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A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 493<br />

"and restless movement, both within and without,<br />

"in the house and in the field, together with wrath,<br />

"and hostility, and envy, and disobedience to the<br />

"voice of the Deity, and fornication, and pleasure,<br />

"and drunkenness, and winking with the eyes; and<br />

"a man becometh polluted with iniquity, and he<br />

"listeneth to the words of idle stories and fables<br />

"which God Almighty desireth not, but which are<br />

"loved by his father Satan, and by his fiends and<br />

"devils who have delight in such things as these.<br />

"And they become a habitation [p. 303] unto him<br />

"who loveth riches and plunder, and who de-<br />

"fraudeth his neighbour, and who committeth un-<br />

"natural crimes with women and men; this is the<br />

"man whom Satan and his fiends and devils love.<br />

"And the man who is a defrauder and contentious,<br />

"and who leadeth astray by his words, and is<br />

"perverse, [and who loveth] laughter, and scoffing,<br />

"and idle stories, becometh a habitation for the<br />

"Devil, and the Holy Spirit and the angels of light<br />

"depart from him. A wolf cannot enter into a den<br />

"of lions, and similarly Satan cannot enter into the<br />

"habitation of the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit<br />

"cannot enter into the habitation of Satan for each<br />

"would be in restraint [therein]. Light cannot be<br />

"brought into the darkness, and Satan cannot enter<br />

"into the habitation of the Holy Spirit. Do thou<br />

"then, [O <strong>Alexander</strong>], take heed and be certain<br />

"that thou becomest a habitation for the Holy<br />

"Ghost."

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