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Chapter XIV.
God seeks for adornment
of this kind, and desires a soul arrayed in such a manner. Remember
that you are called the daughter of God, according to what he says,
“Hearken,215
O daughter, and
consider.” But you yourself also, as often as you call God your
Father, bear witness that you are the daughter of God. Wherefore, if
you are the daughter of God, take care that you do none of those things
which are unworthy of God, your Father; but do all things as being the
daughter of God. Reflect how the daughters of nobles in this world
conduct themselves, to what habits they are accustomed and by what
exercises they train themselves. In some of them, there is so great
modesty, so great dignity, so great self-restraint, that they excel the
habits of other human beings in regard to human nobleness, and, lest
they should attach any mark of disgrace on their honorable parents by
their failure, they strive to acquire another216
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nature for themselves by the mode of their acting in the world. And do
you, therefore, have regard to your origin, consider your descent,
attend to the glory of your nobility. Acknowledge that you are not
merely the daughter of man, but of God, and adorned with the nobility
of a divine birth. So present yourself to the world that your heavenly
birth be seen in you, and your divine nobleness shine clearly forth.
Let there be in you a new dignity, an admirable virtue, a notable
modesty, a marvelous patience, a gait becoming a virgin with a bearing
of true shamefacedness, speech always modest, and such as is uttered
only at the proper time, so that whosoever beholds you may admiringly
exclaim: “What is this exhibition of new dignity among men? What
is this striking modesty, what this well-balanced excellence, what this
ripeness of wisdom? This is not the outcome of human training or of
mere human discipline. Something heavenly sheds its fragrance on me in
that earthly body. I really believe that God does reside in some human
beings.” And when he comes to know that you are a handmaid of
Christ, he will be seized with the greater amazement, and will reflect
how marvelous must be the Master, when his handmaid manifests such
excellence.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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