gression come to your mind, grieve over the fault, and summon up greater courage to obey God in the precept in which you have transgressed, and in any other with which you may be concerned. And here I would remind you (in order that you may not omit any occasion of obeying God, however trifling it may be) that if you obey God in little things, He will give you fresh grace, which will make obedience easy in greater things.
Also make it a habit, when any Divine precept presents itself to your thoughts, first to adore God, and then to pray Him that, when an opportunity offers, He would enable you to obey Him.
CHAPTER V.
That we have need to Watch continually over our Will, so as to discover the particular Passion to which it inclines.
ENTER into yourself as deeply as possible, in order to find out to which of your passions your will is most often inclined; for by it, more than by any other, it will be seduced and held in bondage.
For since the will of man is unaccustomed to
