ragement of others to fight against the Devil, and being well armed, secure now without the help of any, are able, by God's assistance, to fight hand to hand against the vices of the flesh, and evil cogitations; and so proceed from the fraternal army to the single combat of the wilderness." Qui non conversionis fervore novicio, sed monasterii probatione diuturnâ, didicerunt contra diabolum multorum solatio jam docti pugnare, & bene instructi fraternâ ex acie ad singularem pugnam eremi, securi jam sine consolatione alterius, sola manu vel brachio, contra vitia carnis vel cogitationum, Deo auxiliante, sufficiunt pugnare.
But in later ages, when discipline was found as necessary for monks as for soldiers, a few reformers established institutions in their respective orders, by which the advantages of the eremetical life might be combined with the obedience and consequent security of the cænobite. St. Romuald was the most
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