For the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither is the disciple above his master. Matthew vi.
[USCCB: Matthew x. 24. "No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master." ]
Let thy servant meditate on thy life, for there is my salvation and true holiness:
Whatever I read, or hear besides, does not recreate nor fully delight me.
4. Son, thou knowest these things, and hast read them all, happy shalt thou be if thou fulfil them.
He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and I will love him, and I will manifest myself unto him, (John xiv.); and I will make him to sit with me in the kingdom of my Father. Apoc. iii.
5. Lord Jesus, as thou hast said and hast promised, so may it be indeed; and may it be my lot to merit it:
I have received the cross, I have received it from thy hand; and I will bear it, and bear it till death, as thou hast laid it upon me. Indeed the life of a good religious man is a cross, but it is a cross that conducts him to Paradise: