Lift up thine eyes to God on high, and pray for thy sins and negligences.
Leave vain things to vain people: but mind thou the things which God has commanded thee.
Shut thy doors upon thee, and call to thee Jesus thy beloved.
Stay with him in thy cell, for thou shalt not find so great peace any where else.
If thou hadst not gone abroad, and hearkened to rumours, thou hadst kept thyself better in good peace: but since thou art delighted sometimes to hear news, thou must from thence suffer a disturbance of heart.
Chap. XXI.
Of compunction of heart.
1. If thou wilt make any progress keep thyself in the fear of God, and be not too free, but restrain all thy senses under discipline, and give not thyself up to foolish mirth.
Give thyself to compunction of heart, and thou shalt find devotion.
Compunction opens the way to much good, which dissolution is wont quickly to lose.