you up;
its wont is to devour, not to bear up, its lovers. But when your
heart fluctuates with the desire of sin, call on the divinity of
Christ, that you may conquer that desire. You think that the wind is
then contrary when the adversity of this world rises against you,
and not also when its prosperity fawns upon you. For when wars, when
tumults, when famine, when pestilence comes, when any private
calamity happens even to individual men, then the wind is thought
adverse, and then it is held right to call upon God; but when the
world smiles with temporal felicity, then, forsooth, the wind is not
contrary. Do not, by such tokens as these, judge of the tranquillity
of the time; but judge of it by your own temptations. See if you are
tranquil within yourself; see if no internal tempest is overwhelming
you. It is a proof of great virtue to struggle with happiness, so
that it shall not seduce, corrupt, subvert. Learn to trample on this
world; remember to trust in Christ. And if your foot be moved,--if
you totter,--if there be some temptations that you cannot
overcome,--if you begin to sink, cry out to Jesus, Lord, save
me. In Peter, therefore, the common condition of all of us is to be
considered; so that, if the wind of temptation endeavor to upset us
in any matter, or its billows to swallow us up, we may cry to
Christ. He shall stretch forth his hand, and preserve us from the
deep.

It follows: "And when he was come into the ship, the wind ceased."
In the last day he shall ascend into the ship of the Church, because
then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory; which throne may not
unfitly be understood of the Church. For he who by faith and good
works now and always dwells in the Church shall then, by the
manifestation of his glory, enter into it. And then the wind shall
cease, because evil spirits shall no more have the power of sending
forth against it the flames of temptation or the commotions of
troubles; for then all things shall be at peace and at rest.

It follows: "Then they that were with him in the ship came and
worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God." They
who remain faithfully in the Church amidst the tempests of
temptations will approach to him with joy, and, entering into his
kingdom with him, will worship him; and, praising him perpetually,
will affirm him of a truth to be the Son of God. Then, also, that
will happen which is written concerning the elect raised from