_ 86 _ Our Lord, whose eyes are on the just and ears are open to their prayers, if they pray justly, heard our prayers; and as we asked, so He performed, although there were many in the congregation who did not know what they were asking for, since their prayers were against themselves. For the Lord God contrived a war over a fortress which was raised by the Moors, called Manudjan, 1 and to take it it was necessary to send these two hundred men I mentioned and then another two hundred, which made 400, almost all of the host of the first, with a Moorish captain leading five thousand Moors to fight from the fortress. The captain-in-chief of this army was a nephew of the Governor of India. I advised many of these men to come to confession and told them what would happen if they did not, but everything was delay, more delay, wait, wait again a little while here, a little while their others said go away from us, we do not want your knowledge or your ways. Who is Omnipotent that we should serve him? or what will it profit us if we serve him? Our hand is high and let the Lord do all this. We strike in league with death, and we have made a pact with hell, and when we cross over the flood the scourge will not come against us, because we have placed our hope in
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