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the season for obtaining favour and mercy be past, may He open the eyes of your
conscience and show you the way of safety and salvation. Accordingly, while something
remains to you of life and a few days are yet left you to obtain salvation, take advantage
of the opportunity to think about it and strive hard for it. And despise not the guidance
which your sincere friend the author will offer you in these pages, to lead you to the
goal of salvation and to its attainment, nor put it from you, but peruse his words with
due thought, for in them your internal disease will be made clear and be demonstrated
through the word of God, and, moreover, the prescription for its cure will be made known
to you by verses drawn from that true dispensary of healing. And do you pray to God Most
High, who is the guide of all, to enlighten you, to show you the way of truth, and to
reveal to you the state of your heart as it really is. And if in reading this book you
become aware that your heart is in the condition which is therein stated, and that the way
of salvation is that which is here explained to you, then pray once more that God Most
High may cause you to walk in this way of salvation, and may keep you firm therein, so
that you may, in this manner, obtain true happiness and eternal salvation. If, therefore,
you read these words with this thought and prayer, you will assuredly obtain from them
much blessing and grace, and, enlightened by the divine light, you will be guided in the
way of truth, the path of life.
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