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主，请你俯听我的祈祷，不要听凭我的灵魂受不住你的约束而堕落，也不要听凭我倦于
歌颂你救我于迷途的慈力，请使我感受到你的甘饴胜过我沉醉于种种佚乐时所感受的况
味，使我坚决爱你，全心全意握住你的手，使我有生之年从一切诱惑中获得挽救。主，
你是我的君王，我的天主，请容许我将幼时所获得的有用知识为你服务，说话、书写、
阅读、计算都为你服务。我读了虚浮的文字，你便惩罚我，又宽赦了我耽玩这些虚浮文
字的罪过。的确我在其中读到不少有用的字句，但这些字句也能在正经的典籍中求得，
这是稳妥的道路，是儿童们所应走的道路。
CHAPTER XV
24. Hear my prayer, O Lord; let not my soul faint under thy discipline, nor
let me faintin confessing unto thee thy mercies, whereby thou hast saved me
from all my most wicked ways till thou shouldst become sweet to me beyond
all the allurements that I used to follow.Let me come to love thee
wholly, and grasp thy hand with my whole heart that thou mayest deliver me
from every temptation, even unto the last. And thus, O Lord, my King and my
God, may all things useful that I learned as a boy now be offered in thy
service--let it be that for thy service I now speak and write and
reckon. For when I was learning vain things, thou didst impose thy
discipline upon me: and thou hast forgiven me my sin of delighting
in those vanities. In those studies I learned many a useful word,
but these might have been learned in matters not so vain; and surely that
is the safe way for youths to walk in. |
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