They conclude with this direction, namely, how to rule their bodies,[65] and live in this world as becomes the children of God. Not to serve the mortal desires of the flesh. To keep their members, that they be not arms of iniquity and vanity. To rule their outward senses. To subject the body to the soul. To mortify their members. To fly idleness. To observe a sobriety and measure in eating and drinking, in their words and cares of this life. To do works of mercy. To live a moral or just life by faith. To fight against the desires. To mortify the works of the flesh. To give themselves to the exercise of religion. To confer together touching the will of God: to examine diligently the conscience. To purge and amend, and pacify the spirit. [65] Concl. p. 68. Encaren qual manier fidel debian regir li ler Corps: non servali desirier mort. &c. To which I add the epistle of one of their pastors, as I find it recorded amongst other matters relating to these poor afflicted people. XIX. An epistle of pastor Bartholomew Tertian, written to the Waldensian churches of the valley of Pragela, thus translated: "JESUS BE WITH YOU. "To all our faithful and well beloved brethren in christ jesus,[66] health and salvation be with you all: amen! these are to put you in remembrance, and to admonish you, my brethren, hereby acquitting myself of that duty which i owe unto you all, in the behalf of god, principally touching the care of your souls' salvation, according to that light of the truth, which the most high god hath bestowed on us, that it would please every one of you to maintain, increase, and nourish, to the utmost of your power, without diminution, those good beginnings and examples which have been left unto us by our forefathers, whereof we are no ways worthy. for it would little profit us to have been renewed by the fatherly visitation, and the light which hath been given us of god, if we give ourselves to worldly, carnal conversations, which are diabolical; abandoning the principle which is of god, and the salvation of our souls, for this short and temporal life. for the lord saith, 'what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world, and to lose his own soul?' for it would be better for us never to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to do the contrary. let me therefore intreat you, by the love of god, that you decrease not, or look back; but rather increase the charity, fear, and obedience, which is due unto god, and to yourselves, amongst yourselves; and stand fast in all these good principles, which you have heard and understood of god, by our means: and that you would remove from amongst you all vain conversation and evil surmises, troubling the peace, the love, the concord, and whatsoever would indispose or deaden your minds