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 1 Pref      |     church during the Thirty Years War, a war in which he fought
 2 Pref      |     presence. For some forty years, he lived and walked with
 3 Pref      | Brother Lawrence's first ten years were full of severe trials
 4 Pref      |      as it was three hundred years ago.~Brother Lawrence died
 5 Pref      |      presence for over forty years. His quiet death was much
 6 Conv,  1  |   had increased in the forty years that he had lived since. ~
 7 Conv,  2  |      of mind had lasted four years during which time he had
 8 Conv,  2  |      easy during the fifteen years that he had been employed
 9 Lett,  Int|  written during the last ten years of his life. Many of them
10 Lett,  2  |   all besides. For the first years, I commonly employed myself
11 Lett,  2  |  sins. Thus I continued some years applying my mind carefully
12 Lett,  2  |   you that for the first ten years I suffered much. The apprehension
13 Lett,  2  |  with God above these thirty years. I pass over many things,
14 Lett,  4  |    them. ~For the past forty years his continual care has been
15 Lett,  4  |  occasions. For about thirty years, his soul has been filled
16 Lett,  9  |      I have lived over forty years in the monastic life. Have
17 Lett,  14 |     has deferred during many years. Adieu.~Pray to Him for