Yet are we not therefore to abridge ourselves of a necessary measure of sustenance. Advices touching care to be had in refection. The body to be esteemed an enemy. Certain benefits to the soul by refection. The subtlety of temptations in refection.
Perfect souls have an aversion from necessary pleasures and refections.
A sublime kind of mortification exercised by certain holy persons. Of attention to reading at refections. Advices touching sleep. Because it is a temptation which unavoidably accompanies us through our whole life, forasmuch as the occasion of it, to wit, food, is absolutely necessary. There is scarce any temptation more subtle, for it doth so cloak itself under the title of necessity that even the most perfect souls which have abandoned all other occasions, yet being imprisoned in bodies that need daily refection, are continually exposed to this, and oft surprised and in some measure overcome by it, not being able to distinguish excess from necessity.