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That in the spirituall Battell we ought neuer to perswade our selues to haue ouercome our ene∣mies, but alwaies as new com∣batants to renew our exercises.
I Aduertise thee O daughter that thou neuer perswade thy selfe to haue gotten the vi∣ctorie ouer any passion, al∣though a long time thou doe not feele in thy selfe the moti∣ons of the same. But as a new warrior, and as a child newly borne for to fight: renew al∣waies thy exercises, as at the
first, as if thou hadst done hi∣therto nothing. And so much the rather, for if we behold the perfection, whereunto God doth call vs, although we haue gone neuer so farre in the way of vertue, yet shal we not dare to say that we are so much as entred into the first bounds therof: besides that, sometimes that is a vice, which through some secrete pride see∣meth vnto vs a vertue.