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 cises, except when they are not omitted or deferred for a pious cause, or just necessity. For the spirit of devotion is delicate; which, when it is gone, it hardly returneth again, at least with great difficulty. For as trees and plants must be watered in due season, otherwise they wither away and perish, so devotion, except it be watered with the waters of holy meditation, doth easily vanish.

These things we have set down briefly, that they may be the better remembered; use and experience of them will afford a longer explication.