Speculum amatorum mundi

what your works deserve. For he who loves the world more than God, gluttony more than abstinence, luxury more than chastity, follows the devil and will go with him into eternal fire. This is Bernard. O that all mortals, and especially the lovers of the world, would attend to this and in their soul at every time would revolve and remember that same eternity and the bitterness of infernal punishments. There is no doubt that many and infinite would cease from their sins, leaving the deceitful, treacherous, and misleading world, and would not thus go after their concupiscences. Even though they minimally heed the precepts of God elsewhere, nay, they think little of them and consider them for nothing, even though, without the observance of the commandments of God, no one can be saved. Just as the Savior testifies in Matthew 19, saying: "If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." And Exodus 20: "I am a strong and jealous God, rendering the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate me"—that is, by sinning and not keeping my commandments—"and doing mercy unto thousands to those who love me and keep my precepts." Hence the Psalmist, cursing such with an eternal curse, says in Psalm 118: "Cursed are they who decline from your mandates." Moreover, let the lovers of the world listen to the pronouncement of Athanasius in his creed, that it behooves us all to give an account for all our works on the day of judgment. And those who then have done good will go into eternal life; but those who have done evil, into eternal fire. Likewise, the Apostle says in 2 Corinthians 5: "We must all be manifested before the tribunal of Christ, that everyone may receive as he has done in the body, whether it be good or evil," without any exception. For then, the damned, who neglected to repent here, will be in misery, reproachfully saying: "Where are now those who, from the beginning, from ancient days, had served this world with desire? Who, living voluptuously,