_ 37 _ First, however, summon the whole of the city or go personally with a companion ringing a bell, so that everyone may come and listen to the articles of faith. You will carry from home the Christian Doctrine, the document concerning the articles of faith and the Rules and Regime that a man has to follow every day so as to entrust himself to God and save his soul. You will give these Rules and Regime to those who confess their sins to you with penitence over a certain period. Later, it will become a habit, because it is a very good system, and the penitents feel comfortable with it. You will thus converse with many people, even though they do not confess to you. You will put the Rules and Regime on a notice-board in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, where those who wish to derive benefit from them may take them. If you accept some men for the Company, whom you consider will thereby come to God, make arrangements, after they have finished the Spiritual Exercises, for their novitiate and mortification to be that of serving the hospital and visiting the imprisoned and as well as doing something for the Holy House of Mercy, so that they avoid acting in some novel way which would cause
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