world;’ they did not choose Me. I called them by My grace, drew them by My mercy, led them on through sundry temptations. I poured mighty consolations upon them, I gave them perseverance, I crowned their patience.
“I acknowledge the first and the last; I embrace all with inestimable love. I am to be praised in all My Saints; I am to be blessed above all things, and to be honoured in everyone whom I have so gloriously exalted and predestined, without any preceding merits of their own. He therefore that shall despise one of the least of these My people, honoureth not the great; because I made both small and great. And he who speaketh against any of My Saints speaketh against Me, and against all others in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
They are all one through the bond of charity; they think the same thing, will the same thing, and all are united in love one to another.
“But yet (which is far better) they love Me above themselves and their own merits. For being