he disgust wherewith He suffered them. And when it was
answered Him that it was not expedient but that He should drink that cup,
He had to master that weakness and pusillanimity of the flesh, as must
all other men. One cannot be a great scholar, or even a finished
courtier, without great pains and expense; and to be a scholar in the
Church, and a minister, and a master in the science of Heaven, cannot be
done without long time at school and much hard work. And herewith I
desist from saying more to your lordship, whose pardon I beg for all this
presumption. Which, however full it may be of defects and indiscretions,
is not wanting in that zeal I owe to your service as one of the most
wandering and gone astray of your lordship's flock. Our Lord preserve
your lordship, and enrich you with the manifold increase of His grace. I
am, your lordship's unworthy servant and subject, Teresa of Jesus.

(12) _The proper Readers of what the Saint has Written_,--And now I
return most humbly to beseech your Reverence, that, if you mean to impart
to any one these things that you have made me write concerning prayer,
let them be imparted to spiritual persons, and to persons of real insight
only. For, indeed, I have written for persons of exceptional experience
and exceptional prudence only. What I have written, I fear, very few are
capable of. But what am I, to speak thus about any but myself?
Farewell.--I am,

TERESA THE SINNER.

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