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and these four only are to be received

in the orthodox church, and the others to be rejected,

who wrote false writings, by themselves (only),

not by the Holy Ghost, nor by the Saviour's choosing.

Thus we end this treatise here.


XVI.

MEMORY OF THE SAINTS.

[A homily for any occasion.]

Ego sum alfa et co, initium et Jlnis, dicit dominus deus, qui est et qui erat et qui venturus est, omnipotens. That is in English; 'I am the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come. Almighty.'

There is One Almighty God in Three Persons, ever continuing,

Who created all things. Now we have [our] beginning through Him,

because He created us when we were not,

and afterward redeemed us when we were lost.

Now we have to take care, with great diligence,

that our life shall be so ordered,

that our end may end in God,

from Whom came to us our beginning.

We may take good examples,

first, from the holy patriarchs,

how they in their lives pleased God,

and also from the Saints who followed the Saviour.