See, then, you who are blind, decieved by your enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil. Yu have no good in this world and nothing to look forward to in the next.
We should all realise that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in a state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experianced it can appreciate it. All the talent and ability, all the learning and wisdom which he thought his own, are taken away from him, while his friends and relatives bear off his property and share it among themselves.
Anyone who has this writing copied, so that it may be obeyed more widely, can be sure that he has God’s blessing and mine.
Remember your dignity, then, my friar-priests. In this mystery God has honoured you above all other human beings, and so you must love, revere and honour Him more than all others.
As I see it, you should consider everything that makes it difficult for you to love God as a special favour, even if other persons, whether friars or not, are responsible for it, or even if they go so far as to do you physical violence. This is the way you should want it to be, and you can take this as a command from God and from me.
Consider and realise that the day of death is approaching.
