Behold, these are the tools or instruments of our spiritual profession: if
71. To make peace with adversaries before the setting of the sun.
72. Never to despair of God's mercy.
Behold, these are the tools or instruments of our spiritual profession: if we constantly employ them day and night, and have them signed with approval in the day of judgement, that reward shall be given us by our Lord as a recompense "Which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God has prepared for those who love Him." The workshop where all these things are to be done is the cloister of the monastery, and steadfast abiding in the Congregation.
CHAPTER V.
Of the obedience of disciples.
The ϐirst degree of humility is obedience without delay. This beseems those who, either on account of the holy servitude they have professed, through fear of hell or for the glory of life everlasting, count nothing more dear to them than Christ. These, presently, as soon as anything is commanded them by the Superior, make no delay in doing it, just as if the command had come from God. Of such, our Lord says: "At the hearing of the ear he has obeyed me." And to teachers He says: "He who hears you, hears me." Therefore, such as these, leaving immediately everything, and forsaking their own will, leave unϐinished what they were about, and with the speedy foot of obedience follow by deeds the voice of him who commands. And thus, as it were in one and the same moment the command of the master and the perfect work of the disciple in the speed of the fear of God, go both jointly together, and are quickly effected by those who ardently desire to advance in the way of eternal life. These take the narrow way, of which the Lord says: "Narrow is the way which leads to life." They live not according to their own will, nor follow their own desires and pleasures, but, abiding in monasteries, walk according to the command and direction of another, and will to have an Abbot over them. Without doubt these fulϐil that saying of our Lord: "I came not to do my own will, but the will of Him Who sent me."