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The Catholic and Manichaean Ways of Life conveys Augustine’s early thoughts on the morals and customs practiced by the different sides—that is, Catholic and Manichaean. This younger Augustine intends to disprove the boastings of the Manichaeans that their way of life is more pious and devout than the Catholics—and, further, that the Catholic faith is proven true by its truer systems of devotion. ...

this we adhere by sanctification for, when sanctified, we are inflamed with that full and perfect love which prevents us from turning away from Him and causes us to be conformed to Him rather than to the world. ‘He has predestined us,’ as the Apostle says, ‘to become conformed to the image of His Son.’4 (23) It is through love, then, that we are conformed to God, and being so conformed and made like to Him and set apart from the world, we are no longer confounded with those things which should be
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