The fruits of the Spirit are those good dispositions,
that the man love the living God,
and have true love ever in his mind,
and spiritual joy, and be peaceable,
patient and long-suffering, and in manners have
goodness, and gladness, and meekness,
faith and temperance, and cleanness of mind,
and continence without rashness.
There is no law contrary to (against) men thus disposed,
but those that are Christ's crucify their flesh,
so that they will not incline to shameful sins,
nor to those evil desires, but will fight against them
until they depart victoriously to Christ,
and to the everlasting glory in exchange for the short warfare,
and they shall rejoice for ever blithely with Christ.
Augustine the wise bishop said likewise in a certain book,
' My brethren most beloved, often I have warned you,
and with fatherly carefulness I lovingly exhorted you
that, as for the odious witchcraft which unwise men observe,
ye should altogether renounce [it], like faithful men,
for except I warn you, and forbid you that mischief,
I shall have to give an account to the righteous judge
for my carelessness, and shall be condemned with you.
Now I deliver myself as regards God, and with love forbid you,
that any of you should enquire through any witchcraft
concerning anything, or concerning any sickness,
or seek enchanters to anger his Creator;
