19. As therefore the Apostle,
nay rather the Spirit of God possessing and filling and actuating
his heart, ceased not to exhort the faithful who had such
substance, that nothing should be lacking to the necessities of the
servants of God, who wished to hold a more lofty degree of sanctity
in the Church, in cutting off all ties of secular hope, and
dedicating a mind at liberty to their godly service 514of warfare:
likewise ought themselves also to obey his precepts, in
sympathizing with the weak, and unshackled by love of private
wealth, to labor with their hands for the common good, and submit
to their superiors without a murmur; that there may be made up for
them out of the oblations of good believers that which, while they
labor and do some work whereby they may get their living, yet still
by reason of bodily infirmities of some, and by reason of
ecclesiastical occupations or erudition of the doctrine which
bringeth salvation, they shall account to be lacking.