PART II.
OF THE HONOUR AND VENERATION OF THE SAINTS WHO
REIGN WITH CHRIST IN HEAVEN.
FOR MONDAY.
CHAPTER I.
Colloquy between Christ and Man on Ike method and practice of honouring the Saints.
MAN. How lovely are thy
tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs and faints for
thy courts! For, when I
contemplate the happiness of
thy elect, who now feast with
thee in thy kingdom, and are
inebriated with the plenty of
thy house, and are made to
drink of the torrent of thy
pleasure, my soul, too, thirsts
after thee, the strong living
God; when shall I come, and
appear before the face of
God? My soul is weary of
my life, that is full of so
many miseries and pains.
Who will give me wings like
a dove, and I will fly, and
be at rest? For better is
one day in thy courts above
thousands. Woe is me, that
my sojourning is prolonged!
Unhappy man that I am, who
shall deliver me from the
body of this death? I long
to be dissolved, and to be
with thee, my Christ Jesus.
Oh, how blessed are they that
dwell in. thy house, O Lord!
They shall praise thee for
ever and ever.
Christ. Have a little more patience, my son; and, to be the more sure of arriving there, first learn the way whereby the saints my friends have attained to glory. Mark their footsteps, if thou wilt win the same race. See thou refuse not the toils and the wrestlings of those whose rewards delight thee. None will be crowned but he who strives lawfully. Were not they, and even I myself, obliged to toil and suffer, and so enter into glory? And see, my elect too, amidst those miseries of the flesh, endured to live while they longed to die; but they had
