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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: prayer. And therewith he prayed for the prince, that he might
hold fast the profession of the Catholick Faith without turning
and without wavering, and keep his life blameless and his
conversation pure, and so ending with prayer again withdrew to
his hospice.
But the king's son called Zardan forth, and, to try his
disposition, said unto him, "Thou hast heard what sort of
discourses this babbler maketh me, endeavouring to be-jape me
with his specious follies, and rob me of this pleasing happiness
and enjoyment, to worship a strange God." Zardan answered, "Why
hath it pleased thee, O prince, to prove me that am thy servant?
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