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Chapter XXIX.—All Hope is in the
Mercy of God.
40. And my whole hope is only in Thy exceeding
great mercy. Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.
Thou imposest continency upon us,877
| 877 In his 38th Sermon, he distinguishes between
continentia and sustinentia; the first guarding us
from the allurements of worldliness and sin, while the second
enables us to endure the troubles of life. | “nevertheless, when I
perceived,” saith one, “that I could not otherwise obtain her,
except God gave her me; . . . that was a point of wisdom also to
know whose gift she was.”878
For by continency are we bound up
and brought into one, whence we were scattered abroad into many.
For he loves Thee too little who loves aught with Thee, which he
loves not for Thee,879
| 879 In his De Trin. ix. 13 (“In what desire
and love differ”), he says, that when the creature is loved
for itself, and the love of it is not referred to its Creator, it
is desire (cupiditas) and not true love. See also p. 129,
note 8, above. | O love, who ever burnest, and art
never quenched! O charity, my God, kindle me! Thou commandest
continency; give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou
wilt.
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