Mirror of the Honesty of Life

therefore, either read, or pray, or meditate on something from the sacred texts. For idleness has taught many evils. It is the death of the soul, the burial of the living man, and the sewer of all evils. For every hour and day, assign your exercises, pairing spiritual things with spiritual and bodily things with bodily. In all things, beware of sin for yourself and of scandal for your neighbor. As soon as you feel yourself stimulated by vain glory, or by any temptation whatsoever, resist at the beginnings and be agile to do whatever you understand ought to be done through the admonition of another or divine instigation.

Learn to preside over yourself and to govern yourself, not others. Order your own life, compose your own manners, judge yourself. Accuse and condemn yourself before yourself, and do not let any excessum excess/sin go unpunished. Be hard on yourself, never on another. In the morning, make an examination of yourself regarding the past night and prescribe caution for the coming day. In the evening, demand an account of the past day and make a declaration for the coming night. Consider how much you progress and how much of the journey still remains for you. For a great road remains before you until you are seen as God of Gods in Zion. But when you have exercised yourself in these eight already promised points, be cautious as you progress from virtue to virtue against the insidias snares/ambush of the devil, lest he lead you away from them. Amen.