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| Chapter XXXVIII. Of the renunciant's preparation against temptation, and of the few who are worthy of imitation.
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Chapter XXXVIII.
Of the renunciant’s preparation against
temptation, and of the few who are worthy of imitation.
Wherefore, as Scripture
says, “when you go forth to serve the Lord stand in the fear of
the Lord, and prepare your mind”807
not for repose or carelessness or delights, but for temptations and
troubles. For “through much tribulation we must enter into the
kingdom of God.” For “strait is the gate and narrow is the
way which leadeth unto life, and
few there be which find
it.”808
Consider
therefore that you belong to the few and elect; and do not grow cold
after the examples of the lukewarmness of many: but live as the few,
that with the few you may be worthy of a place in the kingdom of God:
for “many are called, but few chosen,” and it is a
“little flock to which it is the Father’s good pleasure to
give”809
an inheritance.
You should therefore realize that it is no light sin for one who has
made profession of perfection to follow after what is imperfect. And to
this state of perfection you may attain by the following steps and in
the following way.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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