Je 2, 17

are ready to die. For I find fore in what manner thou
not thy works full before my hast received and heard: and
God. Have in mind there- observe and do penance.

42.-WARNINGS AGAINST APOSTASY FROM RELIGION,

AND EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE.

Hath not this been done to to the plough, and looking thee because thou hast for- back, is fit for the Kingdom saken the Lord thy God at of God.

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that time when He led thee Little children, it is the 1J2, 18by the way?-Thy own wick- last hour: and as you have edness shall reprove thee, heard that Antichrist cometh, and thy apostasy shall rebuke even now there are become thee. Know thou and see many Antichrists: whereby that it is an evil and a bitter we know that it is the last thing for thee to have left hour.-They went out from the Lord thy God, and that us; but they were not of us. My fear is not with thee, -For if they had been of us, saith the Lord the God of they would no doubt have Hosts. remained with us: but that 2 P30,6,8 Ye children of Israel, turn they may be manifest that again to the Lord, and He they are not all of us.

Ro 2,4

Ge 19, 17,

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Ge 26, 2

Ecl 10, 4

Eci 11, 22
Lu 9,62

will return to the remnant Be mindful from whence Ap 2,5
of you.
Harden not your thou art fallen: and do pen-
necks, as your fathers did: ance, and do the first works.
yield yourselves to the Lord Or else I come to thee, and
and come to His Sanctuary: will move thy candlestick out
serve the Lord, and the wrath of its place except thou do
of His indignation shall be penance.
turned away from you.

Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: out save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.-And his wife, looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.

Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

If the spirit of him that
hath power ascend upon thee,
leave not thy place.

Stay in thy place.
No man putting his hand

Examples of Repentance:
(1) St. Peter.
(2) St. Paul.

(3) St. Mary Magdalene.
(4) St. Dismas.
(5) St. David.
(6) St. Aaron.
(7) Zacheus.

The Publican.
(9) A Son.

(10) The Disciples of St.
John Baptist.

(11) The Romans.
(12) The Ephesians.
(13) 3000 converted by
St. Peter.
(14) The Prodigal Son.
(15) The Groat found.
(16) The return of the
Lost Sheep.

Mk 14, 72

Ac 9,1 Lu 7, 37 Lu 23, 41 2 K 12, 13

Nu 12, 11

Lu 19, 8

Lu 18, 13

Mt 21, 29

Mt3,6

Ro 6,21 Ac 19, 18 Ac 2, 37

Lu 15, 18

Lu 15, 9 Mt 18, 12

Mt 19, 29

43.-PRAISES OF EVANGELICAL POVERTY.

Every one that hath left also died, and he was buried house, or brethren, or sisters, in hell.

Mt 5, 3

or father, or mother, or wife, Blessed are the poor in
or children, or lands, for My spirit: for theirs is the King-
Name's sake, shall receive an dom of Heaven.
hundredfold, and shall pos- The poor shall eat, and Ps 21, 27
sess Life Everlasting.
shall be filled: and they shall

Lu 18, 29- Amen I say to you, there praise the Lord that seek
is no man that hath left

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Lie 16, 22

Mt 8, 20

Mt 10, 9

10.

Mt 12, 1

Him, their hearts shall live

house, or parents, or brethren, for ever and ever.

or wife, or children, for the If thou wilt be perfect, go Mt 19, 21
Kingdom of God's sake,-sell what thou hast, and give
Who shall not receive much to the poor, and thou shalt
more in this present time, have treasure in Heaven: and
and in the world to come come, follow Me.
Life Everlasting.
Hath not God chosen the
It came to pass that the poor in this world, rich in
beggar died, and was carried faith, and heirs of the King-
by the Angels into Abraham's dom which God hath prom-
bosom: and the rich manlised to them that love Him?

44. THE POOR IN SPIRIT HIGHLY COMMENDED.
PUNISHMENT OF BREAKING THE VOW OF
POVERTY.

The foxes have holes, and hungry began to pluck the
the birds of the air nests: ears, and to eat.
but the Son of Man hath not
where to lay His head.

Ja 2,5

They answered Him: We Mt 14, 17 have not here but five loaves

Do not possess gold, nor and two fishes.
silver, nor money in your She brought forth her
purses: Nor scrip for your First-born Son, and wrapped
journey, nor two coats, nor Him up in swaddling clothes,
shoes, nor a staff: for the and laid Him in a manger,
workman is worthy of his because there was no room
meat.
for them in the inn.

Lu 2, 7

At that time Jesus went [In a strange sepulchre He Jn 19, 39 through the corn on the sab- is buried, the winding-sheet bath: and His disciples being and spices given by strangers.]

Ac3, 6

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Ac 2,44-45 They had all things com- cording as he had need.
mon:-Their possessions and Silver and gold I have
goods they sold, and divided none.
them to all, according as I have not coveted any Ac 20, 33-
every one had need.
man's silver, gold, or apparel,
Ac4,33-35 Great grace was in them as- You yourselves know:
all. For neither was there for such things as were need-
any one needy among them. ful for me and them that are
For as many as were owners with me, these hands have
of lands, or houses, sold them, furnished.

and brought the price of the [Ananias with Saphira
things they sold, And laid it his wife, on account of money
down before the feet of the retained secretly contrary to
Apostles. And distribution vow, perished by sudden
was made to every one ac-death.]

45.-PRAISES OF CHASTITY, EVANGELICAL CHASTITY
ABOVE ALL.

Ac 5,1

4,1-2 O how beautiful is the their mind and their conchaste generation with glory! science are defiled. for the memory thereof is Dearly beloved, I beseech 1 Pt2, ll immortal, because it is known you as strangers and pilboth with God and with men. grims to refrain yourselves -When it is present, they from carnal desires, which imitate it and they desire it war against the soul.

IV 6, 20

Mt 22, 30

Mt 19, 12

Tt1, 15

:

when it hath withdrawn] I will understand in the Ps 100, 2
itself, and it triumpheth unspotted way, when Thou
crowned for ever, winning shalt come to me.

the reward of undefiled The Lord knoweth the Ps 36, 18
conflicts.
days of the undefiled; and
their inheritance shall be
for ever.

Incorruption bringeth near to God.

In the resurrection they Never have I joined my- To 3, 17
shall neither marry nor be self with them that play:
married, but shall be as the neither have I made myself
Angels of God in Heaven. partaker with them that
There are eunuchs who walk in lightness.

were born SO from their Evil thoughts are an Pv 15, 26
mother's womb: and there abomination to the Lord:
are eunuchs who were made and pure words most beau-
SO by men: and there tiful shall be confirmed by
are eunuchs who have made Him.

themselves eunuchs for the He that loveth cleanness Pv 22, 11
Kingdom of Heaven. He of heart, for the grace of his
that can take, let him take it. lips shall have the King for
All things are clean to the his friend.
clean: but to them that are
defiled, and to unbelievers,
nothing is clean: but both

Give not thy mouth to Ecl 5,5 cause thy flesh to sin.

Remove anger from thy Ecl 11, 10

Eci 26, 20

W 8,21

Mt 5,8

Ro 12, 1

Know you not that you 1 C3, 16

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heart, and put away evil from
thy flesh. For youth and are the Temple of God, and
pleasure are vain.

No price is worthy continent soul.

that the Spirit of God dwellof aeth in you?-But if any one violate the Temple of God,

As I knew that I could him shall God destroy. For not otherwise be continent the Temple of God is holy: except God gave it, I went to which you are.

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the Lord, and besought Him. Or know you not that 1 C6, 19-
Blessed are the clean of your members are the Tem-
heart: for they shall see God. ple of the Holy Ghost, Who

I beseech you, brethren, is in you, Whom you have
by the mercy of God, that from God; and you are not
you present your bodies a your own?- For you are
living sacrifice, holy, pleasing bought with a great price.
to God, your reasonable ser- Glorify and bear God in your
vice.
body.

46.-PRAISES, REWARDS, AND COUNSELS OF

VIRGINITY.

Ap14, 1-5 J beheld, and lo a Lamb there was found no lie: for
stood upon Mount Sion, and they are without spot before
with Him an hundred for- the Throne of God.

ty-four thousand having His I will give to them in My Is 56,5
Name and the Name of His House, and within My walls,
Father written on their fore-a place, and a name better
heads. And I heard a voice than sons and daughters: I
from Heaven, as the noise of will give them an everlast-
many waters, and as the ing name, which shall never
voice of great thunder; and perish.

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the voice which I heard was Happy is the barren, and W3, 13-
as the voice of harpers, harp- the undefiled that hath not
ing on their harps.-And they known bed in sin: she shall
sang as it were a new can- have fruit in the visitation of
ticle, before the Throne, and holy souls:-And the eunuch
before the four living crea- that hath not wrought ini-
tures and the ancients; and quity with his hands, nor
no man could say the canti-thought wicked things
cle but those hundred forty- against God: for the pre-
four thousand, who were pur- cious gift of faith shall be
chased from the earth.-- given to him, and a most
These are they who were not acceptable lot in the Temple
defiled with women: for they of God.

are virgins. These follow I would that all men were 1 C7,7-2
the Lamb whithersoever He even as myself: but every
goeth. These were purchased one hath his proper gift from
from among men, the first- God, one after this manner,
fruits to God and to the and another after that.-But
Lamb:-And in their mouth I say to the unmarried, and

C7, 25

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Ac 4, 1920

Ac 5, 29

Ja 4,7

Mt 17,5

to the widows: it is good for sel, as having obtained mer-
them if they so continue, cy of the Lord to be faithful.
even as I.
-I think therefore that this
Now concerning virgins I is good for the present
have no commandment of necessity, that it is good for
the Lord: but I give coun- a man so to be.

OBEDIENCE AND DEFERENCE TO BE SHOWN

TO GOD, PRELATES, AND SUPERIORS.

We ought to obey rather than men.

Be subject to God: resist the devil, and he fly from you.

Tt 3, 1

If it be just in the sight of resisteth the ordinance of God to hear you rather God. And they that resist, than God, judge ye:-For we purchase to themselves cannot but speak the things damnation.-For princes are which we have seen and not a terror to the good work, heard. but to the evil. Wilt thou God then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is but good: and thou shalt have will praise from the same. Wherefore be subject of This is My Beloved Son, necessity, not only for wrath, in Whom I am well pleased: but also for conscience-sake. hear ye Him. Admonish them to be subObey your prelates, and be ject to princes and powers, subject to them. For they to obey at a word, to be watch as being to render an ready to every good work. account of your souls: that Be ye subject to every 1 Pt2, 13they may do this with joy, human creature for God's and not with grief: for this sake: whether it be to the is not expedient for you. king as excelling:-Or to Mt 23, 2-3 The Scribes and the Phari- governors as sent by him for sees have sitten on the chair the punishment of evildoers, of Moses. All things there- and for the praise of the fore whatsoever they shall good.-For so is the will of say to you, observe and do: God, that by doing well you but according to their works may put to silence the ignordo ye not: for they say, and ance of foolish men: -As free, and not as making

He 13, 11

Lu 10, 16

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do not.

'He that heareth you, hear- liberty a cloak for malice, eth Me: and he that despis-but as the servants of God. eth you, despiseth Me. And-Honour all men. Love the he that despiseth Me, des- brotherhood. Fear God. piseth Him that sent Me. Honour the King.

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Ro 13, 1-3, Let every soul be subject Servants, be subject to 1 Pt 2, 18
to higher powers: for there your masters with all fear,
is no power but from God: not only to the good and

and those that are, are or- gentle, but also to the fro-
dained of God. Therefore ward.

he that resisteth the power, Servants, be obedient to Ep 6,5-8