An epitome of the priestly life

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remote reparation of the foui; ut itis no humilit itself. Strive there ore to bo humi te no inthine intelligetice alone. ut in hine innermostleari trul wishing tote littieeSteemed, and even like me to sufferindignitieS. This indoed entatis labor and ni the violent accomplisti it forcit is no easy

member that thou cans do ali hings in him that strengtheneth thee. COUrage, m dearly beloved beassured that thou cans atta in to that humilit that my aint possessed is thou

Wheresore, like them frequently Onside the reasons thou has for humblingthyself, viz. thy ins thyraefecis, hine infirmities, hine inclination to evi and tardines in accompli ining good and dothou like them, train thyset osten in tho Various exercises of humility. Humble thyself, nowing that themore a pries is umbie in spirit, themore iste exalted in his ministry.

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away like a Ioud appearin sor amomen and then vanishing. am a man surrounded by infirmity, involve in ignorance and darkneSS, prone to evit, Io and wea in the per- formance of good inconstant a the leas

that is carried by the wind fuit os im

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Scarcet wasci able to act lienes committed Sin. Henee m iniquities are multiplied

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eve humbled in thy sight. Farae it rom me orator in mySelf,untes ita in mine infirmities, that thypoaver mandweli in me.

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CHAPTER XXIII

Thou knowest, in son, that the destres of the est a re altogether oppo Sed tomy la and commandinent s. Thou knowest that th nature inclines ille topride, Varice, USt, enVy, intemperanCe

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humility, justice, contempt of riches, charity, chastity, Sobriely and labor. I hou knowest that thy est destres worldly coniforis, hils I rescribe for

Give to thy servant, say the olySpirit, bread discipline and work. Mortis thus, my son, thymember that thysoul may be Saved.