toward all creatures, so there is a special faith between those whose mutual love is closer. This latter is like the more particular love that exists between the two of us, a love demonstrated by our faith. So much love is manifested that it is impossible to imagine that either of us desires anything but the other’s good. It is an earnest belief because it insists both in the sight of God and of men that what is sought in the other is solely the glory of God’s name and the good of the soul. And we
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