The spiritual man, or, The spiritual life reduced to its first principles . s, said our Lord to the Samaritan woman,shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Fatheralso seeketh such to adore Him. And what is it to adorethe Father m spirit and in truth ? It is, first, to adore, honorand serve God, not in the spirit of Judaism, nor of the Old Law,which was full of exterior ceremony and paid little attentionto the worship of the heart, but in that of Christianity and theNew Law, which, using few exterior rites, inspires souls to 248 FIFTH GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. offe
The spiritual man, or, The spiritual life reduced to its first principles . s, said our Lord to the Samaritan woman,shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Fatheralso seeketh such to adore Him. And what is it to adorethe Father m spirit and in truth ? It is, first, to adore, honorand serve God, not in the spirit of Judaism, nor of the Old Law,which was full of exterior ceremony and paid little attentionto the worship of the heart, but in that of Christianity and theNew Law, which, using few exterior rites, inspires souls to 248 FIFTH GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. offer to God all sorts of interior service. Secondly, in spirit,that is, adoring, praising, blessing and serving God, accordingto the movements and inspirations of the Holy Ghost, andloving God in Him, who is the love of the Father and the Son,in the most pure and perfect manner. Moreover, we shouldadore and glorify God on the model and with the motives ofour Lord, who is the Increated and Incarnate Truth, and asHe adored and glorified God while He lived here belowamong CHAPTERVI. SIXTH GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. The exercise of faith in all things.—Faith is an inestimable gift. ^^^^^ HE sixth general principle of the spiritual^ c-fliS5^ life is to ground ourselves solidly in faith,and to do all our actions by its ought, during this life, to act by faith,\)j^ and in all things to follow its guidance, becauseGod has willed to save us, neither by reason, norby science, but by faith. We are justified by faith,says St. Paul to the Romans: we must believe thatfaith acquires our justification ; and again, justice before Godtakes its source in faith. In the first Epistle the same saintwrote to the Corinthians : we find these words : I will destroythe wisdom of the wise and the prudence of the is the wise .? Where is the scribe } Where is the disputerof this world } Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of thisworld } For, seeing that, in the
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