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r and mother, his wife andchildren, his brethren and sisters, and his own life also, he cannot bemy disciple_. We have still extant two thousand and twelveof his letters, abounding with excellent instructions of piety, and withtheological {355} and critical learning. the ceremonies of baptism, frequent invocation of saints, veneration shown to their relics, the benediction of oving a manner to his consort on the shortness and uncertainty ofthis life, that they made a mutual vow of perpetual chastity.

Theheight of its miseries and dangers, is that blindness by which none whoare infected with its spirit, see their misfortune, or are sensible oftheir disease. d died a martyr in Kintyre: but the apostle ofthe Scots seems to have been a little more ancient than the former. The principal means always to entertain in our souls this savingfear, is to have God always before our eyes Onthe 25th of January, 604, he gave to the church of St.