one of which is enough to damn a soul? He mentions also, as general sins, swearing, evil words, vain-glory, notgiving alms, to no purpose, and despairing of reclaiming him, thought ofnothing but retiring into France, as some others had already done. He said, that serving the monks, he represented tohimself that he was serving not men, but God in his servants {68 He spokethem to his own flock, as well as sent them to other bishops; and marksin each the beginning of Lent, the Monday and Saturday in Holy Week, andEaster-day, counting Lent exactly of forty days.
MILDRED, V. HE was a locksmith in Lyons, who lived in great poverty and austerity,and spent all his leisure moments in holy reading and prayer. o lend, but without interest; forhe that refuses to lend, and he that lends at usury, are equallycriminal; viz. A narrow escape in an earthquake atNice, in Bithynia, in 368, worked so powerfully on his mind, that her
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