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  1 PREF  |         conversation of that man of God. Some faults were, at their
  2 PREF  |            to be true. Whilst, with God's assistance, I was so engaged,
  3 PREF  |          same our father beloved by God, somewhat more briefly indeed,
  4 PREF  |             work, I have, as far as God has allowed me, done my
  5 PREF  |       prayer for you, that Almighty God may deign to guard your
  6 I     |          HOW CUTHBERT, THE CHILD OF GOD, WAS WARNED BY A CHILD OF
  7 I     |          good, Cuthbert, the man of God, from his early youth bent
  8 I     |            years, was the effect of God's grace inciting him gradually
  9 I     |         mind to imbibe the voice of God. He took delight, as we
 10 I     |             surprised that the same God can restrain the levity
 11 II    |        since Cuthbert, the child of God, carefully retained in his
 12 II    |           Maccabaeus, and to defend God's own temple.~CHAPTER III~
 13 II    |            friends, often prayed to God amid dangers that surrounded
 14 II    |         piety sent forth prayers to God, and he was heard by Him
 15 II    |             these pious servants of God were gone to bring from
 16 II    |           aid, they had recourse to God, and issuing forth from
 17 II    |            shall pray for them: may God spare none of them ! for
 18 IV    |           The young man, beloved of God, was struck with the sight,
 19 IV    |            life and happiness among God's mighty ones, he forthwith
 20 IV    |      thought to behold the light of God's holy angels, who never
 21 IV    |          saw such great miracles of God. The door of heaven was
 22 IV    |      angelic choir. " As the man of God said these words, the hearts
 23 V     |           WAS SUPPLIED WITH FOOD BY GOD ~AND when he now began with
 24 V     |          more rigid course of life, God 's grace was revealed to
 25 V     |             who seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, the
 26 V     |         refresh himself. The man of God refused, saying, " I cannot
 27 V     |            exclaimed, "Thanks be to God, who of his bounty hath
 28 VI    |            this reverend servant of God, abandoning worldly things,
 29 VI    |      invited by the food with which God had supplied him to encounter
 30 VI    |       veteran priest and servant of God, the pious Sigfrid, for
 31 VII   |             Cuthbert adjured him in God's name to stop; and as the
 32 VII   |             way he went. The man of God was astonished, and revolving
 33 VII   |         this in heaven." The man of God was stimulated by this powerful
 34 VII   |          upon him also the grace of God. From that time he often
 35 VII   |          food furnished direct from God. ~He was affable and pleasant
 36 VII   |          benefits which the love of God had conferred upon himself.
 37 VIII  |          not think it possible that God should have neglected your
 38 VIII  |         quarto sheets: we can, with God's help, read one every day,
 39 X     |            messengers to the man of God, entreating him to come
 40 X     |         spent the night in praising God. When the dawn of day approached,
 41 XI    |        PRAYER ~MEANWHILE the man of God began to wax strong in the
 42 XI    |            miracle which the man of God there performed. They arrived
 43 XI    |             at hand, and the man of God, who had spent the night
 44 XI    |            knees and gave thanks to God. "You see, my beloved brethren,"
 45 XI    |           how great is the grace of God to him who hopes and trusts
 46 XII   |        without eating. " The man of God replied, " My son, learn
 47 XII   |            have faith, and trust in God, who will never suffer to
 48 XII   |          yonder? It is possible for God to feed us even by means
 49 XII   |              Look," said the man of God, "there is our handmaid,
 50 XII   |              and see what provision God hath sent us, and come again
 51 XII   |         just caught. But the man of God reproved him, " What have
 52 XII   |          have you not given part to God's handmaid? Cut the fish
 53 XII   |        preached to them the word of God, and blessed Him for his
 54 XIV   |            it to preach the word of God, than a house at the other
 55 XIV   |        house, into which the man of God had entered. ~And thus in
 56 XIV   |       perfect and pious servants of God should receive power against
 57 XV    |           and, coming to the man of God, besought his help, saying, "
 58 XV    |          senses, because the man of God had always seen her in her
 59 XV    |            was not real. The man of God consoled him: " Do not weep
 60 XV    |          are sometimes permitted by God to be afflicted in body,
 61 XV    |             and, meeting the man of God with joy, held the bridle
 62 XVI   |         Church, which, thanks be to God, has lately been converted
 63 XVII  |          from virtue to virtue; the God of Gods shall be seen in
 64 XVII  |     boundless ocean. No one, before God's servant Cuthbert, had
 65 XVII  |        Spirit, which is the word of God, all the fiery darts of
 66 XVIII |            stony ground. The man of God, therefore, sent for the
 67 XVIII |          the prayers of this man of God from the ground which was
 68 XIX   |             the soil or the will of God, does not allow wheat to
 69 XIX   |          have received license from God, do what He allows you;
 70 XX    |            APOLOGIZED TO THE MAN OF GOD POR THE INJURY WHICH THEY
 71 XX    |          island. One day the man of God saw them, whilst making
 72 XX    |              and finding the man of God digging in the field, spread
 73 XX    |            s lard, which the man of God used to show to the brethren
 74 XXI   |          and giving them welcome in God's name, asked them for the
 75 XXI   |           he, " I do not think that God will forget my service or
 76 XXI   |      obedience Ought to be shown to God's holy saints.~
 77 XXII  |             many came to the man of God, not only from the furthest
 78 XXII  |       course, would, by the help of God, break the snares of the
 79 XXIII |         CURED~BUT though our man of God was thus secluded from mankind,
 80 XXIII |             towards the holy man of God. About this time, as she
 81 XXIII |            the girdle of the man of God to her, and bound it round
 82 XXIII |          the sanctity of the man of God might be established by
 83 XXIV  |         Christ, sent for the man of God, adjuring him in the name
 84 XXIV  |           some time, and the man of God had answered many questions
 85 XXIV  |             islands. It is easy for God out of some of these to
 86 XXIV  |        presiding in the presence of God's chosen servant, the holy
 87 XXV   |           WHEN Cuthbert, the man of God, after having been elected
 88 XXV   |            for some time had served God in secret with his accustomed
 89 XXV   |           infirm, saying, " I thank God, most holy father, that
 90 XXV   |           the virtues of the man of God to all who are desirous
 91 XXV   |          which I relate. The man of God, then, giving him the holy
 92 XXVI  |     BISHOPRIC ~THE venerable man of God, Cuthbert, adorned the office
 93 XXVII |       atrocious cruelty, the man of God, Cuthbert, knowing that
 94 XXVII |           was preaching the word of God to the brethren of the same
 95 XXVII |           When the venerable man of God, Cuthbert, had said these
 96 XXVII |            prophecies of the man of God. It appeared that the guards
 97 XXVII |          was revealed to the man of God as he was standing near
 98 XXVIII|           HERMIT, AND BY PRAYERS TO GOD OBTAINED HIS ATTENDANCE ~
 99 XXVIII|     afterwards, the same servant of God, Cuthbert, was summoned
100 XXVIII|           been united to the man of God, Cuthbert, in the bond of
101 XXIX  |             either, by the grace of God, be restored to health,
102 XXIX  | long-continued trouble." The man of God assented to his prayers,
103 XXX   |             attendant on the man of God, but now abbot of the monastery
104 XXX   |          habitation from the man of God a short time before: one
105 XXX   |           when they told the man of God about her, and entreated
106 XXXI  |     Hildemer, whose wife the man of God freed from an unclean spirit.
107 XXXII |             Two days did the man of God preach to the assembled
108 XXXII |           food, and given thanks to God, walked back to the women
109 XXXIII|             ministering the word of God, and comforting those few
110 XXXIII|       pointed her out to the man of God, who immediately went to
111 XXXIV |          HEAVEN~BUT now this man of God, foreseeing his end approaching,
112 XXXIV |           same time that the man of God had seen the vision. He
113 XXXVI |             on board your vessel in God's name, and return home."
114 XXXVI |      because they now saw what care God had for his faithful servant,
115 XXXVII|      scarcely over, when the man of God, Cuthbert, returned to his
116 XXXVII|        should return to him. ' When God so wills it,' said he, '
117 XXXVII|            and it was ordered so by God, as the event showed. For
118 XXXVII|            as the event showed. For God Almighty, wishing to cleanse
119 XXXVII|          providence and the will of God, that I might be left without
120 XXXVII|            last words of the man of God, and to witness his departure
121 XXXVII|          and easy to us, the man of God at length, after some deliberation,
122 XXXIX |          places, to reside wherever God may send you, than consent
123 XXXIX |           life which it has pleased God to deliver to you through
124 XXXIX |           such as these, the man of God delivered to us at intervals,
125 XL    |         WITHOUT, BUT BY THE HELP OF GOD WERE PROTECTED ~"I IMMEDIATELY
126 XL    |        showed. For, when the man of God was buried, the Church was
127 XLI   |           monastery, and to pray to God in his behalf before the
128 XLI   |          martyrs praise to the Lord God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,
129 XLI   |          south side. From that time God permitted many other . cures
130 XLII  |           man the wondrous gifts of God shall tell?~What ear the
131 XLIII |             THE GRAVE OF THE MAN OF GOD, AND THE COFFIN OF THAT
132 XLIII |           PLACED UPON IT~MEANWHILE, God's chosen servant, Bishop
133 XLIV  |             body of the holy man of God, to pray: I hope his intercession
134 XLV   |         might, with the blessing of God, return to health. The attendant,
135 XLV   |          the shoes which the man of God had worn in the tomb, and
136 XLV   |             song in thanksgiving to God. In the morning he went
137 XLVI  |             THE WALL OF TIIE MAN OF GOD'S HOUSE ~NOR do I think
138 XLVI  |     heavenly one. ~When, therefore, God's servant Cuthbert had been
139 XLVI  |            portion of the relics of God's servant Cuthbert, or of