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doubly. For his heart's thoughts must stand thus in his work: that he despises God and transgresses His commandment and thinks to do his neighbor wrong, steal, and be unfaithful. Such thoughts, what are they other than pure curses against God and men? Through this, his work and labor also becomes a double curse. With this he curses himself, and they remain in the end Betler vnd hümpler beggars and bunglers. Of this constant prayer, Christ certainly speaks in Luce Luke chapter eleven: "One should pray without ceasing." For one should without ceasing guard oneself against sin and wrong. This cannot happen where one does not fear God and has His commandment before one's eyes, as Psalm .j. Psalm 1 says: "Blessed is he who thinks day and night on God's commandments," and so on.