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[Book iii.
and to obtain by asking from God what he piously desires, does he not possess much, nay all, having God as his everlasting treasure? "To him that asks," it is said, "shall be given, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."[1] If God denies nothing, all things belong to the godly.
- ↑ Matt. vii. 7, 8.
