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 abundant fruit; for seeing devotion is the end of all those exercises, that which cometh nearest to this scope is always to be accounted best; which ought not lightly, upon every occasion, to be done, but with a clear and manifest profit.

We must be wary of too many speculations in this exercise, and use rather efficacious affections of the will, than curious discourses of the understanding: wherefore, they go not in the right way, that meditate of divine mysteries as though they were to preach them to the people in a sermon; which is rather to dissipate, than to recollect the spirit, and to wander abroad, than to be busied in their own home. Therefore, he that will meditate with fruit to his soul, must come to it like an humble simple creature, bringing rather a will disposed to taste these holy mysteries profitably, than acrimony of understanding to discuss them learnedly: for this is proper to those who give themselves to study, not to those who consecrate themselves unto devotion.

In the preceding document, we declared how the understanding is to be moderated and subjected to the will; now, we will prefix some limits to the will, out of which she cannot de-