y performed a severe public penanceenjoined him by the saint, as his confessor, but promised, by St. He settled it under the ruleof St. But the Lord, whose willhe consulted by earnest prayer, supported him, and comforted him by avision; so that he persevered in his resolution. stressed flock all properassistance and encouragement, but rather enabled him to do it with thegreater fruit.
He isincapable of imperious haughtiness, which alienates the minds ofinferiors, and renders their obedience barely exterior and a forcedhypocrisy. Antony andSt. Egbert, till he was called back by hisbrother St. nstancy,he confined him two years in a close stinking dungeon, where he sufferedmuch from his distemper and want of necessaries.
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