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comforted and perfuaded the Brothers to 

 obedience and reverence for their Holy 

 Mother Church, and to brotherly affe6lion, 

 and to worfliip God before all the people, 

 to be patient in worldly Adverfity, and tem- 

 perate in Profperity, to obferve Purity and 

 angelic Chaftity, and to preferve peace and 

 concord with God and with man and with 

 their own confcience, and to love and pur- 

 fue the moft Holy Poverty. And upon this 

 point he fpake thefe words : " I charge you, 

 by the fruits of your holy vow of obedience, 

 that all ye, who are gathered together here, 

 take no thought to yourfelves, nor any 

 heed for what ye fhall eat, or fhall drink, 

 or wherewithal ye fliall be clothed, but 

 apply yourfelves only to praying and praif- 

 ing God ; and leave all care for your bodies 

 unto Him, forafmuch as He hath a fpecial 

 care over you." And every man among 

 them, as many as there were there, received 

 this command with a light heart and a cheer- 

 ful face ; and Saint P>ancis having ended his 

 fermon, they all fell to praying. At which 

 Saint Dominic, who was prefent at thefe 

 things, marvelled greatly at the charge of 

 Saint Francis, and held him to be indif- 

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