The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart Three On the end and institute of the Society of Jesus, and some means that will help us to attain it The End and Institute of the Society of Jesus Of the Excellence of This Enterprise of Saving Souls, and of Its Great Merit and Value That This Enterprise Belongs to All Members of the Society, and that All Have Their Share in It, Even though They Be Not Priests How Necessary It Is for This End First to Ground Ourselves Right Weill in Virtue That Not Only Ought We Not to Neglect Our Own Advancement to Help Our Neighbor, but We Need to Be More Careful of It and More Diligent about It on His Account That We Must Beware of the Other Extreme, Which Would Be Withdrawing from All Intercourse with Our Neighbor under Pretense of Attending to Ourselves Sundry Remedies against the Pusillanimity of Those Who Withdraw from Helping Their Neighbor for Fear of Losing Their Own Souls Of the First Means of Doing Good to Our Neighbor, Which Is a Good and Holy Life Of Another Means of Helping Our Neighbor, Which Is Prayer Of a Third Means of Doing Good to Our Neighbor, Which Is Zeal for Souls What an Efficacious Means This Zeal Is for Helping and Improving Our Neighbor Of Three Things That Will Help Us to Have This Zeal What Is the Good and True Zeal That Pleases God, and What Not Of Another Means to Do Our Ministrations Well Is to Keep Our Eyes on the Soul That Makes the Inner Man, and Not on Outward and Exterior Appearances Of Another Means of Helping Our Neighbor, Which Is to Abandon All Confidence in Ourselves and Put Our Whole Trust in God Of the Great Efficacy of This Practice of Putting Confidence in God for the Obtaining of Blessings at His Hands How Very Displeasing to God Is Want of Confidence That We Must Not Be Discouraged nor Lose Heart, Though We See Little Fruit Produced by Our Labors among Our Neighbors
