Letter XXVI. To a Religious of the Visitation

Same Subject.

13th December, 162 1. I pity this good lady extremely. Her nature is only too good, or rather her natural goodness is not sufficiently overcome by the supernatural in her. Alas! these poor earthly mothers do not sufficiently regard their children as the work of God, and too much as the children of their womb; they do not sufficiently regard them as children of eternal Providence, and too much as children of temporal birth, and as belonging to the service of the temporal order. But if I can, I will write to her now, if I have the least leisure