Whisperings and evil-speakings now hurt his ears, like oaths and curses; and he has appointed one day in the week, to be a day of penance as long as he lives, to humble himself before God, in the sorrowful confession of his former guilt. It may be well wondered, how a man of so much piety as _Susurrus_, could be so deceived in himself, as to live in such a state of _scandal_ and _evil-speaking_, without suspecting himself to be guilty of it. But it was the _tenderness_ and seeming _compassion_ with which he heard and related every thing, that deceived both himself and others. This was a falseness of heart, which was fully discovered, by the true charity of _intercession_. And if people of virtue, who think as little harm of themselves, as _Susurrus_ did, were often to try their spirit by such an _intercession_, they would often find themselves to be such, as they least of all suspected. The End of the _Fifth_ Volume.