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manner of hope in God hast thoii, or whoso consents with thee, 

 or who holds converse with thee in words of flattery ? God will 

 judge ; for it is written, Not only those who commit evil, hut those that 

 consent ivith them, shall he damned. 



15. I know not ichat I should say^, or what I shoidd speah further 

 about the departed ones of the sons of God, whom the sword has touched 

 sharply ahove measure. For it is written : Weep with them that iveep, 

 and, again, If one memher suffer, let all the memhers suffer with it. The 

 Church, therefore, bewails and will lament her sons and daughters 

 whom the sword has not as yet slain, but who are banished and carried 

 off to distant lands where sin openly oppresses, and shamelessly 

 abounds. There freemen are put up for sale. Christians are reduced 

 to slavery, and, worst of all, to most shameful, most vile, and apostate 

 Picts. 



16. Therefore, in sadness and grief shall I cry aloud. most 

 lovely and beloved brethren, and sons whom I begot in Christ, I cannot 

 reckon them, what shall I do for you ? I am not worthy to come to 

 the aid of either God or men. TJie ivichedyiess of the iviclced hath 

 prevailed ayainst us. We are hecome as it were strangers. Perchance 

 they do not believe that we received one haptism, or that we have 07ie 

 God and Father. It is in their eyes a shameful thicg that we were 

 born in Ireland. As He saith, Save ye not one God? Why do ye, 

 each one, forsake his neighhour ? 



17. Therefore I grieve for you, I grieve, ye most dear to me. 

 Put again, I rejoice within myself. / have not labour ed for nought, 

 and my journey to a strange land was not in vain. And yet, there 

 happened a crime so horrid and unspeakable ! Thank God, it was as 

 baptized believers that ye departed from the world to paradise. I can 

 see you. Ye have begun to remove to where there shall he no night nor 

 sorroiv nor death any more, but ye shall leap like calves loosened from 

 their honds, and ye shall tread down the wicked, and they shall he ashes 

 under your feet. 



18. Ye therefore shall reign with apostles, and prophets, and 

 martyrs. Ye shall take everlasting kingdoms, as He Himself wit- 

 nesseth, saying: They shall come from the east and west, and shall sit 

 down with Ahraham and Isaac and Jacoh in the kingdom of heaven. 

 Without are dogs and sorcerers and murderers ; and liars and false 

 sivearers shall have their part in the lake of everlasting fire. Doth not 



