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The Book of Perpetual Adoration.

whither they will, from Altar to Altar, to the houses of the sick, in procession in the streets : Ego autetn non contradico. He does this with such great obedience, that He never resists man ; He gives Himself up absolutely into the hands of His frail creature. Obediente Deo voci hominis, is written in the old Law. God therefore obeys man through love : and will not love make man obey God ?

We must here meditate at leisure on the causes which lead us to disobey God's commands, so that we may make great and efficacious resolutions to follow the rules, Divine Goodness has prescribed for us ; but we must consider well what we have just said, that our resolutions may be stronger. If these truths are well weighed, we shall have no more difficulty in obeying, not God only, but also, for the love of Him, all creatures to whom He has given authority over us.

TENTH MOTIVE.

JESUS LEAVES ALL IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.

Ego autetn sum vermis, et non homo: opprobrium hominum et abjectio plebis. — I am a worm, and no man : the reproach of men. and the outcast of the people. — (Psalm xxi. 7.)

As Jesus is in the Most Holy Sacrament, He is there in His Divine Nature, and consequently with all possible greatness; but His Glory, infinite as it is, is so entirely concealed, that if one were to judge from appearances, it seems as if there were nothing