and gain possession of spiritual goods in place of the carnal goods he has renounced? Let him exercise himself in these goods with the aid of God, always embrace and love them, and prefer them not only to all his other delights but also to the very torturings45 of his own flesh, so that he who has left himself nothing that he is afraid to lose may with so great a firmness of faith retain those things for which he has abandoned his possessions that, if necessary, he would willingly give his life