Now thou resolvest to take care, and an hour after thou dost as if thou hadst never resolved.
We have reason therefore to humble ourselves, and never to think much of ourselves, since we are so frail and inconstant.
That may also quickly be lost through negligence, which with much labour and time was hardly gotten by grace.
7. What will become of us yet in the end: who grow lukewarm so very soon?
Wo be to us if we are for giving ourselves to rest, as if we had already met with peace and security, when there does not appear any mark of true sanctity in our conversation.
It would be very needful that we should yet again, like good novices, be instructed in all good behaviour: if so, perhaps there would be hopes of some future amendment, and greater spiritual progress.
Chap. XXIII.
Of the thoughts of death.
1. Very quickly must thou be gone from hence: see then how matters stand with thee: a man is here to-day, and to-morrow he is vanished.
And when he is taken away from the sight, he is quickly also out of mind.