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 for humility, and those which the world esteemed for evil, and on that account calumniated and condemned them; for which, notwithstanding, they shall be honoured and exalted. Oh, how foul and abominable 6hall vice then appear, and how pleasing and beautiful virtue! Oh, what honour and credit shall it then be to have been obedient and humble, and to have suffered injuries silently, without excuses or complainings! Oh, happy they who embrace these virtuous exercises, since through them they shall receive so great a glory!

Colloquy. — Cover, O my soul, thy good works with humility, that pride may not rob thee of them; for in His good time our Lord, to thy great glory, shall discover them! Amen.

4. Lastly, I will consider how the just Judge in that day will discover as well the good works which the evil did as the evil works which the good did; but with a different end and issue. For the good works of the evil shall arise to their greater ignominy, for not having persevered in that good, losing the reward of it for mingling it with many evils. And when they shall see the advices and good counsels which they gave to the elect they will be much the more ashamed that they took them not for themselves, nor made any profit of them. Contrariwise, when God shall punish the sins committed by the just, He will likewise publish the penance which they did and the good they drew from the same, so that they shall not be to them an occasion of confusion, but rather a motive to praise Almighty God who pardoned them and freed them by His great mercy from so great a misery. And all shall redound to the greater confusion of the wicked, seeing others that committed the same or greater sins than theirs in so great honour for having done penance for them in seasonable time.