III. Cum viduis aliisque personis, quæ societati pleraque suà dederunt, agendum erit valde resolute et acrius, cæteris paribus, quam cum aliis, ne videamur propter considerationem bonorum temporalium illis favere plus quam cæteris; immo idem observari convenit respectu illorum qui in societate sunt, sed postquam bonorum suorum cessionem et resignationem in favorem societatis fecerint; et si necesse sit à societate dimittantur, sed omni cum discretione, ut saltem partem eorum quæ societati dederant ei relinquant, aut morientes testamento legent. CHAP. XVI. _Of the outward exhibition of a contempt of riches._ I. To prevent the seculars from charging us with covetousness, it will be occasionally proper to refuse the smaller alms, which are offered for services performed by the society; from those, however, who are entirely devoted to us, it is best to accept even the smallest offerings, lest we exhibit avarice, by admitting of none, but large gifts. II. Sepulchre in our churches should be denied to vile persons, although they may have been greatly attached to the order, for a multitude of such tombs, might make us suspected of covetousness, and the very benefits received from the dead, be discovered. III. Other things being equal, those widows and other persons, who have given most of their effects to the society, are to be treated with more decision and firmness, than others,—that we may avoid the appearance of favoring them, in preference to others, on account of their munificence; the same rule should be observed with regard to the members of the society, but not until they have made a cession and surrender of their wealth to it: after that, if it be necessary, they might be dismissed from the society, but with infinite discretion, in order to secure the present relinquishment, or the devise at death, of at least a part of what they may have presented to the order. CAP. XVII. _De mediis promovendi societatem._ I. In primis in hoc incumbant omnes, ut etiam in rebus parvi momenti unum semper sentiant, et saltem exterius dicant, sic enim, quantumcumque res mundi hujus turbidæ fuerint, societas semper necessario augebitur et confirmabitur. II. Sic omnes lucere nitantur doctrina et exemplis, ut reliqui religiosi, præsertim ii qui de clero sunt, pastores, &c. superentur, tandemque vulgus omnia à nostris tantum præstari optet; quin immo hoc palam dicatur, non requiri in pastoribus doctrinam tantam, modo suo munere bene fungantur, consilio enim societatem juvare posse, quæ idcirco studia summopere commendata habet. III. Fovendi reges ac principes hac doctrina, quod fides catholica in præsenti statu persistere nequeat sine politismo, sed ad hoc magna opus discretione; hac ratione nostri grati erunt magnatibus, et ad intimiora consilia adhibebuntur. IV. Foveri poterunt novis, lectissimis, et certissimis undiquaque transcriptis.