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ii4 A TOUR THROUGH
if it was not both safer and surer, to rely
on the weakness of others, than on our
own strength.
Fra Pasqual pretended a strong com-
punction for the transgressions of his pasi
life, and made a promise to the Virgin,
that the remainder of it should be spent in
mortification and penance, to atone for
them. To this end, Pasqual, took the vows
of poverty and of chastity, and entered
into all the rigours of the monastic life.—
For ibme weeks he behaved in a moll ex-
emplary manner; he went barefooted,
wore a large rosary, and a thicker cord of
discipline than any monk in the convent;
and his whole deportment gave testimony
of the raost unfeigned repentance; how-
ever, the devil was still at work in the
heart of Pasqual, and all these external
mortifications only made him work the
harder; in ihort, he found it impossible
to drive him out: Pasqual was sensible of
this;
if it was not both safer and surer, to rely
on the weakness of others, than on our
own strength.
Fra Pasqual pretended a strong com-
punction for the transgressions of his pasi
life, and made a promise to the Virgin,
that the remainder of it should be spent in
mortification and penance, to atone for
them. To this end, Pasqual, took the vows
of poverty and of chastity, and entered
into all the rigours of the monastic life.—
For ibme weeks he behaved in a moll ex-
emplary manner; he went barefooted,
wore a large rosary, and a thicker cord of
discipline than any monk in the convent;
and his whole deportment gave testimony
of the raost unfeigned repentance; how-
ever, the devil was still at work in the
heart of Pasqual, and all these external
mortifications only made him work the
harder; in ihort, he found it impossible
to drive him out: Pasqual was sensible of
this;