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 how astonished shall it be with the evidence of proof so clear and certain! O eternal God, " enter not into judgment with Thy servant," " for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified." Fear, O my soul, although thou find no great sins in thyself; for He thatis to examine and judge thee is Almighty God, that seeth more than thou, and can find them. Examine thyself with the greatest rigour thou canst, and judge thyself rigorously for the sins thou shalt find; for if thou judgest thyself with grief, thou shalt no more be judged to thy damnation.

These are the principal resolutions that I am to collect out of this consideration, endeavouring to accomplish them every night when I make examination of my conscience, or when I am to confess myself, as shall be declared in the 28th and 31st meditations.

iii. Lastly, I am to consider that in this examination, Almighty God will also discover to the just soul all its good works, words and desires, even those which it had forgotten, or doubted whether they were good or no. There shall she see her obediences and penances, her prayers and mortifications, comforting herself much with this view; for upon this said the voice from heaven," Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," " for their works follow them." And with this consideration, comparing the examination of both good and evil, I will animate myself to live such a life as in the last examination may be approved by Almighty God.

1. Fourthly, I must consider how Christ our Lord, in the instant of death, by His just sentence, deprives and unclothes the wretched soul of the sinner of those supernatural graces and gifts which remained with him after sin,