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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: the Maker and protector of all creation. Let there be a well of
water within me springing up, and let utterance be given unto me
that I may open my mouth, and a mind well fixed in thee, the
chief corner-stone, that I, thine unprofitable servant, may be
enabled to preach to my father, as is right, the mystery of thine
Incarnation, and by thy power deliver him from the vain deceit of
wicked devils, and bring him unto thee his God and Lord, who
willest not the death of us sinners, but waitest for us to return
and repent, because thou art glorified for ever and ever. Amen."
When he had thus prayed, and received fulness of assurance that
he should not miscarry in his desire, he took courage by the
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