_ 81 _ ations on Sundays after the sermon, and others in houses, but however much I did in one day, they undid in half an hour. It was no good preaching about death, insulting them, threatening them, or asking the captain to throw them off the island. I sometimes begged them for the love of God to forgive; but they answered that Christ was God but they were men and thought more highly of their honour than of the glory of God. They did great harm to my spiritual children, who came to confession, because the men who lived here and the married women all confessed often, so great was the devotion of the people. I could not go to the council because I had so much work to do, confessions, prisoners, the sick, those living in sin, Christian men with Moorish women and Moors with Christian women. The Christians were like the Jews in the Babylonian captivity who, when they had adapted to the customs of the gentiles did not wish to return to Jerusalem, but left God and took to the temples: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. They mixed for drinking and eating, and Christians and Moors lived together; and there were other calls, some to do with quarrels, others with counsel. In short, I did not
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