igitur primum nostri ordinis viris et his paucis indicis ieiunia interdicis flagitia, supplicia praedicis remedia promittis; exponis omnibus nec poenam longinquam esse nec veniam; doces denuntiatae solitudinis minas orationum frequentia esse amoliendas; mones assiduitatem furentis incendii aqua potius oculorum quam fluminum posse restingui; mones minacem terrae motuum conflictationem fidei stabilitate firmandam.
So first of all for members of our order, few indeed in number, you proclaimed fasts, proscribed sins, prescribed supplications, and promised remedies; you declared to all that neither punishment nor forgiveness was far off; you taught them that the menace of the threatened destruction was to be averted by frequency of prayer; you warned them that the incessant raging of fire could be quenched rather by the water of tears than by the water of rivers, and that the appalling shock of earthquakes could be arrested by firmness of faith.
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