and abiect, the actions must needs also be abiect, and of the same nature. And where the louers of the world do all for an abiect end, as for the gaine of money, the estima∣tion and opinion of a good name, vaine glory, reuenge, and the like, it consequently followeth, that all their trauayles & actions must also be held most base. But in my court the eye and intention is especially bent to the end, which am I, and from me all hu∣mane actions receiue and borrow their worth, and dignity. And where I reward all the actions, that my Religious friends, and children do for loue of me with euer∣lasting glory, none of them ought to be re∣puted either little or abiect, but great and noble. And he who for loue of me subie∣cteth himselfe to another, giueth an euident signe of a generous and great mind, because he omitteth nothing, that may be pleasing to me his Lord.
11. Wherfore thou must not my child, accompt that base and vile, which is done for loue of me, and for my glory, because a consideratiō is to be had not so much of the thing, as of the affection, & end for which it is done. It is not vile and abiect, that maketh an entrance into heauen, and is re∣compensed with an heauenly reward: but