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Teresa, coming from prayer, said she came from a world greater andmore beautiful beyond comparison, than a thousand worlds, like thatwhich we behold with our corporal eyes, could be. it was sometimes to drawthem from the love of the world by her moving discourses, which wereattended with a singular blessing from almighty God. The passage of Palladius, in which St. Hearing that a certainVenetian had by simony obtained the abbey of Classis, he hastenedthither.

* * * * *One sermon perfectly converted one who had been long enslaved to theworld and his passions, and made him a saint. Ephrem: but are clearly confuted by Jos. Many popes and councils have exhorted and commanded pastors of soulsfrequently to read it, and {573} in it, as in a looking glass, to beholdthemselves. and hismaster admired the strides with which, like a mighty giant, the youngdisciple advanced, daily more and