaved to thee with the most abject slavery. For thou wilt then more surely make them
thine, when without receiving anything of theirs, thou of thyself renderest them of thine
own. This is “subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ,” in order that we
may subdue all the passions, be servants of God, and preserve the love we owe to one another.
And then shall we be able also to be counted worthy of the lovingkindness which cometh
of God, through the grace and mercies of His only-begotten Son, with whom to the Father,
together with the Holy Ghost, be glory, might, honor, now and forever and ever. Amen.
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