uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
envyings, murders, love of money, railing, love of pleasure,
drunkenness, revelling, arrogance, and such like, of the which I
tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, sanctification
of soul and body, lowliness of heart and contrition, almsgiving,
forgiveness of injuries, loving-kindness, watchings, perfect
repentance of all past offences, tears of compunction, sorrow for
our own sins and those of our neighbours, and the like. These,
even as steps and ladders that support one another and are
clinched together, conduct the soul to heaven. Lo, to these we
are commanded to cleave after baptism, and to abstain from their
contraries.

"But if, after receiving the knowledge of the truth, we again lay
hold on dead works, and, like a dog, return to our vomit, it
shall happen unto us according to the word of the Lord; `for,'
saith he, `when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man' (to wit,
by the grace of baptism) `he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest, and finding none.' But enduring not for long to wander
homeless and hearthless, he saith, `I will return to my house
whence I came out.' And, when he cometh, he findeth it swept and
garnished, but empty and unoccupied, not having received the
operation of grace, nor having filled itself with the riches of
the virtues. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other
spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell
there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the