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terior degrees; for heplaces before it interior compunction of soul, and the renunciation ofour own will. perfecthealth and strength, but admire the unspeakable goodness of Christ, whocan easily cure what is despaired of by men. The news of his arrival drove theChristians into the woods and deserts, that they might not be compelledto imbrue their hands in the blood of martyrs. The saint, by divineinstinct, knew this circumstance, and that the deacon had concealed hisorders out of a false humility, not to seem superior to the others, buttheir inferior, as he was in age.

of the altar,) and to judge ourselves unworthy, and badservants in every thing that is enjoined us. Swidbert, under the name of Marcellinus, pretended to be St. 5, in 1 Tim. entured too near, and left them half dead: only the martyrs hecould not approach; he stopped, and stood scraping