20 If we never look up at Him and reflect on what we owe Him for having died for us, I do not understand how we can know Him, or perform 69good deeds in His service. What value is there in faith without works? and what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? What would incite us to love our Lord unless we thought of Him? May He give us grace to understand how much we cost Him; that ‘the servant is not above his lord’8484St. Matt. x. 24: ‘Nec servus super dominum suum.’; that we must toil for Him if we would enjoy His glory; and prayer is a necessity to prevent us from constantly falling into temptation.8585St. Matt. xxvi. 41: ‘Orate ut non intretis in tentationem.’
64Life, ch. xi-xiii. Way of Perf. ch. xx.-xxix. 65’How many, thinking to live long, have been deceived and unexpectedly have been snatched away! How often hast thou heard that such a one was slain by the sword; another drowned; another, falling from on high, broke his neck; this man died at the table; that other came to his death while he was at play.... Thus death is the end of all; and man’s life passeth suddenly like a shadow’ (Imitation, bk. 1. ch. xxiii. 7). The edition of the Imitation known to St. Teresa under the title of Contemptus Mundi was translated by Luis de Granada, printed at Seville in 1536, at Lisbon in 1542, and at Alcalá in 1548. See Life, ch. xxxix. 21, note. 66St. Luke xv. 16: ‘Et cupiebat implere ventrem suum de siliquis quas porci manducabant.’ 67Life, ch. vii. 33-37; xvi. 1 2; XXX. 6. Way of Perfection, ch. vi. 1; Vii. 4. 68With Gedeon. Jud. vii. 5: ‘Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum.’ 69Life, ch. xi 16. 70St. Matt. vii. 26, 27: ‘Qui ædificavit domum suam super arenam... et fuit ruina illius magna.’ 71Ps. lxxvii. 24: ‘Pluit illis manna ad manducandum.’ Way of Perf. ch. x. 4. 72Life, ch. xii. 5. 73Way of Perf. ch. xvii. 6; xxiii. 1. 74St. Matt. xx. 22: ‘Nescitis quid petatis.’ 75Way of Perf. ch. xvi. 2. Found. ch. v. 2, 3. Life, ch. iv. II; xi. 20. 76A drug greatly in vogue until recent times. It was composed of all the essences supposed to contain life-giving and life-preserving qualities of animals and plants. 77St. Luke xxiv. 36. St. John xx. 19. 78Life, ch. xi. and xix. 8. Way of Perfection, ch. xxiii. 3. 79Way of Perf. ch. xix. 3. 80Way of Perf. ch. xxiii. 3. 81Ecclus. iii. 27: ‘Qui amat periculum, in illo peribit.’ 82St. John xiv. 6: ‘Nemo venit ad Patrem, nisi per Me.’ 83St. John xiv. 9. ‘Qui videt me, videt et Patrem.’ 84St. Matt. x. 24: ‘Nec servus super dominum suum.’ 85St. Matt. xxvi. 41: ‘Orate ut non intretis in tentationem.’
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