[[9]] Rom. viii, 28.
[[10]] Imitation, I, xvi.
[[11]] "You are vexed at the vexation, and then you are vexed at having been vexed. I have seen people in the same way get into a passion, and then be angry because they had lost their temper!"—St. Francis de Sales, Spiritual Letters, xxvii.
[[12]] S. T. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, p. 186. (Bohn Ed.)
Bishop Andrewes in his second sermon on the Temptation of Christ, speaking of it being impossible for Him to have sinned since there was no fire of concupiscence in Him, quaintly says: "To us the devil needs bring but a pair of bellows, for he shall find fire within us."—Andrewes, Sermons, Vol. V, p. 508.
[[13]] Imitation, I, xiii.
[[14]] A busy Wall Street financier not long since told the writer that for several years, whenever stepping from an omnibus or car, in the thronged street or crowded railway station, he had made a practice of offering an ejaculation of prayer for his fellow-passengers.
[[15]] Phil. iv, 8.